Favorite Music-Related Movie?

morningangel · Post by **morningangel** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:50 pm

Thought I'd start off the new week with some neutral music-related topics for us all to enjoy. What are your favorite music-related movies and why? I don't mean band dvds or concert footage, but movies, fictional or otherwise, involving music, like Walk The Line, Rock Star, Almost Famous, Airheads, The Wedding Singer, and I'm sure you know lots of others I haven't seen and would love to hear about...

rreihart · Post by **rreihart** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:53 pm

hmmm, tough call. It's really close between Walk The Line and That Thing You Do. Everytime I see TTYD, I want to start a 50's-60's tribute band.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:56 pm

Purple Rain. The movie was bad but the album was inventive and awesome.

r:>)

SATAN · Post by **SATAN** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:58 pm

I would give props to Purple Rain, Rock Star, and The Spinal Tap movie.

SATAN

Peavey Fool · Post by **Peavey Fool** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:07 pm

The Karate Kid in Cross Roads.
Only, Steve Vai totally kicks the guys ass in the end. but you know how it goes... the devil can never win

Bit*chenWomen1029 · Post by **Bit*chenWomen1029** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:59 pm

Hmm i love Urban Cowboy,Walk the line,Wizard of Oz (always a favorite since i was a kid), Purple Rain, GREASE, Eddie and the crusiers was a great movie too.

Feelgood · Post by **Feelgood** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:00 pm

Almost Famous

Post by **Jim Price** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:25 pm

The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash - This was a hilarious 1978 "mock-umentary" about The Rutles, a send-off of The Beatles, and their rags to riches story. The movie starred a bunch of Monty Python and Saturday Night Live guys. I only ever saw it once (when it first aired on television in 1978), but it still ranks as one of the best (and funniest) music-related movies I've ever seen.

This Is Spinal Tap runs a close second...

Post by **Jim Price** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:36 pm

And how can I forget the original Blues Brothers?

AtoMikEnRtiA · Post by **AtoMikEnRtiA** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:42 pm

Feelgood wrote:Almost Famous

^^^^^^^^
GREAT movie

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:04 pm

A Thing Called Love
This Is Spinal Tap
Break Like The Wind
Decline Of Western Civilization Pt.2
Crossroads
Last Of The Jukejoints
Rock Star
Walk The Line
all in no particular order--------->JMS

DMFJ03 · Post by **DMFJ03** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:21 pm

One of my favorites is Eddie and The Cruisers. I have even have the soundtrack.

Second in line is probably That Thing You Do.

The_Underground · Post by **The_Underground** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:39 pm

It's gotta be The Blues Brothers. Just the all out best music, car chase criminals with a heart of gold comedy ever made!

Chris

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:52 pm

Always has been and always will be...

The Wall

The reason? I have become comfortably numb...

RAM Z · Post by **RAM Z** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:29 pm

The Wall most deffinately !
Tommy
Eddie And The Cruisers
This Is Spinal Tap
Rock Star
The movie about Def Leppard, sorry I can't think of the name right now.
Detroit Rock City
Thunderstruck
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Ray
Labamba
The Buddy Holly Story

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:32 pm

A few of mine...

-Walk The Line (just saw it, it was REALLY f'in good!!)
-This Is Spinal Tap
-Heavy Metal
-Rock Star
-The Blues Brothers
-Purple Rain
-The Song Remains The Same
-A Hard Day's Night
-High Fidelity
-Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (a somewhat obscure documentary by D. A. Pennybaker, it focuses on pre-electric era Dylan.)
-Mr Holland's Opus
-Amadeus

And of course...

BREAKIN' and BREAKIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO.

ROTFLMAO!!!

tonefight · Post by **tonefight** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:39 pm

Question : has anyone watched "The Wall" when they weren't high ? Was it anygood ?

Airheads was cool, Almost Famous was good, I thought Rock Star could have been better and Crossroads would have been better without Ralphie, he couldn't even act like a guitar player.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:41 pm

I watched "The Wall" once. It made absolutely no sense to me, and since I don't get high, I don't think it ever will. I respect the work as a whole, but it's just not my cup of tea.

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:42 pm

How about....KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Kinda musically related. Worse friggin' piece of dog crap ever produced.
I'll have to go with The Wall, hands down.

Baceman Spiff · Post by **Baceman Spiff** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:45 pm

AIRHEADS is a good one "Lemmy IS god!"

BLUES BROTHERS- Probably the best ever.

ROCKand ROLL HIGH SCHOOL- gabba gabba hey!

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:45 pm

Toona Rock said

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (a somewhat obscure documentary by D. A. Pennybaker, it focuses on pre-electric era Dylan.)

beg to differ Toona, NOT pre-electric as that film is all about the time Bob blew the roof off the whole fuckin thing (meaning the music biz) by coming out on stage with the electric guitar and pairing electric sounds with love and folk songs....rock hasn't been the same since

My Favorites:
Walk the Line
No Direction Home (better than Don't Look Back IMO)
The original Woodstock movie
Almost Famous
Sid n Nancy

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:48 pm

Gotta be "The Blues Brothers"

It's 106 miles to Chicago

We got a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it.

'Nuf said

I know The Blues Brothers 2000 did poorly at the box office, but I liked a lot of the music. John Goodman is no Belushi, but I thought he did justice to the part they wrote for him. Belushi's star faded long before it should have.

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:41 pm

Spinal Tap
Crossroads
Ray
Walk the Line

Jerry C · Post by **Jerry C** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:45 am

No question!!!! Eddie and the Cruisers parts 1 and 2. I saw John Cafferty and The BBB live. Got to hang out with them for a while. I talk to Gary Gramolini on line from time to time. What a great bunch of guys. They sound as good now as they did then. We had a chance to go and jam with them for a benefit in Rhode Island, but we were unable to make it

, Hope to do it if we get another chance though.
After that, the Blues Brothers.

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:51 am

"Animal House"
"The Blues Brothers"
"Help"
"A Hard Day's Night"
"Almost Famous"
"This Is Spinal Tap"
"The Wall"
...and just about any sappy Christmas cartoon/show from my childhood.

Yes, I admit it, I bought "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and even "The Little Drummer Boy", for me!

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