| 词条 | The Decline of Western Civilization |
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| name = The Decline of Western Civilization | image = The Decline of Western Civilization film poster.jpg | caption = Film poster depicting Germs singer Darby Crash | director = Penelope Spheeris | producer = Jeff Prettyman Penelope Spheeris | writer = Penelope Spheeris | narrator = | music = | cinematography = Steve Conant | editing = Charlie Mullin | distributor = Media Home Entertainment | released = {{film date|1981|7|1}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris. In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city.[1] The film's title is possibly a reference to music critic Lester Bangs' 1970 two-part review of the Stooges' album Fun House, for Creem magazine, where Bangs quotes a friend who had said the popularity of the Stooges signaled "the decline of Western civilization". Another possibility is that the title refers to Darby Crash's reading of Oswald Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West).[2] In We Got the Neutron Bomb, an oral history of the L.A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz, Claude Bessy claims that he came up with the title.[3] The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles during the late 20th century. The second film, The Metal Years (1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1986–1988. The third film, The Decline of Western Civilization III (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. In 2016, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".{{cn|date=February 2018}} SynopsisFeaturing concert footage of Los Angeles punk bands and interviews both with band members, the publishers of Slash fanzine, and with the punks who made up their audience, the film offers a look into a subculture that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time. The promotional poster for The Decline (and the record cover of the soundtrack album) featured a close-up frame of Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage with his eyes closed. Crash died from a heroin-induced suicide shortly before the film was released (the poster was designed before his death). Bands included are Black Flag, the Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, the Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, and Fear. The Germs' performance was replicated in the 2007 Darby Crash biopic What We Do Is Secret. Performances
Soundtrack{{Infobox album| name = The Decline of Western Civilization | type = soundtrack | artist = Various Artists | cover = Decline Western Civilization album cover.jpg | alt = | released = December, 1980 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Punk rock, hardcore punk | length = 37:31 | label = Slash | producer = Gary Hirstius and Alan Kutner | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[4] }} The soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the film and album release had been designed before his death. Noticeably missing from the soundtrack is "Nausea" by X, which was prominently featured in the film over its opening credits. {{Track listing| extra_column = Artist | total_length = | title1 = White Minority | writer1 = Greg Ginn | extra1 = Black Flag | length1 = 2:27 | title2 = Depression | writer2 = Ginn | extra2 = Black Flag | length2 = 2:23 | title3 = Revenge | writer3 = Ginn | extra3 = Black Flag | length3 = 1:31 | title4 = Manimal | writer4 = Darby Crash | extra4 = Germs | length4 = 2:57 | title5 = Underground Babylon | writer5 = | extra5 = Catholic Discipline | length5 = 3:41 | title6 = Beyond and Back | writer6 = John Doe, Exene Cervenka | extra6 = X | length6 = 2:54 | title7 = Johnny Hit and Run Paulene | writer7 = Doe, Cervenka | extra7 = X | length7 = 2:49 | title8 = We're Desperate | writer8 = Doe, Cervenka | extra8 = X | length8 = 2:45 | title9 = Red Tape | writer9 = Keith Morris, Greg Hetson | extra9 = Circle Jerks | length9 = 1:42 | title10 = Back Against the Wall | writer10 = Morris, Hetson, Roger Rogerson, Lucky Lehrer | extra10 = Circle Jerks | length10 = 1:33 | title11 = I Just Want Some Skank | writer11 = Morris, Hetson, Rogerson, Lehrer | extra11 = Circle Jerks | length11 = 1:15 | title12 = Beverly Hills | writer12 = Morris, Rogerson | extra12 = Circle Jerks | length12 = 1:15 | title13 = Gluttony | writer13 = | extra13 = Alice Bag Band | length13 = 3:45 | title14 = I Don't Care About You | writer14 = Lee Ving | extra14 = Fear | length14 = 3:45 | title15 = I Love Livin' in the City | writer15 = Ving | extra15 = Fear | length15 = 2:16 | title16 = Fear Anthem | writer16 = Ving | extra16 = Fear | length16 = 0:33 }} See also
References1. ^{{cite_web| url=http://penelopespheeris.com/bio.html | title=Penelope Spheeris Biography | author= | website=PenelopeSpheeris.com | date=2008 | access-date=November 6, 2006}} 2. ^{{cite news |url = http://www.laweekly.com/2001-01-04/news/annihilation-man/3 | title=Annihilation Man | author=Brendan Mullen | work=LA Weekly| date=January 4, 2001 | access-date=October 26, 2009}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Spitz|first1=Marc|title=We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk|date=2001|publisher=Three Rivers Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-609-80774-9|page=261}} 4. ^{{Allmusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r151092 |first=Alex |last=Henderson |accessdate={{date|2007-03-05}} }} External links
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