Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Probably the biggest attraction of "1991: The Year Punk Broke," is that it features Nirvana "before they got big." But posers beware, this movie has only a little Nirvana and a whole lot of Sonic Youth...
Filmed during Sonic Youth's 1991 European tour. "The Year Punk Broke" is an appropriately low budget tribute to the manic world of punk rock. The title comes from Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore's unwitting prophecy that "1991 will be the year that punk breaks through to mainstream American consciousness," a comment made on the verge of Nirvana's climb to rock superstardom...
...eight millimeter, and director Dave Markey shoots the performances from either backstage or the audience, so there are lots of jerky camera movements and very fast pans from one band member to another. Markey somehow manages to make it all work, coming up with the visual equivalent of sloppy punk guitar. He is also helped immensely by the quality performances of all the bands...
Undergraduates are rocking to the beat of a different drum these days, according to campus rock, funk and punk fans...
...called, obscurely, oi music. A better name might be Swasrock: an ugly subgenre influenced by punk and heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...