The best Chris Stein’s music movies
Today we present the best Chris Stein’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Chris Stein’s movies.
Bad Reputation
7.3/10
The life and career of rock n' roll icon Joan Jett from her early years ripping it up onstage as the founder and backbone of hard-rock legends The Runaways, to her long time collaboration with Kenny Laguna as Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock pioneer and mentor. With her inimitable singles "I Love Rock n Roll," and "Bad Reputation" Joan Jett inspired a generation of young women to rock.
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
7.9/10
A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all members of the band's various lineups, and new interviews with a number of their contemporaries, the film traces the peaks and valleys the band experienced over the course of its 20-plus year career before disbanding in 1995.
Roadie
5.3/10
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
Downtown '81
6.9/10
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Blondie's New York and the Making of Parallel Lines
7.1/10
The story behind Blondie's album Parallel Lines, which sold 16 million copies and captured the spirit of 1970s New York at a time of poverty, crime and an exploding artistic life.
The Blank Generation
6.3/10
The cream of New York new wave/punk filmed live at CBGB's when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
6.9/10
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
Blondie: One Way or Another
7.7/10
A documentary about New York band Blondie, from their early beginnings in Bowery clubs like CBGBs alongside other up and coming bands like The Ramones, Patti Smith & Talking Heads. The documentary tracks their years of international success, through their internal problems and decline and then to their recovery and re-establishment leading to their being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 - an event that wasn't without its problems. Lots of interviews with band members, past and present, and their friends and contemporaries. Lots of clips of them performing through the years.
Eat to the Beat
7.9/10
Blondie's first video album was produced in conjunction with the record "Eat to the Beat", featuring a music video for each of the album's twelve songs. It was the first such project in rock music. Most of the songs were filmed in and around New York, the exception was the "Union City Blue" music video, which was filmed at Union Dry Dock, Weehawken, New Jersey. Each video was directed by David Mallet and produced by Paul Flattery. The video was initially available as a promotional VHS in 1979 and subsequently released on videocassette and videodisk in October 1980.
Blondie - Live at the Convention Hall
Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ - July 7, 1979 (Late Show). Professionally show by the venue in black & white, this visual document from the EAT TO THE BEAT tour surfaced in 2014. This is actually the 2nd of two performances that Blondie gave at the venue on the same day. Set List: Dreaming, One Way Or Another, Hanging On The Telephone, Look Good In Blue, Youth Nabbed As Sniper, Pretty Baby, Slow Motion, Sunday Girl, In The Flesh, Man Overboard, - Heart Of Glass, 11:59, Rip Her To Shreds, In The Sun, Bang A Gong (Get It On).
From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop
A deep exploration into the historical, cultural, political and musical elements that created the genre, featuring present-day conversations with music legends.
25 Years of Punk
7.5/10
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's. A collaboration between VH1 and Spin magazine.
Blondie Greatest Video Hits
8.2/10
1)In The Flesh 2)X Offender 3)Denis 4)Detroit 442 5)(I'm Always Touched By Your)Presence,Dear 6)Picture This 7)Hanging On The Telephone 8)Heart Of Glass 9)Dreaming 10)Union City Blue 11)Atomic 12)The Tide Is High 13)Rapture 14)The Hardest Part 15)Island Of Lost Souls 16)Maria
Blondie: Live in New York
7.8/10
Songs Include: Dreaming, Maria, Rip Her To Shreds, Hanging On The Telephone, Call Me, X Offender, Screaming Skin, Boom Boom In The Zoom Zoom Room, Atomic, Forgive and Forget, One Way Or Another, Shayla/Union City Blue, In The Flesh, Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Rapture Bonus Music Video: Nothing Is Real But The Girl Lyrics & Photos Up To 45 Minutes OF Footage Not Seen On The VH-1 Special
Blondie: Live at Soundstage
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Blondie is still putting out new music and rocking out for fans everywhere! Debbie Harry and her band bring their eclectic mix of pop, rock and punk sounds to Soundstage, performing hits such as 'The Tide is High,' 'One Way or Another,' and 'Heart of Glass' in an electrifying concert audiences are sure to love!
Blondie in Concert
8.4/10
The Apollo Theater, Glasgow, Scotland - December 31, 1979. This concert video was originally broadcast live by the BBC on the OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST program. It was the 2nd night they'd played at The Apollo, with the first serving as a warmup. Only the second half of this show was broadcast, minus a few encores. Set List: Dreaming, Slow Motion, (Commercial Break), Shayla, Union City Blue, (Commercial Break), Atomic, Picture This, Pretty Baby, (Commercial Break), Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone, Sunday Girl, (Commercial Break), Heart of Glass (Promo).
