Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Music Senseless List Making: The Rock-Doc Edition
Posted by Mike Conklin on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM
I don't know what the occasion was, or if nerdy list-making necessarily needs an occasion, but just yesterday, Paste's Caroline Kilbanoff compiled The Definitive All-Time Top 10 Rock 'N' Roll Documentaries List, and it looks a lot like all the other rock-doc lists, with a bit more of a focus on more recent films, like The Devil and Daniel Johnston, and Dig!, which she boldly—and I would argue prematurely—ranks at number two. To her list, I would add 1991: The Year Punk Broke, and maybe We Jam Econo, the excellent Minutemen doc released by Plexifilm a few years ago. And probably La Bamba, if that counts, which it totally does, I think.
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I was looking at the tv schedule last night and You're Gonna Miss Me is on tonight. That is easily one of the best music docs I've ever seen, or just docs in general. Story of Roky Erickson. Especially the "Hole in Baby's Head" part: see the text of the poem here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791268/board/…
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