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>>But Spike is a great documentarian, I'd be cool with seeing >>him make a good one on a musical act based on 4 Little >Girls, >>When The Levees Broke, The Original Kings Of Comedy & Jim >>Brown: All American while giving him a pass for the misfire >>that is Kobe Doin Work. > >yeah, that was really my point, that he is a great >documentarian with obvious expertise in black culture and >music > Yeah, a no-holds-barred Prince or Stevie doc done by Spike would be fantastic, the former having next to no chance of happening & the second being doubtful as well. > >>I still need to see it too but let's be honest, there's >>probably a reason neither of us hurried to catch it and >that's >>my point: there's not a lot of acts that lend themselves as >>well to that kind of treatment. >> >>Those Wilco & Radiohead docs were *boring as fuck*. >> >>Just painfully dull. > >i would say they were intentionally sterile; it was an >artistic choice that fit thematically for those bands, which >clearly lack the fireworks of a rolling stones. > 'intentionally sterile' because there's really not much to say there in either case. > >>I thought Jigga's 'Fade To Black' was strong, might be one >of >>the few on more recent acts that has been because along with >>the career narrative it had an angle & an event to piggyback >>sorta like 'The Last Waltz' did. > >agreed, although personally i preferred the studio footage >just because it was more fun for me to watch than the live >performances... i'm a long-time jay fan with oddly no interest >in ever seeing him live. to your point, it was a captivating >film and a perfect example of what i am asking to see more >of. > > >>On the rock or singer-songrwriter front the best >music-related >>doc of the past decade or so is probably 'The Devil & Daniel >>Johnston' but not due to the actual music made by its >>subject. > >i've been meaning to see that for years, not sure why i >haven't since everything i've heard has been positive.
see it, it's worthwhile but more as a 'King Of Kong: Roll Full Of Quarters' style human-interest story than as a music documentary.
I still have never listened to a full Daniel Johnston album.
>although watched, enjoyed, and appreciated, this is sort of a >different class of documentary than i am talking about that >are big events, even garnering theatrical releases. i just >think there is a little more room than the same few dinosaurs >that get returned to year after year in the media. maybe it's >just a matter of time and the people of our generation(s) will >be doing justice to these musicians in the coming years, but >young people seem so fickle about music that i'm just not sure >about that. still, i don't mean to make this an age or recent >music critique, a lot of older artists deserve some of the >spotlight regularly given to the stones, dylan, the beatles, >zeppelin, etc. there is room for a lot more stories to be told >by many storytellers. as people/musicians are unique, so, too, >do they deserve treatment unique to them. > Leonard Cohen got a movie & that was dissapointing as well.
> >>The 'Marley' doc was a bit choppy but still worthwhile as >>well. > >another i plan to see soon
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