Poop Shovel - ＂One Pass Away＂

What this video is

Poopshovel emerged from Madison, Wisconsin's vibrant late-1980s and early-1990s underground rock scene — a milieu that also produced Killdozer, Tar Babies, and orbited the influential Smart Studios, which would later become central to the grunge movement. The band blended noise-punk with jazz-inflected unconventionality, making them an eccentric but respected fixture of the Midwestern college-circuit underground.…

Why it matters

Representative artifact of the American underground noise-punk/alt-rock ecosystem immediately preceding the 1991 mainstream grunge breakthrough. Documents the Midwestern variant of the movement — characterized by sardonic humor, genre hybridity (punk, noise, jazz), and resolutely anti-commercial…

The director

Philip Harder (born 1965) is an American music video and commercial director. He operated Harder/Fuller Films from 1985 to 2005 and later directed at Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Commercials and Music Videos. His music video credits include Prince, Foo…