All language subtitles for 1991 - The Year Punk Broke

Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth.

Dance !

Dance to dancing

To German prancing

To fucking France and.. .

All the rest

A dance to decadence

A dance to the train
that runs through my mind

Searching for the snake
Running into my behind

A dance, a dance, a fairy dance

A dance that will surf
into man's hole

A dance that will turn man's hole
into a man's soul

A dance to all the dead people

Who say, "Hey, don't forget
we are the ones

"Who create the Earth's sweat"

A dance
A muthy fucky dance

A muddy track
A muddy slice into the crack

Of God's Homo sapien whack

Oh, yes, the flowers, they will grow

And they will show us
how to blow in the wind

Like a Dylan fug, like a fuggy wug

Like the sky will come down
and rain the mud

The muddy tracks, the muddy wax

Oh, yes, a dance, a fucky whucky
dance

A dance to America's plastique
plastique

Plastique holes in the skies

In disguise, in Judy's eyes

In Judy's eyes, Judy in disguise

I get, oh yeah

You know I dance to the film
that captures my fucking

Million ants crawling
through the rocks

Of my prehistoric mind

To a dance, a dance

A dance to the teeth
that are in the bucket of my head

A dance, a dance
A dance to the puppet of meat

That sways its head over to its feet

And sneezes, "Hello, I love you"

"Won't you tell me
your beautiful fucking name?"

You American insane chicks and dicks

Together we will click

Into the great golf ball in the sky

Dance, dance, dance, dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance

And die!

People.. .

Of the Universe!

Tonight, tonight.. .

will be the night
that the skies will open

and spray forth
the divine hand with pointed finger!

And say, "Everybody,
you're not just a duck.

You're human!"

You saw that lady on the bike?

You are human !

Go forth !

Go forth and thrash!

Yeah, this tour, I mean. ..

The way I see it is
this tour to me is like a dare.

You know?

Because I know there's kids out there,

and they have the same--
they have the same feelings.

To me, it's like--it's like us and Nirvana

and all the other bands
that we're going to be playing with,

to us, it's like,
it's like a dare to our parents.

It's a dare to.. . to...
to the Bush administration.

It's a dare to the KGB

who have overthrown Gorbachev
this morning, as we speak.

God knows what it's going
to be like in the future.

And the future, to us, is... is a dare.

So, to us.. . I mean, fuck 'em.

Fuck 'em all !

"Sonic Youth is playing tonight!"

"I wonder what festival
they are playing with Nirvana tonight!"

"Yes! I will see Sonic Youth tonight!"

"Yes! Where is Sonic Youth
playing tonight?!"

"Yes! Yes!"

Here we are playing
with Gumball and Nirvana.

This picture represents
the fact that it's a live gig.

See, this is the singer,
the lead singer singing live.

It's live. You know, it's not a clone.

It's not fake.

This shit's fucking live, man !

These are grapes.
I shall eat every one.

Grape.. . by grape... by grape.

Every single grape on the plate.

Then I go to the oranges.
There are five oranges.

No, there are six.
They're being hidden by the grapes.

Then I'll eat every grape.

Then there is the kiwis.

There is only four kiwis
because they're so precious.

These are fruit
you don't find everywhere.

Then I go to the brie.

The brie, there is three slices,
half of which I've eaten one.

And then I go to the bread.

And the bread, this is the soft bread.

This is the melba toast.

And this is the wheat bread.

And then I shall drink
every Spark canister on this table.

Not only that, but the Royal Club
Light.

But I don't like Pepsi.
I drink Coke.

And there's ice. Ice !
Ice for everyone !

You don't find ice in Holland.
I love my ice.

Then I'll drink the beer.

But, no, I'll share the beer.

And I'll share the wine.
Would you like to have a glass of
wine?

I would love to have your wine.

Oh, the potato chips!

I will eat the chips.
There are three flavors.

I'll eat them all, and a box of juice.

Would you like some?

Your juice is doing something for me.

I will shake the juice till it bursts!

Oh, yes! I love your juice !

I love your juice!

Thank you! Thank you !
You've been a wonderful audience!

Thank you! Thank you !

No, really. No.
You've really been a wonderful
audience.

Thank you. No, thank you.
No, thank you very much.

Thank you...

What is your name, sir?

Achim.

What is your name, miss?

- Christine.
- Christine?

- Christian.
- Christian.

- Alex.
- Alex!

- My name is Jens.
- Jens?

Jens, what do you think of
the current state of.. .

young rock and roll today?

Oh, I think it's a problem,

because rock and roll
is getting older and older.

You know, for me, the '60s
are the real rock and roll.

And you only can try to copy it,
you know?

But also people see rock and roll
as youth culture,

and when youth culture
becomes monopolized by big
business,

what are the youth to do?

Do you have any idea?

I think we should destroy the. ..

the bogus capitalist process
that is destroying youth culture

by mass marketing and commercial
paranoia behavior control.

And the first step to do
is to destroy the record companies.

Do you not agree?

This is called. ..

Hey, did you know that
punk rock finally broke in '91 ?

This is called Teenage Riot.

I'm bowling in a foreign country.

You're a vegetarian?

Needs five minutes.

Yeah? Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

- Chicken.
- Chicken?

Yeah.

The festival scene is beautiful, man.

This site is a picturesque. ..

Mud field.

A picturesque field of mud.

What are you eating?

This is.. .

Oh, this is something Bob Mould
pooped out of his butt.

And I'm going to slurp it up,
because, to me, I need this elixir.

This elixir of...

skinhead violence.

Atom bomb!

So, sir, I want you to try this.

Tell me what kind of cigarette it is.

What do you think?

All right?

Winston Light?

Yeah, not really.

But I'd like to give you this carton
of cigarettes to take home

and give to your family.

And do what thou whilst with it.

And, here, you can have these
hot pink cigarette-type dealie-bobs.

Excellent!

Fucking excellent!

I'm so desperate for some fun.

What about you?
Tell me what the latest gossip is.

What's been going on in Amherst?

Well, ever since Uma left,
things haven't really been the same.

Everyone has their head down.

No one is smiling anymore.

The other day, some guy
lit himself on fire on the common,

and no one even cared,
because Uma wasn't around
anymore.

But whatever happened
to you and Uma?

You're not still going out with her?

- No.
- You can tell me.

No, well, no.

Just... I don't know.

I can't. It's just too painful.
I can't talk about it right now.

- It's a magazine?
- A scootering magazine.

- Scootering?
- Yeah.

You want me to sign
a scootering magazine?

Well, at the moment, I'm saving
to get a brand-new one.

I'm customizing it around the LP Goo.

- Really?
- Putting a different cover on it.

You're going to put the front cover
of Goo on your scooter?

On the side panel, yeah.
And on the other side, the writing.

Find a fucking clear page.

You going to send us
a photograph of that?

I will, indeed.

Flip this.

You know Murph,
the drummer from Dinosaur?

Not personally.

When they come here,
you should talk to him.

He's a scooter fanatic.

Scootering, too.

Peace.

Okay, I'll see you tonight.

Okay. See ya!

Peace !

This is Keith and crew.

And he's going to explain
this phenomenon known as Thurston-
itis.

Thurston-itis is basically when you
lose all
control of your mind whatsoever,

and you just walk around
in a dazed state

with a baseball cap on backwards,
your bangs in your eyes, and you go
deaf.

Are the signs going searching
for used record stores?

Is that a good indication that you are
falling
under the spell of Thurston-itis?

Yeah. Yeah.

I think we all are, because we're
following
the king of Thurston-itis now.

Yeah, looking for used record stores
that don't exist

and pretending that you know where
they are
and then asking the locals

and then pretending you understand
their language, and you don't.

And you nod a lot.

And it's usually a lot of, like--

"It's right over here,
it's right over here."

Steve Shelley?

lggy!

lggy! Here, boy!

Oh, here he is.
Here he comes.

Iggy! That's lggy Pop!

You fucking are--
you're outrageous.

Funhouse is my favorite LP.

Can we do lunch together sometime?

Raw power, I can feel it.

So, anyway, you guys. ..

Last night, I was going to come
to the show.

Instead, I had a fight.

Oh, thank you.

Snot. Hey, what's green
and flies over Germany?

What?

Snot-zis.

Are you aware that you are becoming

a kind of reference band
for a generation,

a band that is hugely imitated?

Excuse-me, I need to go for a pee.

Something totally different again.

On one of the sleeves,
you've got the name of Raymond
Pettibon,

which actually, I don't know,
the designer of this label, whatever.

Who is he exactly?
It sounds like he's got a very French
name.

Is he French or is he...?

Raymond Pettibon is not French.

This is another in an endless stream
of interviews with foreign journalists

who don't really understand
a word you're saying,

as you, in turn, understand nothing
that they are trying to communicate to
you.

It's Mr. Microphone ! Hey, baby!

Be here to pick you up later.

- I'll walk you to the stage.
- Oh, thanks.

What are your influences?

Steve, do you have the set list?

Yes, indeed.

Sonic Youth is now going on stage,

and next to me is a tall man
named Thurston Moore.

You've been here before in '87.

Yeah, a long time ago
when it was raining,

and they were throwing mud
at The Mission

when they were wearing
their white robes and smoke
machines.

Yeah, that was definitely
a worthwhile concert.

How was your concert then?

It was horrible, of course.

And this one?
More horrible?

This one's going to be a new Sonic.

- Yeah.
- How do you mean a new Sonic?

Well, I'm going to come out,

and I'm immediately going
to, like, puke onstage

and then douse the puke
with lighter fluid and light it

and then kick it into the audience.

And this entire field of 1 00,000 people
are going to go up in flames.

And then I'm going to get
a shotgun and just do it.

Do it, baby. Because I'm just
going to keep on.

I'm just going to keep on
and on and on

because it's to the extreme,
it's to the extreme.

Because, you know, I don't call myself

the only living white hope
of the great era

of the colors in the sky

because my eye is full of beeswax.

- Okay.
- Yeah, peace, baby.

Oh, man, oh!

- What's up?
- That was fabulous!

It was like a fucking party onstage,
man!

That was great!

Kim, you were amazing !

Have you met Kevin Costner?
Kevin Costner.

Hey, it's Kim, Steve, Thurston.

Hey, it was great.

Fabulous show tonight.

You guys were really. .. neat.

Our rider sucks.

Everyone else has everything
better than we do.

We have Coke.
Everyone else has Pepsi.

I'd much prefer Pepsi.

There's no ice.
There are no plastic cups.

There's no ice.
There are no plastic cups.

An Emotional Fish have
vegetables and crackers.

And we have paprika balls.

Fuck.

It's filling.

- It's filling.
- It's filling up!

Smoking black hash.

You guys got a good rider, man.

You got hash in your rider?

- Yeah.
- That's so fucking cool.

John! I'm mean, Freddy.

Yes?

What were all those fat dudes
sitting in the front row?

You promised me there would be
no industry people in the front rows.

What fat dudes, Kim?

Right.

- Right.
- I don't understand what you're
saying.

You mean, you don't know
how they got here, right?

I don't know how those people
got here at all.

What are you talking about?

Have you seen your trainer today?

You told me...

there would be no fat industry people
sitting down in the front.

That's okay. I mean, look,
when we figure it out

between you and Thurston
and Steve and Lee,

we split up and, of course,
I take my portion off the top,

you're going to be making
like $2,000 a piece.

At least $200.

We sold those tickets to the front
rows.

That means no percentage
for Danny, right?

No, no percentage for Danny.
It's all going to me.

How long can this go on?!

Safety pins!

The bondage trousers!

You still consider yourself
a punk after all this?

I consider myself more fucked up
than I ever could imagine myself
being !

Another work of art!
Yes, I must say!

And now, for some real shit,
we shall play live.

Yo, yo, yo.
Hello, Space Shower TV.

I am Thurston Whore of Sonic Youth.

And I want you all to get down
and pray for rock, baby.

Hello, Space Shower TV.

I am Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.

Ah, you're going to leave it
up to me then, aren't you?

Hello, Space Shower TV.

I am Lee of Sonic Youth here.

Oh, my name is Matt,

and when I'm hanging out
on Venice Beach pumping iron with
Hank,

I like to listen to.. .

What station is it?
KXRO?

KX Rl--I like to listen to that,
because they play Hank.

Do you like to be here?

What do you think about
a festival like this, a big festival?

It's a quite major one.

Right now, we're chowing down
with the members of Sonic Youth,

one of the few American bands
on the bill.

I love English food.
English food is my favorite.

Thurston, I think you're being
a little sarcastic there.

- No.
- You do seem to be tucking into it.

Now, how do you think
you're perceived in Britain?

It's starting, it's starting.
Lee Ranaldo, ladies and gentlemen.

Lee Ranaldo, ladies and gentlemen.

This is Matt from Mudhoney.

Matt from Mudhoney, say hello.

Hi. Hi, Mom.

It's an evening with Sonic Youth
and friends.

My mom's a poof.

You better introduce everyone.

She sleeps with me and she's a poof.

The biggest star in this room
is Courtney Love.

Can we get a close-up
of Courtney Love? Yes.

- Hi.
- Courtney Love.

Hi!

Hello. Hi.

- Here's your chance, baby.
- What do you want me to say?

I'm an American.
I'm an American !

I am.

She's just, like, too much.

Far too much for any...

I'd like to thank Dave Kendall
for making me a star today.

Only he could do it.

Giving me my big break.

I'm getting a few crumbs
for the little budgie.

If we all keep feeding him,

the little budgie will have turned
into a big ostrich after a week.

Thank you.

I see the bird is being taken
good care of.

Oh, yes, we're all really concerned
about him. Or her? Or it?

And walk around just like you
Dooby-dooby doo

You little monkey, you'll stay here,
because I want you to stay.

I'd like to be like you
I'd like to walk like you

Shooby-dooby doo

We are here to explain to people
the Gorge of Ghosts.

Why would I stand still?

It feels so great to enter
the Gorge of Ghosts.

I can't take it anymore.

Adventure park. ..
In the log flume.. .

This is from the album.
It's called Pre.

This is the problem.

What the fuck is a bratwurst?
What the fuck is a bockwurst?

We can't tell the difference
between bratwurst, bockwurst,

currywurst, liverwurst,
knockwurst, all the wursts.

We have somebody here today
who's a wurst aficionado/specialist.

These smaller ones come
from Franken,

which is the part of Germany
around Nuremberg.

This one is a typical country-style
wurst.

It's a hot dog.

Yeah, this one is from Turing,

which is a part of the country
in the ex-DDR.

Now those are what? Bockwursts?

- This one is a bratwurst as well.
- It's a bratwurst.

But it's coming from East Germany
actually,
a typical East German one.

And why is it white as opposed to...?

Yeah, it's more natural pig meat,
you know.

- Pig meat.
- Yeah.

I would say it's white
because it's from DDR.

They never came to Spain.
That's why it's so white.

They didn't see any sun before,
these pigs.

And I don't know what's going on
here.

So the word "brat"
as in "bratwurst" just means grill?

- Grill, right.
- Grilled wurst.

- But "bock" doesn't mean anything?
- No, nothing.

It's just sort of like.. .

A bock actually is a male animal.

A male enema? Animal.

- Animal, male.
- Male.

Well, good. So I still don't know
what the hell I like best.

I kind of like the fat--the fat,
you know.

Like an arm holding
a baby's apple kind of wurst.

I'm hungry. I'm hungry!

And I feel like eating a pig's head.

Does anybody here know
where I can find a pig's head?

Because I'm hungry, damn it!

Hungry!

Hello. Hello.

Do you like rock and roll?

Who are your favorite
rock and roll bands?

I don't understand.

New Kids on the Block?

We don't understand.

Oh, no. What about Bros?

Scorpions?

Scorpions?
Do you like heavy metal?

Rap?

- Funk?
- Funk?

Do you like indie guitar swing?

J. Mascis?
You like J. Mascis?

Is J. Mascis your boyfriend?

Tell me about your Japanese love
child.

Well, there's this kid being born
about, maybe tomorrow.

And they don't know
if it's my love child or HR's.

Well, I think we'll know
pretty soon, don't you?

I don't know.
It's a tough call.

Dreadlocks and pale skin.

With lots of tangles.

Do you think you played differently
when you were a skinhead

than you are now as a hair?

Yeah, well I had lice.
So I had to get a skinhead.

And it was really hard playing with
lice,

because you're like trying to move
around
shaking the lice off your head.

Do the lice, like, fall on the drum
heads,

and then you would hit the drum head
and they'd pop up in the air?

Yeah. Sometimes they'd just
splatter into a million pieces.

What do you think about
when you're playing the drums?

Usually like my room at home.

I'm thinking about, like,
what I'd be doing.

What do you look at?
I mean, are you.. .

Do you--I mean, it seems like
your view from the drum set

is, like, J.'s rear end.

I mean, does that get kind of
tiresome?

No, it's cool, you know.
I look at him a lot, you know.

It's been a while.

I can keep it up.

When we first came over here,
it was like

we were lucky
to get 1 00 people in a club

who actually knew who we were.

And we would arrive either by a train

and get picked up
at the train station in a car

and taken to a little shitty club.

And now we're spoiled brats.

In our 30s.

And is this the price we pay?

Is bratcore what it's turned into?

Come in.

Yes, I would like to ask a question.

When you guys finish today,

is it possible that you could sign
two autograph cards for my kids?

No problem. Yeah, of course.

Do your kids know who we are?

Oh, yeah, sure.

Okay, thank you.

Our audience is expanding.

My mind.. .

is turning to kind of
a fine, gelatinous ball of pepper.

I have to sound check.

Why?

On my knees and then to pray

Needles and pins

Okay, here we got--
look over here, bro.

We got King Kong.
Here. Over here.

You got King Kong,

and next to King Kong,
we got Cheetah.

Next to Cheetah, we got Judy.

Right now, in action,
we got King Louis.

And here we go!
Hey, monkey! Hey, monkey!

Next to monkey--
next to monkey, we got Charlie.

And what Charlie says.. .

'91 is the year that punk
finally breaks through

to the mass consciousness
of global society.

Modern punk as featured
in Elle magazine.

Mötley Crüe singing
Anarchy in the UK

in a European arena
in front of 1 00,000 screaming people.

One of the most sickeningly
candy-ass versions you'll ever hear of
it,

but it is the song itself.

And you read an interview
with John Lydon,

he just doesn't give a fuck.

To him, it's a "larf."

The Ramones.
Hi, I'm Joey.

The Ramones.
Hi, I'm Joey.

Have you seen Dee Dee?

Hi, we're the Ramones.

We're making our own tour movie
here.

Can you wave to the camera
for Sonic Youth?

Thanks, Joey.

Are you psyched to.. .

Are you psyched to see The
Ramones?

Totally.

Actually, I'm with The Ramones.

I'm psyched.

We're finally playing
with The Ramones.

We played with lggy.

And now we're playing
with The Ramones.

And now we're playing
with The Ramones.

You're in no condition to play tonight.

Yo, yo, you played yourself.

That's right.

You played yourself, boy.

I'm a player.
I'm a high roller.

Player!

He's living high.
He's living large.

Yeah, player!

My man's a player!

LL Hype J.

Draw your lips like. ..

It's hard putting lipstick on
somebody else.

MC Screwdriver.

The Rabbi Doctor Hilal Broder.

Close your mouth.

Is it legible, Krist?

- Sure.
- It's in your handwriting.

One.

God !

Do I have to go like...
or anything?

You're looking good.

Let me see you, Dave.
Let me see you.

Oh, and how!
Dilute!

Dilute. Dilute. Dilute.

- I want a dress!
- I want a dress.

Okay.

We could turn these coats
into miniskirts.

Wait, wait.
You need a little mascara.

Yeah, I think so, too.

There's something on the back.

I didn't know there was
something on the back.

Oh, big Search and Destroy.

This is the last show of our tour.

Two-week tour with Nirvana.
Sonic Youth, Nirvana.

Some Gumball action.
Some Dinosaur action.

Some Black Francis action.
Some Ramones action.

Etcetera, etcetera, and not
discounting
lggy Pop and Agnostic Front.

It's the end.
It feels like we haven't even begun.

It's so short.
It's sweet. It's to the point.

Tonight, I am going to defecate
onstage,

because I think that is the only way

to express the nature of my soul
according to rock and roll.

That of waste and that of
especially good taste.

Wouldn't you say so, sir?

More clever than good taste.

Yes.

There's a fine line between clever
and...