Top 20 Rockumentaries

 

I am a sucker for a rockumentary. In fact, my idea of good comfort TV is a rockumentary or a programme about art or an artist. I am fascinated by other people's creative process. I find it really inspiring. I don't even have to like the band - a good rockumentary is compulsive viewing whether you like the music or not. Here are my top 20 rockumentaries - in no particular order. I would highly recommend all of these. (If you have a rockumentary you highly recommend do comment below.)

1) Meeting People is Easy. (A film by Grant Gee about Radiohead)

2) Talihina Sky. The Story of the Kings of Leon.

3) Joe Strummer The Future is Unwritten 

4) Long Train Running - The Tragically Hip

5) Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

6) One More Time With Feeling (Nick Cave)

7) 20,000 Days On Earth (Nick Cave)

8) Dig! (Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre)

9) The White Stripe Under Great Whit Norther Lights

10) loudQUIETloud: A film about the Pixies

11) Beware of Mr. Baker (Ginger Baker)

12) CSNY/Deja Vu 

13) Pearl Jam Twenty

14) Glastonbury

15) Heima (Sigur Ros)

16) Big Easy Express (Mumford and Sons/Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros/Old Crow Medicine Show)

17) Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie)

18) Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

19) If I Leave Here Tomorrow: a film about Lynyrd Skynyrd

20) Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks

Don't shop the Reaper

Long time - no blog.

Now I know I've posted about this before but what is it with shops and music? Today I went into Jarrolds (Jarrolds is Norwich's equivalent of Harrods but without the exotic produce and ice sculpture!) and the piped music was Blue Oyster Cult. Blue Oyster Cult! I was into heavy rock as a teenager in a big way and I can remember some parents throwing us out for being into bands like Led Zeppelin and Blue Oyster Cult. It was in NO way mainstream, and now years later here they are piping it round Jarrolds.

I'm not sure that that the Jarrolds generation really appreciates what that music is about - and does it aid or enhance their shopping experience? Or maybe it is aimed at my generation, the 40ish boys and girls, a bit of nostalgia to get us to linger within their retail walls a little longer and perhaps to part with a bit more money. I can't imagine that the old ladies in the tea shop really had any deep appreciation of "Don't fear the Reaper".