[Music] If you can look beyond Control - What's the Best Music Biopic?

[AIT76]

um .... wasn't Control black and white though?

Anton Corbijn's initial pitch was for Ian to be in colour and everything else in black and white. Glad that idea never grew legs.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

um .... wasn't Control black and white though?

Um....yes.

 

[Stato]

Because, as with The Sporanos being the default answer to:-

What's the Best TV Theme Tune?

Not even in the top top ten. Off the top of my head and in particular order: Booker T & The MG's Soul Limbo from the cricket in the eighties, now on TMS, Danny Elfman's 'Simpson's Theme, Monkey Magic, Hill Street Blues, Taxi, 'Way Down in The Hole from 'The Wire' (any version), Dexys' 'Because of You' on 'Brush Strokes', Roddy Frame's 'Small World' from 'Early Doors', Oasis's 'Half A World Away' from 'The Royle Family', M*A*S*H, Cheers, The Fresh Prince, The Muppets, On White Horses, Hawaii 5-0, 'Peg O' My Heart' from 'The Singing Detective', Primus' 'South Park' theme and Bowling for Soup's 'Phineas & Ferb' tune. not to mention'Ski Sunday', 'MotD', The BBC's Golf and Snooker Themes and the theme from Z Cars which both Watford and Everton walk out to, but turn off before it really gets going after about a minute in. Listen all the way through. Its a stormer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWflrCrwUSw

 

[pearl]

Um....yes.

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Um ....................... I'll get me Greatcoat

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Um ....................... I'll get me Greatcoat

 

[rippleman]

Amy

 

[The Clamp]

24 Hour Party People.

Straight Outta Compton.

But music biopics are mostly shit. There is that Hendrix one featuring no music by Hendrix as the estate denied permission. They went ahead and made it without the music anyway.

 

[pearl]

24 Hour Party People.

Straight Outta Compton.

But music biopics are mostly shit. There is that Hendrix one featuring no music by Hendrix as the estate denied permission. They went ahead and made it without the music anyway.

You're kidding?! Who played Hendrix? Tilda Swinton

 

[keaton]

Not even in the top top ten. Off the top of my head and in particular order: Booker T & The MG's Soul Limbo from the cricket in the eighties, now on TMS, Danny Elfman's 'Simpson's Theme, Monkey Magic, Hill Street Blues, Taxi, 'Way Down in The Hole from 'The Wire' (any version), Dexys' 'Because of You' on 'Brush Strokes', Roddy Frame's 'Small World' from 'Early Doors', Oasis's 'Half A World Away' from 'The Royle Family', M*A*S*H, Cheers, The Fresh Prince, The Muppets, On White Horses, Hawaii 5-0, 'Peg O' My Heart' from 'The Singing Detective', Primus' 'South Park' theme and Bowling for Soup's 'Phineas & Ferb' tune. not to mention'Ski Sunday', 'MotD', The BBC's Golf and Snooker Themes and the theme from Z Cars which both Watford and Everton walk out to, but turn off before it really gets going after about a minute in. Listen all the way through. Its a stormer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWflrCrwUSw

Yeah, I agree with a lot of list, especially The Wire.
I'd add the True Blood one is similar to the Sopranos but better for my money and BBC cricket theme.

 

[The Clamp]

You're kidding?! Who played Hendrix? Tilda Swinton

“What is amazing is that, unlike Get On Up or Walk The Line, the biopic was made without securing the rights to any music written by the legendary guitarist. All Is By My Side didn’t get the green light to use “Purple Haze”, “The Wind Cries Mary” or “Voodoo Chile”, the major hits composed by the guitarist”.


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...vie-without-the-music-rights-9656850.html?amp

Andre 3000 from OutKast played Jimmi.

By all accounts it’s a dreadful film. As you would expect.

This new Elvis one looks pretty dire. And I am a huge fan of Elvis in his many forms but I’m not a huge fan of Baz Lurhman.

 

[BrianB]

The Temptations ,a surprisingly watchable tv mini series that never got any publicity when released on DVD .

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164292/

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Not a biopic, but DIG! is one of the greatest music movies


But yeah Control is the best biopic.

 

[keaton]

“What is amazing is that, unlike Get On Up or Walk The Line, the biopic was made without securing the rights to any music written by the legendary guitarist. All Is By My Side didn’t get the green light to use “Purple Haze”, “The Wind Cries Mary” or “Voodoo Chile”, the major hits composed by the guitarist”.


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...vie-without-the-music-rights-9656850.html?amp

Andre 3000 from OutKast played Jimmi.

By all accounts it’s a dreadful film. As you would expect.

This new Elvis one looks pretty dire. And I am a huge fan of Elvis in his many forms but I’m not a huge fan of Baz Lurhman.

Yes I thought Elvis looked dreadful. I don't particularly like Peter Bradshaw but I did his description of the film

"It’s not a movie so much as a 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time, with no variation of pace"

Mark Kermode loved it though and he's a big Elvis fan

 

[The Clamp]

Do we really need Tom Hanks in a fat suit? I am not looking forward to seeing how they tackle 70’s Vegas Elvis, an era suspiciously absent from the over long trailer.

 

[jakarta]

24 Hour Party People..

A music Biopic about a non-musician (Tony Wilson - Founder of Factory Records). Lots of Joy Division/New Order/Durutti Column/A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays...

 

[herecomesaregular]

Never been a fan of Kristen Stewart but I did enjoy

 

[Stat Brother]

I rewatched Control, last night, all I can now see is:-

 

[bhafc99]

I rewatched Control, last night, all I can now see is:-

That’s brilliant. Love the Steven Morris!

 

[studio150]

Green Book

 

[Brian Potter]

I thought Andy Serkis did a good job as Ian Dury