Hype! (1996)

Regisseur:

Doug Pray

Premierendatum:

8. November 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Dokumentarfilm | Musik

Werbezeile:

surviving the northwest rock explosion

Plot:

Documentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle "grunge" music scene in the early 90s

Plot Keywords:

Rock Band | Seattle | Concert Footage | Commercialism | Interview

Filmpreise:

1 win & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Flannel! Seattle!

Besetzung

7 Year Bitch	...	Themselves
Valerie M. Agnew	...	Herself - 7 Year Bitch (as Valerie Agnew)
Carrie Akre	...	Herself - Hammerbox
Jeff Ament	...	Himself - Pearl Jam
Dawn Anderson	...	Herself - Local Music Critic
Michael Anderson	...	Himself - Blood Circus
Paul Arkin	...	Band Practice Space Tour
Mark Arm	...	Himself - Mudhoney
James Atkins	...	Himself - Hammerbox
John Atkins	...	Himself - Seaweed
Jon Auer	...	Himself - The Posies
Love Battery	...	Themselves
Leighton Beezer	...	Himself - Stomach Pump / The Thrown Ups
Martin Bernier	...	Himself - Some Velvet Sidewalk
Nils Bernstein	...	Himself - Sub Pop Records
Don Blackstone	...	Himself - Gas Huffer
Don Blair	...	Himself - Some Velvet Sidewalk
Kurt Bloch	...	Himself - The Fastbacks / The Young Fresh Fellows
Blood Circus	...	Themselves
Dan Bolton	...	Himself - The Supersuckers
James Bosch	...	Himself - Hammerbox
Coffin Break	...	Themselves
David Brooks	...	Himself - Coffin Break
Brien Bublitz	...	Kid with Noseplugs
Bob Bulgrien	...	Himself - Seaweed
Matt Cameron	...	Himself - Soundgarden
Bill Campbell	...	Himself - Flop
Ryan Campbell	...	Himself - Hovercraft (as Campbell 2000)
Art Chantry	...	Himself - Graphic Designer
Robbe Clarke	...	Himself - Zipgun
Kurt Cobain	...	Himself - Nirvana (archive footage)
Fred Cole	...	Himself - Dead Moon
Toody Cole	...	Herself - Dead Moon
Van Conner	...	Himself - Screaming Trees
Chris Cornell	...	Himself - Soundgarden
Crackerbash	...	Themselves
Dave Crider	...	Himself - The Monomen / Estrus Records
Sean Croghan	...	Himself - Crackerbash
Dale Crover	...	Himself - The Melvins
Dan Cunneen	...	Himself - Zipgun
Kurt Danielson	...	Himself - Tad
Elizabeth F. Davis	...	Herself - 7 Year Bitch (as Elizabeth Davis)
Doug Day	...	Himself - Blood Circus
Dead Moon	...	Themselves
Thomas A. Doyle	...	Himself - Tad (as Tad Doyle)
Matt Dresdner	...	Himself - The Gits
Roisin Dunne	...	Herself - 7 Year Bitch
Chris Eckman	...	Himself - The Walkabouts
Jack Endino	...	Himself - Record Producer
Heidi Englebert	...	Bon Marché Decorator
Bruce Fairweather	...	Himself - Love Battery
The Fastbacks	...	Themselves
Jason Finn	...	Himself - Love Battery
Steve Fisk	...	Himself - Record Producer
Flop	...	Themselves
Dave Fox	...	Himself - The Posies
Scott Fox	...	Himself - Crackerbash
Lulu Gargiulo	...	Herself - The Fastbacks
Gas Huffer	...	Themselves
Jeff Gilbert	...	Band Practice Space Tour
Girl Trouble	...	Themselves (archive footage)
The Gits	...	Themselves
Stone Gossard	...	Himself - Pearl Jam
David Grohl	...	Himself - Nirvana (archive footage)
Hammerbox	...	Themselves
Frank Harlan	...	Himself - Producer
Ron Heathman	...	Himself - The Supersuckers
Daniel House	...	Himself - President, C / Z Records
Tad Hutchison	...	Himself - The Young Fresh Fellows
Jack Irons	...	Himself - Pearl Jam
Megan Jasper	...	Herself - Sub Pop Records
Calvin Johnson	...	Himself - Co-Founder, K Records
Nate Johnson	...	Himself - Flop
Alan Larsen	...	Himself - Some Velvet Sidewalk
Beth Liebling	...	Herself - Hovercraft (as Sadie 7)
Peter Litwin	...	Himself - Coffin Break
Andrew Loomis	...	Himself - Dead Moon
Jeff Lorien	...	Himself - Coffin Break
Matt Lukin	...	Himself - Mudhoney
Barrett Martin	...	Himself - Screaming Trees
Scott McCaughey	...	Himself - The Young Fresh Fellows (as Scott MacCaughey)
Mike McCready	...	Himself - Pearl Jam
The Melvins	...	Themselves
Theodore Miller	...	Himself - Crackerbash
The Mono Men	...	Themselves (as The Monomen)
Steve Moriarty	...	Himself - The Gits
Ledge Morisette	...	Himself - The Mono Men
John Mortensen	...	Himself - The Mono Men
Mudhoney	...	Themselves
Mike Musburger	...	Himself - The Fastbacks / The Posies
Wade Neal	...	Himself - Seaweed
Joe Newton	...	Himself - Gas Huffer
Ron Nine	...	Himself - Love Battery
Nirvana	...	Themselves
Shigeki Nishimura	...	Japanese Fan (as Nissie)
Krist Novoselic	...	Himself - Nirvana (also archive footage)
Buzz Osborne	...	Himself - The Melvins
Bruce Pavitt	...	Himself - Sub Pop Records
Pearl Jam	...	Themselves
Dan Peters	...	Himself - Mudhoney
Charles Peterson	...	Himself - Photographer
Jonathan Poneman	...	Himself - Sub Pop Records
The Posies	...	Themselves
Tom Price	...	Himself - Gas Huffer
Geoff Robinson	...	Himself - Blood Circus
Aaron Roeder	...	Himself - The Mono Men
Neil Rogers	...	Himself - Zipgun
Rottweiller	...	Band Practice Space Tour
Martin Rushent	...	Himself - Visiting Record Producer
Jim Sangster	...	Himself - The Young Fresh Fellows
Paul Schurr	...	Himself - Flop
Seaweed	...	Themselves
Ben Shepherd	...	Himself - Soundgarden
Dan Siegal	...	Himself - The Supersuckers
Susan Silver	...	Herself - Manager
Tracey Simmons	...	Himself - Blood Circus
Rob Skinner	...	Himself - Coffin Break
Some Velvet Sidewalk	...	Themselves
Soundgarden	...	Themselves
Eddie Spaghetti	...	Himself - The Supersuckers
Joe Spleen	...	Himself - The Gits
Aaron Stauffer	...	Himself - Seaweed
Ken Stringfellow	...	Himself - The Posies
Supersuckers	...	Themselves (as The Supersuckers)
Susie Tennant	...	Herself - DGC Records
Kim Thayil	...	Himself - Soundgarden
Harris Thurmond	...	Himself - Hammerbox
Carla Torgerson	...	Herself - The Walkabouts
Dave Trissid	...	Himself - The Melvins
Steven Neil Turner	...	Himself - Mudhoney (as Steve Turner)
The U-Men	...	Themselves (archive footage)
Conrad Uno	...	Himself - PopLlama Records
Eddie Vedder	...	Himself - Pearl Jam
Selene H. Vigil	...	Herself - 7 Year Bitch (as Selene Vigil)
Mike Vraney	...	Himself - Promoter
Kim Warnick	...	Herself - The Fastbacks
Clint Werner	...	Himself - Seaweed
Kevin Whitworth	...	Himself - Love Battery
Rusty Willoughby	...	Himself - Flop
Mark Wooten	...	Himself - Zipgun
Blake Wright	...	Himself - Owner, eMpTy Records
Matt Wright	...	Himself - Gas Huffer
The Young Fresh Fellows	...	Themselves
Mia Zapata	...	Herself - The Gits
Zipgun	...	Themselves

Länge:

84 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Tonverfahren:

Dolby SR | DTS

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:MA (original rating) | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Portugal:M/6

Drehorte:

Bellingham, Washington, USA

Firma:

Helvey-Pray Productions

Dialogzitate:

Martin Rushent: It's taking rock right back to its basics, which is, go up there, make a hell of a noise and make sure you play music your parents don't like.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Singles (1992)

Soundtrack:

Hotcakes

Flannel! Seattle!

I remember the first time I heard Nirvana. I had laid down for a nap with the radio on after school one day. When I woke up it was night, but what threw me out of bed, what got me banging my head was "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I never heard anything like it. The noise possessed me. Right then and there I filed away my Poison and Def Leppard tapes; there were new rock stars to worship.

HYPE charts what happened in Seattle to bring forth this defining moment of a generation as well as what happened after. It's a sharp, funny documentary with scads of concert footage of bands both famous (Soundgarden) and not so (Coffin Break). Interspersed are wry observations from the locals who got so fed up with the endless, um, hype, that the only way to stay sane was to make fun of it all.

The movie is put together well, but I do have some complaints. I wish the filmmakers had shown the first live performance of "Teen Spirit" in its entirety. The part they do show is electrifying; maybe it's the combination of the grainy, shaky footage and Nirvana itself, but at that moment it was obvious that Kurt Cobain would be a superstar. This concert was ground zero for the biggest youthquake in my lifetime, so I wish it could have seen and heard the performance from beginning to end.

My second complaint is easier to forgive. For all the talk about Nirvana, not a word is mentioned about Hole. Given Courtney Love's litigious nature when it comes to her and Kurt's music, I presume she did what she had to do to keep her band out of it. It's not the director's fault, but it does harm the movie since Love is arguably the biggest star the era produced. (HYPE hit theatres about six weeks before THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT; I wonder if that was mere coincidence.)

Finally, since there's a clip of the Gits, it would have been right to at least mention lead singer Mia Zapata's 1993 murder. I didn't hear about this until years later, when "Unsolved Mysteries" did a piece on it. I wanted to know more about it, like how her death affected the community and the music. Were the Gits a local favorite? Was Zapata popular? A bitch? Movie doesn't say.

I still have all my grunge CDs. Not just the big acts but many of the wannabees, never-weres and knockoffs too: Sponge, Mad Season, Jawbox, Dink, Seven Mary Three. I don't care how derivative it sounds; this era of music was my college years, the early '90s, the best time of my life. Forgive me for wallowing in it occasionally (I type as the moody Mother Love Bone song on the SINGLES soundtrack resonates around me).

What happened to grunge? Did it die with Kurt, or with Mia, or when Weird Al gave the world his spin, or when Pearl Jam agreed to play at Ticketmaster arenas? It sure was long gone by the time Layne Staley died and the Smashing Pumpkins broke up. HYPE's running time is under ninety minutes, which seems appropriate since grunge was over quickly too. It petered out before its time, and before we knew it Hootie and the Blowfish was the next big thing. And look what pop music is now.

8/10

Oh, and I did eventually buy the Best Of collections from Poison and Def Leppard. Don't we all secretly still like the music we listened to in high school?