Best "Rock"umentaries EVER!!!!
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I started a thread over on Multiply that seemed to go over pretty good. So, let's try it here and see how it goes!
What music documentaries would you recommend to your friends ?
here's the list (so far) that was accumulated from the original thread
"Don't Look Back" with Bob Dylan.
"Dig" about Brian Jonestown Massacre and "Drive Well, Sleep Carefully about Death Cab for Cutie
Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! - Nirvana
Voliminal: Inside The Nine - Slipknot
Single Video Theory - Pearl Jam
The Song Remains The Same - Led Zeppelin
"End of the Century" The Ramones story
"About a Son" -Kurt Cobain/Nirvana
Hype
American Hardcore
The Filth and the Fury -Sex Pistols
Let's Rock Again - Joe strummer
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (tragic. but, very good)
Woodstock
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (AWESOME!!!)
"Meeting People Is Easy" - radiohead
metallica's 'some kind of monster'
slipknot's 'voliminal'
Wildstyle and Style Wars - hip hop
We Jam Econo (Minutemen)
Heartworn Highways (Austin)
Vinyl (Record Collectors)
Scratch (DJ'S)
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
There's one about Tupac that was GREAT! (the title escapes me right now)
The Decline of Western Civilization 1 AND 2
Derailroaded - the Wild Man Fischer story ( another tragic masterpiece)
Kill Your Idols
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
The Kids Are Alright
NIN Inch Nails - "Closure"
That's the list WE came up with. you guys have any that we missed? I'm looking for some new ones to check out over the weekend.
Comments (14)
looks like you got em pretty well covered. only one's i can think to add would be "heartworn highway" and "the ruttles".
What's "Heartworn Highway" about?
outsider country artists like steve earle...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405963/
My all-time favorite is "Gimme Shelter." I've seen it about 30 times, dating back to Friday night midnight shows in college. Recently, it's been re-released with an incredibly vibrant remastered print. Funny thing, the segments that interest me most now are those that DON'T feature the Stones. That the Maysles somehow gained access into Melvin Belli's office for some of those meetings to hammer out the legal side of staging a concert "festival," is perhaps the films crowning achievement. To see Bill Graham and other local luminaries haggling over hippies, parking spaces, and the importance of calling Altamont Speedway "Dick Carter's Altamont Speedway" (at the insistence of Dick Carter) is really a kind of time-machine experience that brings some perspective to the co-opted insulation that characterizes the music / concert business today.
And, duh, great soundtrack too. Tina Turner in one of her greatest performances!
A Skin too Few: The Days of Nick Drake
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264013/
I don't know if it's available on DVD yet...drat! oh wait! here it is on google vid..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8995741502732016708&ei=UAkCSebCDYruqAKl5a35Dw&q=nick+drake&hl=en&emb=1
oh, and The Gits Movie: http://www.thegitsmovie.com/
Totally amazing and heartbreaking.
1991: The Year Punk Broke (Sonic Youth, Nirvana and others)
The Last Waltz (The Band)
Wetlands Preserved (Great Doc about the late great NYC activism based club, feat. jambands like Blues Traveler, DMB, Phish, Mule, Robert Randolph and about 30 more)
oh, and I GOTS to add "Festival Express" . What a fucking party that trip was!
Joy Division {2007}!
the last waltz is well up there... probably my favourite scorsese too...
Dang...forgot about The Year Punk Broke. That's a good one, too.
Two great documentaries on The Clash: Westway to the World, which covers the history of the band itself, and The Future is Unwritten, which is really a biography of Joe Strummer, but the first 3/4 are about the Clash and the final 1/4 is about Strummer's post-Clash output. Both of these are terrific films.
Also--Rust Never Sleeps, the concert film of the Neil Young tour circa 1980.
It's not exactly a documentary, but "Sid and Nancy" does a great job of capturing the era of punk and the formation of the Sex Pistols. It's a dramatic version of the relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, whom Sid (allegedly) killed.
It's good to see Single Video Theory got a nod :D
Then there's The T.A.M.I. Show from 1965 (I think), showing performances from a two-day concert in Santa Monica. In the order that I vaguely remember, the performers were the Barbarians, Chuck Berry, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, the Miracles [with Smokey Robinson], Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, James Brown and the Famous Flames, and the Rolling Stones.