What are your favorite FICTIONAL music movies?

[cutter]

We always list our favorite music lists and I wondered if people enjoyed music movies. My list contains:

Ladies and Gentleman The Fabulous Stains
Times Square
Rock And Roll High School
Still Crazy
Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Rock My World
The Commitments
Almost Famous
School Of Rock
That Thing You Do
High Fidelity
Blues Brothers

Would like to know other peoples lists and/or suggestions.

 

[Quad Linda]

All You Need is Cash - The Rutles
A Star is Born (Streisand version)
The Harder They Come
A Hard Day's Night
Diva
Help
Head
Blues Brothers
200 Motels
Rockers
Tommy
Hair
Round Midnight
One Trick Pony
This Is Spinal Tap

I'm Like a Steppin' Razor, Don't You Watch My Size, I'm Dangerous.

 

[DKA]

Almost Famous is a thing of beauty.

 

[cutter]

Forgot about the Beatles, Monkees & Hair. I like all three. I also forgot about Stardust. I need to go and look at the shelves.

 

[dr. simple]

We always list our favorite music lists and I wondered if people enjoyed music movies. My list contains:

Ladies and Gentleman The Fabulous Stains
Times Square
Rock And Roll High School
Still Crazy
Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
Rock My World
The Commitments
Almost Famous
School Of Rock
That Thing You Do
High Fidelity
Blues Brothers

Would like to know other peoples lists and/or suggestions.

I love that you listed "Almost Famous" twice! (Please don't edit your original post...) It deserves to be mentioned twice.

The only one I have to add that's not been mentioned is "Once".

 

[timbre4]

All of the above + Across The Universe. She's So Heavy and For The Benefit Of Mister Kite get played a LOT here.

 

[elmer]

I'll assume that we're ignoring anything with a non Rock/pre 60's vibe (otherwise the list could get long) - here are a few others besides the excellent aforementioned music movies;

Grace Of My Heart - a great "little" movie with fictional characters resembling Carole King, Gerry Coffin, Phil Spector, Leslie Gore, Brian Wilson, etc (played by Illeana Douglas, Eric Stoltz, John Turturro and Matt Dillon) - original songs by Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach, Shawn Colvin, J Mascis, Jill Sobule, Joni Mitchell, Gerry Coffin, etc.
One From the Heart - Francis Ford Coppola's unlikely musical - soundtrack by Tom Waits (and heartbreaking duets with Crystal Gayle).
I'm Not There - a reimagined bio of Dylan with different actors (Cate Blanchette, Christian Bale & Heath Ledger) playin' ol Bob.
Backbeat - sort of fictional retelling of the Beatles early days in Hamburg - soundtrack by a interesting collection of superband of the altrockers of the day.
West Side Story - probably not in the spirit of this list - but my favorite of all time - hands down.

 

[Bonzodog]

Carousel

 

[cutter]

It must have been the beer typing. I did buy the first version of Almost Famous when it was released and bought the collectors edition when it came out.

 

[Quad Linda]

Didn't know BEER could type. Is there special beer in Omaha?

Listen my friends...

 

[elmer]

Streets Of Fire
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains
Pennies From Heaven (based on Dennis Potter's great Brit TV series) - with Steve Martin and if for nothing else, a spectacular dancing atop the bar number by Christopher Walken - long before his Fatboy Slim feat.
Quadrophenia (lest we forget!)

 

[DKA]

All of the above + Across The Universe. She's So Heavy and For The Benefit Of Mister Kite get played a LOT here.

I was working down on the LES when "Across the Universe" was being filmed. They did such an amazing job transforming Rivington around Clinton St. into another time period altogether. Used to walk through there every day, hoping to run into Bono. Had to settle for David Lee Roth.

 

[neil wilkes]

Not an easy one to answer, but these get regular play here:
1 - This Is Spinal Tap. Still seriously funny, with some definite digs at lots of people. Favourite scene is still the one where Nigel is playing this beautiful piece on a piano, and when asked what it is called, replies "lick my love pump". Priceless.
2 - Slade in Flame. Probably one that has passed a lot of people by, and it's a shame as this is a great film. Not at all what you would have expected, given Slade's popularity & the period it was made in - it is a very cynical look at the whole business & equally relevant today - maybe even more so. There is some outstanding music there too - highlight is either "How Does It Feel?" in the scenes where they are making the album - an incredibly powerful song with great brass section, or the almost punky "Them Kinda Monkey's Can't Swing" in the scene where they are "discovered" - some awesome slide guitar there and the bass playing is amongst the tightest I have ever heard.

 

[John Svensson]

Not a "music movie" per se, but I'd throw Antonioni's "Blow Up" in there just for the priceless performance by the Yardbirds.....and the fact it is a thought provoking movie.

 

[elmer]

Not a "music movie" per se, but I'd throw Antonioni's "Blow Up" in there just for the priceless performance by the Yardbirds.....and the fact it is a thought provoking movie.

OK! Great movie - very much of its time. On the same line, how about Russ Meyer's soft core porn classic, "Beyond The Valley of the Dolls" - featuring a pretend rock band of bimbos, Edy Williams, and performances by Strawberry Alarm Clock - deliciously bad dialogue - written, by the way, by the esteemed movie critic, Roger Ebert.