The Decline Of Western Civilization LP Black Flag Germs X Circle Jerks Fear PUNK

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The Decline Of Western Civilization : Various Artists The Original Soundtrack From The Film
Full-Length 12" Vinyl Record Album
Description: Front cover features Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage. On the back cover are onstage photos of all the bands' screamers. The vinyl record is in glossy clean very good condition, a few light lines/scuffs, plays fine. The cover is in very good condition, minor ring/corner wear, no seam splits; no insert. Please see pictures. Check out our store listings for a wide variety of vinyl and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure packaging. Any questions, please ask.

Tracklist:
1    Black Flag - White Minority
2    Black Flag - Depression
3    Black Flag - Revenge
4    Germs - Manimal
5    Catholic Discipline - Underground Babylon
6    X - Beyond And Back
7    X - Johnny Hit And Run Paulene
8    X - We're Desperate
9    Circle Jerks - Red Tape
10    Circle Jerks - Back Against The Wall
11    Circle Jerks - I Just Want Some Skank
12    Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills
13    Alice Bag Band - Gluttony
14    Fear - I Don't Care About You
15    Fear - I Love Livin' In The City
16    Fear - Fear Anthem
The Decline of Western Civilization is a 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 Los Angeles Police Department chief Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city. The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles in the late 20th century. The second film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988), covers the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of 1987–1988. The third film, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998), chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in the late 1990s. In 2016, The Decline of Western Civilization was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". 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). In We Got the Neutron Bomb, an oral history of the L.A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz, Claude Bessy, aka Kickboy, claims that he came up with the title. Featuring 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 lying on stage with his eyes closed. Crash died from a heroin-induced suicide before the film was released. The poster was designed before his death. Bands included are Black Flag, Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, the Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, and Fear. In December 1980, the soundtrack was released by Slash Records on LP. -i-
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