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Smashing Pumpkins
If All Goes Wrong
(Coming Home)

Recorded during the band’s 2007 comeback concerts, this two-disc set captures exhilarating live footage from shows in California and North Carolina, as well as some ho-hum interviews with admirers like Pete Townshend. But the main draw is the documentary’s footage of Billy Corgan glad-handing fans, lashing out at journalists and former bandmate James Iha, and generally revealing all of his petulant glory. Love him or hate him, he’s fun to watch. KYLE ANDERSON

Sex Pistols
There’ll Always Be an England
(Rhino)

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, this concert and doc revisiting the band’s London haunts might suggest empty nostalgia. But these hams love the camera, and director Julien Temple loves ‘em back, capturing the Pistols as they restore corrosive joy to their songbook. And Johnny Rotten delivers travelogues with disarming sincerity, standing atop a tourist bus, listing all the reasons why he should blow up every ugly modern building he passes. BARRY WALTERS

Merle Haggard
Legendary Performances
(Shout! Factory)

Merle Haggard builds believability into everything, as this exemplary set of television appearances from 1968 to 1983 reminds us: He even ends “Today I Started Loving You Again” by looking into the camera and licking his mouth as if addressing a lover. Haggard sings every tune with integrity, so it’s revelatory that when delivering his hippie-hating satire “Okie From Muskogee,” he flubs the last line of his big hit, laughs, and then bows with a theatrical flourish. Here he was clearly acting. BARRY WALTERS

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