MODERNETTES-"Barbra" HD restored

[@brucefoster8937]

The best pure punk song to ever come out of Vancouver. Still a fave to this day.

[@lukeholman3180]

I don’t know how this band didn’t blow up.

[@gpan62]

I remember seeing this video on Vancouver community TV's Nite Dreams

[@modtomodern]

Wasn't it great? Vancouver's doorway to an alternative musical universe.

[@teedammit]

This really was one of the best videos of it's time, and it's still slammin. All hail the Modernettes!

[@robertharkins5737]

Found this by accident. What a treat!

[@peterdaigle7249]

Art Bergmann took me here.

[@Timmybear]

Art Bergmann is a Canadian singer-songwriter, in bands such as Young Canadians, K-Tels, Poisoned, and a solo career. After many years of illness, has re-emerged recently.

[@niceguy5542]

Do you ever find good music on purpose?

[@plastarecords8075]

también yo, estaba escuchando Exeorica punk argentino

[@LarzGustafsson]

Absolutely magnificent! And I just love the bass sound and the way she plays the bass.

[@JonnyDovercourt]

Seriously one of the all-time greatest music videos made anywhere ever.

[@ndSpaz]

The editing is fantastic, the shots, the pacing, it's a masterpiece.

[@IanCanty]

@@ndSpaz It's brilliant - like the best John Hughes film you ever saw in 2 minutes with a cracking soundtrack

[@spottedliver]

Hit replay, about 10 times. Mary rocks.

[@seekingtruth3228]

I think this was filmed in Vancouver near the Woodland Elementary School - East Van! That staircase is still there.

[@modtomodern]

Actually, the exteriors were filmed in the west end high school, on Denman street.

[@SeaToSkyImages]

@@modtomodern Indeed. There are a few shots of "The Inn" that ended up being the Capri Hotel for a while.

[@NLOVEWITHJOANJETT]

What a great unknown Canadian band!!! I've liked punk since the late 80's and know one I know has ever mentioned this band. Thank-you KZbin. Trying desperately to find this on vinyl.

[@rockenroe]

laszlo s original pressings aren’t common but it has been repressed.

[@NLOVEWITHJOANJETT]

@@rockenroe Thanks Rob

[@gayleandreah]

Totally great.

[@seanmlennon]

Can't stop listening to this song. So rad.

[@peterdaigle7249]

Give me a two minute song any day! Catchier than hell...

[@LarzGustafsson]

BRILLIANT!

[@Stig39Helmer]

How the hell did I miss this....back in the days! Awsome!

[@jacdixie]

Glad I stumbled on this however many years ago. Great song, and I'm still coming back.

[@MrRougeoiseau]

First time I ever heard this was on a friend's vinyl copy of a Vancouver Seeds competition late 70s or early 80.

[@cftvdata]

This might actually be the best song I've heard in years. I've know about the Modernettes for years, how did I manage to miss this???

[@brentmcintyre5529]

Such a ripping simple true rock n roll track.

[@mauriceovcr]

Seems like forever since I saw them live... Was just listing to "Strictly Confidential" and came here to see if anything was up... cool to see them again! Thanks to the uploader.

[@johnisallin]

Thanks for the awesome looking vid! Brings back a flood of memories of growing up in Vancouver with it's awesome punk scene. Too bad I was too young to see these bands live. But I recall watching all these bands, Modernettes, D.O.A., Young Canadians, Subhumans, etc... on local cable channel 4.

[@Keifer-D]

I was young too. But my mom was a Punk Rock photographer and got me into shows and backstage. Bev Davies is my mom, she still takes pictures at rock shows! Back then it was raw and unleashed. Now its so formulated.

[@stephenfernald2490]

Don’t forget The Dishrags. I was in love w Jade Blade

[@stevehastings5161]

Me Too!!!!

[@RokulaLala]

Top teenage rock and roll shaker.

[@damonhines8187]

Looks and sounds great!! Go, Buck, go!

[@ineffable50]

Loved these guys!

[@ineffable50]

So much love for this!!

[@johnisallin]

This brings back so many memories. I remember watching this video when I was just a kid when it was shown on the local cable channel 4 in Vancouver. So many great local bands were shown on that channel like D.O.A., the Payolas, the Young Canadians, the Subhumans and others whose names I cant remember. This was before MTV or MuchMusic of course. Great restoration job on this video. It looks fantastic! Better than when I was just a kid sitting 2 feet from the TV eating a bowl of cereal watching it all those yrs ago :)

[@HalfLifeAMD]

John Bickle if I remember correctly it was called night dreams..it was awesome!

[@LAG3]

He'll yeah! There's "famous" and then there's "Canadian Famous ". Such a great memory!

[@midnightAlchemistOfficial]

Hhehehe The Smiling Buddha ;) Down on Hastings! Man it was fun! We never got to Hawaii ;)

[@TheKrottyKid]

I know I'm replying to a comment that is six years old, but I also remember seeing this video on that public cable show in Vancouver in 1986. There's nothing like watching videos you haven't seen since you enjoyed them as a teenager to make you wish you were young again, sigh.

[@chainsawfodder]

@@HalfLifeAMD I think it was called Soundproof.

[@Timmybear]

The story goes that the bass player did not realize what her punk assumed name referred to, so that when a CBC interviewer asked her who gave her the name Mary Jo Kopechne and she answered her swimming teacher, she did not intend it to get the gasp it produced. (to briefly explain, Miss Kopechne (the original, not her namesake) was the woman in Ted Kennedy's car when it went off the bridge in 1969 and she drowned)

[@JimmySlattery]

Mary kinew who the original MJK was - she just wanted to fuck with the TV host, Wayne Cox. The drummer wanted me to ask him if his middle name was Sucks ...

[@sherridecembrini7949]

the story goes she knew exactly what her name meant,jaybus,mensch,give yr haid a good shake.

[@theunrealtimemm]

@@JimmySlattery My apologies. I'd read that somewhere, and clearly I was mistaken.

[@dekemason]

Glad to finally see this on the net. I thought it was lost to history forever. I'm still looking this 7" anybody out there want to sell it...........?

[@Giffertronics]

You made my day.This is amazing - perhaps the perfect power pop song, and now the fantastic video has been restored. Hats off to you. Power pop to the world!

[@spottedliver]

What a great song.That is where i played b-ball.

[@Brewzerr]

Mary - you make this. Thank you.

[@donaldfewell9929]

Great!

[@grantlawrence7579]

the GOAT

[@muzengarocker3184]

Powerful bassline!

[@KevinSmith-jh1ld]

1:48 best eyeball roll ever

[@SonicVision]

Awesome! Excellent job of preserving this. Thanks!

[@charlie479]

Beautiful. Great Job!

[@guillermoortega4119]

AWESOME

[@majorgiroux]

Thanks for the Restoration effort ! lovely.

[@PeterByker]

2 Dislikes??? Must be Streisand fans --- wrong Barbra, Einstein! Bloodied But Unbowed is my favourite documentary on this scene, but The Last Pogo is very good too, and may for due a restoration soon as well.

[@MrScottbot101]

Yep, and her reaction was classic!

[@1962jacker]

class tune never heard it until today.

[@jonasabry9099]

Best goddamn Canadian Punk song I've ever heard.

[@esesenordenegro2064]

I like this band. I didn't knew them. Good song.

[@barbmcivor5758]

I'm not saying this because of the name but this is the best punk rock song (and vid), clocking in @ a lean 1:57. Talkin bout Barbra!! 👏

[@LarzGustafsson]

Excellent!

[@zx7gp]

WELL DONE!!!! Great to see this restored.Now to find some lost footage of The Villians,B-Sides,Cast of Thousands etc

[@60degreelobwedge82]

I love the bass tone.

[@PeterWesleyBastone]

awesome....shared to the Netshows Radio "Program 168" Playlist n youtube

[@truliy]

couldn't believe it when this started playing in THE GOON movie lol

[@BazWildeClub]

Ramones meets bubblegum powerpop. Great stuff! :)

[@deniimacdougall]

Mary Jo rocks!

[@LarzGustafsson]

I love this!

[@anthongerardi6502]

Damn, that was cool!

[@harryknackers7892]

MARY JO WHERE ARE YOU?

[@oidschwabinger]

yeah that keeps my motor running - music and clip !

[@surfsup5757]

Our hero's!!!!

[@cabuvalente]

Sooo coooll!

[@NateMchaggis]

classic canadian punk!

[@7887zz]

1:29 ... Lord Roberts Field

[@iddyscheintot6479]

Musik vom Allerfeinsten. Zeitlos.

[@NjecolinaHranjec]

This is so awesome!

[@TheGumbylives]

THE SONG of my youth

[@Keifer-D]

Me too!!

[@chrisyonts9652]

00:13 - HIS GUITAR PROBABLY SAYS "THE MUSTANG BOYS."

[@ChrundleKelly]

This song was in Goon =)

[@OwenReimer]

@tuxedosponge Heheheh I do agree. Keep an eye out for Rebel Kind!

[@beckjuly100]

I like the quality of the color

[@dougmann777]

The Vancouver New Wave - Punk scene of the late 70s and early 80s - back when music was fun, edgy and out of corporate control (mostly).

[@gogoyubari366]

That bass!

[@ivant.w.9152]

Forever one of my favorite punk rock bass tones, next to maybe Nomeansno.

[@okrajoe]

So modern!!!

[@rohanquinby3188]

Oh my sweet lord almighty

[@teejhkraut4340]

damn hell good!

[@Bobjb999]

It wasn't till Chuck Berry died yesterday and I saw his name all over the net with obituary press - that the name "Buck Cherry" came to mind. Belatedly, I realized John Armstrong's stage name "Buck Cherry" is a pun on Chuck Berry's name. Odd, I never caught it before, especially as I came up with on my own a similar type pun years ago re. comedian Lenny Bruce, i.e. "Benny Lruce"! Okay, so I'm slow sometimes. Btw, I notice this Modernette's song HAS a few Chuck-Berry-like licks in it.

[@MrJett1971]

Chuck Berry is in every rock and roll song, one way or another...

[@Telstar62a]

It's one of those things that hits you years after the fact sometimes. I wouldn't have thought of it either, because you don't really associate the Modernettes with Berry. LIke I didn't realize for a couple of years after I watched it that the guys in Repo Man were all named for different beers...Bud, Oly, Miller, and Lite.

[@kenmtb]

Back when music was actually fun........

[@heyholetsgo]

K V ya we need more fun music with all the depressing garbage in the world these days. This song rules!

[@THEQueeferSutherland]

Music is still fun, you're just too lazy to look for it because you're old.

[@Brewzerr]

Yes, because there’s no such thing as “young and lazy”, right?

[@Goosetavula]

Bet the guys from this band would call you old and lame too lol

[@Brewzerr]

Gustavo - I know 2 of the 3 members (one’s not a ‘guy’), and uh... no.

[@PeterByker]

Are you alluding to the biographical feature film project being produced by Jay Baruchel? Based on the life of Modernette Buck Cherry? Writer Sam Sutherland asked him about the project on a KZbin live chat (searchable right here on YT) last November, and the project sounds terrific!

[@theunrealtimemm]

I don't think I'd noticed before now how many outfit changes Buck and Mary go through (or that Jughead is always wearing the same shirt *eek*).

[@dmf13]

WOWWWWWWW

[@CheeseCircus]

Awesome. Sounds like an X song

[@sherridecembrini7949]

you guys are all nutzoid,,,its 3 chord rock'n'roll done well with severe sardonicism

[@shanemacgowan7028]

Nardwuars interview with Duff McGagan brought me here !!

[@EctoSpirianC]

Heard him mention them on turned out a punk, so good!

[@tuxedosponge]

Something tells me this is going to get awfully popular pretty soon. Coming soon to a theatre near you...

[@Derosa6037]

How fucking great is this?

[@DougglesMagnificent]

That grey staircase, is that in the DTES, where the old Misanth. gallery used to be? Loox familiar.

[@nonetoobrite]

The staircase is attached to the school building, located in the West End of Vancouver

[@SystemofaDowns]

R.I.P. Barbara 🤘🇨🇦🤘

[@imyourrealdad.6071]

We all wanna date Barbra.....Get in line bro.

[@garagerockermadrid]

Immensely fucking great!

[@Yakovlievich]

He loves Barbra when he's a teenager and then wonders what he was thinking when he sees her again at the high school reunion. Either that or he marries her and divorces her within five years.

[@ram29jackson]

from 1981

[@gamblinggator3177]

Anybody else notice he tried to get her in the van with candy?

[@岡山広幸]

a method of kidnapping infants

[@modtomodern]

Everyone noticed...

[@philcluff8271]

Great track...sounds like The Vaccines...and just as good!!

[@zildacardoso4344]

Aquelas cabeças ficam bem abanadas e abaladas.

[@painsettomusic]

B-A-R-B-R-A BARBRA!

[@niceguy5542]

Personally I would have risked drowning to save that Mary Jo!

[@jimmyjazz9839]

Bassist got the best teef in tha game

[@duanefouss8779]

why cant bands play stuff like this anymore?

[@Keifer-D]

Because it is actually fun. Everyone needs to make a "formula" for songs to make a hit. They forgot about actual music. Its like the degradation of the human mind.

[@ivant.w.9152]

There's modern stuff that sounds like this out there, it's just not famous. Check out The Number Ones - "Wish I Was Lonely".

[@musicaquenoexisteeninterne4742]

@@ivant.w.9152 sure, just because some old farts don't know about powerpop underground, it means it doesn't exist. Love The Number Ones, great band and great blokes.

[@maxbrandy25]

I wonder what restaurant they filmed it at? Does anyone know?

[@imyourrealdad.6071]

Barbra has 6 kids and weighs 500 pounds now.......You really dodged a bullet on this one.

[@tumultooo]

Green day 70s

[@87CHUD]

Is it just me: Leo circa Basket Ball Diaries.

[@fanfataldraws]