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Watchenings - Music Docs

This is a time killer but a good one.

Here are some music documentaries on YouTube that I’ve enjoyed. There are some serious gaps in my education but I’m still looking. If you know of any other good music documentaries please comment and let me and others know.

Hype! (this is on the phenomenon of grunge music in the PNW, sorry about the Spanish subtitles. It’s good at tracing how disillusioned a musical movement can become when it burns out and becomes “corporatized”)

Freestyle (about freestyle rap, some of this is dumb white boy crap but quite a bit is illuminating)

Extreme Metal (self-explanatory, Banger TV produces good content on the world of metal)

Synth Britannia (the role of the synthesizer in music mostly from the UK in the 80s)

Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth (Trash Theory, who produced this video, makes excellent explanatory videos about music of the last forty years or so, the threads and influences, how certain bands came to be and what their significance is)

James Chance - Sax Maniac (couldn’t find a good doc on no wave, and this isn’t exactly that, but this is from the movie Downtown ‘81 featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat who you see here at the beginning and following a woman into a club. James Chance isn’t a revelation on the saxophone but it seemed to be part of the “jazz punk art” vibe, take a listen)

Return to the Mind (3 hr trip hop-illbient mix)

Riko Dan - Woo Freestyle