Best movies based on a music album

[Josquius]

I honestly don't think I've ever seen any of these.

[Sheilbh]

Tommy (the movie) is not great but it's fun and over the top. I mean, it's a Ken Russell film 

Yes. I still want Warner to release the uncut/director's cut of The Devils (which they have ). Oddly at university I had a friend whose mum was mates with Ken Russell and one of the nuns

[Josephus]

Speaking of Oliver Reed, I was in Malta recently and in Valletta there is a little bar that is a tourist attraction now because that's where Reed suffered a heart attack and died after getting into a drinking contest with British navy men during the filming of Gladiator.

[grumbler]

Jesus Christ, Superstar (the movie) is based on the Broadway rock opera of the same name.  The album was just the lyrics  of that same play, though it was released first to get the backing needed to stage the play.

The movie was, by all accounts, the best version of the three.

[Tonitrus]

This thread needs Kenny Rogers' The Gambler films. 

[Admiral Yi]

I once heard a rumor that the lead singer of Twisted Sister played Jesus in the stage version of JSC.

[Josephus]

I once heard a rumor that the lead singer of Twisted Sister played Jesus in the stage version of JSC.

Wouldn't surprise me.

I saw the dude from Kiss in Phantom of the Opera

[mongers]

'Flash Gordon' is almost in the film influenced by a music album category, because I swear some of the campiness of the soundtrack bled into the film somehow, even though I assume the filming started well before Queen worked on the soundtrack?

Anyway, without that soundtrack/album, it would have been a much duller film.

Or maybe there should be a thrad/category for films made by the soundtrack music?

[Duque de Bragança]

Good idea mongers.

[Syt]

Or maybe there should be a thrad/category for films made by the soundtrack music?

Velvet Goldmine would definitely be part of that list.

[celedhring]

Or maybe there should be a thrad/category for films made by the soundtrack music?

Velvet Goldmine would definitely be part of that list.

I think that film is actually hurt for not having been able to secure Bowie songs, though.

(the ones they came up with instead are great, but being a faux Bowie biopic, it needed Bowie songs).

[celedhring]

I think the quintessential "nobody would remember this movie if it wasn't for the soundtrack" is probably The Bodyguard.

Another entry could be Singles? I have a soft spot for it because I was squarely in the target audience when it came out in the 1990s, but it's a forgettable movie without all the artist cameos and the soundtrack.

[grumbler]

"Cat People" wouldn't be much remembered except for the soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder.

[Syt]

As for songs more famous than the movie they appeared in, few will top this novelty song for me, from "Sweden: Heaven and Hell" (1968).

(Video is SFW)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden:_Heaven_and_Hell

[celedhring]

Had no idea that song came from an Italian exploitation film