How’s about this for a double bill I caught in 1979 at a drive-in theater in Auburn, Washington: “Rock’n’ Roll High School” with The Ramones, and The Who documentary, “The Kids Are Alright.” Through huge ’70s speakers.

WOODSTOCK
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Almost Famous

But the best of all time is Eat The Document-the doc made on Dylan’s first electric tour with The Band, Pennebaker behind the lens. The first shot is Dylan doing a line off a grand piano and asking the waiter in the room, “Have you heard of me?”

“Rude Boy” featuring The Clash as themselves, but the funny part is they’re credited in the movie as just bandmembers and are referred to in the credits to what instrument they play and such. Love the movie, loved it!

How can you leave “The Last Waltz” off of this list?

I’m with Scott. You can’t hold the Neil Diamond cameo against them.

kiss meets the phantom of the park LOfukcingL

“Cocksucker Blues”, chronicling the Rolling Stones’ 1972 tour. Enough to scare any young kid away from ever wanting to be a rock star. Good luck getting your hands on it though.

Gimme Shelter

The Last Waltz is the greatest concert movie to ever hit the theatres.

Almost Famous
The Kids are Alright

Rattle and Hum. In terms of concert cinematography best ever.

What about Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert film. One of the best concert movies of all-time.

“Quadrophenia”

“24 Hour Party People”

Almost Famous
Gimme Shelter
The Last Waltz
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompei
Stop Making Sense
Woodstock
Rust Never Sleeps
Quadraphenia
200 Motels
Hail Hail Rock n Roll

How about The Doors by Oliver Stone

gone but not forgotten; Laidies and Gentlemen,The Rolling Stones

easy…
Alice’s Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)

I’d have to say in no particular order, these are my top 10

Concert For Bangladesh
The Last Waltz
Woodstock
The Dead Movie
Dylan’s 25th Anniv
The Wall
Rust Never Sleeps
Quadrophenia
Stop Making Sense
Gimmie Shelter

Almost Famous
I am trying to Break Your Heart

no direction home bob dylan
rust never sleep neil young.
the beatle anthologies
monterrey pop festival
flaming lips the fearless freaks
i just wasnt made for these times

Quadrophenia? I love The Who but honestly, that movie was a big bore to me, Tommy on the other hand was much better.

Heavy Metal!

(good lord how could you all pass that one up)

decline of western civilization 1&2 – led zeppelin song remains the same – jimi hendrix live at berkeley – pink floyd the making of dark side of the moon – the beatles let it be – the rolling stones gimme shelter – ELP welcome back my friends to the show that never ends (1974 ~ live)

Meet The Ruttles: Christ, when I saw this one, I was very stupid in the 70s, I thought it was the truth for the first 30 minutes or so.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains: A pic about a ficticious girl group starring Diane Lane.

Quadrophenia was an awesome movie–rich cinematography, great music of course, and Sting as the Ace Face! Here are my favorites:

1) The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
2) Quadrophenia (The Who)
3) Tommy (The Who)
4) Live at the Isle of Wight (The Who)
5) Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young)
6) Rattle & Hum (U2)
7) Woodstock
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
9) No Nukes (particularly the Springsteen section)
10) The Concert for New York City

This is Spinal Tap!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are all crazy. We all know that the “Last Waltz” is the finest of all rock films. The top five:

1) The Last Waltz
2) Gimme Shelter
3) Don’t Look Back
4) A Hard Day’s Night
5) This Is Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap is not actually a documentary (it’s a mockumentary rockumentary), but it needs to be included, given that it is the finest comedic film in the post-”Dr. Strangelove” era.

Still Crazy – excellent 90s brit comedy. Rent it.

This Is Spinal Tap
Gimme Shelter
RStones Rock-n-Roll Circus
Kids Are Alright
All You Need is Cash-Rutles
Hard Day’s Night
Woodstock
Performance (Mick Jagger)
Monterey Pop
Under Blackpool Lights (White Stripes)

“The Last Waltz” is by far the greatest rock film ever made!

Rust Never Sleeps
Don’t Look Back
Live at Pompeii
The Song Remains the Same
No Direction Home
Concert for Bangladesh
The Last Waltz

it all begins & end with “THE LAST WALTZ” to bad robbie robertson won`t come clean about what “FUELED THE SHOW” & the party afterwards

“Gimme Shelter” and the practically unseen COCKSUCKER BLUES. But I like the list, though. “Tommy” sucked balls beyond belief.
The Last Waltz is also worthy of recommendation.

i was in a rush when i mentioned the kiss tv movie (which is really dreadful) – now that im drunk and have come to my senses, i must add “the electrifying conclusion” to the list – it is the dvd of guided by voices’ last ever show – they play for fours, it’s new year’s eve, and there’s a bar on stage. totally awesome.

The Last Waltz – Band and friends
Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young
No Direction Home – Bob Dylan
Big Time – Tom Waits
Woodstock

the last waltz
rust never sleeps
the kids are alright

Get Crazy! It’s from 1983 and it’s out of print. However, if you try Kim’s in the East Village, you might be able to find it!

Top 5 All Time Rock Movies:

5) Walk The Line
4) The Last Waltz
3) No Direction Home
2) The Wall
1) Almost Famous

Hey, they’re all all right. I am SO grateful to have seen and done and been here for all of it. Really.

Gimme Shelter and, boys and girls.. Hail Hail Rock ‘n’ Roll

Rock and Roll High School and Quadrophenia

Almost famous
walk the line
rockstar
the doors

“The Filth and Fury of the Sex Pistols”

yeah, hey RS editors remember that issue of Rolling Stone back like i think 3 years ago where you put Jessica Simpson on the cover (i know, dont worry i’ve got good news) and you came out with a list of the best rock movies/dvds ever? And this said list actually had good movies on it like The Last Waltz (my personal favorite rock movie), High Fidelity (close second), and– even though it was narcissism– Almost Famous?

All these movies as opposed to laughable, self-parodying, wreaking piles of shit like Purple Rain?

At least you didn’t put The Wall, or Tommy movie adaptations up there. I’ll give you bonus points for that

**The Last Waltz**

It’s only the best rock and roll movie ever made.
Big time Bill, big time…

Best Rock movie ever has to be “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Love it! “will you stay for the night, or maybe a BITE!!”

Honorable Mention:
The Doors by Oliver Stone
U2 Rattle & Hum

The last waltz is totally essential.

The last waltz is totally essential.
Last Waltz
Woodsock
Spinal tap
Stop making sense
Tommy

My favourites are:
Dig
24 Hour Party people
Gimme Shelter

My favorite five would have to be (in no particular order):

A Hard Day’s Night
The Kids are Alright
Spinal Tap
Led Zeppelin (Not ‘Song Remains the Same’)
Rock and Roll High School

I never understood why “A Hard Day’s Night” is said to be so great. It’s good, for sure, but brilliant? No way. “Help” was funny, and had a real plot. “Yellow Submarine” is one of the quintessential psychodelic films, and once again, has a real plot. I could watch either Help or YS over and over again and still enjoy them. “A Hard Day’s Night” gets boring fast.

1. A Hard day’s night. It reflects 4 young guys that didn’t believe what was happening to them just being themselves.

2. U2 Rattle & Hum. I was 16 when I saw this, I get stunned.

3. Depeche Mode’s 101. The first reality show I saw.

4. Pink Floyd The Wall. I don’t like PF too much, but is a great movie.

5. Prince’s Purple Rain.

The Last Waltz

the list is a total sham if it does not include ‘the Last Waltz.’

“End of the Century”, about the Ramones, is fantastic.

“Under The Cherry Moon”
“Purple Rain”
“Grafitti Bridge”
“Woodstock ‘69″
“A Hard Day’s Night”
“Yellow Submarine”
“The Magical Mystery Tour”
“The Doors”
“Monterey Pop”
“Are You Experienced?”(if that’s the actual name of the movie)
“The Temptations”
“What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
“Michael Jackson:Moonwalker”
“8 Mile”

Almost Famous
The Doors
Depeche Mode 101
This Is Spinal Tap

Bulet in a Bible
Almost Famous

1) The Last Waltz
2) Don’t Look Back
3) Dig
4) Gimme Shelter
5) The Concert for Bangledesh

HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH

also,
Wayne’s World
Hype!
Velvet Goldmine

A Hard Day’s Night
No Direction Home
Almost Famous
Concert For Bangladesh

The Wall
This Is Spinal Tap
The Doors

I have to say “THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT” is the BEST Rock movie so far…

Festival Express
Woodstock
Purple Rain
Kids are Alright
Rock and Roll Circus

1-Purple Rain
2-Rocky Horror Picture Show
3-Rattle and Hum
4-Bubba Ho-Tep
5-The Wall

A Hard Day’s Night
No Direction Home
Concert For Bangladesh

in no coherent order:
STOP MAKING SENSE
GIMME SHELTER
U2-ELEVATION TOUR-BOSTON, MASS.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
QUEEN-LIVE FROM THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Visual: SLC PUNK- Perfect film in recording the dreariness of young adulthood, change Punk to Grunge and we’ve got a winner.
Acting: Coal Miners Daughter-Sissy Spacek was awesome and looked like Loretta Lynn, note to the filmmakers get someone that looks so similar to Cobain its creepy
Storylne: Almost Famous- Cameron Crowe finds the funny and highlights the films dramatic irony…. Best Line: THE NO MORE PLANES TOUR/ the band hates eachother but they still have to rock…kudos.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

How in the hell is it that only one person has mentioned “The Filth and the Fury”? That is one of the most insightful and entertaining documentaries ever. Period!

And as far as straight up concert films go, U2’s Elevation tour is even better than the Zoo Tv tour DVD, which, was arguably the greatest rock tour ever.

SLC punk
Almsot Famous

Velvet Goldmine

What about “Stop Making Sense” Talking Heads? How can you leave that out? And “The Last Waltz” by The Band? Gotta be there.
“Don’t Look Back” & “Hard Days Night” need to be tied for #1…

The Great Rock and Roll Swindle The Sex Pistols

also,

High Fidelity

i’d say tommy, but the movie was too weird.

Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies

ALMOST FAMOUS
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
NO DIRECTION HOME
WALK THE LINE

oh yeah Repo Man

“Horror at Party Beach,” circa 1964, is possibly one of the worst films of all time, but it features an awesome “everyman” band from that era. It belongs on the list since there’s only one decent music movie anyway (”The Last Waltz”), and this 1964 loser is better than any of the other films mentioned. “Don’t Look Back” ain’t a music movie! It’s a documentary in which Dylan shows our British brothers just how rude Americans can be.

Please disregard everything that Packie

sorry…i had to beat up my conjoined twin…like i said, don’t listen to what packie has to say…he is crazy…just take what the pompous fool said and consider the opposite as the correct answer…thank you for your time…

packie – my conjoined twin – must not be believed…thank you for your time…i have a sense of humor

packie – my conjoined twin – must not be believed…thank you for your time…i have a sense of humor

you forget the song remains the same

I can’t believe you forgot “The Last Waltz,” “Gimme Shelter,” “The Harder They Fall,” and “Stop Making Sense.” I also like “The Filth and the Fury” and “End of the Century,” about the Ramones.

The Last Waltz
Almost Famous
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film about Wilco
Blackboard Jungle
This is Spinal Tap

The list was way too short.

Among the films which should be on any list regarding great rock films are:

Stop Making Sense
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

How could you leave off Almost Famous? The best movie about music I’ve ever seen.

Haven’t seen Don’t Look Back, but I thought No Direction Home was wonderful.

What about School of Rock?
And also Singles, Airheads and Rock Star

Almost Famous
Empire Records
Great Balls of Fire
Eddie and the Cruisers
Sweet Dreams
La Bamba
Walk the Line
Coal Miner’s Daughter (I know some of these are country, but I think they’re still relevant to rock)

Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy

1) Almost Famous
2) Almost Famous
3) Almost Famous

the last waltz
hard days night
spinal tap

does high fidelity count?

Fade To Black
The Hard Knock Life Tour
Almost Famous
High Fidelity
Ray
Hendrix

1. No Direction Home
2. The Last Waltz
3. Dig!
4. Hard Day’s Night
5. High Fidelity

nana moskouri’s christmas special

How about The Committments or The Blues Brothers? Just two little movies the “experts” at Rolling Stone should have thought about. And how about expanding the list? Only 5?

Ok, ok, You have the Documentary Rock Movie and You have the Kitchy Hollywood Rock Movie, and You have the Rock Biobic.

There are so many good Rock Documentaries and to really have appreciated them, you had to be there when they first came out, otherwise you may have lost the mood or flavor of the “moment”.
Who could ever forget the Open Eyed feeling of seeing “A Hard Days Night” in the mid sixties and the heady pre MTV film footage of the mop top four. There was screaming in the theater as pubescents across the globe hurried to copy thier Carnaby Street vibe and humor. Afterwards and after many drugs, hairgrowth, and patchwork bellbottems came Gimme Shelter and Woodstock. East Coast and West Coast rock nightmares immortalized in hellish detail for all to see. If you were actually “at” either one of these discusting Pop Fests you wish you didn’t have to remember it. “Monterey Pop” summer of love fest where we first saw Janis Joplin and Hendrix. Wow, even the Rolling Stones and Brian Jones were seen in the crowd. This was brought to us by The Mamas & Papas before they sunk into Hollywood Drug Drama. Who could could forget Mama Cass mouthing “Oh WOW” after Janis sang. Into the severnties we waltzed with “The Last Waltz” with the allstar cast of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Eric Clapton playing with Robbie Robertson and the rest of the gang. We all had questions about why there was a last waltz because the music was so good…. Why did it have to be “The Last”? The best of the best was “The Song remains the Same” because who were the most mystical of all Rock Gods? Led Zepplin of course… But as far as Bio Opics go…Oliver Stones “The Doors” really captures the mood of it all and the essence of The DOors, La, Psychidelia, and Jim Morrison. So yes, as far as Hollywood goes…you can shove Quadraphenia and Almost Famous up the preverbal place the sun don’t shine. What junk…Then of Course there is Purple Rain in its Fredericks of Hollywood Funk Glory…No one can argue with the music or the story which was good but who could believe people dressed like that in Minnesota of all plays but still it worked and goes in the top 10. Later we had U2 and Rattle and Hum…resonant, manly, silly, but black and white so Edges Guitar was as stark in the movies as in sound. Since then, I can’t think of any other good Rock Flicks.

I agree with almost everyone here. the list is too short. Song remains the same even rock star was pretty darn good. I can’t beleive that rolling stone botched this list.

“The Kids are Alright” is tops. I’d leave in “This Is Spinal Tap,” but “Purple Rain”? I dunno, Prince is a great guitarist – the solo in “Purple Rain” still is great – but the film isn’t in the top 5. “The Last Waltz” would be in the top 5 for me, if it weren’t for all of the overdubs (only Levon Helm’s voice and drums, and the guests’ voices, truly are live) – and it wasn’t The Band’s “last” show. They carried on without Robbie Robertson, recruiting The Cate Brothers as replacements for one or two tours in the 1980s.
The Beatles’ “Let it Be” has to be in the top 5, too. The rooftop concert at the end is worth admission to the entire film.
“Gimme Shelter” is a good contender for the top 5, although I prefer Pink Floyd, The Who and The Beatles to The Stones (I do like Mick and the boys).

Peace

shut up Scott

The Monteray Pop festival was awesome, especially the criterion collection with all the extra jimi hendrix footage

Last Waltz doesn’t make Top 5? Am I the only person online who isn’t high right now?

This movie should be played LOUD!

The Clash:Westway to the world and Brothers of the Head(I know its fictional but conjoined twins kick ass!!!)

Are you fucking kidding me?

EASY RIDER

Discussion over.

Jailhouse Rock old but good!!!

The Last Waltz!

1. D.O.A. a doc on the Sex Pistols ‘78 American tour
2. Decline of Western Civilization Pt.1
3. Gimme Shelter
4. End of the Century
5. Shellshock Rock a ‘78 doc on Irish punk rock, played on USA network back in the early ’80’s
6. Rock and Roll High School/Detriot Rock City (pretty much the same movie)
7. We Jam Econo Minutemen doc
8. Help! a cool Mod movie
9. Head (Monkees)-I thought it was cool
10. Repo Man/Blow Up the Circle Jerks and the Yardbirds make great cameos

Almost famous
High fidelity
Singles
Some Kind of monster
The Wall

Prince: Sign “O” The Times

sid and nancy

An other lame ass list by the children at Rolling Stoner. No wonder I cancelled my subscription yrs ago. You people know very little about music. Stupid monkeys

MY GOD, HOW DID YOU LEAVE OUT “Straight, No Chaser”???? THELONIOUS MONK KICKS ASS

jonny6

Please, start making sense,#1

“Stop Making Sense” – Talking Heads

The best rock movie is “Truth or Dare” starring Madonna, where she is playing with herself…..what else?

It’s U2 “Rattle and Hum” and the worst is The Beatles “Let it be”.

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The Doors
Walk The Line
Great Balls Of Fire
Almost Famous
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

almost famous
the doors
american graffiti
pulp fiction

Ohhh a toughy:
The Doors – would have to be up there
Almost Famous – classic!
Singles – deserves at least a mention (not the best movie but the music was awesome even though it exploited the grunge scene at it’s peak)
The Last Waltz – greatest concert ever!
No Direction Home – great insight into the greatest songwriter of our time.
Seven World’s Collide – Another great concert with a killer support band

~TOMMY~ TAKES ALL AWARDS, HANDS DOWN!!!!!

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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE : If you havn’t seen this…you ain’t seen nuthin yet…

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT : Most probably, the whole bunch of titles u mntion wouldn’t even exist had it not been for this groundbreaking masterpiece…