Music films

english_bob

Philly_Q said:

Jimi: All Is By My Side - that rotten Hendrix biopic with Andre 3000.

To be fair, his portrayal of Hendrix was about the best thing about that film, which looked like it cost about £17.50 to make.

CHRISB50

I Am Hip Hop - Documentary about the hip hop scene in Chicago

Scratch - Seminal documentary about turntablism and hip hop DJ'ing

Jalapeno

Er ... Woodstock ?

Budgie

Dig -  Great movie documenting the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Anton was a complete fecking mess back then. Well worth a watch.

I remember a film called Hype about the grunge scene, I can't remember if it was any good though. 

fields5069

Farinelli.

LaCathedrale_UK

fretmeister said:

Rock Star. Fictionalised version of Tim Owens getting the Judas Priest job.

It appears to have dropped off the face of the earth <torrent sites>

Philly_Q

english_bob said:

Philly_Q said:

Jimi: All Is By My Side - that rotten Hendrix biopic with Andre 3000.

To be fair, his portrayal of Hendrix was about the best thing about that film, which looked like it cost about £17.50 to make.

I'll give him a very slight benefit of the doubt given how little he had to work with, but I thought the whole film made Hendrix seem like some random hippy twat who played a handful of gigs and beat up his girlfriend.  Not anybody remotely special and certainly not someone we'd still be talking about 50 years later.

fob

Head - The Monkees

I'll also mention a 'so bad it's good' one: The Prince Story: Icon, Genius, Slave. It's a Channel 5 documentary about Prince (natch) that combines a few decent interviews from those you don't usually hear from (first producer etc.) with a dramatized version of his life. They had a British actor play Prince because he looks almost exactly like Prince (it's actually quite eerie) but they should have gone with someone who could act/sing. Half the time I was watching through my fingers, the other half just laughing out loud. There's a scene where he's singing with a band - I think it's meant to be depicting a rehearsal session - and you can see the other actors just looking at him in disbelief. Excruciating.

neilg

I've still got one episode left to watch but I've enjoyed Long Strange Trip the six part documentaries series about the Grateful Dead on Amazon Prime.

RocknRollDave

Sex Pistols - Filth and the Fury

Police - Everyone Stares

The Jam - About the Young Idea

Bob Weir - The Other One (at least, I think that's what it was called)

scrumhalf

Blow Up - largely a piece of overblown poo but it has the Beck/Page incarnation of the Yardbirds in it.

RocknRollDave

The Clash - Westway To The World

RocknRollDave

fob said:

Head - The Monkees

I'll also mention a 'so bad it's good' one: The Prince Story: Icon, Genius, Slave. It's a Channel 5 documentary about Prince (natch) that combines a few decent interviews from those you don't usually hear from (first producer etc.) with a dramatized version of his life. They had a British actor play Prince because he looks almost exactly like Prince (it's actually quite eerie) but they should have gone with someone who could act/sing. Half the time I was watching through my fingers, the other half just laughing out loud. There's a scene where he's singing with a band - I think it's meant to be depicting a rehearsal session - and you can see the other actors just looking at him in disbelief. Excruciating.

Saw a few mins of that Prince one - sooooooo bad! The Freddie Mercury one was almost as bad 

Nitefly

No love for Easy Rider?  It was the first "music film" I ever saw, in some fleapit in Glasgow one rainy Saturday afternoon.

It was great - I stayed and watched it all the way through a second time.

DarnWeight

Some good docs I haven't seen mentioned so far...

End Of The Century (The Ramones)
We Jam Econo (The Minutemen)
Not A Photograph (Mission Of Burma)
Instrument (Fugazi)
You Weren't There: A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-84

Also got a real soft spot for Rock N' Roll High School, which is everything you'd expect from a Roger Corman musical about The Ramones.

MagicPigDetective

Another doc: The year that punk broke, about sonic youth's 91 european tour, featuring Nirvana, Dino Jr etc 

holnrew

Glad somebody else mentioned mistaken for strangers, I went into it with no expectations just as a fan of the national. It was a wonderful surprise.

Does The Last Waltz count?

fandango

Pinball Wizard? No more obvious than The Blues Brothers.

duotone

Favourites of mine are;

Standing in the shadows of Motown
Austin to Boston
Muscle Shoals
The Wrecking Crew
Amy
This is it 
20 Feet From Stardom
Sound City




 

TTBZ

The Wrecking Crew is a great documentary! As is Searching for Sugar Man.