Favourite music related film?
 

List your favourite Music related films. This can include Official concert releases, documentaries, spoofs etc .NO MUSICALS-sorry! Some of mine:

DIG!
THE GREAT ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE
THE WALL
END OF THE CENTURY
STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF MOTOWN
PINK FLOYD:LIVE AT POMPEII
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM:COMPLETE
KILLING JOKE:THE GATHERING
ALIEN SEX FIEND-EDIT:OVERDOSE
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
BAD NEWS/MORE BAD NEWS.

This is also so I can get some recommendations, so post away.

Step Across the Border. Greatest ever.

A new one on me. what's the subject matter? I am looking forward to the new Sigur Ros too.

It's a "documentary" on guitarist Fred Frith, as he travels across the world and plays with a diverse array of local musicians. It's not in the usual style of a documentary, though, there's no exposition whatsoever and most of the film shows Fred Frith playing music. Interspliced are a few scenes of Fred Frith and the filmmaker philosophizing about music, and then stock footage from their travels or whatever set to the music. It's all BW, and it's got a great flow, plus the music is awesome.

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On the list to watch. You young whippersnappers come in handy sometimes!

Stardust

David Essex plays the singer of a 60s rock n roll band who starts struggling with the pressure , gets hooked on drugs , becomes a recluse in a spanish castle ,goes mental , writes a pretentious rock opera about his dead mother & dies.

Also has Keith Moon playing his drummer.

Spinal Tap.

high fidelity

Eddie and the Cruisers!

This topic contradicts itself. Favorite music related films but no musicals. I see said the blind man...

So does that mean I wouldn't be allowed to say 'Across the Universe'? Or when 'Sweeney Todd' comes out, I won't be able to say that? Those are both musicals.

Didn't you just answer your own question?

Bad news, it's basically spinal tap with the cast from bottom and french & saunders are in it too, at the end they play monsters of rock and they get interviews from ozzy, lemmy, and the guitarist from def leopard. Great film.

Not sure if Breakfast Club would be considered music related but it had a great soundtrack, same with Forest Gump. Music related I would have to go with Spinal Tap!

"This Is Spinal Tap." Hands down.

I loved the Velvet Goldmine.

High Fidelity for me

I really want to see this again...

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Are you sure? It was painful first time around!

I've only seen it once and that was when i was about 13 at 3.00 in the morning.
I'm curious to see it again because Phil Daniels is in it.

Rockers
The harder they come
Blues Brothers
Sweet and Low Down
Immortal Beloved
No Direction Home
Decline of western Civilization (Pts. I and II)
Ken Burns' Jazz

I saw High Fidelity when I was 12 and it made me want to open a record store. I still do.

Many people have commented, mostly women, that its a biographical account of my life. Minus the record store of course.

Spinal Tap

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

don't believe the haters, it was amazing.

Woodstock.

you all fail

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Does Rock N Roll Highschool count?
That had the Ramones in it....I loved that movie when I first saw it.........and The Great Rock N Roll Swindle

Their five minute shorts were so much funnier:

Dude you are so right but you gotta admit the movie was pretty good

I was dissapointed with the movie. :(

Rokk i Reykjavikk!!! 1982! Icelandic post punk!

And Don Letts' 'Punk Rock Movie'

And anything with Henry Rollins talking.

Twenty Four Hour Party People might aswell be a doc?

high fi
the last waltz
almost famous
velvet goldmine
brassed off
amedus
the red violin
shine
coleminers daughter
singles (kinda,....i just like to see eddie in it)
the cotton club
intermetzo

Lucky 3
The Great Rock'n' roll Swindle
Velvet Goldmine
Rock n roll High School
24hr Party People
Gimme Shelter
The Smiths-The Complete Picture
Punk:Attitude
Control
The Filth and the Fury

that was gold, I enjoyed the section where Henry Rollins just gives a rundown of all music ever up to that point... in about a minute. There was some tosspot in that film from the no-wave scene, the bloke from Theoretical Girls or something, who was just totally marginalizing the UK punk scene, that annoyed me. I mean take the Slits and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, I know which one I'd rather listen to if I didn't fancy getting a splitting headache. ffs

I'm gonna put 'Live Forever', the doc about 90's Britpop out there aswell, it's IMMENSELY patronising and a bit wanky but interesting nonetheless. Worth watching just for the Noel Gallagher and Jarvis ****er's contributions. And the singer from Sleeper. mmm


EDIT: wtf I can't say ****er?? ****ing penis ****

Groove
Better Living Through Circuitry

The Blues Brothers
This Is Spinal Tap

Almost Famous, the bootleg cut is much better than the original film, IMO. They get hell of alot deeper into Penny Lane's character.. plus they actually show the radio interview, which is hilarious.

Oh, and Hedwig and the Angry Itch is pretty good, too.

Agreed, a very good film, didn't like the end though.

Hiiigh Fidelity. I also like The Filth and the Fury.

Rock 'n' Roll High School is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen (aside from Shark Boy And Lava Girl). It was bad, even for a b-movie. Its only redeeming quality was that The Ramones were in it.