Terrible Music Documentaries

I had assumed that was all there was to it tbh :(

lord knows there's like no footage of those guys

Recent Chrissie Hynde one probably belongs on here. There's usually one of these on BBC4 every week.

Last week it was Springsteen, three minutes of his gormless rictus, unchanging throughout the decades, was enough for me.

I'm glad that recent book came out as it did, because that type of oral history/talking head Color Me Obsessed angle when focusing on that band....after years of "the last great rock 'n' roll band" and "..they changed my life" hyperbole...not knocking the commitment involved but, for someone who owns all the albums, I almost pretty much hate talking about the Replacements

Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder and the Gospel Years

http://www.moviehabit.com/review.php?story=rol_bt06

Soaked In Bleach? anyone see it?

― piscesx, Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:41 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it's a lot of fun, in a campy Unsolved Mysteries kind of way.

worst music doc i ever saw was the Nick Drake one. there are like two existing still photos of him, so it was nothing but talking heads and stock footage.

BBC 4's on The Stone Roses and Pulp's "Common People" are incredibly well-made. Also, I think they made
an amazing one on Joe Meek.

I love Soaked in Bleavh and the animated segments from. Montage of Heck by Hisko Hulsing. An animated Young Kurt Cobain show
would be terrific

Neil Young's Muddy Track (1987) is pretty excruciating, even by his standards. He makes a really
homophobic remark in it that make me wince, too

The Gene Clark one (The Byrd That Flew Alone) was a big letdown. Virtually no footage of him playing live or even being interviewed, I guess his estate didn't cooperate.

agree w beamish that the Stone Roses doc was unexpectedly great

The Gene Clark one

Yes, that was rough. The one thing I remember most from it was that photograph from his last show. He did not look good, to put it mildly.

I love the Nick Drake doc, if your'e talking about A Skin Too Few

@anthonymiccio 2 hours ago
Tonight I will finally watch the Chris Gaines Behind The Music & Warren Beatty's 2010 Dick Tracy special, so I may know which is nuttier.