>>It is an indicator of the choke hold baby boomers have on the culture.
It was barely 11 years between Woodstock and the concerts that comprised Urgh! A Music War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgh!_A_Music_War
Urgh! A Music War is a 1982 British film featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980.
Urgh! A Music War consists of a series of performances, without narration or explanatory text. All performances are live, recorded around 1980, mainly in England and the USA. Clips were also taken from a concert in Fréjus, Var, France with The Police, XTC, Skafish and UB40 among others.
Opening credits
The Police “Driven to Tears”
Wall of Voodoo “Back in Flesh”
Toyah Willcox “Danced”
John Cooper Clarke “Health Fanatic”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Enola Gay”
Chelsea “I’m on Fire”
Oingo Boingo “Ain’t This the Life”
Echo & the Bunnymen “The Puppet”
Jools Holland “Foolish I Know”
XTC “Respectable Street”
Klaus Nomi “Total Eclipse”
Athletico Spizz 80 “Clocks are Big; Machines are Heavy/Where’s Captain Kirk?”
The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat”
Dead Kennedys “Bleed for Me”
Steel Pulse “Ku Klux Klan”
Gary Numan “Down in the Park”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “Bad Reputation”
Magazine “Model Worker”
Surf Punks “My Beach”
The Members “Offshore Banking Business”
Au Pairs “Come Again”
The Cramps “Tear It Up”
Invisible Sex “Valium”
Pere Ubu “Birdies”
Devo “Uncontrollable Urge”
The Alley Cats “Nothing Means Nothing Anymore”
John Otway “Cheryl’s Going Home”
Gang of Four “He’d Send in the Army”
999 “Homicide”
The Fleshtones “Shadowline”
X “Beyond and Back”
Skafish “Sign of the Cross”
Splodgenessabounds “Two Little Boys”
UB40 “Madame Medusa”
The Police “Roxanne”
The Police “So Lonely”
Klaus Nomi “Aria” (”Mon cur s’ouvre à ta voix” from Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson and Delilah) (End credits)
And nearly 40 years later that music is still “too outside” for radio and the so-called hall of fame even though it is the foundation of the rock music that came after 1980.
The Go-Gos? The Police?
I freaking LOVE that film.
Great music. The late ‘70s - early ‘80s were a renaissance for rock n roll and that film is the best documentation of it I’ve seen.