Taking Sides: movies about music vs. music about movies

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― Mark, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good movies about music: Mo' Better Blues (under-rated), 'Round Midnight, Spinal Tap (naturally), even The Doors.

Music about movies: Makes me think of Iron maiden, for whatever that's worth.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone seen Crossroads where Ralph Macchio has an electric guitar show down with Steve Vai in a climactic battle for their immortal souls? It is perfect.

― hans, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Wild in the Streets', for the bit where everyone over 25 is put in a LSD camp where they're force-fed acid all day.

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Phantom of the Paradise"? A horror musical by Brian DePalma, with Paul Williams (?) actually good (!?)as the villian, and ("introducing") Jessica Harper as the doe-eyed girl trying to break into the music business. Why aren't there more horror musicals?

― Sean, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haard core logo rocks my world, as does the billy the kid and pat garrison soundtrack.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spinal Tap was my fave, but Sid & Nancy was good too.

― dleone, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Phantom of the Paradise also famous for being the source of all those goofy samples in Bauhaus' "Party of the First Part."

"Who are you?"

"MY CARD...PRETTY LADY!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In "Chipmunk's Greta Adventure" Alvin & the gang topple the Berlin wall with the power of Rock And Roll. Top that!

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

good music about movies .. barry adamson
silver screen shower scene.. felix da housekatt
john zorn

― jk, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Remember all the movies, Terri, we'd go see/ trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be/ and after all this time to find we're just like all the rest/ stranded in the dark and forced to confess to/ hiding on the backstreets."

-Springsteen, "Backstreets."

Other good movies quotes from songs?

― Mark, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ta-a-ake i-i-it OFF! Ta-a-ake i-i-t ALL OFF!" - Van Halen, "Dirty Movies"

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Silver screen, such a disgrace/ I couldn't look her straight in the face/ A blue addiction, I live in disgust/ Degradation being eaten by lust...Voyeur straining, in love with his hand/ X-rated demon, a pulsating gland..." - Ozzy Osbourne, "No Bone Movies"

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amadeus, Hard Core Logo and Spinal Tap all rock. Music about movies has darn, all I can think of is Thrush Hermit's "From The Back of The Film"

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Cable Hogue" by John Cale distills the punch of the opening scenes onto new terrain with none of the humor and heart of the rest of the film. "Teen Suicide" by Unrest distills Heathers. "Berlin" by Lou Reed and "Prince Among Thieves" by Prince Paul as music which is movies, and thus about in the broad sense. "New Age" by The Velvets about the relationship of movies to the audience's dreams. "Can I have your autograph, he said, to the fat blonde actress." On the other end, "All Over Me" as distilling riot ennui. Back to music, "The Hot Rock" by Sleater Kinney transforming cinema into not one but TWO metaphors (love and music).

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Strange Movies' by the Troggs, stupidest and best music about movies? Good scream, anyway.

― maryann, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fear of a Black Hat is an amazing fake "rap-umentary" and one of the funniest movies I've ever seen...

― Elliot, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Movies about music=Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls=best movie of all time ever!

Music about movies=hmm, I'm sure I'm missing some really obvious ones, but the only things I can think of right now are 'He Took Her To A Movie' and 'I'm In Love With A German Filmstar'.

― emil.y, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

music about movies. UNMEN Love Under Water released on Some Bizzare 1992, makes Ben Hur look like an epic.

― nick cash, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone mentioned HARD CORE LOGO yet? Several times? Oh, well, yeah. That's cause it's great. I like Spinal Tap just fine, but Hard Core Logo gets the balance right between the humour and the realism-- you can actually believe that this is a washed up punk band reuniting for one last run at the money. (Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that the lead singer of this band was played by Hugh Dillon of punk- influenced band The Headstones, so he had the whole rock and roll bad boy thing down pat ahead of time.) Now if only they'd release a proper version on DVD...the one I keep seeing is twice as expensive as I'm willing to shell out for, especially considering the fact that they supposedly butchered it in editing for the DVD version, which is just criminal.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More music about movies:

Celluloid Heroes - the Kinks
Debaser - The Pixies

and uuuuhhh.. Dark Side of the Moon - (It's about the Wizard of Oz, innit?)

― Dave225, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and
"She went into the Movies, She's Been there ever since. She walked out to the lobby, for a box of Junior Mints."

Eiffel Tower High - Husker Du.

Real By Reel - XTC (Is surveillance considered a "movie"?)

― Dave225, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

E=MC² by BAD.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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