News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

Best movies based on a music album

Started by celedhring, June 21, 2023, 06:23:19 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

What are the best movies based on music albums? (you can pick 3)

Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975), based on the album by The Who
3 (18.8%)
The Wall (Alan Parker, 1982), based on the album by Pink Floyd
3 (18.8%)
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979), based on the album by The Who
4 (25%)
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984), based on the album by Prince
2 (12.5%)
True Stories (David Byrne, 1986), based on the album by Talking Heads
2 (12.5%)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison, 1973), based on the album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
7 (43.8%)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964), based on the album by The Beatles
2 (12.5%)
Help! (Richard Lester, 1965), based on the album by The Beatles
1 (6.3%)
Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles, 1967), based on the album by The Beatles
0 (0%)
Moonwalker (1988), based on the album "Bad" by Michael Jackson
1 (6.3%)
God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch, 2014), based on the album by Belle & Sebastian
0 (0%)
Other (name it)
2 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 16

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: celedhring on June 26, 2023, 11:55:48 AMHad no idea that song came from an Italian exploitation film  :lol:

A particularly sensationalist mondo at that.  :D
Goes with the genre but it went above and beyond the call of duty.


grumbler

Quote from: Syt on June 26, 2023, 11:40:43 AMAs for songs more famous than the movie they appeared in, few will top this novelty song for me, from "Sweden: Heaven and Hell" (1968).

I will never again look at a Benny Hill video the same.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Syt

For me it featured prominently on Sesame Street in the early 80s. -_-
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.