Music Documentaries

[Mitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40

http://alternative.artsalliancemedia.com/oilcity/

[jbe]

the recent BBC4 Krautrock documentary was pretty good as was the Synthpop one if that is your sort of thing...worth it just for the footage of daniel miller bragging about owning kraftwerk's vocoder

[jamespheromoan]

what is good about kill your idols?

not a lot

[jamespheromoan]

that documentary of US Maple recording Acre Thrills is excellent

[androo]

The best one I've seen recently is "Great Australian Albums: The Saints '(I'm) Stranded'". Great early footage of the band, interviews with Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper, record producer Rod Koe and other Australian musicians from the time. Covers the early years, but then stops right after that album. It made me love the LP all over again even though I never really stopped loving it. Like a Behind the Music doc, but done right.

problem with the saints doc is that they have all that early rare footage & only ever show 30 second snippets of it. which is my problem with so many music docs. they have all this rare footage & only ever show snippets then cut to some boring has been or flavour of the moment crapping on about how much it means to them(yawn)

[sloweducation]

what is good about kill your idols?

not a lot

DNA came off OK if i remember correctly.

[Sukebe GG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40

http://alternative.artsalliancemedia.com/oilcity/

woah yeah that looks way cool. I was just thinking the other day how little credit Dr. Feelgood gets for influencing UK punk. For years, from the name alone, I thought they were some bluesy semi-Dead shite like Canned Heat or something....

Has anyone mentioned the Theremin documentary?

[Whet Bull]

I enjoyed the Scott Walker documentary very much.

The Original Sound of Sheffield is strangely boring.

Best Rock Dock:



Classic Albums: The Joshua Tree ain't no slouch either.  Daniel Lanois is a surprisingly likeable guy.

[Whet Bull]

[Whet Bull]

[philthyrex]

Still wanting to see the one on Wild Man Fischer. There's one on The Holy Modal Rounders as well, but it the promos looked pretty amateurish. That one on Ramblin Jack Elliot was good. That stupid food fight with accents in The Year Punk Broke made me hate Dave Grohl and Nirvana. Thurston came off like a douchey Beck wanna be as well. Was not the ascent, but the decline. Chicago Punk Rock one "You Weren't There" came out recently. I'd like to check it out.

[eurofag]

i dug the flick about long gone john too if you can call that a music doc

[Jared]

Personally, I thought American Hardcore kinda sucked.

[erickelric]

that documentary of US Maple recording Acre Thrills is excellent

Is this on youtube?

[erickelric]

Has anyone mentioned the Theremin documentary?

That's a good one. What a crazy story.