American Hardcore
Oct. 30th, 2008 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutA documentary on the hardcore punk movement from 1980-1986. The first ten minutes are spent setting up how the music was a reaction to the new Reagan era and the feel of how something was lacking from the then popular music. And then they spend an hour and a half getting anecdotes from what seems to be every surviving person from the scene. Minor Threat, The Bad Brains, DOA, Black Flag, The Misfits, Gang Green, The Circle Jerks and plenty more. Who, after a while, all start to blend together...
Probably the three most interesting things from the movement only get lightly touched on. Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler briefly touches on how anti-female much of the movement is. Also very lightly mentioned is the popularity of the music genre with skin-head and similar groups. Mostly as a joke about how one of the most popular hardcore groups with skin-heads had a vocally out gay lead. And though the Bad Brains are mentioned by near everyone as a major influence, nothing is said about a movement predominantly white having an all-black band as one of the "founders"...
While I'm a fan of punk in all its incarnations the doc just comes off as light-weight, not really taking a deep look at any part of the scene...
Probably the three most interesting things from the movement only get lightly touched on. Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler briefly touches on how anti-female much of the movement is. Also very lightly mentioned is the popularity of the music genre with skin-head and similar groups. Mostly as a joke about how one of the most popular hardcore groups with skin-heads had a vocally out gay lead. And though the Bad Brains are mentioned by near everyone as a major influence, nothing is said about a movement predominantly white having an all-black band as one of the "founders"...
While I'm a fan of punk in all its incarnations the doc just comes off as light-weight, not really taking a deep look at any part of the scene...
