This week, we are joined by New Zealand musician & composer LUKASZ PAWEL BUDA (Hunt For The Wilderpeople; The Phoenix Foundation), who picked the Dave Markey music documentary 1991: THE YEAR PUNK BROKE to discuss. We talk about discovering Nirvana & Sonic Youth, what it’s like for Luke to compose music for director Taika Waititi’s films, 1991’s director Dave Markey’s history with SST records, Luke taking the teenage trek to see grunge bands live and does Pearl Jam count as a grunge band, how this movement captured in the film eventually became a world wide sensation, the Sonic Youth Goo VHS tape, Thurston’s stream of conciousness rants in the movie, the start of documenting everything with film & video, how Sonic Youth did not come off as goofballs on their albums but did in their videos, Meat Puppets Up On The Sun, the Sub-Pop situation, selling out, Jawbreaker, what was selling out in New Zealand like, Flying Nun Records, Bad Moon Rising, the ceiling of the underground, Nirvana’s Bleach, hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time, Chris’s Sub-Pop band playing with Mudhoney and Nirvana the day their album went gold, seeing Sonic Youth wearing shorts, The Crucifucks, Steve Shelley’s drumming, Markey’s knack of knowing where to film at any given moment, the incredible coolness of Kim Gordon, how the film gloriously shows how Sonic Youth actually made these songs come to life, how impressive it is that Sonic Youth could still hold onto what made them singualr while moving into a more accessable world, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, how Nirvana ecplised Sonic Youth’s popularity by the time this film came out, Courtney Love, the overwhelming Redding Festival lineup that year, how the Super 8mm format enhanced the film, blind spots in musical cultutre, The Pixies and the melancholy that happens as your tour ends.
So grab the tiny mic and scream straight into the camera on this week’s episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!
LUKASZ PAWEL BUDA:
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https://www.monikermusic.net
https://lukebuda1.bandcamp.com/
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