The best music dvds

[auburngrad82]

What's your picks for the best music-related music dvds? Here's a few of mine:

Bob Dylan- Don't Look Back (one of the all-time best documentaries) directed by DA Pennebaker
The Sex Pistols- The Filth and the Fury (the best band of the 70s)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown, featuring the Fabulous Funk Brothers, the band behind the Motown sound.
Down from the Mountain- Traditional country music concert dir. by DA Pennebaker that inspired the revival of traditional music.

[Tempest]

1. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

The Last Waltz - The Band

[curse10]

3. Stop Making Sense

may be the only music dvd worth owning. Ever.

[sundog]

7. yeah, great dvd --there's like 3 sound mixes to choose from while watching

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[Tempest]

10. Accompanying DVD movie for Stop Making Sense

David Byrne's "True Stories".

A quirky movie, but good.

Also has Spalding Gray in it. God rest his soul.

[tigerbeat]

21. STOP MAKING SENSE still makes me dance...

...when it was released, the local art house theatre in houston would play a special midnight show of it every week. the audience would dance throughout the movie. me and some friends attended every show religiously. when it came out on DVD i got it, popped it in and lo and behold i STILL got up and boogied in my living room. truly the greatest concert movie ever made and one of the only ones to catch a band at the absolute apex of their brilliance.

[Quahog]

2. Here's a couple

The Led Zeppelin boxed set is wonderful as a historical document, even if some of the image quality is predictably substandard.

Peter Gabriel's "Growing Up Live" concert filmed in Milan is exquisite in every way. The music is, of course, brilliant, coupled with a truly enchanting stage presentation. The DVD is technically stunning, a total eargasm/eyegasm in wide screen. The high-zoot electronics place here in town that carries all of the unobtainable equipment keeps this DVD running on a bank of flat screen monitors, just because it looks so damb good.

[Tempest]

12. Thanks for the Gabriel suggestion

I saw the Growing Up tour in Mountain View and it was classic Gabriel.

[DenverDem]

4. The Earth Will Swallow You-Widespread Panic

A great documentary by the Hanson brothers showing the band at it's apex before the tragic loss of founding guitarist Michael Houser to pancreatic cancer.

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[sundog]

5. Diana Krall in Paris, Sade Lovers Live, Monterey Pop, Stop Making Sense...

Woodstock

[swag]

6. Wow, great taste! That is to say, taste that agrees with mine.

I too adore "Don't Look Back," the brilliant DA Pennebaker documentary later subverted and inverted brilliantly by Tim Robbins in "Bob Roberts."

I recommend watching the two movies back to back for some revelations, particularly re: the Jack Black character.

For the Pistols, I actually prefer the "VH1: Classic Albums - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," and one of the DVD extras is a bit of a guitar lesson from Steve Jones. "Filth and the Fury," was great, but Lydon's piety and his fake tears for Sid were a bit much.

"Down from the Mountain" I only have on VHS. Are there good DVD extras?

I will check out "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" this weekend. Thanks for the reminder of its existence. I missed it in Theaters.

My current favorite Music DVD is:

DEVO: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000089QCI/qid=1092407405/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2323191-1096819?v=glance&s=dvd

because Chuck Statler's filmette "The Truth About De-Evolution" thrills me to this day, about 28 years after I first saw it, because "It's a Beautiful World" makes me cry every time I see it (and I am a tough guy! A tough guy who cries at art), and because "Freedom of Choice" is still the anthem of our times.

[swag]

9. and "The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital."

Many of the patients become guest stars:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00018D5RQ/ref=pd_sim_dv_2/002-2323191-1096819?v=glance&s=dvd

[flamingyouth]

19. That one's classic

I love the Cramps.

[auburngrad82]

13. The best special feature is Pennebaker's commentary

As for Standing in the Shadows of Motown, it's kind of sad that many of these great musicians have passed away before they got the recognition they deserved.

Something else that a lot of people probably don't know is the Funk Brothers were a multi-racial band. Motown brings to mind black artists but several of the Funk Brothers were white. And they all seemed to genuinely love each other. My kind of world...

[Dookus]

8. The Wall

from Pink Floyd

and Rust Never Sleeps from Neil Young.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. The Best of Bowie package is pretty good.

[swag]

17. Yeah, that too is a favorite. Wonderful to be able to get all that

stuff together in one set. I love the crazy "Rebel Rebel" from German TV or whatever the fuck that was.

[Fenris]

14. Rust Never Sleeps

The Smiths: The Complete Picture
Westway to the World
The Essential Clash

[auburngrad82]

15. I forgot The Last Waltz by the Band

Directed by none other than Martin Scorsese.

I also love Stop Making Sense. But I've always liked the Talking Heads. And Jonathan Demme is a great director.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Deleted

Teach me to read the damn first post!

[bbernardini]

18. Mine!

Cheap Trick - Silver
Flower Kings - Meet The Flower Kings
Mike Keneally - Dog
King Crimson - deja VROOOM
Rush - Rush In Rio
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Todd Rundgren - Live In Japan
Pink Floyd - The Wall

There's probably others I'm forgetting.

[Beaverhausen]

20. Two of Joni Mitchell- Shadows and Light and Woman of Heart and Mind

the first is from her concert tour in 1980 with a killer band ibcluding Jaco Pastorius and PAt Metheny.

The second is a recent great documentary about her with lots of special features.