Hype [VHS]

Its a pretty good documentary that reflects on Seattle's thriving music scene, past and present, as it was just starting to wind down. Sad to say that a lot of what was considered "grunge" back in 1996 when this documentary was made, the clubs, people and the music, has been replaced by modern high rises and a white collar industry and now homeless people wander it's inner cities more than ever. I am not a punk rock fan, so a lot of the live music clips from the bands you never heard of threw me off, but its still part of this doc's appeal... it was good to see that the big bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Nirvana were recognized, and it begs to question where is that next music scene goin to be, but I also think that this Seattle thing might have been this entirely unique scene and maybe one of the last great ones. If teenage or post adolescent angst, Seattle isolation and weather led to bands being supportive fans of each other in their individual pursuits of some kind of musical identity, and if as a whole this created some vibrant and explosive music scene, one wonders that video games, narcissism coupled with today's cell phones have probably robbed us of several new music scenes. Its an important documentary for all these reasons i talk about, and its easy to feel nostalgic and lament the passing of so many Seattle era greats like Chris Cornell, Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain...at the very least the very best that scene had to offer was sincere and you hear that even from the not so well known acts highlighted in the documentary.. it was good to go back and reflect on all of this, and a surprise, good watch if you were a part of this growing up or like music history docs

Best movie of the years in Seattle where the World learned of the Seattle Sound and other such nonsense!! Lemme tell you kids: there was and will never be anything like it again !!! Seattle was chugging along very nicely BEFORE Life Magazine and RollingStoned decided to "find" Seattle!! Well, the freakin' ruined it !!! There were hippy hillwilliams bouncin' off every Greyhound for a few years..."do you know where Nirvana lives??" grunge,grungin,grungy,grungopolis-tastic!! There was a grunge-only video-tv show hosted by a guy w/new longhair named "BillBored" and Nordstroms had "pre-distressed" jeans for $599. (and i DON'T mean five dollars !)anyway this movie cuts through the cheese like a hot little knife into yer crooked wanna-be BlakHeart!! You won't know the names of these bands but you will want to !! This is a reminder to all of those too slow to recognise that they missed out on the best rockrebellion this Culture has had since PUNK!! and the last gasp, too!! RandR is good and gone . the only bands left are the one formed in the 70's and the STONES !!! that's it kids!! oh, well...watch the movie and spend the rest of your empty lives looking for this pile of vinyl !! Play it LOUD and PLAY it PROUD !!!

Okay the price of the movie was worth the first (surprisingly RAW)ever appearance of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. I expected, yea I know it was stupid to, a little more live musical action. I mean as soon as you started getting the feeling of the song they'd start talking again, AND they did focus a little too heavily on Seattle alone, setting aside the reactions of the entire country. But I came to relize that the talking was actually rather informative... although for someone like me, it was nothing really new.... and was found very much appreciated. They, despite the odds, chronicaled every major and/or trivial event they'd happened in the "grunge" and "sub pop-early-alternative" scene. They -meaning those who are musicians who play in clubs there (& throughout the film), had to do with the making/process of the music, were a fan, or (just) lived there- looked at it all with some disdain or humor... but at the same time treating the music with respect. Admiting that it was just a scene... & not all that different place from many other "scene" places... that it was once a completely normal place, aside from all the suicidal action, (BUT SPECIAL)and that it was cool and yet mediocre that it got all that attention. Such ambivilance. In a nutshell, they are simply stating all that you should know already, but with more perspective (and humor).

I was a little young to really remember the Seattle grunge era, but this documentary took me right into it like a cultural time capsule. The documentary demonstrates that there's something beautiful about a movement that occurs organically, and that it fundamentally and permanently changes the moment it's recognized, labeled, and sold.

A decent depiction of the Seattle music scene at the end of its relevance as a 'new' voice. With interviews interspersed with live performances from acts of all grungy types from "the scene" it has maybe a bit basic but none the less winning formula. It suffers from a bit too much whining about how people don't really get it and how hard life gets after achieving your ambitions but certainly worth watching to get a general understanding of how things were in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-90s.

the reason I bought this video was for the breif glimpes of the hardest rock n' roll band in the world, yes the SUPERSUCKERS!! In the video they were interviewed twice and a snippet of live footage of the song "I Say F#(K" was used. Eddie Looks to be about the age of 10 in this movie. Oh yeah.. some band called Nirvana? is also in this great documentry of grunge music. So if your a Suckers fan and want some early obscure footage of this, in my opinion the epitomy of a rock n' roll band, this video is where it's at. P.S. any east coast Sucker fans?

Very enjoyable film of the best music scene in the last twenty years - i was 15 or so when i first heard Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in 1991, a week or so later picked up Nevermind and i was sold. Then it was Mudhoney and after that Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Gas Huffer etc. Still listen to those bands all the time and this film reminded me how good so much of that music was and is. A real nostalgia trip for any 30 somethings like myself who were saved from a Thrash Metal dead end by all things Seattle!

First, the actual product:This is a very simply mastered DVD, with basically just the movie and a simple menu. No subtitles are available at all, not even for hard of hearing.There's also the issue where the actual video seems to have tons of encoding errors. It's clearly noticeable from the very start, with tearing around the static text on top of the moving background. In fast-moving frames, the image is blocky and torn up, or downright glitched out completely. Near the end, during a Soundgarden live clip filled with intensive strobe lighting, the entire video just stops and goes back to the beginning. Either the video is so badly encoded it actually crashes the DVD player somehow, or someone accidentally put a repeat signal right at the end of chapter 9.Now, the movie:For anyone who loves grunge music, or any of the other genres that grunge grew out from, this movie is absolutely fantastic. Far from being celebratory of the few giant acts that rose out of Seattle to take over MTV and the world's rock radio, it instead focuses on the actual scene, the bands and the kids who created the unique Seattle sound itself. While touching on well-known groups like Nirvana (of course) and Soundgarden, this documentary keeps its gaze firmly on Seattle, even after those bands moved on from their birth city. With oftentimes heavily opinionated commentary from members of other punk, rock and grunge bands, the story of grunge itself, the sound, music and attitude that defines the genre, is beautifully told against a backdrop of a quiet, boring city that suddenly found itself the center of the whole world's attention.

Everyone who likes grunge and 90's music should own this. I'm cross i've not owned it for longer.It covers the whole music scene in seattle as it really started to form in the late 80's/early 90's and despite being obsessed with Nirvana i was relieved that it didnt focus on them too heavily for once. You get to hear a ton of bands you might not have heard of before and it will make you kick yourself for not being born in a different time and place.And it made me discover The Gits and that makes me very happy.

This is a fantastic DVD for any wanting to know the story of the Seattle music scene, it features Nirvana's first ever live performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and shows some great footage of the rest of the big bands aswell as lots of other lesser known bands!!

This is locked to region 1. Usa only.

Quick delivery and great dvd! Excellent!!