Punk

Absolutely outstanding documentary about the history of punk with a who's who of punk. Loved hearing the stories and the revival of punk in the 90's. Could not recommend highly enough.

Sure you may not like Green Day but they helped put punk back on the map. Bands like No Use for a Name, Lagwagon, Pennywise and Good Riddance all exploded off the back of Green Day getting so much attention. Nofx sold 500k records off the back of it too.

What a delightful surprise to find this outstanding series. So many music documentaries are narrated by word salad tossers who talk over the music ~ competing with the artists & their art. The narration in Punk comes from the participants in the punk movement themselves. The artists tell their stories while sitting on some very fascinating couches that became, for me, co-stars in the story.

The documentary traces punk from the late 60's through what's left of punk today. I enjoyed punk in the early days, but drifted on to other music as I aged and as the internet changed the music game. After watching Punk, I'll be exploring old & new bands.

This is a well crafted, perfectly paced film that left me wishing for chapter 5.

It was good until episode 4. When you grew up in the 90s in the punk and hardcore scene. People didnt listen to Green Day. They were the band for the kids we always got into fight with because we were punks, the posers who suddenly thought they listen to punk over night because they bought a cd they played on friday when they were partying. thrash metal heads. Hardcore dudes. Not one word of Suicidal Tendencies, MDC, RKL, Misfits, GBH, Discharge. DRI. CRASS, Rudimentary Peni. Nomeansno.The link between Motorhead and punkrock scene. Cro Mags are not mentioned. Just Harley Flanagan as a kid. They jump over so much important bands.. I know you cant get over all bands. but 15 minutes of Bikini Kills when you dont mention the bands above? The history of Bad Brains have been told 15 times the last 20 years in different documentaries. We know how good they were. . Not once have we heard the history of Discharge. How they really got the punk rock scene to blend into hardcore. How Thrash metal and hardcore found a common scene in the early/mid 80s helped many hardcore bands to the next level. Instead you get 30 minutes of green day talking about how many millions records they sold. But still. The first 3 episodes are golden. And the last 10 minutes of episode 4.

The series was overall worthwhile, but it is hard to take episode 4 seriously when they focus on Seattle and fail to mention the Melvins or Mudhoney, same when they repeatedly pojint to L7 and Bikini Kill yet don't include Babes in Toyland and Kim Gordon.