Bloggy Goodness: The Rolling Stones – 50 Years On Film
MoMA celebrates the Stones on film, a new Yo Gabba Gabba! compilation and more.
MoMA celebrates the Stones on film, a new Yo Gabba Gabba! compilation and more.
For those who don’t mind spoilers, you can find out which Exile on Main Street tune Green Day (Monday), Keith Urban (Tuesday), Sheryl Crow (Wednesday) and Phish (Thursday) will cover
Just as with albums, 2008 wasn’t a bang up year for concert DVDs. Sure, there were plenty of good ones, but nothing that was mind blowing. Last year’s list featured plenty of multi-disc sets including Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s epic documentary/concert film Runnin’ Down A Dream, the amazing full-blown release of Nirvana’s Unplugged
and AC/DC’s exhaustive Plug Me In
box set, but this year we’ve got a bunch of single DVDs.
Now, I haven’t seen every concert film released this year, which makes it a little tough. I made a brief list at the bottom of films I haven’t seen that should probably be on the list, but I just stuck to what I saw and liked. Let’s take a gander our list of the Best Concert DVDs of 2008…
While The Police’s performance on this DVD recorded in Buenos Aires is quite good, this release is all about the bonus material. Drummer Stewart Copeland’s son Jordan put together a fantastic 50-minute feature called Better Than Therapy which chronicles the band’s reunion.
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READ ON for the top nine Best Concert DVDs of 2008 including films featuring the Rolling Stones, Rush, Phish and more…
Scorsese proves there are moments where the Stones’ have slowed down in their old age and other moments where they can easily kick Coldplay’s ass. As the first rock band to age before our eyes, Shine a Light, big pay days aside, shows why the Stones have lasted longer than any other rock band.