Whats your favorite music documentary?

[MonetBass]

Also

Tom Dowd and The Language of Music

Since it's been mentioned a couple of times, I just added it to our Netflix queue.

Sting's Bring On The Night is cool.

Check out VH1's "Classic Album" series. I've watched Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life, Queen's A Night At the Opera, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Steely Dan's Aja -- all are very interesting and enjoyable.

 

[JimK]

All good stuff, Monet...& the Dowd DVD is very, very good. You'll be pleased.

Couple of Miles Davis things-
Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue
http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Electri...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265141002&sr=8-1

The Miles Davis Story
http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Davis-Story-George-Avakian/dp/B00007CVRL/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b

 

[JimK]

Ken Burns - Jazz

Awesome multi-part documentary.

The obvious Marasalis bias/spin (against '60s-present day Free Jazz-ers) didn't bother you?
IIRC, the only artist that was dissed was Cecil Taylor...and Miles' '80s electric period was covered in about 10 seconds?!

 

[bass12]

+ 1 on the "classic album" series. I really liked the ones on Aja and Catch A Fire. The History of Rock & Roll (the BBC co-production, not the currently available History of Rock) was fantastic. Of course, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown. Calle 54 was good, as was Portraits of Jamaican Music (they still need to come out with a decent documentary on Jamaican producers - and Studio One). Rising Low was fun.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Ken Burn's Jazz;
Standing in the Shadows of motown;
Fear of a Black Hat
and, of course, SPINAL TAP!

 

[rakirksey]

Some great ones have been mentioned, but another good one is "End of the Century - Story of the Ramones".

 

[Chadwickw]

I'd think everyone here would be interested in Rising Low possibly the best documentary I've ever seen about bassists and bass playing (if an imperfect movie overall). I also recently got sucked into the Tom Petty doc which was really compelling.

 

[Zombbg4]

Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog

Tom Dowd & the Language of Music

Hey, that's what I was going to say!!

 

[s_mcsleazy]

instrument - fugazi

funny, strange, energetic, encitefull

its esencially a bunch of clips spanning 11 years

 

[DukDukGuus]

An older one: "Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk." I could watch this over and over. When he gets up from the piano and dances around during a song it just gets me every time.

A newer one: Susan Froemke's "The Audition" about opera singers trying out for a spot with the Metropolitan Opera. Nicely non-intrusive.

 

[Handreas]

This is Spinal Tap

Against Me! - We're Never Going Home (I love this film!)

 

[Deano Destructo]

Westway to the World. - The Clash

 

[Mugwump]

Just going through our collection, here a few that have not been mentioned;

The Beatles Anthology
The Who - The Kids are Alright
You're Gonna Miss Me - The Story of Roky Erickson
Seven Signs - Music, Myth and the American South, this is a great documentary about the relationship between music and southern religion
The Devil and Danial Johnston

Everyone of these is worth multiple viewings.

 

[251]

Personally my favorites are, standing in the shadows or Motown and metal a headbangers journey.

In order;
Calle 54
Buena Vista Social Club (the movie)
Live at the Quick - Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
SITSMO
Woodstock (the movie)

 

[Passinwind]

Hey, that's what I was going to say!!

The Mingus movie completely blew my mind. No wonder some of his stuff sounds like Chinese music, it is!

 

[Philbiker]

Meeting New People Is Easy (Radiohead)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_People_Is_Easy

You learn what a drag the 'rock star' life really is. Endless stupid interviews. Boring hotel rooms. Sitting waiting for airplanes.

I watched that and I learned that the guys in Radiohead are pretentious jerks.

 

[Philbiker]

Woodstock: The Movie. I always wished I could have been there. I was 15, and there's no way my folks would have let me go. So this is the closest I can get to being there.

+100. Absolutely my favorite music documentary ever. Particularly the extended version.

 

[Philbiker]

The obvious Marasalis bias/spin (against '60s-present day Free Jazz-ers) didn't bother you?
IIRC, the only artist that was dissed was Cecil Taylor...and Miles' '80s electric period was covered in about 10 seconds?!

It bothered the hell out of me. Ken Burns spends way too little time finding and vetting sources in his documentaries. "Jazz" was great, but was deeply flawed.

 

[tribus]

I liked jouney's frontiers and beyond.

 

[foq1978]

This is Spinal Tap

+1

Also, in the same line, The Rutles.

I also have enjoyed Bananaz, about Gorillaz, very much.

And I really, really want to watch:

Mark Sandman: At your Service

and

No Distance Left To Run, about Blur