Punk

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.

Have to say that in Australia we're very disappointed in the lack of mention of bands such as The Saints, The Birthday Party and Radio Birdman as key influences in early/mid punk rock in the series. Take a look at NME's review of 'I'm Stranded' 1974...

Accidentally came across this two nights ago and watched them all back to back. I lived this through the early 80s on the fringe she my music tastes were/are varied. Learned a lot of things I didn't know about but I also wish they would focused on some other bands and dived down a little bit deeper on the different clubs and even more on the fashion etc. But at the end of the day it was fantastic!

WHERE ARE THE FOOKIN MISFITS??? And if you talked about SoCal sound, where's the mention of Social Distortion and then a quick mention or recognition of psychobilly as a genre? Otherwise it was an entertaining and good watch.

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.