I actually supplied the copy of Talulah Gosh's eponymous music video used in this (i'm a bit of an amateur archivist of such things), so I guess this is the only film on Letterboxd I contributed to in some way.

The middle part of this, when they got stuck into the mid-80s indiepop boom (otherwise known as c86), is of course what I was most interested in. Good to see Amelia as the main interviewee for this bit, and she…

The first thing DEVO released to the public was this 1976 short film that perfectly distilled their concept and aesthetic (although clearly on a very small budget). It has a certain kind of lo-fi eeriness that they could never capture again once they signed to WB and started making money. The early primitive versions of future DEVO classics Secret Agent Man and Jocko Homo are creepy enough, never mind when they're set to visuals like this. There's also a wonderful…

This year a lot of bands are streaming live concerts online, but I doubt many put as much time and effort into it as the recently-reformed Mr. Bungle did with this film. Beyond the performance of their early thrash metal music (re-recorded and released in 2020), this whole thing is just silly good fun. We see Mike Patton getting his daft Coolio hair braided backstage, a support set by legendary anti-comic Neil Hamburger, cameos by the likes of Henry Rollins,…