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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2010)
A must see documentary for all fans of punk, ska and funk.
You don't have to be a Fishbone fan to appreciate this documentary, you just have to love music and people and magic and life. The story of these beautiful, brilliant, clever and funny boys finding each other and going on to create such incredible, groundbreaking and enduring music is wonderful and heart-warming. It gives you faith. The way this film shows the joys and strains of friendships and personalities as they grow and change within a long-running band is just brilliant. On top of that you feel the artistic struggles of integrity versus compromise, and the cruel industry that so often packages for the masses at the expense of creative genius. We've never seen a better music documentary. You come away loving the people and caring about them really deeply. And you hear their music and have to buy the albums. Brilliant! This is a sensitive, poignant, highly charged, yet incredibly touching snapshot of a really brilliant and beautiful bunch of guys. The film is funny, moving, painful, entertaining
. It's hard for a non-filmmaker to explain why this film works so well: It's just so honest and so 'real'. It's cleverly crafted, with brilliant scene-setting cartoons, and as the story unfolds you don't feel the joins as the ages pass or the people come and go; there's nothing clunky, staged or forced, you just get caught up in the love, the journey, the genuineness of the people, and the fun and passion of the music.