I Need That Record! vs McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.5/10 for I Need That Record!). I Need That Record! is the shorter watch at 1h 17m compared with 1h 30m. I Need That Record! is the older of the two (2008 against 2026). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Need That Record! posterI Need That Record!2008 VS McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass posterMcCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass2026
I Need That Record!McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.4/10
Year20082026
Length1h 17m1h 30m
GenresDocumentary, MusicDocumentary, Music
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorBrendan TollerArthur Cary
Main castNoam Chomsky, Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Chris Frantz, Bob GruenPaul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Mike McGear, Klaus Voormann

Synopsis

I Need That Record!

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media…

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass

For over fifty years, the disappearance of Paul McCartney’s original Höfner bass has been one of rock ‘n’ roll’s enduring mysteries. The Hunt for the Lost Bass tells the extraordinary story of this iconic instrument, and the fan powered quest to find it.

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