Best Music Documentries

[onogs33]

The Last Waltz was great but here are my top 3
1.Phish- Bittersweet Motel (Amazing made me become a fan)
2.Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
3.Beatles Anthology- if youve got 8 hours to spare it is so worth it

[high fly]

(in no particular order)

Gimme Shelter

Urgh- A Music War

Don't Look Back

Last Waltz

The T.A.M.I. Show

Woodstock

Monterrey Pop

there was a very good one in the early 70s on Creedence Clearwater Revival whose name escapes me



" and they ask me why I drink"

This message was edited by high fly on 8-27-03 @ 12:10 PM

[A.J.]

"The Rutles", The Rutles
"The Kids Are Alright", The Who
"The Compleat Beatles"
"This is Spinal Tap"
"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, Brian Wilson

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

The Police Around the World

The Beatles Anthology

Chet Baker Let's Get Lost

Athens Inside/Out

Wilco I am Trying to Break Your Heart

This is Spinal Tap

Bad News/More Bad News (by the guys who did The Young Ones)

The Rutles

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[douchebagsean]

"The Rutles", The Rutles

such a classic

1. gimme shelter, rolling stones
2. the song remains the same, led zeppelin
3. the rutles, the rutles

"anfrax + ekasy = ambahlance"
"im a gonna c-i-l-l my landlord"

[FUNKMAN]

Grand Funk Railroad

"Behind The Music"

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[onogs33]

"The Rutles", The Rutles
"The Kids Are Alright", The Who
"The Compleat Beatles"
"This is Spinal Tap"
"I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, Brian Wilson

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[blancostupido]

I was glued to the Ken Burn's Jazz series

[furie]

I liked the warren zevon tribute that was on VH-1 last night.


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[curtoid]

No particular order...

* Stop Making Sense
* Urgh! A Music War (damn! someone beat me to it!)
* The Last Waltz
* Rolling Stones At The Max (only in Imax format)
* Madonna Truth Or Dare
* The Clash: Westway To The World
* Wattstax
* Sex Pistols: Great Rock N Roll Swindle
* Monterrey Pop
* This Is Spinal Tap

Wait? Did I say "Truth Or Dare?" WTF?

The most disappointing...

* Instrument - Ten Years with the Band Fugazi

I love Ian and the boys, but this was simply long and dull.

[KOP]

[Yerdaddy]

I think AJinDC has "the song remains the same" and FUNKMAN has "gimme shelter."

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[A.J.]

I think AJinDC has "the song remains the same"

Taped off of MTV -- and hosted by Mark Goodman!

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[A.J.]

Forgot to add "Elvis: That's The Way It Is".

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[jocefus]

nirvana- live tonight sold out
year punk broke
led zed- song remains the same
danzig-danzig
type o negative- (dont remember thename)

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hey my man, what it look like

[guttersnipe]

I think AJinDC has "the song remains the same" and FUNKMAN has "gimme shelter."

Don't you dare start that again!




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[onogs33]

i forgot the clash documentry it was on m2 the other night truly classic

[badorties]

+ the filth and the fury (sex pistols)
+ i am trying to break your heart (wilco)
+ if i should fall from grace with god (shane macgowan)
+ 1991: the year punk broke (sonic youth, et al)
+ the last waltz: the band
+ silver rockets kool things (sonic youth)
+ big time (tom waits)
+ ken burn's jazz
+ live! tonight! sold out!! (nirvana)
+ hype!


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[TheMojoPin]

Man, so many great titles here, so I won't repeat the ones I have...

As for what I wish to add, I submit these...

Radiohead's "Meeting People Is Easy".

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And my favorite of all time, Fugazi's "Instrument".

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Can Portishead's "PNYC" count? Because it's spectacular and it should if "The Last Waltz" does.

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[TheMojoPin]

Forgot a couple...

The Britpop story, "Live Forever".

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And the history of DJ's and mordern turntablism, "Scratch".

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[JustJon]

And how has no one said The Decline of Western Civilization?

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[onogs33]

Man, so many great titles here, so I won't repeat the ones I have...

As for what I wish to add, I submit these...

Radiohead's "Meeting People Is Easy".

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre400/e464/e46481skcqf.jpg

Im a huge Radiohead fan and this fucking sucked total disapointment. Im so sick of people automatically labeling something the band does brilliant just cause it is radiohead. They are a great band but they have done some shite stuff as well and this movie falls undewr the SHITE category!

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[Mike Teacher]

And how has no one said The Decline of Western Civilization?


Great question. The definitive heavy metal tell-all.

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[high fly]

I'm-a chortling over getting in "Urgh- A Music War" in first; plus I'm feeling snobbier by the minute that no one seems to be aware of the T.A.M.I. Show.

And if we're throwing in concert films, I'd include

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones

The Cincinatti Pop Festival from about '70. It's the one where Iggy famously was in the crowd, standing atop shoulders of the fans, slinging gobs of peanut butter all over the place.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[TheMojoPin]

Im a huge Radiohead fan and this fucking sucked total disapointment. Im so sick of people automatically labeling something the band does brilliant just cause it is radiohead.

Actually, I don't love this film because I'm a Radiohead film, as that I think it presents Radiohead in a very skewed light, and is probably the biggest pusher of the "Radiohead are miserable bastards" idea. I like it because it's a very skillfully crafted and edited documentary (The director used the footage to push that image of the band even though he had just as much "happy" footage) with brilliant live footage, tons of B-sides and remixes, and the best chance I'll have to ever owning "Big Boots" as a recorded song. As a filmmaker myself, it perfectly demonstrates how much power a documentary can have through just the right editing alone, and how subjective the whole process is. This film is "brilliant" because of the filmmaker, not the band.

And learn to quote to a post, you fucking mong.

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[who6489]

Just so ya know, The Who "The Kids Are Alright" is gonna be released on DVD in a special edition on Sept. 30! :) It's been completly remastered and restored to it's original length of over 100 min. The video was cut to about 90.

Other faves....

PINK FLOYD - Pompeii (coming to DVD soon :))
GENESIS - Songbook (DVD)
YES - Yesyears (VHS)
AC/DC - Let there Be Rock
RUSH - Exit...Stage Left

Take it easy Clarky

[Tall_James]

Robin Hitchcock - "Storefront Hitchcock"

Jonathan Demme directed Hitchcock preforming in a storefront on 14th Street in NYC. Passerbys stop and look in on the window as the preformance goes on for 77 minutes. Pretty cool.


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[FUNKMAN]

"Behind The Music"

Grand Funk Railroad

hope this wasn't said already!

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[curtoid]

Jonathan Demme directed Hitchcock preforming in a storefront on 14th Street in NYC. Passerbys stop and look in on the window as the preformance goes on for 77 minutes. Pretty cool.

Demme is the best - I'm a huge, huge fan of his work as a director, if not of all of this films (if that even makes sense), and he's one of the few people working in Hollywood that people don't talk shit about - maybe because he doesn't live in Hollywood.

Would like to see him rebound; BELOVED was a horrible choice, but he was so stung from the criticism he got over PHILADELPHIA, and overwhelmed by the success of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He's done other smaller projects; the documentary on his cousin the priest living and working in Harlem, COUSIN BOBBY, was very good.

[KOP]

[Zoefus]

"Bring on the Night" - The Police

[pinkyfloyd]

LAST WALTZ!!!! Also, the Let It Be documentary is supposed to be released soon.

Oh, by the way, which one's pinky?

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