The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Cast

John Doe
as 'X' - vocals, bassist
Penelope Spheeris
as Herself - Interviewer
Lee Ving
as 'Fear' vocals / guitar

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Genres & Description

Action Documentary History Music

7.7 / 10

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

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Comments on this trailer
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PJ Pilgrim

anyone know what guitar that is at 0:27 - @Sunday, November 11, 2018 9:36 AM

slm2500

:30 a young Duane Peters in the crowd next to mosh pit - @Sunday, December 31, 2017 6:57 AM

Paul Avery

Just give me SID!!!!!! - @Friday, April 14, 2017 6:55 AM

NAIVADA

these people were the sanest part of the youth then.. nothing but a culture in decline in reaction to the kind of sick crazy world fricking paper money gods in wall street were actively putting in place - @Tuesday, April 11, 2017 8:16 PM

Robin McCracken

LMFAO @ the Kids today! They think "Green Day" is punk, and they're actually Nice to each other! LMFAO #Pozers! - @Saturday, January 14, 2017 2:23 AM

regularjohn1998

song at 0:51? - @Saturday, December 24, 2016 8:12 PM

Brooklynboi Productions

Too bad they didn't do a NY version of the NYHC scene - @Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:17 AM

444suse

The scientific fact that evolution actually favors strongly religious people and rejects atheists, agnostics and secular folks is poorly known even among so called intellectuals, mostly because truth hurts. - @Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:31 AM

Lee Torry

We need a rap version of this - @Friday, August 5, 2016 9:51 AM

Hillery Bello

it's called red tape - @Friday, July 22, 2016 3:36 AM

Sudev Sen

nazi punks fuck awf! - @Thursday, June 30, 2016 6:00 PM

Marvin Cruz

Why not Sex Pistols? - @Friday, April 22, 2016 1:18 AM

mrpokemon8778

what song is that the circle jerks are playing at the beginning - @Tuesday, December 22, 2015 3:46 AM

poltergasm

i thought this was gonna make me cry. it's SO STUPID that i'm just kind of perplexed. that stuff DID NOT HAPPEN. everything culled here has gotta be post-1980, when the hardcore brainless showed up to, in essence, destroy the scene. weirdos who read lenny bruce, burroughs, baudelaire, isidore isou, isidore ducasse, jarry, etc & ect while looking, watching, listening to comparable things created by comparable artists— people like that DO NOT HIT EACH OTHER. THAT IS WHO WE WERE. THAT IS A PROMISE. i knew most of the mid-late 70s real punkrockers in, or even mentioned in, this movie. so many were my friends [RIP way too often]. almost all of us were rabidly anti-mainstream, anti-college autodidacts; i could go on & on about all the clever things we knew, did, made. this trailer is not about punkrock. that's not everyone in the movie; the movie, itself, is very sad. but this stuff, the eugene stuff along with his & its aural compatriots are all about the stupidity that came after; miserably & too appropriately, the trailer concentrates on hardcore. hardcore was as stupid as a brick. then again, that fits. we are now too. - @Friday, September 25, 2015 1:26 PM