What are your favorite Rockumentaries?

Bandeapart · Post by **Bandeapart** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:40 pm

OrangePaul wrote:
Bandeapart wrote:Joy Division (the self titled documentary) Watch it right before watching "Control" for the ultimate depressed feeling.
The Clash: Westway To The World
The Sex Pistols: The Filth and the Fury
End of the Century: The Ramones
Decline of Western Civilization, Part 1 (I don't care for metal so I haven't watched part 2)
We Jam Econo : The Story of the Minutemen
I Need That Record! (about the dwindling independent record stores, focused on one store specifically)

Can you tell what kind of music I like?
Ok....give us one clue....

okay, it's disco.

leopoldbloom · Post by **leopoldbloom** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:43 pm

...and a real fake one: "Electric Apricot"

DiabloS · Post by **DiabloS** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:02 pm

Keep 'em coming! There's a few mentioned that I hadn't seen before, just started watching Dig!

baytamusic · Post by **baytamusic** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 2:19 pm

DiabloS wrote:Keep 'em coming! There's a few mentioned that I hadn't seen before, just started watching Dig!

Dig rules.

jangle · Post by **jangle** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:39 pm

baytamusic wrote:
DiabloS wrote:Keep 'em coming! There's a few mentioned that I hadn't seen before, just started watching Dig!
Dig rules.

It's a slow-motion trainwreck but a fascinating one.

One scene of note is the tambourine player (?), remaining in the fold despite the frontman's lunacy, giving his tambourine away to an audience member. At this point hasn't his limited value to the band been eliminated completely? Even Bez out of Happy Mondays made more of a contribution.

Bandeapart · Post by **Bandeapart** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:44 pm

The Story of Anvil

baytamusic · Post by **baytamusic** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:46 pm

jangle wrote:
baytamusic wrote:
DiabloS wrote:Keep 'em coming! There's a few mentioned that I hadn't seen before, just started watching Dig!
Dig rules.
It's a slow-motion trainwreck but a fascinating one.

One scene of note is the tambourine player (?), remaining in the fold despite the frontman's lunacy, giving his tambourine away to an audience member. At this point hasn't his limited value to the band been eliminated completely? Even Bez out of Happy Mondays made more of a contribution.

I saw BJM recently and he was still there jamming out to every song. They had like ten musicians on stage. It was actually pretty cool. Nothing crazy happened either. Good jams though and they sounded huge.

Wendigo · Post by **Wendigo** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:43 pm

Spinal Tap, Anvil, Live at Pompeii

bassdrop · Post by **bassdrop** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:59 pm

I still want to see the G.G. Allin documentary "Hated". It's probably pretty gross. It's done by Todd Phillips, who also got tapped to do Phish's "Bittersweet Motel". Apparently they picked him because he was not a fan, but liked "Hated". He then went on to direct movies like "Old School". Forgot about "Some Kind of Monster"- another good one.

MaxProphet · Post by **MaxProphet** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:23 pm

I saw Anvil play a few months ago, their live show was about 100x better than the anvil movie

Tango · Post by **Tango** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:16 pm

Westway to the World
The Future is Unwritten

DiabloS · Post by **DiabloS** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:51 pm

bassdrop wrote:I still want to see the G.G. Allin documentary "Hated". It's probably pretty gross.

Only if you find lots of male nudity, blood, feces and bananas inserted where they shouldn't be gross!

I watched it, but yeah it's not for everyone...

ironlung40 · Post by **ironlung40** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:35 pm

leopoldbloom wrote:...and a real fake one: "Electric Apricot"

Electric Apricot was cool!

To add to the running list,

I liked "the year that punk broke"

defrag · Post by **defrag** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:35 am

http://www.bazillionpoints.com/mellodrama/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://laist.com/2010/05/20/mellodrama_documentary.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

StonieSlagg · Post by **StonieSlagg** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:36 am

Fugazi - "Instrument"