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By Gitmo J (9) on 19 Sep 2007

Even though Spheeris does that lame thing where she's all THESE ARE YOUR IDOLS THEY'RE PATHETIC and I'm all stfu no one cares, it is still…

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By Byron A (52) on 30 Aug 2007

This movie was made on the fly as the Los Angeles punk movement was fomenting…

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By Dylan B (419) on 29 Aug 2007

Best punk doc ever. Searing performances. Appropriately goes out with Lee Ving's Fear starting a riot…

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By Adrian M (346) on 05 Aug 2007

The best punk documentary ever created. the germs footage and the catholic discipline footage are reason enough to watch this…

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By Michael F (1,296) on 19 Jul 2007

Awesome if you like heavy metal watch em all…

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By Rock Y (48) on 16 Jul 2007

Classic punk documentary. A must see for the music geeks out there. Plus the director is fantastic and a chick…

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By Mark T (909) on 08 Jul 2007

If you have any interest in the 80's LA punk scene then this is a must see…

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By Andrew M (2,871) on 19 Jun 2007

One of the best ways to get a good look at the bands that weren't supposed to be good somehow these bands still provide influence to this day…

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By Tony U (56) on 12 Jun 2007

This movie truly serves as an important musical documentary of the history of early 80s punk in Los Angeles…

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By Luis A (297) on 10 Jun 2007

LA Punks are fucking nuts. this movie has good music none of that bullshit…

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By Adam V (218) on 03 Jun 2007

Very good documentary of the early L.A. punk scene…

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By Keith G (153) on 29 May 2007

See it and appreciate even the crapiest of punk rock…

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By Clif C (12) on 12 Mar 2007

The DVD? Please? Someone put this out on DVD. West Coast Punk at its finest. One of the best documentaries on Punk Rock…

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By Matt W (1,718) on 03 Sep 2006

Documentary on the 70's/80's punk scene. Very cool…

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By Rigo V (15) on 02 Sep 2006

Excellent well documented true punk rock…

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By Jennifer A (577) on 21 Mar 2006

After watching [i]Sid & Nancy [/i]I decided to drag out a very worn out copy of The [b]Decline of Western Civilization[/b], the 1981 documentary…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Nov 2005

The performance footage alone makes this worthy of study by musicologists and historians. There are too many great scenes to mention…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Aug 2004

A shrewd and engrossing documentary even for audiences who have absolutely no patience for the music it includes…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Feb 1995

The live sets by X, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, the Germs, and Fear, recorded between December 1979 and May 1980, still thunder after all…

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By Jack Hamilton (12) for Slate (2,081) on 06 May 1992

The Decline of Western Civilization is the finest cinematic distillation of punk ever made, not simply as music but as ethos…

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