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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks

IMHO its the best concert film ever made

what’s yours?

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

This Is Spinal Tap (a mock concert film then)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"This Is Spinal Tap (a mock concert film then)

fair play. it is very funny

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

for a penny

Pulse. Pink Floyd.

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

First one I'd seen ' Woodstock ' the best to me the bands " last waltz"

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

DM- 101

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By *lexm87Man
over a year ago

Various

"First one I'd seen ' Woodstock ' the best to me the bands " last waltz" "

Totally agree - especially the bit where Van Morrison takes the roof off the place!

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

Led zeppelin, the song remains the same.

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3

Summer of soul

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks

IMHO its the best concert film ever made

what’s yours?"

It might be the best concert film (I used to love everything Jonathan Demme) but it's not the best Heads live album imo - I much prefer The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (and it's a double too - they were a real live act). But Stop Making Sense is such a well-made film. Byrne's guitar is one of the most underrated in the business imo, mainly because he never really did huge solos I think. But who else sounds like David Byrne?

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

By far, head and shoulders above them all...

The Last Waltz.

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By *ffloadMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Gary Numan micro music

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"By far, head and shoulders above them all...

The Last Waltz.

The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"By far, head and shoulders above them all...

The Last Waltz.

The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?

pt"

I'm not budging from my answer; though notable contenders are:

Live Shit: Binge and Purge - Metallica, Seattle 1989

A Token of His Extreme - Frank Zappa 1974

Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd 1988

Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden 2001

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"By far, head and shoulders above them all...

The Last Waltz.

The Last Waltz has the cameos for sure, and The Band of course. They both used to be called the best filmed concerts in their day, but surely there are some more recent contenders?

I'm not budging from my answer; though notable contenders are:

Live Shit: Binge and Purge - Metallica, Seattle 1989

A Token of His Extreme - Frank Zappa 1974

Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd 1988

Rock in Rio - Iron Maiden 2001

Were these all filmed?

The only one of those I've seen is the Pink Floyd one (actually in presence, in London). I enjoyed it, but there was no Roger Waters!!

Live at Pompeii was the Pink Floyd concert I remember people often talked about, but I think I found the VHS quite hard to find. I guess my interest waned after Waters left, but I couldn't pass the opportunity to catch them live though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very difficult to beat " Live at River Plate " AC/DC..The passion of the crowd is just unbelievable

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

It’s been one of my favourites for years - that big suit !

and his dance moves! I like old ones like Cities & Thank-you for sending me an Angel

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

Others have already said it but it's the Last Waltz for me too.

Paul

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

The S&M concert Metallica with the San Francisco philharmonic orchestra and Michael Kaymen conducting..superb...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another vote for The Last Waltz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

INXS Live at Wembley

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By *hatBeardedChapMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

We Are X

X-japan documentary movie about the rise, fall and rebirth of the band

I saw the premier of it in London followed by a 2+ hour concert

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Cinemas need to show more concerts.

Have missed out on getting tickets a few times and cant justify spending £70+ on a concert. Also gets rid of sone of the ticket touts.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

This is rockbitch

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Martin Scorsese’s Shine A Light

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

montery pop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The S&M concert Metallica with the San Francisco philharmonic orchestra and Michael Kaymen conducting..superb..."

+1 vote for this.

I expected to hate it before I saw it. But it is outstanding. Even better when listened to through good headphones. You can pick up all the tiny details in the orchestra.

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"This is rockbitch"

Now there's a name I don't hear very often

Quite the show they put on

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By *entlemenpipMan
over a year ago

not far

Rocking riot iron maiden of SnM mettalical and the san Francisco orchestra

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

Bad Religion Live at the Palladium.

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By *edhead72Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham and Ashby

Stop making sense

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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago

Derry

As we get older and stop making sense,

Really is in a league of it's own. The other outstanding one is the last waltz as already mentioned.

Talking heads were so tight together. That live show was brilliant. The additional musicians really rocked, they had two of the Brothers Johnson band with them and Steve Scales on percussion.

Last waltz is a totally different animal in every sense. Filmed differently, the multiple acts and the editing.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"As we get older and stop making sense,

Really is in a league of it's own. The other outstanding one is the last waltz as already mentioned.

Talking heads were so tight together. That live show was brilliant. The additional musicians really rocked, they had two of the Brothers Johnson band with them and Steve Scales on percussion.

Last waltz is a totally different animal in every sense. Filmed differently, the multiple acts and the editing. "

I saw interview with David taking about him having ADHD and autism , no one understood it back then but his neurodivergence was a massive asset in his song writing but also a lot of pressure on other band members on how he interacted and had very low emotional intelligence. Inspiring , Interesting guy , one of my hero’s growing up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not a concert film as such but theres stack of live footage in Rude Boy.

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

"just noticed that the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense has been remastered and is being shown in cinemas for the next few weeks

IMHO its the best concert film ever made

You’ve called it. I recently showed this to my 19 yr old son, he loved it.

what’s yours?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

David Byrne’s American Utopia is superb

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

Blind Faith - London Hyde Park 1969

The original "supergroup"!

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"The S&M concert Metallica with the San Francisco philharmonic orchestra and Michael Kaymen conducting..superb...

+1 vote for this.

I expected to hate it before I saw it. But it is outstanding. Even better when listened to through good headphones. You can pick up all the tiny details in the orchestra. "

Absolutely!

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

Live at Napa State Mental Hospital - The Cramps.

It's a one-of-a-kind concert, filmed at an actual mental facility where the patients are the audience, and they're all alarmingly animated to the wild rockabilly/psychobilly tunes being blasted out by Lux & co.

Think you've seen the ultimate in weird concerts? Not yet you haven't!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"David Byrne’s American Utopia is superb "

i was lucky enough to see the show at hammersmith a couple of years back. great music extraordinary choreography great artistry

david byrne is a maestro

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By *ataleMan
over a year ago

Durham

Good choices, but I’d go for Metallica Cunning Stunts over LSB&P. Better destruction sequence at the end

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"Jazz On A Summer's Day".

A film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Includes performances by Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonius Monk, Anita O'Day, Chico Hamilton, Mahalia Jackson and others. Fabulous window onto music that happened before most of us were born but still sounds amazing.

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By *ensual-dominant-passionMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Bill and ted

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By *ncemoreroundthesunCouple
over a year ago

on the move

The iron maiden and Metallica concerts are brilliant.

Rammstein have two, the one where they play the cover of Depeche modes stripped is incredible to the point of catharsis.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pink Floyd's Pulse is excellent but my fave is the BBC's version they filmed from one of their other nights at Earl's Court, London in '94

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depeche Mode 101

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By *illingdon_ladMan
over a year ago

Bicester

"Pink Floyd's Pulse is excellent but my fave is the BBC's version they filmed from one of their other nights at Earl's Court, London in '94"

I thought it was the same night. I loved the VHS I had of pulse, I was an impressionable 15 year old when I went to earls court to see them, the dvd lets me remember the night.

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Aloha from hawaii

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

elvis: that's the way it is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bowie - Glastonbury 2000

It takes some bollocks to walk out to what essentially isn't your crowd and open with Wild is the Wind

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By *esmond and Molly JonesCouple
over a year ago

Watford

Wings across America.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Let There be Rock by AC/DC. Caught on the bands 1979 tour it was a few months before Bon Scotts passing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

TourFilm: R.E.M.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here’s juxtaposed for u

Live at donnington ACDC

Blew the speaker at Rubery

Great fil/concert

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By *octor ProdMan
over a year ago

working Overseas

The Cramps at Naga State Mental Hospital

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By *abluesbabyMan
over a year ago

Gibraltar/Cheshire/London

"Pink Floyd's Pulse is excellent but my fave is the BBC's version they filmed from one of their other nights at Earl's Court, London in '94

I thought it was the same night. I loved the VHS I had of pulse, I was an impressionable 15 year old when I went to earls court to see them, the dvd lets me remember the night. "

It was the same night yes. The show on the 20th October 1994 (I went to the next night on the 21st) recorded for what would become Pulse was first simultaneously broadcast on both BBC1 and on Radio 1

However, I 100% agree with Surjon that the "rawer" BBC version (very different to the later "slicker" highly edited Pulse) answers the OP's question.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

U2 at Red Rocks. Back when they were young and had something to say

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alanis Morissette Live at Montreux.

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