Album Documentaries

[Mr. Shankly]

So there's a number of documentary DVD's about classic albums. There's a really good series called "classic albums" as a matter of fact. I just watched an amazing one about Dark Side of the Moon. It answered a lot of questions about that album I'd always been curious about. The classic albums series usually involves the actual musicians as well as producers and critics, but there's another one called "Under Review," which usually just involves critics discussing an artist's work in depth. They're still pretty interesting though. Does anyone else watch any of these? What do you think? Which music documentaries do you recommend?

[joannajewsom]

I've seen several of the "Classic Albums" docs on VH1 Classic: Dark Side of the Moon, Disraeli Gears, The Doors, Nevermind, Night at the Opera, Who's Next, even Bat Out of Hell are ones I remember seeing. They come on rather frequently where I am, and I usually find them pretty interesting, even if it's an album I don't necessarily enjoy. I really enjoy the parts where they deconstruct the tracks, playing just the vocals or just a guitar riff. I really wish they would do one on The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, and some of the other less commercial classic albums.

My neighborhood video store has some of the Under Review series. I've seen The Queen Is Dead, In Utero, Berlin Trilogy, and Joy Division docs from that series. I really liked the Queen Is Dead doc. Like you said, none of the musicians or producers are ever involved, so it's more of a doc from the perspective of the critics. One of the guys from Can was interviewed for the Berlin doc, but I can't remember any other musicians showing up. I guess it all depends on how interested you are in the opinion of the critics. With Classic Albums, all of the (alive) Doors and the Who were there.

Under Review has docs on Beefheart, VU, Kate Bush, but unfortunately my video store doesn't have those I'll have to pressure them to order them.

[GARY]

I like the Calssic Album series.I think I've seen just about all of them.I love seeing how great albums were made.My favorite one is the making of British Steel by Judas Priest.
On it Tipton & Downing play songs from the album on guitar showing how they created the effects they achieved by having 2 guitars playing in total unison.The band talks about how they recorded it at one of the X-Beatles houses in England.Rob Halford explains how he got many of his lyrics for this album from reading comic books.They also disclosed how they needed a metal sound for their song Metal Gods but the technology back in 1980 was nothing like it is now.So they went through the house trying different things to get the metallic sound they wanted.I don't remember if the house was owned by Ringo Starr or John Lennon but it was one of the two's homes.They ended up in the kitchen & took out a tray of silverware & just banged it on the floor.They now had their sound they wanted & ended up using on the album.Maybe it's just me but I love finding things like that out about how bands created their albums.Besides the aforementioned they also have done documentaries for John Lennon's-Plastic Ono Band.Elton John's-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,Black Sabbath's-Paranoid,Metallica's-Black,Iron Maiden's-The Number Of The Beast,Rush's-Moving Pictures & other good ones.
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[Applerill]

Yep, I wub these series

Though not technically a documentary series, I love the 33-1/3 book series. I just read one on Neutral Milk Hotel. It was amazing.

[cartoken]

just watched "Docteur Prince & Mister Jackson", a very good documentary about the comparison and the rivalry between micheal Jackson and Prince, aired in French/German TV channel.

here's the link (availble for 1 week) it's in German or French.

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/docteur...20036.html

Enjoy

[sleepwalker87]

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[mooseboy101]

I bought Dark Side of The Moon and Who's Next on dvd, it's interesting but I always liked the bio tv channel's biography a little better for some reason. I really liked the one on Pink Floyd.
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