1991: The Year Punk Broke not on DVD

http://www.livenirvana.com/digitalnirvana/discography/nirvana/1991_the_year_punk_broke.html

http://theyearpunkbroke.com/2006/03/20/hello-world/

http://www.wegotpowerfilms.com/films/punk.html

http://www.myspace.com/theyearpunkbroke

I have Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! on DVD, but I bought it for $4 from some guy and it's not an official DVD.. just a copy.

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hooray for mininova

i really like the baby's-arm-holding-an-apple-wurst.

Sold this on E-bay and got some surprising price for it. A+ would own again. I always think about that Gumball footage.

i'm hungry and i feel like eating a pig's head.

I was just thinking about this bit this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_bCyirfn8

Thread title's gonna need changing later this year.

Details?

http://pitchfork.com/news/42243-sonic-youthnirvana-tour-documentary-film-i1991-the-year-punk-brokei-finally-coming-to-dvd/

I have waited almost 20 years to see this? That shouldn't be, dawg.

thought I read somewhere recently that thurston was hosting a screening of this?

i have the vhs of this

screening was last week in MA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJTwkGbFk8

you can watch this on the Internet dude

there's a link to the whole thing uncut in one of some dude's SY polls

in fact...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5074745239075255736#

only ten more days to watch this!

thurston + coley bagging on corky love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPCpct0w84

it continues in part 3 lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRJZqZjY1g

Oh wow. I still remember almost the entirety of this film word for word despite my VHS going missing years ago.

Thurston is such an unfunny dick in parts of this.

Always wondered: what's the backstory on JMascis and Uma? She's from Amherst or something?

My memory is of him leaning out of a window with a bullhorn for like 20 minutes.

Glad I sold my extra VHS copy already!

Oh wow. I still remember almost the entirety of this film word for word despite my VHS going missing years ago.

me too.

My roommate and I thrashed around to Brother James and almost knocked a dresser out of the window of our 6th floor dorm.

Always wondered: what's the backstory on JMascis and Uma? She's from Amherst or something?

Sorta. Her dad taught there for years, and that's where she mainly grew up.

I saw this in a movie theater.

i really like the baby's-arm-holding-an-apple-wurst.

― ian, Thursday, August 6, 2009 12:31 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

haha i've watched this movie so so so many times that i know for a fact he actually says "an arm holding a baby's apple kind of wurst"

"Thurston is such an unfunny dick in parts of this."

...

I saw this in a movie theater.

I saw this at the 9:30 Club!
(I was there, etc. etc.)

I watched this alot too, but strangely the thing I remember most is hating that Grohl-Novaselic bit with the green room food and drink

"they don't have ice in Holland!" was pretty lol imo

I saw this at the 9:30 Club!
(I was there, etc. etc.)

― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:26 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

Oh man, I wanted to be there so badly.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CM3HLK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_d0_g74_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0VP4NR2SBAEBXFTSSR7Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

so I can finally put my VHS copy out on the stoop?

just watched this for the first time last night and it was not very good? i enjoyed it as a portrait of place-time but the film itself left something to be desired (editing, for one)

Thurston is such an unfunny dick in parts of this.

― bRon To Run (MaresNest), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:10 PM (fourteen years ago)

he seemed like the kind of asshole who would get his mitts on a microphone and monologue until someone cut him off. just insufferable. was wondering if other people felt similarly.

My close friend actually had a really cute story about meeting Thurston when he was a teenager in LA and Thurston was friendly and recommended a Germs album, and then a little while later ran into him again at a show and thanked him, and Thurston was cool.

He must be better one on one vs in front of a camera. He was annoying more than assholish tbh.

I haven’t seen this movie since I screened it at college in 1994? 1995? (As in, film projector pointed at screen) …. So I don’t remember Thurston coming off as a dick. I think I remember thinking he was cool and had the attitude many people (including me) had at the time … If you watch Kill Your Idols, you can see where the attitude “comes from” by watching the parts with Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, and a couple of the others who were central to the scene when Thurston was just an enthusiastic newcomer.

I never interacted with Moore until I saw him at my first indoor show following the pandemic. It may have been the good vibes that came with performing again after COVID upended the music business, but I saw him twice after and he was totally cool to his fans, especially quite a few college-age kids he happily posed with for photos.

Interviewed the band around 1987, and boy did Thurston do most of the talking, and was very giddy to derail into the minutia of his record collection. More excitably nerdy than annoying, like a six year old explaining dinosaurs, assuming you found it just as amusing to contemplate the Black Oak Arkansas record that came with a property deed in their hometown.

One thing streaming has wrought is that, in these kinds of conversations, it is much harder to be hyperbolic about Black Oak Arkansas et al.

haha I specifically remember that interview because of the property deed detail!

Always wondered: what's the backstory on JMascis and Uma? She's from Amherst or something?

― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

Not sure if I have confessed this on ilx before, but somehow when I watched this scene as a teen my brain short-circuited and I confused Amherst for Ambridge. I thought they were making some sort of oblique joke about long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. I mean, Kurt Cobain was really into Scottish indiepop, why couldn't J Mascis be into quaint rural dramas?

lol

i don't think it matters if he was cool to some people at some time -- he was annoying in this movie and that is all i said

I've been thinking about what you said, and how I didn't feel that way at the time. I think to me they just came across as a bunch of cool bands having fun in somewhat absurd ways, and the sort of guy who would "get his mitts on a microphone and monologue" was fun, funny and at least a bit impressive (I certainly wouldn't be comfortable doing that, but I'd like to be able to). It was only much later that I'd come to associate that kind of man with arrogance, boorishness and chauvinism (in the "man taking up all the space in the room" way). I think I would have too much nostalgic affection to see it that way on a rewatch now, but if I saw it for the first time in 2026 it is definitely possible I would feel similarly.

I always thought Thurston came across more as an excitable dork that wants to talk your ear off than annoying, but I would 100% rather hang with Kim or Lee.

I had never seen it til yesterday— but I was 16 in 1991 and it reminded me of feeling alienated and unwelcome. The environment was so insidery back then and I was decidedly not on the inside.

And like you said — the boys were always hogging the air in the room. That’s how it was from my pov.

Thinnest line between excited dork and annoying.

Fact: usually women are called annoying.

They are only called annoying because the dudes want to have sex them but can’t admit it iirc

Thats not true —- I know ppl want it to be true but it’s not.

Is this the docu where someone with a guitar shows a rock riff and then a metal riff and explains a grunge riff is in between the two?

this was recorded 4 months prior to the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9gN_Krim7M