The subject is clear. The DVD can include a documentary or a live show or just a tons of official or non-official videos...or all three. So "music DVD" includes everything that is related mainly to music. What are your recommandations?

Does pink floyd's "the Wall" count? If so, that's my vote. Otherwise, "the song remains the same".

A lot of people love Jonathon Demme's Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert film. It's widely hailed as one of the best concert films ever.

If you like 60s music at all, you can't go wrong with Woodstock, which is probably my favorite concert film.

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A lot of people love Jonathon Demme's Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert film. It's widely hailed as one of the best concert films ever.

Definitely, as one of my favorite bands, Talking Heads made the best concert film of all time.

Some others like The Band’s The Last Waltz and there are also a few by The Who, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin that are well-regarded.

Now that you mention the Stones, Gimme Shelter is an interesting concert film, if you don't mind watching one that ends in tragedy. If you don't know the story, it documents a free concert the Rolling Stones put on at the Altamont Speedway in California, along with opening acts Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. They had the idea of getting the Hell's Angels to do security and near the end of the Stones' set, an 18-yr-old kid ended up getting stabbed (supposedly in self-defense) and killed by a member of the Hell's Angels.

I love a good band documentary.

My favorite by a long shot is "Slow Century" about Pavement. The documentation is excellent, the interviews and footage are enlightening, the live shows are telling, and their music videos are the best I've seen. All this and it's very well packaged, produced, and laid out.

I would also mention as a close second "Gigantic: A Tale of Two John" about They Might Be Giants. They have an amazing story and such geniune and hillarious guys to watch.

I recently got the documentary about the Danielson Famile "Danielson: A Family Movie (Or Make a Joyful Noise Here)". It was also very enjoyable and enlightening. A great perspective on how indipendant music grows over time. And as I mentioned in another thread, there is some good footage with Sufjan Stevens in it, which really brings out his character and personality.

If anyone can suggest some really good band documentaries similar to these, I'm all ears.

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Now that you mention the Stones, Gimme Shelter is an interesting concert film, if you don't mind watching one that ends in tragedy. If you don't know the story, it documents a free concert the Rolling Stones put on at the Altamont Speedway in California, along with opening acts Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. They had the idea of getting the Hell's Angels to do security and near the end of the Stones' set, an 18-yr-old kid ended up getting stabbed (supposedly in self-defense) and killed by a member of the Hell's Angels.

Yeah, I think I have seen that once a long time ago. Santana and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young also opened and the Grateful Dead was supposed to play before the Stones but didn’t because of how violent the Angels were being.

That was a pretty sad thing with Meredith Hunter. A lot of people don’t know whether the Angels killed him in self-defense or not. He did have a handgun but instead of just taking it away, they stabbed him a total of five times and kicked him to death. This was all caught on film as well. The guy that was charged with the killing was acquitted.

Scorsese's Dylan doc, No Direction Home, which was on PBS a couple years ago, is also pretty sweet.

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Scorsese's Dylan doc, No Direction Home, which was on PBS a couple years ago, is also pretty sweet.

Who is this Scorsese guy you speak of?

last waltz

Watch Me Jumpstart by Banks Tarver is a classic documentary about Guided by Voices and probably the one I've watched the most.

Other honorable mentions:

Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders

The Clash: Westway to the World by Don Letts

The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film by Julien Temple

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen by Tim Erwin

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii by Adrian Maben

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco by Sam Jones

Fearless Freak: The Wondrously Improbable Story of the Flaming Lips by Bradley Beesley

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back by D.A. Pennebaker

24 Hour Party People by Michael Winterbottom

Lots of good ones listed, I'll throw in My Morning Jacket - Okonokos, pretty sweet if you dig My Morning Jacket

Metallica - st.anger the DVD
It shows the artists playing their instruments. I find this much more interesting than an abstract video produced by some director.

im a big fan of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus...surprised no one else mentioned that.