URGH! A MUSIC WAR

Theatrical Release Date: 1981
Running Time: 124 minutes

Source: VHS (out of print)
Format: NTSC (704 x 480)
Standalone-authored DVD
with a simple menu
and song-specific chapters

Live performances of Punk, New Wave, Reggae and Techno bands from the U.S. and Europe. The recordings were made in August and September of 1980, over a five-week period from concerts spanning from Los Angeles to France.

The biggest name on the bill is The Police, but every performance is a jewel, a time capsule of the influenced and the influential in rock music right up to today.




TITLE 1: The Film
01. Driven To Tears - The Police
02. Back In Flesh - Wall Of Voodoo
03. Danced - Toyah Wilcox (a.k.a. Toyah Willcox)
04. Health Fanatic - John Cooper Clarke
05. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
06. I'm On Fire - Chelsea
07. Ain't This The Life - Oingo Boingo
08. The Puppet - Echo & The Bunnymen
09. Foolish I Know - Jools Holland
10. Respectable Street - XTC
11. Total Eclipse - Klaus Nomi
12. Where's Captain Kirk? - Athletico Spizz 80
13. We Got The Beat - Go-Go's
14. Bleed For Me - Dead Kennedys
15. Ku Klux Klan - Steel Pulse
16. Down In The Park - Gary Numan
17. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
18. Model Worker - Magazine
19. My Beach - Surf Punks
20. Offshore Banking Business - The Members
21. Come Again - Au Pairs
22. Tear It Up - The Cramps
23. Valium - Invisible Sex
24. Birdies - Pere Ubu
25. Uncontrollable Urge - Devo
26. Nothing Means Nothing Anymore - Alley Cats
27. Cheryl's Going Home - John Otway
28. He'd Send In The Army - Gang Of Four
29. Homicide - 999
30. Shadowline - Fleshtones
31. Beyond And Back - X
32. Sign Of The Cross - Skafish
33. Two Little Boys - Splodgeness Abounds
34. Madame Medusa - UB40
35. Roxanne - The Police
36. So Lonely - The Police w/Jools Holland, UB40, Skafish, XTC
37. End Credits (Aria From Samson and Delilah - Klaus Nomi)


TITLE 2: Outtakes
01. Government Flu - Dead Kennedys
02. interview: Jello Biafra (of DK)
03. Human Fly - The Cramps
04. I Was A Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps
Outtakes running time: 10min 35sec
Source for outtakes is high-gen VHS.


T1Ch1,9,10,32,34-36: Les Arènes, Fréjus, France, 28-Aug-1980
T1Ch12: Lyceum Ballroom, London, 17-Sept-1980
T1Ch13: 8-Aug-1980 T1Ch2,6,14,18,22,31,T2Ch1,3,4: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, 15-Aug-1980


This film was released on VHS, LaserDisc, and CED* (all out of print). For some reason the LaserDisc omitted Wall Of Voodoo's "Back In Flesh", whereas the version that has been broadcasted on the Sundance Channel does not include the Gary Numan footage. There have been other edited presentations that have truncated the film to 96 minutes. The source for this DVD was the complete and uncut VHS version.

*Capacitance Electronic Discs, a consumer video format on grooved vinyl discs that was marketed by RCA in the 1980's as SelectaVision VideoDiscs