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Question of the Week: What’s your favorite…

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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33 Responses to “Question of the Week: What’s your favorite…”

  1. patti said

    July 1, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    rock and roll high school

  2. A.C. Rhodes said

    July 1, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    That was phenomenally fast. I’m taking Head and Easy Rider.

  3. s woods said

    July 1, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Probably Mean Streets.

  4. s woods said

    July 1, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    “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.

  5. Jody Macgregor said

    July 1, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Trainspotting. If that doesn’t count I’ll take Hard Day’s Night.

  6. Michael A. Gonzales said

    July 1, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Super Fly (Curtis Mayfield), Black Caesar (James Brown), Purple Rain (Prince), The Virgin Suicides and American Pop.

  7. Rockcritics.com Asks: What’s Your Favorite Music Movie? said

    July 1, 2008 at 9:12 pm

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  8. Steven said

    July 1, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Scott stole my answer, Mean Streets, so I’ll go with Performance.

  9. Hogan said

    July 1, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    The Kids Are Alright

  10. Bill Tuomala said

    July 1, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    Ditto. The Kids Are Alright.

  11. Ethan Stanislawski said

    July 2, 2008 at 12:12 am

    Almost Famous and Repo Man.

  12. Janiss Garza said

    July 2, 2008 at 1:38 am

    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.

  13. Turn it Down Zine said

    July 2, 2008 at 8:45 am

    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!

  14. ted cogswell said

    July 2, 2008 at 9:56 am

    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??).

  15. Nate P. said

    July 2, 2008 at 10:15 am

    ‘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.

  16. Richard Riegel said

    July 2, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    ‘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!

  17. ted cogswell said

    July 2, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    And duh, one of my all-time favorite movies period, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’.

  18. Steven Ward said

    July 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Urgh! A Music War
    Velvet Goldmine
    The Virgin Suicides

  19. The Barman said

    July 5, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    “The Mc5: A True Testimonial”, of course. No-one said anything abiout excluding unreleased movies did they?

  20. Legs McNeil said

    July 6, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Hard Days Night & Don’t Look Back.

  21. Aaron Aradillas said

    July 6, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Documentaries: Stop Making Sense, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

    Movies: Scorpio Rising, Mean Stteets, The Wanderers

  22. Art Worker said

    July 7, 2008 at 12:36 am

    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)

  23. daphne said

    July 7, 2008 at 5:17 am

    Decline and Fall of Western Civilization I (II is great but so tragic)

  24. Jason Gross said

    July 7, 2008 at 9:53 am

    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.

  25. part-timer said

    July 7, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Phantom of the Paradise

  26. Bayer L. Mack said

    July 7, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    1. Hard Day’s Night
    2. Purple Rain
    3. Krush Groove
    4. Dreamgirls
    5. Lady Sings The Blues

  27. Brian said

    July 8, 2008 at 10:24 am

    The Blues Brothers…

  28. Ryan said

    July 10, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    suburbia
    i mean the original not the other movie by that name

  29. Ryan said

    July 10, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    also rude boy, though lacking in certain areas, has probably the best concert footage ever shot.

  30. Michael A. Gonzales said

    July 15, 2008 at 10:59 am

    i forgot one…the harder they come; god, i love that movie.

  31. Garrett said

    July 17, 2008 at 10:59 am

    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)…

  32. Chris Neal said

    July 25, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    A Hard Day’s Night

  33. Mister Shabbadoo said

    September 17, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    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

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