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Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1981 featuring performances of punk and New Wave music, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are The Go-Go's, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, XTC, Devo, Oingo Boingo, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, and The Police.

Urgh! A Music War acquired a cult following in the United States in the 1980s due to its frequent showings on USA Network. The film has been released on videocassette but is currently out of print.

This movie consisted of a series of punk and new wave songs, without narration or explanatory text. All clips were live, recorded around 1980 in England and the USA.

Track listing

# Opening credits # The Police – "Driven to Tears" # Wall of Voodoo – "Back in Flesh" # Toya Wilcox – "Dance" # John Cooper Clark – "Health Fanatic" # Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – "Enola Gay" # Chelsea – "I’m on Fire" # Oingo Boingo – "Ain’t This the Life" # Echo & the Bunnymen – "The Puppet" # Jools Holland – "Foolish I know" # XTC – "Respectable Street" # Klaus Nomi – "Total Eclipse" # Athletico Spizz 80 – "Where’s Captain Kirk?" # The Go-Go's – "We Got the Beat" # Dead Kennedys – "Bleed for Me" # Steel Pulse – "Ku Klux Klan" # Gary Numan – "Down in the Park" # Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – "Bad Reputation" # Magazine – "Model Worker" # Surf Punks – "Go Home" # The Members – "Offshore Banking Business" # Au Pairs – "Come Again" # The Cramps – "Tear It Up" # Invisible Sex – "Valium" # Pere Ubu – "Birdies" # Devo – "Uncontrollable Urge" # The Alley Cats – "Nothing Means Nothing Anymore" # John Ottway – "Cheryl’s Going Home" # Gang of Four – "He’d Send in the Army" # 999 – "Homicide" # The Fleshtones – "Shadowline" # X – "Beyond and Back" # Skafish – "Sign of the Cross" # Splodgeness Abounds – "Two Little Boys" # UB40 – "Madame Medusa" # The Police – "Roxanne" # The Police – "So Lonely"

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