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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on July 1, 2008
music movie? Documentaries can be included as well as pop culture pics.
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patti said
rock and roll high school
A.C. Rhodes said
That was phenomenally fast. I’m taking Head and Easy Rider.
s woods said
Probably Mean Streets.
s woods said
“Probably” because a bunch of others come really really close. I’ll take that, however, as it’s the first music movie I saw that wasn’t a documentary that completely knocked me out.
Jody Macgregor said
Trainspotting. If that doesn’t count I’ll take Hard Day’s Night.
Michael A. Gonzales said
Super Fly (Curtis Mayfield), Black Caesar (James Brown), Purple Rain (Prince), The Virgin Suicides and American Pop.
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Steven said
Scott stole my answer, Mean Streets, so I’ll go with Performance.
Hogan said
The Kids Are Alright
Bill Tuomala said
Ditto. The Kids Are Alright.
Ethan Stanislawski said
Almost Famous and Repo Man.
Janiss Garza said
Repo Man, which I worked on (I was supervising assistant editor and a fresh film school dropout). And yes, I totally knew it was going to be one of the greatest punk cult films ever when I was toiling away over the Moviola.
Turn it Down Zine said
Gimme Shelter is great.
and my favorite music doc.
(would be the the never-to-be-made doc.)
The Fortune Records Story!
-including live (& non-existent) video of
Nolan Strong
Nathaniel Mayer
& Andre Williams!
ted cogswell said
Nice call putting that shot from ‘Head’ up top, definitely one of my favorites.
One I’m surprised hasn’t been mentioned yet is ‘The TAMI Show’.
I’d also include ‘Smithereens’, ‘Wild in the Streets’, ‘Out of the Blue’, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains’, ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’, ‘Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii’, ‘Mystery Tain’, and ‘American Hot Wax’ (where’s the dvd of THAT??).
Nate P. said
‘Wild Style’. Talk about a right-place/right-time movie — it still blows my mind how we went from that to Jay-Z owning Glastonbury.
Richard Riegel said
‘Get Yourself a College Girl’ (1964): Leonard Maltin sez “Strictly for dropouts,” which neatly sums up the vapid “plot,” but the music, a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of the Animals, the Standells, the Dave Clark Five, the Jimmy Smith Trio, and Nancy Sinatra, is beyond fab!
ted cogswell said
And duh, one of my all-time favorite movies period, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’.
Steven Ward said
Urgh! A Music War
Velvet Goldmine
The Virgin Suicides
The Barman said
“The Mc5: A True Testimonial”, of course. No-one said anything abiout excluding unreleased movies did they?
Legs McNeil said
Hard Days Night & Don’t Look Back.
Aaron Aradillas said
Documentaries: Stop Making Sense, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Movies: Scorpio Rising, Mean Stteets, The Wanderers
Art Worker said
1) Jazz On A Summer’s Day (1960)
2) The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
3) The Big T.N.T Show (1966)
4) Heartland Reggae (1980)
5) Hard Day’s Night (1964)
daphne said
Decline and Fall of Western Civilization I (II is great but so tragic)
Jason Gross said
I recommend Kenneth Anger’s “Rabbit Moon”- a surreal combo of surreal mime and doo-wop. It’s available on the recent collection The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1.
part-timer said
Phantom of the Paradise
Bayer L. Mack said
1. Hard Day’s Night
2. Purple Rain
3. Krush Groove
4. Dreamgirls
5. Lady Sings The Blues
Brian said
The Blues Brothers…
Ryan said
suburbia
i mean the original not the other movie by that name
Ryan said
also rude boy, though lacking in certain areas, has probably the best concert footage ever shot.
Michael A. Gonzales said
i forgot one…the harder they come; god, i love that movie.
Garrett said
There are a bunch of films featuring music (or musicians) that I have liked, including Blonde Venus, Princess Tam Tam, Frankie and Johnny, Funny Girl, Performance, Lady Sings the Blues, Nashville, Claudine, Saturday Night Fever, The Rose, Say Amen Somebody, Yentl, Basileus Quartet, Mo Better Blues, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Velvet Goldmine, Evita, The Full Monty, The Red Violin, and Melinda and Melinda; and my favorite is probably 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, which approaches the character, life, and music of Glenn Gould from different angles, including documentary and acted segments (and even featuring a segment in x-ray vision)…
Chris Neal said
A Hard Day’s Night
Mister Shabbadoo said
5 STARS:
Monterey Pop (along with the complete Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding outtakes)
Stop Making Sense
4 1/2 STARS:
The Kids Are Alright
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (the original..not the lame “Director’s Cut”)
4 STARS:
Gimme Shelter
The Concert for Bangladesh
The Last Waltz
Head