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just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks
IMHO its the best concert film ever made
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"just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks
IMHO its the best concert film ever made
what’s yours?"
It might be the best concert film (I used to love everything Jonathan Demme) but it's not the best Heads live album imo - I much prefer The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (and it's a double too - they were a real live act). But Stop Making Sense is such a well-made film. Byrne's guitar is one of the most underrated in the business imo, mainly because he never really did huge solos I think. But who else sounds like David Byrne?
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"By far, head and shoulders above them all...
The Last Waltz.
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The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?
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"By far, head and shoulders above them all...
The Last Waltz.
The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?
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I'm not budging from my answer; though notable contenders are:
Live Shit: Binge and Purge - Metallica, Seattle 1989
A Token of His Extreme - Frank Zappa 1974
Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd 1988
Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden 2001 |
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"By far, head and shoulders above them all...
The Last Waltz.
The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?
pt
I'm not budging from my answer; though notable contenders are:
Live Shit: Binge and Purge - Metallica, Seattle 1989
A Token of His Extreme - Frank Zappa 1974
Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd 1988
Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden 2001
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Were these all filmed?
The only one of those I've seen is the Pink Floyd one (actually in presence, in London). I enjoyed it, but there was no Roger Waters!!
Live at Pompeii was the Pink Floyd concert I remember people often talked about, but I think I found the VHS quite hard to find. I guess my interest waned after Waters left, but I couldn't pass the opportunity to catch them live though.
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"The S&M concert Metallica with the San Francisco philharmonic orchestra and Michael Kaymen conducting..superb..."
+1 vote for this.
I expected to hate it before I saw it. But it is outstanding. Even better when listened to through good headphones. You can pick up all the tiny details in the orchestra. |
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As we get older and stop making sense,
Really is in a league of it's own. The other outstanding one is the last waltz as already mentioned.
Talking heads were so tight together. That live show was brilliant. The additional musicians really rocked, they had two of the Brothers Johnson band with them and Steve Scales on percussion.
Last waltz is a totally different animal in every sense. Filmed differently, the multiple acts and the editing. |
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"As we get older and stop making sense,
Really is in a league of it's own. The other outstanding one is the last waltz as already mentioned.
Talking heads were so tight together. That live show was brilliant. The additional musicians really rocked, they had two of the Brothers Johnson band with them and Steve Scales on percussion.
Last waltz is a totally different animal in every sense. Filmed differently, the multiple acts and the editing. "
I saw interview with David taking about him having ADHD and autism , no one understood it back then but his neurodivergence was a massive asset in his song writing but also a lot of pressure on other band members on how he interacted and had very low emotional intelligence. Inspiring , Interesting guy , one of my hero’s growing up
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"just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks
IMHO its the best concert film ever made
You’ve called it. I recently showed this to my 19 yr old son, he loved it.
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"The S&M concert Metallica with the San Francisco philharmonic orchestra and Michael Kaymen conducting..superb...
+1 vote for this.
I expected to hate it before I saw it. But it is outstanding. Even better when listened to through good headphones. You can pick up all the tiny details in the orchestra. "
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Live at Napa State Mental Hospital - The Cramps.
It's a one-of-a-kind concert, filmed at an actual mental facility where the patients are the audience, and they're all alarmingly animated to the wild rockabilly/psychobilly tunes being blasted out by Lux & co.
Think you've seen the ultimate in weird concerts? Not yet you haven't!! |
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"Jazz On A Summer's Day".
A film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Includes performances by Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonius Monk, Anita O'Day, Chico Hamilton, Mahalia Jackson and others. Fabulous window onto music that happened before most of us were born but still sounds amazing. |
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"Pink Floyd's Pulse is excellent but my fave is the BBC's version they filmed from one of their other nights at Earl's Court, London in '94"
I thought it was the same night. I loved the VHS I had of pulse, I was an impressionable 15 year old when I went to earls court to see them, the dvd lets me remember the night. |
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By *abluesbabyMan 34 weeks ago
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"Pink Floyd's Pulse is excellent but my fave is the BBC's version they filmed from one of their other nights at Earl's Court, London in '94
I thought it was the same night. I loved the VHS I had of pulse, I was an impressionable 15 year old when I went to earls court to see them, the dvd lets me remember the night. "
It was the same night yes. The show on the 20th October 1994 (I went to the next night on the 21st) recorded for what would become Pulse was first simultaneously broadcast on both BBC1 and on Radio 1
However, I 100% agree with Surjon that the "rawer" BBC version (very different to the later "slicker" highly edited Pulse) answers the OP's question.
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