Comments on: Are Rock-Music Documentaries A Dying Breed? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 06:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: music business https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6904 Mon, 11 May 2009 10:17:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6904 i have already seen a lot of good music documentaries..

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6564 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:06:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6564 sad, stupid people.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6553 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:24:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6553 Townes Van Zandt anyone? “Be Here To Love Me” was amazing. As was “Heartworn Highways.” People just need to make the effort to look for this stuff. And I think that comment about there being no more good bands out there is a ridiculous statement. There are so many “newer” bands out there (you know, passed 1974) that deserve good documentaries. Well then again, i’m sure the person who wrote this article only listens to what’s on the radio anyway.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6552 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:29:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6552 Oh, IMDB. That explains the influx of idiots. Makes total sense.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6551 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:13:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6551 @The Playlist:

“…It’s an article about how Variety is saying music docs are having a hard time being sold…”

Sorry, making a post on your blog where 90% of the content is a block quote from Variety does not mean you wrote an “article”, especially when you do not discuss the merits of the original article’s argument in any way.

From the “article”:
“We’re hard on music docs of late because many of them haven’t been great…”

Maybe this statement in the post was why people are giving you examples to the contrary?

Congratulations, you got on IMDB’s front page for quoting a Variety article!

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6550 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:54:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6550 Why do people keep recommending DIG? It’s about two obscure bands and their entirely routine careers (one of them fights all the time and breaks up – was more interesting when the Beatles did it).

So annoyed that someone got me to rent that thing.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6547 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:33:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6547 There is a really great music doc. entitled "Riphouse 151: Could've Been's & Wanna Be's" from 2008 that is worth a look. They were a thrash metal band from the northeast united states. Just search Riphouse in google and a ton of sites come up. Haven't seen it available on disc yet, but looking forward to it. More than "Get Thrashed" and "Anvil."

]]> By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6545 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:40:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6545 Wait, how did we miss anything? This isn’t a piece about every best music documentary ever made. It’s an article about how Variety is saying music docs are having a hard time being sold, so we did a quick recap of music docs that are coming out THIS year.

Christ. Who the hell hasn’t seen those other documentaries? I seriously have no clue what some of you are talking about.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6544 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:30:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6544 What about WORKING CLASS ROCK STAR? That was a pretty cool (albeit indie) rock doc.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6540 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:32:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6540 How ironic you wrote your column the day after MAIDEN DAY – the day Flight 666 was released in 450 theatres in 42 countries – and didn’t really talk about it, except for an outdated one-liner. Depicted in this rock documentary is the first leg of the tour, which saw Maiden perform 23 concerts on five continents in 45 days. The whole tour saw Maiden play 92 concerts in 39 countries in front of 2 million fans… Up the Irons

]]> By: NXK https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6537 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:02:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6537 Oh yeah these too…
Wilco: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (They Might Be Giants)

]]> By: NXK https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6536 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:52:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6536 Are you kidding?!?! I honestly think I have seen MORE excellent music documentaries come out in the last 10 years than I had in the previous 20!
Try these if you need something to watch:
Fearless Freaks, the Flaming Lips
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
You're Gonna Miss Me: Roky Erickson
Shane MacGowan: If I Should Fall From the Grace of God
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
Festival Express
Scratch
Nomi Song
New York Doll
Kurt Cobain: About A Son
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
DiG! (previously mentioned)
Joy Division (not quite as good as the amazing biopic Control though)

That list even avoids documentaries that are more "performance" than "documentary" a la Woodstock, if you include those, there a TON more…
It also does not list any of the excellent music docs you can find on the BBC, (Alchemists of Sound, What the Future Sounded Like, The Roxy Music Story, for instance)

Also, Wattstax and Heavy Metal Parking Lot finally got the wide release on DVD that they never got on VHS…

Seriously, have you been paying attention?

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6526 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:17:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6526 they forgot DIG! one of the best ….the brian jonestown massacre and the dandy warhols ‘s trials and tribulations in the music biz…really a must see if you want to see how new bands try really hard to make it in the industry circa 1997….

]]> By: Matthew and Andrew https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6525 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6525 i think its very true, you dont see too many good music documentaries anymore, i hope it comes back though. btw scorsese is working on a george harrison doc (fingers crossed)

]]> By: Jesmi https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6494 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:19:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6494 There is also a good interview

]]> By: WS Story https://staging2.theplaylist.net/are-rock-music-documentaries-dying-20090422/#comment-6485 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:50:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7762#comment-6485 There is also a good interview of Danny Tedesco talking about The Wrecking Crew on YouTube that is worth a peak.

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