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Monday, May 14, 2012

Crap / Film Does the World Really Need a Black Keys Documentary Yet (or Ever)?

Posted by on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM

Okay, okay, okay, everybody take a Time Out here. It's official, there are too many white kids running around with expensive video cameras and too much time (money) on their hands.

"A lot of music documentaries spend too much time trying to make people look cool," filmmaker Noah Abrams told Spin. "I'm fortunate enough to know both these guys pretty well and their relationship is pretty incredible and very funny." He says the film will be a "a buddy comedy with perhaps the greatest soundtrack of all time."

Wait, how is something a documentary and a comedy at the same time? Also, when you make people look funny, are you not simultaneously making the look cool? This whole thing has RUINED MY MORNING.

Via SPIN, by way of Pitchfork

 

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biffp 1
Not that there was a word about on Lineout, but they did play an incredible show in Seattle last week.
Posted by biffp on May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM
2
Their newer stuff kind of reinvents the wheel a bit (which is to be expected when you're playing electric blues-rock), but they seem like good dudes who just kept doing their thing and somehow woke up as arena-filling rock stars. It may lack a compelling narrative arc, but it sounds like a watchable documentary. The only thing that separates a band like this from the sea of other blues-rock duos in this town (Hobosexual, Grizzled Mighty, My Goodness) is a couple good hooks, but they shouldn't really be knocked for having written them.
Posted by Hutch on May 14, 2012 at 1:02 PM
LEE. 3
Shouldn't music documentaries seek to kind of encapsulate a seemingly mythical aspect of a band? Not just "oh these guys are fun, maaaaaaaan...". Thank reality TV for this new cultural exaltation of sheer mediocrity.
Posted by LEE. on May 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 4

Have you guys ever heard a Canadian band called "Black Mountain" ?

https://www.facebook.com/BlackMountainOf…

I heard a tune of theirs on the Lysergic Listening channel on Rhapsody last night.

It sounded exactly like a Black Keys riff!!

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on May 14, 2012 at 4:29 PM
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Actually, I think the "buddy comedy" comment kind of saves this project for me. I was not into the idea of a dramatic, epic, "documentary" about the "legend" of the Black Keys. Looking at the Black Keys aesthetic, their videos, etc. I feel like this could just be a dumb, fun, lo-fi movie; like a long form music video. What's wrong with that?
Posted by algorhythm99 on May 14, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 6
What's wrong with it is that you shouldn't go around calling a long-form music video a documentary.
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on May 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM
biffp 7
How many show reviews has this blog about music and Seattle nightlife had in the last year, four or five?
Posted by biffp on May 14, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 8
Do you like baked beans?
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on May 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM
I Heart Flan! 9
The Black Keys are just the White Stripes without Meg Whites hypnotizing bouncy boobs.
Posted by I Heart Flan! on May 15, 2012 at 11:48 AM
biffp 10
I like music, which should be conducive with reading this blog but instead seems entirely at odds with it. fyi, Gawker did 'who would you eat first' a couple weeks before last Friday. geez louise, h/t
Posted by biffp on May 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM
LEE. 11
@5

Help! wasn't a documentary, it was just four guys fucking around in a movie and no one ever made it be anything more...people just should call things what they really are occasionally. if they did that, I doubt people would accuse them of being pretentious overreachers. well, I mean, some would, but no one tight at least.
Posted by LEE. on May 15, 2012 at 5:46 PM
biffp 12
@5, The Monkees.
Posted by biffp on May 15, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 13
Dear biffp,

I'm sorry no one wrote about Black Keys. I'm guessing it's because no one wanted to.

Sincerely,

Me
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on May 16, 2012 at 7:00 AM
biffp 14
Dear Grant,

If you're going to call this a blog about music, then you really have no standing to tell someone that a long-form music is not a documentary. Similarly, a guy who posts pictures of shopping carts in Ravenna can only make hipster jokes in an ironic way.

Paul
Posted by biffp on May 16, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 15
Oh, well that's not very nice. I don't know what "a long-form music" is, but I'm pretty sure it's not a documentary. Can't we just be friends?
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on May 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM
biffp 16
It was a comment about labels, and only if you keep your sense of humor. I secretly love Green Lake Watch.
Posted by biffp on May 16, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 17
Deal. Your avatar rules, btw.
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on May 17, 2012 at 6:57 AM
biffp 18
Continues to crack me up. Apologies for bustin' balls, I was just kidding.
Posted by biffp on May 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM

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