Saturday night we watched Almost Famous - where a young music journalist tours with ficticious rock band Stillwater, supporting Sabbath on their '73 US tour.
Really captured the times (not that I'd know). For me the greatest movie about rock music I've seen.
Other contenders may be Spinal Tap, The Doors...
Spinal Tap, then Anvil! The Story of Anvil. By far the greatest. And so close to each other, yet one is fiction and the other reality. Everyone that's ever been in a band just has to relate so much to Spinal Tap.
Cheers,
Nigel
"Spinal Tap" is my favourite too. "Still Crazy" ain't bad either and "Almos famous", yeah ... love that too !
There's a lot of good ones - both fiction and non-fiction.
Here are my top ten non-documentary:
10. Backbeat Based on story of the relationship between John Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe.
9. Rude Boy The story of Rudie, a roadie for The Clash
8. Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story Hilarious - lampoons both "Ray" and "Walk The Line".
7. School of Rock Really funny for the whole family. Jack Black is the man.
6. Help A classic with much more to offer than "A Hard Day's Night".
5. One Trick Pony Paul Simon stars in this endearing story of a working musician.
4. Yellow Submarine A total trip with the best music ever made.
3. Pick Of Destiny Nonstop laughter - Jack Black and Kyle Gas tell the story of Tenacious D.
2. This Is Spinal Tap The mockumentary that started it all!
and my number 1 Rock movie of all time...
1. Once Incredible story, great music and a film all musicians can relate to.
Honorable mentions:
Still Crazy
Cotton Candy
On my list to watch:
Almost Famous
Nowhere Boy
The Story Of Anvil
Fearless Freaks - The Flaming Lips
Festival Express
gotta be the story of anvil for me.
How about Wayne's World?
Ok I'm going to get voted off the island...
Yep, Anvil! gets the hen vote.... what a beautifully funny depressingly uplifting splice of celluloid. Goulash?
henwrench
okay...I'm picking up The Story of Anvil on the way home to watch!
some other good rock documentaries:
Imagine - John Lennon
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - Wilco
Westway To The World - The Clash
Let It Be - The Beatles (will it ever be made available on DVD?)
Stones in Exile - Rolling Stones
The Devil and Daniel Johnston - A must see in my opinion.
Other stuff to pick up on the way home:
Milk
Toothpaste
Tomato Sauce
Bananas
Carrots
Beer
....enough.
Thanks for all the recommandations Sandy!!
The Story of Anvil is apparantly also one I must pick up....
Shit I forgot!...I'm Not There
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Eddie and the Cruisers
Anvil! - Leave it to you UK Metalheads to dig that one up! ;D ;D ;D
We used to play Anvil's "Stop Me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huk-OLqXK3M) back in the 80's (I think ???). Great tune. Sorta reminds me of Blue Oyster Cult.
A great documentary for anyone into the blues is "The Land Where the Blues Began" (http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109).
The Sam Chatmon songs are really great.
I saw it on PBC when I was a young lad and it had a profound effect on me. I even bought the book!!
And then there was Wayne's World 2... "Who's the old lady?", "That's my old lady."
Quote from: henwrench on November 30, 2010, 01:03:32 PMGoulash?
Yes, goulash! What a pant wettingly funny moment that is!
Actually the Joy Division movie is pretty good. Can't remember the name right now. And Andy Serkis is brilliant as Ian Dury in the film about him.
Quote from: Ferryman on December 01, 2010, 12:31:07 PMActually the Joy Division movie is pretty good. Can't remember the name right now. And Andy Serkis is brilliant as Ian Dury in the film about him.
I saw that. It's called Control. Good film!
My vote will always be Spinal Tap, but I enjoyed the music in The Commitments quite a lot.
Blooby
I'm a huge fan of 'Almost Famous'. I've watched it at least 5 times, and it's in my top 10 films of all time. The part where they all start singing 'Tiny Dancer' in the desert-sun soaked bus is magical. But is it better than 'Spinal Tap'? Hmmm.... now, that's tricky. I love that film too. I'm also very fond of 'Anvil' (would recommend it to anyone), and - slightly more leftfield - 'the Buddy Holly Story' with Gary Busey. I like biopics generally, but this one has always stood out as a cracker.
I haven't got round to seeing 'Control' or the Ian Dury one... definitely on my list to watch at some point.
I was a bit disappointed with 'Walk the Line' though.
Oh... does 'Tommy' count? That's in my top 5 of all time!
The Future is Unwritten...Joe Strummer is excellent.
I just watched the Rockumentary movie Lemmy last night. The life of Lemmy Kilmister and Motorhead.
I give it 5 stars. I thought it was really good. He`s one renegade and character.
I think he`s 65 now and still boozing and doping but it never brought him down. That`s a first in rock history.
I got to see Motorhead twice and by far were the loudest band i`ve ever heard. Love the raw energy and songs.
Awesome movie! Even if you`re not a fan you`d like it!
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"Lemmy" has a doc?
Awesome!!
I'm gonna get that one.
Thanks Gnasty!!