Good online documentaries about music...

really enjoyed the rush doc! they seem like great guys, and love the fandom of it too.

My god, youse guys are so write about We Jam Econo---ideal music/talk ratio, as well it might be considering how short so many of their songs are: can do 2 sentences/whole song---but many directors would not manage this (gotta say, that's understandable too, considering how intriguing a lot of these uncommentaters are). Wonder what ever happened to those ten sets of song lyrics Meltzer gave them for the proposed collab, with him singing and playing sax?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKGusadv08

Cant link atm but the Mark Sandman doc is on Vimeo (with Spanish subtitles) also incidentally features Watt

Thanks. Just watched this good Can documentary, from 1999, 1 hour, 27 min. Mostly music, mostly long performances.Would like to see full-length "I Want More," with the disco gold dust women, and this is the only one where audience, well some of the audience, move with the music, rather than staring, like the students in The Blow-Up. From 1971 on, we get various vocalists, the funk-and-then-some, tophatted bassist, when Holger transfers to his tapes, shortwave and Morse key; excerpts from previous Continental docs, stretching out on The Old Grey Whistle Test, in the home stretch with comments and remix excerpts from Carl Craig, Sonic Youth, James Lavelle and U.N.K.L.E, the Orb ("The first time I heard about Can was in this thing about the Sex Pistols"). The music never stops, or takes a backseat to talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNhuwkmmzak

Nico_Icon---starts with some sordid road stories (thanks, James), but they pertain, as does his "We were sort of planets around her moon." And it gets better, though some of the comments are in German, French, Italian. Music always sounds great, and a very nice performance surprise at the very end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1vkiQdEU7M

Brilliance and sadness. Links make this a nine-parter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC0DayWUY64

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

More pain from Daniel Johnston,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3dUJBrQo

sorry... DJ is not free

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/

Trailer for A Band Called Death, streaming on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and sometimes YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzxnnQHrZBQ

Well worth watching, especially once you get past introductory celeb endorsements.

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

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

Worthwhile Crass Documentary -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQ1CvwF7BQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfJZxi0hio

^^^^ Documentary with English subtitles about Polish new wave rock under Communism in the eighties.

Flying Nun: Heavenly Pop Hits includes really old NZ videos you've probably never seen:

http://youtu.be/sjUDemQFznA

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.

TRIBUTE, an early-'00s look at tribute bands, is one of my favorite documentaries

http://vimeo.com/78953694

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

"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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyUJcA8Zfo

20 Feet is on Netflix instant too

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.

Christ is there ANY music documentary Bono hasn't insinuated himself into? Now he's an expert on Malian desert music? GO AWAY.

haha i almost didn't watch the excellent muscle shoals doc because he was the first human you see in it

Bono, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins - the worst

order of preference
rollins
thurston

bono

whither Fricke?

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

He cut a fine figure a few years ago at SXSW. Very pleasant dude.

The world needs more 55 year old alt rock statesmen to be ubiquitous in documentaries

Someone should do supercut of Bono's incisive commentary in films about

The Ramones
Leonard Cohen
Phyl Lynott
Frank Sinatra
Mississippi juke joints
Morrissey
Paul Robeson
Abba
The Pretenders
Jack Clement
Joe Strummer
Nueve Cancion songs
John Lennon
Muscle Shoals
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Ronny Drew
Quincy Jones
Woody Guthrie
Arthur Fogel
Luciano Pavoratti
Horslips
Mick Jagger
Tony Bennett
Kirsty MacColl
Ivan Kral
Roy Orbison
B.B. King
Eminem
Victor Jara
Tina Turner
Johnny Mercer
Kylie 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

"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."

Lol at all of these posts

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

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

Oh, and Pride and Joy is directed by highly esteemed Robert Mugge, who also made the Sonny Rollins doc G Man and many others.

tbh, I have always found that guy kind of annoying. Finds interesting subjects but don't particularly dig the way he films them.

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.

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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

MC5: A True Testimonial

https://youtu.be/wNXFs6LEkvw

I watched this a few months ago, it's pretty great.

https://youtu.be/2R0kcD-QaQc

You're Gonna Miss Me, the Roky Erickson doc.

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

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&;

Of course the talk/music ratio is always tricky in these things, but overall effect seemed pretty exhilarating.

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.

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.

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.

The extra footage which is just Iggy making weird sounds is great.