Brilliance and sadness. Links make this a nine-parter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC0DayWUY64
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:06 (ten years ago) link
Well yeah, I've posted this elsewhere, but this was the perennially shared DVD of "the best music doc ever" round my friend circle, of course now on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahnZ1HcW00
― faghetti (fgti), Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:41 (ten years ago) link
More pain from Daniel Johnston,,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3dUJBrQo
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
sorry... DJ is not free
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:50 (ten years ago) link
I've had Step Across The Border's soundtrack for ages, gotta see the doc. Here's one about The Church of Saint John Coltrane, via WFMU--haven't watched it yet, but I have faith:http://aeon.co/video/culture/the-church-of-saint-john-coltrane/
― dow, Sunday, 12 October 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Trailer for A Band Called Death, streaming on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and sometimes YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzxnnQHrZBQ
― dow, Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
Well worth watching, especially once you get past introductory celeb endorsements.
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
from geeta, via the twittervine:
Great, rare doc by Charles Atlas on NY noise, feat. John Zorn, Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay, & more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2sb9DcgUI … via @visaforviolet
― dow, Monday, 22 December 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
Another via Twitter (another haven't had time to watch yet): My Nashville---BBC doc, intrepid Bob Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mg0cbPObxA
― dow, Monday, 22 December 2014 03:49 (nine years ago) link
Worthwhile Crass Documentary -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQ1CvwF7BQ
― MaresNest, Monday, 22 December 2014 09:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfJZxi0hio
^^^^ Documentary with English subtitles about Polish new wave rock under Communism in the eighties.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 22 December 2014 09:25 (nine years ago) link
Flying Nun: Heavenly Pop Hits includes really old NZ videos you've probably never seen:
http://youtu.be/sjUDemQFznA
― SCOTTISH PEOPLE ONLY (I M Losted), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen that since it was first shown here, but the sight of m4rtin phi11ips' dead possum art is bringing it all back :-/
5 seconds into part 2 and you can see a roof/chimney just down the street from where i'm sitting.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
TRIBUTE, an early-'00s look at tribute bands, is one of my favorite documentaries
http://vimeo.com/78953694
― maura, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Intriguing, thanks! Hope Lez Zep is in there. Dunno if this is the whole thing, but looks promising; will check both of these when more time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyzL6D-5znY
― dow, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
"From $3.99" on YouTube and well worth it: 20 Feet From Stardom, about back-up singers (I saw it in a theatre, was blown away, plus it got me thinking about white male classic rock superstars' reliance on black female & some male supersources, even aside from white male etc. w music of Chuck Berry etc.; also still quite evident---no big lectures here: more show than tell, though lots of cogent lines from all concerned)
― dow, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyUJcA8Zfo
― dow, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
20 Feet is on Netflix instant too
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 January 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
February 9th only. Not perfect but worth seeing
Starting right now, for 24 hours only (until 10 a.m. Eastern tomorrow), Pitchfork.tv is hosting a full stream of Kiley Kraskouskas' film The Last Song Before The War, a feature documentary about Mali's Festival in the Desert. Festival in the Desert was a music festival held annually near Timbuktu, beginning in 2001. In 2012, Northern Mali was taken over by separatist rebels and Islamic militants, and the festival was forced into exile. The Last Song Before The War tells the festival's story, featuring performances from the 2011 edition. The film features Vieux Farka Touré, Tinariwen, Leni Stern, Oumou Sangaré, Habib Koité, Bassekou Kouyate, Amy Sacko, Group Amanar, and Tartit, with appearances from Bono of U2 and writer Banning Eyre. Watch the full film below, for 24 hours only.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Christ is there ANY music documentary Bono hasn't insinuated himself into? Now he's an expert on Malian desert music? GO AWAY.
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
haha i almost didn't watch the excellent muscle shoals doc because he was the first human you see in it
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Bono, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins - the worst
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
order of preferencerollinsthurston
bono
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
whither Fricke?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
oh i like fricke actually just because dammnit the years come and go but old david still looks that same sinewy vaguely-40ish and same damn ramones haircut
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 February 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
He cut a fine figure a few years ago at SXSW. Very pleasant dude.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
The world needs more 55 year old alt rock statesmen to be ubiquitous in documentaries
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Someone should do supercut of Bono's incisive commentary in films about
The RamonesLeonard CohenPhyl LynottFrank SinatraMississippi juke jointsMorrisseyPaul RobesonAbbaThe PretendersJack ClementJoe StrummerNueve Cancion songsJohn LennonMuscle ShoalsThe BeatlesPaul McCartneyRonny DrewQuincy JonesWoody GuthrieArthur FogelLuciano PavorattiHorslipsMick JaggerTony BennettKirsty MacCollIvan KralRoy OrbisonB.B. KingEminemVictor JaraTina TurnerJohnny MercerKylie Minogue
that's not to mention Bill Clinton, Charles Bukowski, soccer, apartheid, Anton Corbijn, the evangelical movement, Michael Caine, AIDS, Cirque de Soleil, Billy Graham, George Clooney, competitive robotics, the 9/11 attacks, Island Records, Oscar Wilde, and Mississippi
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
"The great thing about The Ramones is they showed U2 that you could be four skinny kids from the city with a heart full of rock n roll"
"The thing about Leonard Cohen is he showed the world, and U2 especially, that you could express pain in a song and still remain manly. So manly."
"Phil Lynott was an inspiration to all Irish kids with stars in their eyes and rock n roll in their hearts."
"The thing about Frank Sinatra is that his appeal was timeless, and he could connect with decade after decade of new generations, as when he was good enough to re-record the classic I've Got You Under My Skin with me in 1993"
"As we in U2 got to discover on the Joshua Tree tour, the Mississippi juke joints are still out there, still hopping with the true spirit of rock n roll, that we'd been looking for since playing in the smelliest basement pubs in Dublin."
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
Lol at all of these posts
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
well this is one to be avoided (it would SEEM) since first minute and a half is communicating to extra terrestrials or something
http://youtu.be/Em4kpy1YuNQ
"You'd have to EXTRACT the record, y'know, from it's SLEEVE, and, y'know, place it on the turntable"
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/2-19-2015/85wFmQ.gif
― niels, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Pride and Joy: The Making of Alligator Records--watch Alligator Tales, a mini-doc about the doc, with much more info, here (Blu-Ray coming out 4/22, will have to check for reg DVD)http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102557630070&ca=1597b49b-3420-4de9-8f7f-57d204318919
― dow, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Oh, and Pride and Joy is directed by highly esteemed Robert Mugge, who also made the Sonny Rollins doc G Man and many others.
― dow, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
tbh, I have always found that guy kind of annoying. Finds interesting subjects but don't particularly dig the way he films them.
― SIGSALY Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
from Rolling Country
The milestone early 70s music doc Heartworn Highways* is streaming (for free) til 4 PM Eastern, March 19, on youtube, link and more info here (incl re National Record Store Day ltd. ed. monster box)http://pitchfork.com/news/64203-outlaw-country-documentary-heartworn-highways-to-stream-on-pitchfork/"> http://pitchfork.com/news/64203-outlaw-country-documentary-heartworn-highways-to-stream-on-pitchfork/*With Townes VZ, Guy Clark, Coe, Crowell, Earle, Charlie Daniels, Larry Jon Wilson, and several more, incl Steve Young (RIP just now)
― dow, Friday, March 18, 2016 8:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
89 minutes, the first 32 of which have mostly been immersive. Back to it.
― dow, Friday, March 18, 2016 8:18 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dow, Saturday, 19 March 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
if this link doesn't appear, check YouTube: it's My Name Is Albert Ayler---so far mostly in English with German subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrmIWO6UFg
― dow, Sunday, 17 April 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
MC5: A True Testimonial
https://youtu.be/wNXFs6LEkvw
I watched this a few months ago, it's pretty great.
― nate woolls, Saturday, 7 May 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/2R0kcD-QaQc
You're Gonna Miss Me, the Roky Erickson doc.
― Duke, Saturday, 7 May 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
Roky doc on DVD has rich bonus material; the update on his unlikely touring comeback seems crucial.Watching Poly Styrene doc on BBC Arena, '79:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3VfugdCTTU
― dow, Sunday, 24 July 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Just now watch Gimme Danger, starring the Stooges, one of the best roc docs I've ever seen or heard (despite Behind The Music-type intro). If Ig mentions early inspiration by Harry Partch or Miles Davis (or of course Clarabell or the Three Stooges), Jarmusch has apt footage, ditto, when relevant, Pink Fairies (some of whom were proposed for backing Ig's solo debut, but he heard them as "an amalgamation" of the original Alice Cooper band and for inst MC5, so why not get real Stooges)(also has footage of MC5 live, despite their own excellent doc. linked above,still being in legal limbo, last I heard, because disputes over music royalties, although it sometimes shows up on YouTube), (also got relevant rockin clips of Destroy All Monsters and Sonic's Rendevous Band re Asheton involvement), but skips most of Ig and Bowie's post-Stooges work, and in fact all of Ig's solo career----jumping instead to how they got back together---also, the right (often surprising, though I thought I knew a lot of) details about tracks, albums, shows, people----if it's ever into the weeds, eyes are always on the ball, which is always rolling (not too speedy, but fleet). Streaming here, free for now, at least with free Prime membership, which can be cancelled any time:https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01LYRDGU4/moredarkthanshar?ref_=nav_custrec_signin&;
― dow, Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Of course the talk/music ratio is always tricky in these things, but overall effect seemed pretty exhilarating.
― dow, Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
I need to see that still. Recall reading criticism of it for being too conventional for a Jarmusch movie. Plus the James Booker "Bayou Maharaja" one.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was just okay, redeemed largely by Iggy being such a great storyteller. A lot of the sillier animation and cut-in footage was goofy but what else could Jarmusch do - not a ton of archival footage he could rely on or anything.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
I got carried away at the beginning of that post, but it's solid, and "conventional" mostly via a just-the-facts-Ma'am momentum that's really a bit atypical for rock docs, given the way so many stick with Behind The Music soap opera and/or infomercial touches---no nostalgic endorsements from Bono and/or Dave Grohl in this one, just comments from the musos and close associates, mainly Danny Fields and Kathy Asheton (didn't know they had a sister, even a mention of her as original connection w MC5, being Sonic Smith's gf---she should write a book)(so should Ig, or maybe he has?). Also, I think it makes clear as excerpts can their strengths and limitations.
― dow, Friday, 14 April 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
The extra footage which is just Iggy making weird sounds is great.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/2_A9XJQ1UdY
― nate woolls, Monday, 21 August 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
^ New Order documentary, ITV 1993.
― nate woolls, Monday, 21 August 2017 06:10 (seven years ago) link
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution is streaming for free on Amazon Prime and is also on Youtube and elsewhere. it's really good. milton parker described it a few years ago on the cluster thread:
there are late 60's film clips from the Zodiak Free Arts Club in the Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution DVD, which is actually a very interesting documentary on the origins of Krautrock -- the first hour is all about Tangerine Dream / Kluster / Ash Ra Tempel, with interviews with Schulze / Moebius / Roedelius / Schnitzler & lots of clips. Kraftwerk's first record isn't even mentioned until 60 minutes in, at which point the documentary switches over mostly to critics talking about the records and the archival footage becomes far less interesting, but if you like Krautrock 68-71 you definitely want to see that DVD
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
Kraftwerk's first record isn't even mentioned until 60 minutes in, at which point the documentary switches over mostly to critics talking about the records and the archival footage becomes far less interesting
i will say, though, that i actually really liked the talking heads part of it because karl bartos is one of the heads (as well as moebius, roedelius, schniztler, schulze, and others) and he has lots of interesting tidbits about his role within the band when he first joined vs how he was let into the composition process more for man machine and computer world. i'm realizing more and more what an unsung hero bartos is. as far as the archival footage goes for the post radioactivity-era part of the film, i had seen a good deal of it before but there were also plenty of things that were new to me, so i enjoyed it. but yeah, the title is a bit of a misnomer because it's really only about 1/3 to 1/2 kraftwerk, all told, since they also spent a lot of time on early krautrock, new wave, eno and bowie, detroit and chicago techno, and other scenes
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agUS6GnZr_U
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link