1991: The Year Punk Broke
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86% Genre Documentary Country United States | 7.5/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Himself (Mudhoney)), Babes In Toyland (Themselves), (Herself (Babes In Toyland)), (Herself (Babes In Toyland)), Nic Close (Himself), (Himself (Nirvana))Release date 24 December 1992 (theatrical)13 April 1993 (home video)13 September 2011 (dvd) Similar movies End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003) |
1991 the year punk broke part 1 of 15
1991: The Year Punk Broke , released theatrically in 1992, is a documentary directed by Dave Markey featuring American alternative rock band Sonic Youth on tour in Europe in 1991. While Sonic Youth is the focus of the documentary, the film also gives attention to Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones. Also featured in the film are Mark Arm, Dan Peters and Matt Lukin of Mudhoney and roadie Joe Cole, who was murdered in a robbery three months after the tour ended. The film is dedicated to him.
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- 1991 the year punk broke part 1 of 15
- Sonic youth 1991 the year punk broke
- Cast
- Songs included in the film
- Tour Dates
- References

Several scenes in the film involve re-enactments and references to scenes from the contemporaneous Madonna tour documentary, Truth or Dare, such as Gordon complaining about "industry people" in the front row, or Cobain, introduced as "Costner" telling Sonic Youth that their show was "neat". At a screening of the film at the 2008 All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, New York, Markey mentioned that the working title for the film was Tooth or Hair, as a further play on this connection. A home video VHS was released by the David Geffen Company on April 13, 1993. The film was again re-released on DVD on September 13, 2011 by the Universal Music Group .

Sonic youth 1991 the year punk broke
Cast



Songs included in the film
Tour Dates
The film takes place over the course of Sonic Youth and Nirvana's 1991 European tour. The European dates, given at the beginning of the film, are as follows:
References
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