The greatest music films of all time

[Pete MB&D]

American Werewolf in London had all moon based songs in.

Pete

 

[manicatel]

This is Spinal tap has to be the best music film ever, watched it so many times....

+1.
So close to the knuckle it makes me cry with laughter.

 

[simeon]

Twenty Feet From Stardom is a great one about backing singers. Darlene Love! What's not to err love. Oh and Merry Clayton is also in it. And some other people.

 

[Joe]

Woodstock
Strawberry Statement
Zabriskie Point
Hellza Poppin
Damn Yankies
Performance
Guys and Dolls
The Music Lovers

lots and lots and lots more.

 

[Weekender]

I know, but sometimes a film is so bound up with the sound that it becomes a music-film film-music hybrid.

Which gives me leave to mention Withnail and I.

 

[stephen bennett]

Stephen

 

[foxwelljsly]

Which gives me leave to mention Withnail and I.

What ****er said that?

 

[Cookstown]

Apparently the "Big O" didn't want the song to be used in the film Blue Velvet but Lynch went ahead anyway. Good decision.

 

[Richard S]

Oil City Confidential

The Dr Feelgood story told in an imaginative way, brilliantly filmed.

 

[mr.datsun]

Apparently the "Big O" didn't want the song to be used in the film Blue Velvet but Lynch went ahead anyway. Good decision.

In Dreams?

The film also has Kitty Lester's Love Letters in the car sequence. Both songs are used to transport us deeper into the dark centre of the story.

The OST omits Blue Velvet sung by Bobby Vinton, instead substituting Isabella Rossellini's version sung in the nightclub scene.

 

[Blzebub]

The Jungle Book. /thread

 

[monkfish]

Oil City Confidential

The Dr Feelgood story told in an imaginative way, brilliantly filmed.

Difficult to argue with your concise and astute observations

 

[Maxbertola]

I hate its second half and all the love affair part, but I think that Across the Universe deserves a mention. It's a film not about songs, but within songs.

 

[kasperhauser]

Think I know what you mean, Eraserhead, as you mentioned is a good example


Bloss

And "The Dead Man". Jim Jarmusch, music by Neil Young.

 

[mickyricky]

The film about a recording studio in the USA called "Sound City " deserves a mention..also " The girl can't help it" some good performances in that ..

 

[zygote23]

 

[zygote23]

Popol Vuh.....and Caruso what more can a man ask for!

 

[BLACKMASS]

''Grown men will cry'' I was one of those men.

 

[Barry williams]

Phantom of the Paradise.

I remember seeing that at a cinema on the Kings Road London when it came out.
Very funny film.

 

[Barry williams]

The Rutles: All you need is cash

The fastest repeat on BBC TV ever at the time 1977.
They broadcast it again the following week due to public demand.