Der Untergang des Abendlandes
The film's title is possibly a reference to music critic Lester Bangs' 1970 two-part review of the Stooges' album "Fun House", for "Creem" magazine, where Bangs quotes a friend who had said the popularity of the Stooges signaled "the decline of Western civilization". Another possibility is that the title refers to Darby Crash's reading of Oswald Spengler's "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" ("The Decline of the West"). In "We Got the Neutron Bomb", an oral history of the L.A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz, Claude Bessy claims that he came up with the title.