One of our favorite things when we stay at Nana and Grandpoo's (Dave and Sarah) is heading out to the hot tub after we put the kids to sleep and having cocktails and cigars.
When we were recently visiting back in the US we had a great evening session with Dave, Sarah, Amy and Ben. One of many discussions we had centered on great music documentaries...so when we got back to Mada we added as many of them as we could remember to our Netflix queue and have started watching one every Sunday. If you have a suggestion (music of otherwise), let us know in the comments!
The Wrecking Crew
First thing we learned...is just what a genius Brian Wilson was. But that's just a side note from this fascinating look at the studio musicians who played on pretty much every rock n' roll song you ever heard under the sometimes eye/rule of Phil Spector.
20 Feet From Stardom
A meandering story those men and women (although this doc is pretty much just about the women) who give that oomph to all the hit records that you've ever heard. I say meandering because this doc doesn't have strongest narrative arc so you never get a real strong sense of which people you are going to follow throughout the movie. An interesting tidbit: Cher started out as a backup singer.
Muscle Shoals
Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers... A cool little flick about a tiny town of 8000 people in Alabama that had two studios recorded all that bluesy nitty gritty gutty blues and rock that you still sing along to today. Also a kind of sad story about one of the studio owners sad life...when it ended we weren't really sure what happened to Rick and his studio in the end...but we were multi-tasking a little bit.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
It's strange how a movie/documentary from 2002 can feel so dated. But you can definitely see the difference in the film quality...it plays like something out of the 80's. One also got the sense that the film's producers couldn't decide if they wanted to do a documentary or a concert--the film is interlaced with about 10 different FULL-length performances of Motown songs. Ultimately, the production quality killed it for us personally. But if you can get over that, you will hear the story of the Funk Brothers--the group that played and created pretty much of every hit that came out of Motown.
Future Sundays:
Sound City
Before the Music Dies
Troubadors
Chops
The Greatest Ears in Town
When we were recently visiting back in the US we had a great evening session with Dave, Sarah, Amy and Ben. One of many discussions we had centered on great music documentaries...so when we got back to Mada we added as many of them as we could remember to our Netflix queue and have started watching one every Sunday. If you have a suggestion (music of otherwise), let us know in the comments!
The Wrecking Crew
First thing we learned...is just what a genius Brian Wilson was. But that's just a side note from this fascinating look at the studio musicians who played on pretty much every rock n' roll song you ever heard under the sometimes eye/rule of Phil Spector.
20 Feet From Stardom
A meandering story those men and women (although this doc is pretty much just about the women) who give that oomph to all the hit records that you've ever heard. I say meandering because this doc doesn't have strongest narrative arc so you never get a real strong sense of which people you are going to follow throughout the movie. An interesting tidbit: Cher started out as a backup singer.
Muscle Shoals
Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers... A cool little flick about a tiny town of 8000 people in Alabama that had two studios recorded all that bluesy nitty gritty gutty blues and rock that you still sing along to today. Also a kind of sad story about one of the studio owners sad life...when it ended we weren't really sure what happened to Rick and his studio in the end...but we were multi-tasking a little bit.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
It's strange how a movie/documentary from 2002 can feel so dated. But you can definitely see the difference in the film quality...it plays like something out of the 80's. One also got the sense that the film's producers couldn't decide if they wanted to do a documentary or a concert--the film is interlaced with about 10 different FULL-length performances of Motown songs. Ultimately, the production quality killed it for us personally. But if you can get over that, you will hear the story of the Funk Brothers--the group that played and created pretty much of every hit that came out of Motown.
Future Sundays:
Sound City
Before the Music Dies
Troubadors
Chops
The Greatest Ears in Town
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