Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: FTF035
- Format: LP
- UPC: 082354254124
- Street Date: 08/14/15
- PreBook Date: 07/10/15
- Label: Factory 25 »
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Run Time: 91 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2012
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
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Jay Reatard - Better Than Something: Jay Reatard Dvd/vinyl/book
Jay Reatard tell his own story: a poverty-stricken childhood to his short-lived adulthood of relentless productivity.
- List Price: $35.99
- Your Price: $35.99
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For Jimmy Lee Lindsay, known to his fans and detractors as Jay Reatard, life was a race against time. After growing up fast among Memphis crack addicts, he managed to blaze a path through the rough-and-tumble underground rock scene of the early aughts, releasing over 100 singles, EPs and full-length records in fourteen years. Then on January 13, 2010, not yet 30, he died. With their feature documentary Better Than Something, filmmakers Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz let Jay tell his own story: a poverty-stricken childhood, teen years spent as a two-fisted tunesmith battling fans and band mates alike, and a short-lived adulthood of focused and relentless productivity. Jay said "I just try to make as much as I can with the time that I have." By any measure, that is exactly what he did. Better Than Something is both a testament to Jay Reatard's indisputable legacy and a tribute to his vital, thrilling, and all-too-brief life.
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Bonus Materials
- A 14 track LP on vinyl of Jay Reatard rarities including 13 unreleased songs on Blood Red or True Black VINYL.
- 50 page 12' book with essays by TV Smith (Adverts), Cole Alexander (Black Lips), King Khan, Alicja Trout, and more... Includes an unreleased interview with Jay Reatard, and never before seen photos.
- 20 minutes of additional interviews of Jay Reatard and friends
Sales Points
- Music by: Jay Reatard, Lost Sounds, Destruction Unit, Reatards and Oblivians
Press Quotes
Does a remarkable job of capturing Reatard's complicated, conflicted, and often prickly persona.
—Mike Rubin, Spin
Remarkably candid and eerily prescient.
—Eddie Cockrell, Variety
Riveting, sad, and inspiring, Better Than Something is the best rock documentary of 2011
—Steven Hyden, AV Club
Like the longhair with the foghorn falsetto it's titled after, this unfussy rock-doc profile is shaggy, sophisticated, and more than a little sad.
—Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice
A sad, exhilarating, and ultimately inspiring documentary about a complicated young man whose life ended just as he appeared to be overcoming his demons.
—IFC.com
