Review of Kill Your Idols (2012) by Amie H — 10 Nov 2007

Good history of No-wave/NYC art music scene. Gets a bit tedious at times. Lydia Lunch cracks me up.

This review of Kill Your Idols (2012) was written by Amie H on 10 Nov 2007.

Kill Your Idols has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 Jul 2006

As Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus & the Jerks puts it, They seem so desperate to be liked, desperate to have their music used in the next car…

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By Louis F (268) on 03 Aug 2008

This documentary would be so much cooler if Lydia Lunch could manage to avoid being absolutely annoying for thirty seconds. Seriously…

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By Jacob G (945) on 25 Nov 2012

In bed sick and my 'shark week' just came to town so I'm pissed off and sick at the same/insane time…

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By Brooke F (100) on 27 Jan 2009

This starts out as a fairly straightforward (though rather fussily edited) doc, and it has some good commentary from Arto Lindsay, Jim Sclavunos,…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Oregonian (1,550) on 31 Aug 2006

As it stands, this is little more than a sketchy portrait of two fascinating cultural moments with only geography and 70-ish minutes of celluloid…

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By Tyler R (1,095) on 30 Mar 2008

Great rock doc…

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By Brett W (781) on 08 Sep 2007

Very good music documentary on No-Wave. Not sure if I believe the references to modern day bands but that's okay…

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By Rodney C (76) on 27 Nov 2007

I was really hoping for it to be amazing, it was alright…

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By Joey G (331) on 20 Jun 2007

Got it because of Gogol Bordello, and found out so much about a genre I knew nothing about…

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By Peter B (1,397) on 31 May 2009

An encylopedia for hipsters about (mostly) horrible bands that take themselves way too seriously. It's worth seeing Karen O, for me anyhow…

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