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Any documentary that starts with Jonathan Richman is an A-plus!

I love that smashcut to "Pretty Vacant." And then, the slow camera pan to the left...the classic Greco-Roman statue and trappings slowly revealing John sitting down in the distance. What a great juxtaposition, the "high brow", "high culture" elements of the classics against the blue-collar punkness of John. All with the menacing mayhem of the Pistols playing in the background. When you take a second to think about it, you realize the amount of brilliance that went into making that shot. The cinematographer of this production is an unspoken genius.

Isn’t there a part at the beginning of this segment where Bowie re enacts a scene from the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Do you have that 🙂?

Excellent documentary. Wish it was sold, but I bet paying for all the music rights would be insane

Jonathan Richman brings out my inner conflicts. On one hand he inspires me to new artistic and emotional heights and on the other hand he just makes me want to drop out of B U.

This documentary series was known in the UK as 'Dancing In The Street' broadcasted in the late 90s. Great series for any music fan to learn history.

nirvana was not punk punk

Blondie is rock

they dont mention his work with Queen

KISS is hair metal, Bowie is glam rock, Lou Reed is rock

David bowie was best with mott the hoople

he WAS androngynous documented favt

yes the chicken story was true

hope nobody is trying to say these bands are punk hard rock or metal because they are not

Jim Morrison died of a drug overdose nut him janis and jimi were killed by the govenrment

Thank God for college radio

Sick bubblegum music😝😆

I always believed (if not the first) one of the first punk songs was the kinks 'I'm not like everybody else'..1966 , garage rock and punk ,almost the same..thank God for college radio

part 1 of 6, Title: Part Nine? oh, part 9 of 6, ok.

Freeze 5:24 and take minute to see what they were UP AGAINST!

Wow been looking for this for years !!!

Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks

Whatever you do just keep out those no tallent slits,their shit was weak.

Air Up was the 1st "Trustafarian" Her Dad was Forster Publishing, the biggest in Germany. Lydon married her mom. A slight question of authenticity.

'I was asked for the group to play at Madison Square Garden...' Damn...what could have been...

I always love that tracking shot of Steve by the pool!

A year or two after I moved to NYC, I remember watching some group way over on Avenue B, when I felt something on my shoe. It was a rat playing with my shoelace. "Well," I thought, "I guess that's part of the experience."

The rule was no more than three chords a song. Whenever I practice guitar, I try to come up with as many variations on the three chord song as I can at the moment. It’s an endless practice. There’s always some little thing you can do to make it different and unique, even when it’s just 0,3,5 or 5,7,9. Just play in the dots kids.

Richard Hell talking like Yoda over here. “So thirsty were they”.

The Kingsmen, The Standells, The Shadows Of Knight. I will forever be grateful to my mom, who simply just played the “oldies” station in the car when I was little in the 1980’s. All of that stuff was my musical foundation in life. I’ll always remember the station, Magic 104.3 and Dick Biondi. He was like Chicago’s Dick Clark. That whole garage music scene of the 60’s, a bunch of those bands actually came from Chicago.

I saw this when it first aired in 1995. I was 15, and it came to me at a time in my life where it could inflict the maximum amount of impact upon me. Kurt Cobains death ended my time of listening to pop, rap, and R&B which was what all the kids in Chicago listened to, and inspired me to ask my older brother to teach me to play guitar. He is ten years older than me and was going to DePaul University of Music majoring in Jazz Piano and Guitar. This documentary turned me on to so much good music. No one from my generation heard of Television or The Modern Lovers until the mid 2000’s, after the rise of The Strokes, when DFA Records, LCD Soundsystem and the New York Hipster scene made all that stuff cool again.(I’m sure people will disagree with that statement but it’s true, I was there 😉) Luckily, I had the foresight to tape this when it aired. This part, the Punk section, I let a friend borrow that tape and never saw it again. It was the best damn part. I have the majority of it memorized, burned into my mind. I later found this on Amazon about ten years ago and bought it. I’m not sure if it was on VHS or DVD, but right now I’m inspired to dig in my closet and pray I still have it. It’s worth to me is immeasurable. Thank you.

I saw that doc when i was young.... I gotta say brilliant...

WOW, thank you for this. I taped this off pbs, it was sandwiched between a Clive Barker documentary and a Roseanne Halloween episode! Growing up in northern IL this taught me a lot about these amazing bands. I'm so happy to be able to watch this here.

The economy is _BETTER THAN ITS EVER BEEN!_ l still love punk as a culture! Some of the music's bloody good too! l grew up on it!!

Debbie Harry, my idol!!!

1:05 man, that intro

RIP Hilly Kristal, Your contribution to rock and roll should never be underestimated.

I'm just a space cadet. He's the commander.

We need another movement like punk to piss off all the Millennials

We need another movement like punk to kick commercial music in the balls. but if too much of something is bad, where's all the anger towards commercial pop and rap? I'm not seeing a backlash towards the mainstream, and this has me very *very* worried

Part 6?????.

Rock 'n' roll needs to be central to our culture again

When I think of rock n rollers that took themselves too seriously, and were the farthest thing from "fun", I think of people like The Clash, and Patti Smith!

Jonathan Richman wrote exactly one "punk" song and that was Roadrunner, which was nothing more than a complete ripoff of the Velvets "Sister Ray." Punk started with Iggy & the Stooges and the Velvet Underground, not Jonathan Richman and Patti Smith.

They started with Richman...brilliant

Do you have the other episodes? I saw this when it first aired, and would like to use a clip that appeared in the Elvis episode for a youtube video I'm making. thnx

What a bullshit pbs the best years of punk were 1980 thru 1990. Nirvana was the punk turn into pop music again. Punk sounds and textures played in a pop frame work.

I recorded this show when this documentary was shown in the UK but but it had an English narrator, maybe because I'm from England but I preferred the English version.

"Punk kit, top 10 tips!" they did the same thing for "grunge" flannel shirts...For chrissake, it's the pacific northwest, we live in the middle of a mountain range! it gets fucking cold! and the timber/blue collar indusrty is everywhere, and everybody, has an older brother or father who owned freaking flannel shirt, and pair of longjohns!

...and as usual Siouxsie looks amazing.