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MusicThatDoesn'tSuck
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This list features honest, authentic, genuine, real folk music of every kind, such as Metal, Punk, Big Band Swing, Blues, Funk, Reggae, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Bluegrass, Bebop, Hardbop, drum & bugle corps, international, indigenous & the classical masters, of course.

It’s frustrating some need links, so it’s nice if you add them.







If you're reading this & are currently feeling like a lost kitten if there's no download to what you want, send me a pm & I'll help. May or may not have it, but it doesn't hurt to private message. I really will share & make a post just for you. In the file SHARING community, hoarders are not rewarded with adverts here. New links with no download option = no clicky for you.






Due to the rarity of availability of actual real music, all other non-corporate sincere world musics that never got equal time in the press, radio, tv, etc are added when found, including films about musicians & music or where music figures into the film in a significant way or is made by a musician. ♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫

There’s not a lot of good stuff to be found. The best is mostly just not available since there are no imdb listings for everything. Yet for what can be found, it’ll be listed.


This list is fun to sort by Date to group musical eras, and by Title too.

It’s important to say what is NOT here just as much as what is: Ergo, if you’re looking for the heartless, soulless, corporate cookie-cutter assembly line formulaic copycat filth assembled on a computer in a board room with “focus group” data for trashy tv shows that can be found all over Westernized media- or the abomination known as 80s Hair Pop, aka False Metal, where they wear their instruments rather than play them- that’s not here.


Authentic Metal of the 80s was Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Sabbath, Venom, Bathory, Kreator, Coroner, Vader, Sodom, Deicide, Slayer, Nuclear Assault, Sacred Reich, Dark Angel, Death Angel, Voivod, Death, C.O.C., Napalm Death, Pentagram, D.R.I. Metallica before Cliff died, etc. And NOTHING that was on radio or mtv- NOT that cheap manufactured Hollywood boyband hairspray crap. Not here.


The only jazz recognized here is SWING- not that bland awful out of tune elevator muzak junk that calls itself jazz by stealing the name- You can call it jazz all you want, that doesn’t make it jazz.


IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING! Artists sought after here are the likes of Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Ziggy Elman, Harry James, Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, Martha Tilton, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Edyth Wright, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Specs Powell, Buddy Rich, Louis Belson, Jo Stafford, Kay Star, Chick Webb, Peggy Lee, Connie Haines, Vic Schoen, The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Dick Stabiel, Paul Whiteman, Jack Teagarden, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Billy Eckstein, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Barnette, Stan Kenton, Charlie Spivak, Les Brown, Johnny Mercer, Xavier Cugat, Glen Grey, Casa Loma… only the true swing masters who invented & perfected authentic jazz… none of their failed pupils who took all the fun out of jazz & bruised it & stole the name. Fact is, all music is about freeing yourself, and all music is identifiable by a rigid discipline that one can freely fly within. The moment it doesn’t sound like that anymore, it isn’t that anymore.


-The music here was born in the garages & sidewalks of the world, not in a Madison Avenue office.


This list is about MUSIC & MUSICIANS who work collaboratively, not self-deluded solo act karaoke singers who have no talent, can’t play an instrument or write their own material, but yet look good ONLY due to the labor of uncredited musicians & market saturation. That’s not music. That’s noise.




Aren't you tired of the bland homogenized cultural treason defecating all over media? Have a GOOD TIME! Choose GOOD MUSIC!



Louis Armstrong said there’s two kinds of music: Good, & then that other stuff.

Music is defined as that which is pleasing to the ear. Noise is that which is not.

This list is for people who like music rather than noise. You're welcome.





A note: Some films have no photo or maybe no synopsis but do indeed have links.

● Contributors cannot magickally have links for everything just because a page for it exists since contributors don’t make the pages. Software does that, not people, since it is mirroring IMDB & TVmaze. Software makes the pages, posts the pics, it does all the work. It’s automated.


ALL PAGES ARE PLACE HOLDERS when created.


● Only later are links placed WHEN POSSIBLE. Some things are very rare & hard to find. If you are unwilling to contribute the link yourself, then you’re out of luck.

Sometimes (but not always) the only accepted link providers for this domain are Archive.org. Vimeo, Dailymotion & the accursed corporate yootoob. If perchance that’s the way it is, then use your search options & good luck to you in finding treasure from the playlists.

This list isn’t a portal to a toobsite. If you dig thase sites, go there. Use their search to find what you want & stay. This list is for actual downloadable movies & tv shows. Videos that cannot be found easily. This list doesn’t exist to generate traffic for invalid sites like that. Care is given that anything listed is connected to a DOWNLOADABLE post.


Toob site link hijacking should be disabled since linking to a toob site will guarantee that posts from a valid DOWNLOAD host will NEVER appear on the front page- preventing fans from knowing when brand new posts are made. It's not rocket science. Linking to toob sites is wrong.

This website is currently accepting link requests, so now’s the time to go to the forum & do that. If links aren’t found here, then DuckDuckGo is your friend. Or try Mojeek. It’s new. It has it’s own bots, so unlike DDG or Brave, it’s not a front-end. It’s a TRUE search engine.

Archive.org is also a good place to dig around for stuff. Playlists like this will have some links, but are also useful as a reference, not unlike IMDB or TVmaze.

✔ Requests are currently accepted in the website forum. Sometimes that isn’t the case which is too bad, but that’s the way it is at times, so it’s best to suck it up & move on.

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Movie: The Gits ( 2008 )
The story of the promising, underground Seattle band, The Gits. Fronted by charismatic vocalist, Mia Zapata, and poised to explode onto the national music scene, a stranger came in and took it all away. A decade later, the legacy lives on.
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Movie: The Beach Boys ( 2024 )
A celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music and created the harmonious sound that personified the California Dream.
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Movie: The Glamour & the Squalor ( 2016 )
The Glamour & The Squalor is the story of Marco Collins, one of America's last great rock radio DJs and a musical tastemaker that changed our culture. Before the Internet made sourcing new music and rising bands a simple matter of keystrokes and RSS feeds, there was the radio DJ. No one epitomized this role like Marco Collins. He was the on and off switch for an artis...Read all
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Movie: Songs for Cassavetes ( 2001 )
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Movie: The Song of Names ( 2019 )
Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.
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Movie: Roadside Prophets ( 1992 )
Two strangers meet on the road and travel through Nevada on motorcycle to find an elusive spot where they can dump another man's ashes.
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Movie: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould ( 2010 )
A documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist.
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Movie: Don't Knock the Rock ( 1956 )
A disc jockey tries to prove to teenagers' parents that rock 'n' roll is harmless and won't turn their kids into juvenile delinquents.
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Movie: Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ( 1929 )
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in ...
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Movie: Mr. Chump ( 1938 )
A small town boy prefers playing the trumpet to working.
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Movie: The Sheik Steps Out ( 1937 )
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Movie: The Doors: R-Evolution ( 2014 )
"R-Evolution" brings together a wealth of rare footage of The Doors. Combining early TV appearances with their own music films, "R-Evolution" illustrates how The Doors evolved from the constraints of late sixties television to a point where they had the creative input and power to shape how they were portrayed on screen. Throughout, the unique charisma and talent of T...Read all
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Movie: GWAR: Tour De Scum ( 1991 )
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Movie: Death Metal ( 2023 )
DEATH METAL is a horror film about a metal band that, while recording their new album, inadvertently write a song so evil that any who hear it fall under a deadly curse.
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Movie: B.B. King: Live at the Royal Albert Hall ( 2012 )
On June 28, 2011, the "King of the Blues" B.B. King played to an adoring sold-out crowd at London's spectacular Royal Albert Hall. It was another unforgettable night in the career of one of the most legendary bluesmen to ever pick up a guitar. Joining the illustrious Mr. King onstage were guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, "songbird extraordinaire" Susan Tedeschi, The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, Simply Red's Mick Hucknall and former Guns N' Roses axeman Slash.
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Movie: Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements ( 2019 )
Moonlight Sonata is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.
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Movie: My Buddha Is Punk ( 2017 )
Kyaw Kyaw, a 25-year-old Burmese Punk, obsessively tries to develop the Punk scene in Myanmar. Although the former military dictatorship has experienced a number of democratic reforms, Kyaw Kyaw remains skeptical. In his view, his country has not changed yet. Together with his Punk band Kyaw Kyaw raises awareness for the continuing violation of human rights. Through his music and demonstrations, he criticizes the on-going civil war and the prosecution of ethnic minorities. He travels through the country to promote his own philosophy among the young generation: A symbiosis of Buddhism and Punk that rejects any religious rules and political doctrine. But while fighting for freedom and preaching for the importance of individual autonomy, he faces the difficulty to remain true to one's own ideals.
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Movie: I Won't Play ( 1944 )
In this Warner Bros. short, a Marine in a South Sea island during World War II, Joe Fingers, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business. He claims to be a piano player and his stories are brought to life in the minds of the boys, especially those that involve a pretty girl. When a piano arrives on the island in a shipment, he refuses to play, convincing the doubters that he's been telling them lies all along. They change their tune however when a Hollywood movie star stops on the island.
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Movie: Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures ( 2003 )
For two years a filmmaker follows the all girl rock band Betty Blowtorch documenting the bands ferocious sound and dangerously low-tech pyrotechnic show, unaware of the turmoil and tragedy that she will ultimately capture.
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Movie: Why Are We Creative: The Centipede's Dilemma ( 2018 )
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"
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Movie: Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues ( 2023 )
The story of Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as told by those who knew them best: brother Jimmie, Eric Clapton, Nile Rodgers, Jackson Browne, Billy Gibbons and their early band mates.
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Movie: Mantra: Sounds into Silence ( 2017 )
A feature-length documentary, exploring the new music and social phenomenon of chanting, that focuses on the everyday people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together with others just like them; it also features the artists who are the focus of this new music-based movement. It's a film about spirituality, not religion, it's about people reconnecting with their true selves and with others.
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Movie: In the Life of Music ( 2020 )
In the Life of Music, a story told in three chapters, tells of how one song 'Champa Battambang,' made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.
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Movie: The Doors - Morrison Hotel ( 2022 )
The members of the Doors revisit the story of "Morrison Hotel", the group's penultimate album, the fruit of a period of happy creativity after the storms of 1969.
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Movie: Jim Morrison: The Wild Child ( 2019 )
Take a dive into the world of acclaimed poet, thinker and quintessential rock star, Jim Morrison. The frontman of arguably the biggest band of the late 1960s, tread a fine line between existence and death throughout his short-lived life. The rebellious rock god and sex symbol of the 1960s paved the way for the future rock stars of today with his vulgar lyrics and outspoken attitude. This documentary takes a look at the life and mysterious death of one of rock's greatest enigmas.
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Movie: The Road of Excess ( 1997 )
Interviews with friends of the late Jim Morrison and several people involved with the making of the film, The Doors (1991), delve into what Morrison meant to everyone including themselves. ...
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Movie: The Doors: Soundstage Performances ( 2002 )
Three different TV appearances ('67-'70) including old interviews, performances and the commentaries about specific songs by band members.
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Movie: A Shot of Whisky ( 2016 )
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Movie: Love Story ( 2006 )
Documentary chronicling the life and times of rock icon Arthur Lee and his seminal rock band Love. The film follows the various incarnations of the band from its debut as one of the more influential groups of the 1960's to the ever changing lineup of the 1970's and the sporadic appearances of the 1980s. The group would be reformed once again in the 1990's and early 2000's having a successful European tour until Arthur fell ill with cancer.
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Movie: Breaking Through the Lens ( 2014 )
"Breaking Through the Lens" is a documentary featured on "The Doors: R-Evolution" (2014) DVD/Blu-Ray video release, which tells the story of the band's growth in front of the cameras, from their early appearances on television variety shows to their masterful use of film as a way to enhance the message of their music. The piece includes insight from Doors members John Densmore, Robby Krieger and the late Ray Manzarek, as well as famed record producer Bruce Botnick and Elektra Records Founder, Jac Holzman.
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Movie: Anti-Nowhere League: We Are the League ( 2018 )
Anti-Nowhere League: We Are The League tells the full uncensored story of how a biker, a skinhead, a grammar school boy and a Persian exile came together, with no musical talent or ambitions and even less respect for anything or anyone, to burst onto the UK charts with their debut single. Even when judged by the often confrontational standards of U.K. punk, the Anti-Nowhere League were a band committed to offending people. Looking less like a group of bohemian rebels than an especially unsavory biker gang eager to stomp someone, the Anti-Nowhere League made an immediate impact when they burst onto the British rock scene in 1980. They were heroes to hard-boiled U.K. punks, and to nearly everyone else they were an affront to all decency - which, of course, made the punks love them all the more.
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Movie: Heaven & Hell: Neon Nights, Live in Europe ( 2010 )
On Thursday July 30th 2009 Heaven and Hell took to the stage at the famous Wacken Festival in Germany as part of the tour in support of their album 'The Devil You Know' , released earlier that year. This video release features Ronnie James Dio's last filmed concert appearance before his death in May 2010.
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Movie: The Doors: Videobiography ( 2007 )
An in-depth study of the music of The Doors.
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Movie: Meeting the Beatles in India ( 2020 )
Director Paul Saltzman returns to India as he reminiscences his time with the Beatles while they were on a spiritual retreat under the mentorship of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968.
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Movie: The Stone Roses: Made of Stone ( 2013 )
Shane Meadows documents the reunion of iconic British band, The Stone Roses.
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Movie: Caught Plastered ( 1931 )
Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.
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Movie: Glastonbury Fayre ( 2022 )
The atmosphere and events of the second Glastonbury Festival, held in 1971.
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Movie: Paradise Road ( 1997 )
A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music as relieve their misery.
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Movie: The Falls ( 1982 )
92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with "Fall."
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Movie: Too Late Blues ( 1962 )
Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.
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Movie: Burroughs: The Movie ( 1984 )
Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style and his wildly unconventional life, including his travels from the American Midwest to North Africa and several personal tragedies. Burrough...Read all
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Movie: The Seventh Veil ( 1946 )
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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Movie: Crescendo ( 1972 )
A young American woman Susan Roberts goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer, staying with his eccentric relatives.
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Movie: Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.
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Movie: Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise ( 2006 )
Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible v...Read all
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Movie: Stevie Nicks: Wild at Heart ( 2020 )
They say great art comes from great tragedy. This couldn't be more true with the songstress of Fleetwood Mac. For decades, she has fronted one of the most successful bands in history, resurrecting them from the ashes. Even with the trials and tribulations of being a member of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie has remained an iconic role model. Staying synonymous with the witchy, ...Read all
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Movie: A Heart in Winter ( 1993 )
Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.
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Movie: Rainbow: In Performance ( 2007 )
This film gives a rare insight into the inner workings of a hard rock band which endured countless line-up changes.
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Movie: The Old Grey Whistle Test Story ( 2007 )
The story of one BBC programme that believed music was a serious business.
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Movie: Shake! Otis at Monterey (Short 1987) ( 1987 )
Documentary on Otis Redding's performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
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Movie: Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music ( 2019 )
A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films - hundreds of them - from King Kong, to Gone with the Wind, to Casablanca and beyond.
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Movie: Karen Dalton: In My Own Time ( 2020 )
A portrait of blues and folk singer Karen Dalton, a prominent figure in 1960s New York, who discarded the traditional trappings of success.
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Movie: Rock & Rule ( 1986 )
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.
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Movie: The Making of Rock & Rule ( 1983 )
Filmmakers and musicians discuss the creation of Rock & Rule (1983).
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Movie: 528 Key Movie ( 2013 )
In 1938-39, the British Standards Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation imposed a musical standard on the world that condemned civilization to physiological distress and spiritual suppression. This imposition was called "Standard Concert Tuning." Increasingly, since then, the agents and agencies who did this have assaulted the environment, compromised public health and safety, and threatened the extinction of humanity, not only petro-chemically, but musically. Most intelligent people realize, at this point in history, the world needs a miracle to get us out of this mess we are in, imposed by global industrialists, affecting everything and everyone on earth. This film heralds the "MIracle 6" note of the original musical scale, otherwise called the "Key of the house of David" (Isaiah 22:22; Rev. 3: 6-8) or "Zion's Key" for global peace and prosperity. It celebrates the "LOVE528 frequency" at the heart of rainbows, sunshine and snowflakes. This extraordinary contribution by award-winning author, filmmaker, and "World Leading Intellectual" activist, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, is history in the making. It fulfills ancient prophesy, exalts creativity in the arts, and corrects and refocuses the sciences. THE 528 LOVE REVOLUTION IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY will impact everything, slowly but surely, eventually; and this feature-length multi-media presentation prepares leaders to take advantage of this monumental opportunity to be "ahead of the curve" in a world of creatively-frozen followers.
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Movie: Orchestra Rehearsal ( 1979 )
An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
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Movie: The Optimists of Nine Elms ( 1973 )
A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life.
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Movie: Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )
In New York City during the Roaring Twenties, would-be flapper Millie Dillmount's self-appointed mission to marry her boss is complicated by white slavers and true love.
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Movie: Beauties of the Night ( 1954 )
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. But in his dreams, he lives in other eras where he is appreciated, lionized, and the conquerer of delicious women (idealized forms of women he's seen in waking life). The dreams are suitably dreamlike, yet have a kind of reality, for he revisits them after waking. The conflict between waking and dream worlds leads to amusing, strange, even fantastic situations. Which world will prevail?
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Movie: Long Strange Trip ( 2017 )
A look at the 30-year career of The Grateful Dead.
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Movie: Intimate Lighting ( 1965 )
One of the most important images of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. Feature debut screenwriter and director Ivan Passer is currently his only feature-length film, which was shot in Czechoslovakia. In this original sad comedy in a small town after ten years encounter two classmates - musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, the other made it to the director of local music school puts family villa, playing at funerals ...
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Movie: The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir ( 2015 )
A documentary that explores Bob Weirs life, through the Grateful Dead, Ratdog, and his childhood.
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Movie: A Wild Hare (Short 1940) ( 1940 )
While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
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Movie: Sally Swing (Short 1938) ( 1938 )
Betty Boop, auditioning bandleaders for a college swing dance, "discovers" a cleaning woman who resembles Betty Grable.
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Movie: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B' (Short 1941) ( 1941 )
Hot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he's assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp. Sure enough, on his first day, Harry gets pelted with everything imaginable. He lands against a wall, where his trump...Read all
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Movie: The Saddest Music in the World ( 2005 )
A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
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TV Show: Mozart: Rise of a Genius ( 2024 )
Child prodigy, flawed human, musical giant. Letters, manuscripts and performances reveal the making of a man who created some of the world's most magnificent music.
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Movie: Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin ( 2018 )
Grammy-winning singer Loudon Wainwright III reflects upon his unique relationship with his father in an evening of original songs and heartfelt stories.
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Movie: Sound It Out ( 2011 )
SOUND IT OUT is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, in the North East of England. Starring Tom, Kelly, David, Daniel, 70,000 records and the good people of Teesside. A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, obsession and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. High Fidelity with a Northern Accent. Got any Makina ?
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Movie: Deep Blues ( 1995 )
Music critic Robert Palmer narrates the insightful story of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues.
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Movie: Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq ( 2013 )
A mesmerizing portrait of legendary ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq - muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins - whose career was cut short by polio at the age of 27.
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Movie: Vaudeville (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
A cute gal carrying a title card announces each of four acts. The six-member Honey family - three women and three men - perform acrobatics. Reece and Dunn sing a ballad in harmony with piano accompaniment. The Stepping Stars - four women and a man - do a tap dance on stairs that are a giant xylophone. The short concludes with the headliner, Herb Williams, a comedian who first has a contretemps with the orchestra conductor, then, while promising to do a solo standing on his head, engages a trick piano. That's entertainment.
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Movie: An All-Colored Vaudeville Show ( 1935 )
Black vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a group of acrobats; and The Five Racketeers, a band that initially backs up Eunice Wilson and then sings "Tiger Rag".
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Movie: King of Burlesque ( 1936 )
Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
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Movie: Burlesque in Hawaii ( 1952 )
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Movie: Hollywood Burlesque ( 1949 )
Singers, dancers, comics, and striptease artists take the stage of San Diego's Hollywood Theatre for an actual filmed performance.
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Movie: The Song Writers' Revue (Short 1929) ( 1930 )
This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music. For the complete list of songs performed, check the soundtrack listing. For several of these song writers, this is their only known appearance in a theatrically released film.
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Movie: Bolero ( 1981 )
Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert
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Movie: Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones ( 2015 )
Biography of iconic rock balladeer Roy Orbison, told through his own words.
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Movie: The Firebird ( 2002 )
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Movie: Hit Parade of 1951 ( 1950 )
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Movie: St. Louis Blues ( 1929 )
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
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Movie: Street Girl ( 1929 )
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
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Movie: Dance, Girl, Dance ( 1940 )
When a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
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Movie: Higher and Higher ( 1944 )
With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...
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Movie: Step Lively ( 1945 )
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is producing, arrives. But it turns out Russell can sing like Sinatra, and Miller has leading lady Christine turn on the charm. Can Miller's crazed machinations save the show?
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Movie: Syncopation ( 1929 )
This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.
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Movie: Jazz Heaven ( 1929 )
A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley
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Movie: Dance Hall ( 1929 )
Tommy Flynn (Arthur Lake), a mild-mannered shipping clerk, attempts to dance his way into the heart of Gracie Nolan (Olive Borden), a dance-hall taxi-dancer, but he is thwarted by Ted Smith (Ralph Ererson), a dashing, caddish stunt pilot, who swoops in and plucks the delectable damsel away. Not for long, however, since time proves the aviator unworthy, and Tommy and Gracie are cemented together as dancing partners for life.
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Movie: Hit the Deck ( 1930 )
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Movie: The Beatles: Let It Be ( 1970 )
Filmed on 31 January 1969, at Apple Studio. Footage used in the film Let It Be.
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Movie: Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All ( 2014 )
Long before punk rock inflicted its puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were in a van brewing a potent mix of pop, angst, love and coffee and influencing a generation to come. FILMAGE: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL follows drummer and square-peg Bill Stevenson as he pushes himself and a rotating door of band-mates to "achieve ALL," his relentless concept of "going for greatness, the utmost possible" despite any and all setbacks. Interviews with the band and contemporaries such as Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), Mark Hoppus (Blink-182), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) and many more reveal the untold tale of one of the most overachieving and influential bands in punk, serving as a reminder to always "go for greatness," because sometimes you're gonna get it.
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Movie: The Who, the Mods and the Quadrophenia Connection ( 2009 )
This film explains the complicated and misunderstood connections between the Mod movement - which had guaranteed The Who's early success - and the Pete Townsend composed musical depiction of that movement, Quadrophenia. Using recently unearthed archive footage from the early movement, rarely seen performance and interview footage of The Who, plus expert contributions ...Read all
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