Best music documentaries

The Decline of Western Civilization .

+1

We Jam Econo. The Story of the minutemen.

Good but not as good as I had hoped.

'Straight, No Chaser' about Theo Monk is excellent, and is all up on Youtubbe.

+1

Fugazi, Instrument
Wilco, I am Trying to Break your Heart
Daniel Johnston,The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Flaming Lips, Fearless Freaks
Hype (about the rise and fall of grunge)
Ramones, End of the Century (I thought it was just okay.)
 
Kiss-the second coming
Heavy-The story of metal
Behind the Music.
 
You had to bring that up didnt u :(
and im a huge kiss fan.

Hey, man, that's a good movie. I mean that in I will sit down to watch it instead of other movies. It's really not that bad.

Believe it or not, the copy I own my brother and I bought from Walmart some time ago....About a decade or more after it was premiered on TV.
 
Judas Priest ______ Metal Works, 1973 - 1993.

An excellent debrief of songs with core band-members comments: Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Ian Hill.

Drummers involved: Simon Phillips, Les Binks, Dave Holland and Scott Travis.

Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny tracks, were not included.
 
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Many episodes of Classic Albums (Judas Priest - Bitish Steel, Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast, Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love, etc.). I always find it extremely interesting to find out what really went on during recording, like Priest using cutlery, a pool cue and guitar cord to get certain sounds on "Metal Gods".
 
Here's a few from my DVD collection that I love:

Gimme Shelter - The Stones

woodstock/woodstock diaries

the last waltz, the band

Anthology, The Beatles

25x5, the Stones

The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The Passing Show - Ronnie Laine

Festival Express

And, of course ... This is Spiinal Tap!

The "Classic Albums" series is wicked too - some real nice stuff worth checking out ...
 
Just watched the recent Blue Note documentary, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, and thought it was pretty great, although it certainly could have been three times as long and still too short.

20 Feet from Stardom, about backing vocalists, was amazing.

And even though I've never really been a fan, the Rush documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage, was delightful and totally engaging.
 
Mr Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown is excellent, in my humble opinion. I've watched it maybe 10 times. It's on Netflix - it is in the UK, anyway.

I Called Him Morgan, the Lee Morgan documentary on Netflix, is also very good.
 
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