music dvds.

Me kids (5 and 3) love it, spesh the Zodiac Mindwarp...

If you like Bjork, the 'Live at the Royal Opera House' is fantastic, all the Matmos beeps and blips spinning round in gorgeous 5.1! By far my favourite music DVD.

Others I have and like...the Fugazi DVD, don't find myself coming back to it, but if i'm in a 'Fuck the System' mood its all good.

The Pavement DVD is nice, good value for money, 2 concerts, all the videos and a big documentary.

Want to get the 'Mesh' DVD with stuff from the Anticon/cLOUDDED people, just to see what they're like live, anyone seen it?

I'll check out that Bjork disc, that sounds great! I'm curious about the new Live Box that she released, that includes her Debut-era appearance on MTV Unplugged - I've heard that's really cool.

Scratch. You'll never EVER look at turntabling again the same way after seeing this. It's fun, funny, invigorating, inspiring, and just an astounding musical documentary. Very good stuff. Some of the main playas: Afrika Bambata, Rob Swift, Q-Bert, Mix Master Mike, Babu, Z-Trip, many many more.

Genghis Blues. Blind American blues musician teaches himself Tuvan throat singing, travels to Tuva, performs in a competition, the cinematography is mind-numbingly brilliant, the music is gorgeous, the movie has laughs and drama and surprises. Main playas: Paul Pena, Kongar Ol' Ondar.

I also highly recommend the Portishead, Cure, and Bjork live discs mentioned above. Especially that Bjork one.

Of course, you'll be getting the Pulp Hits DVD won't you?

That new SNL compilation disc. It's got a couple good things and tons upon tons of piffle nothing shit, and leaves off some of the most awesome performers ever. I mean, for fuck's sake, Miles Davis performed SEVEN times on SNL; nowhere to be seen on this wank rot.

BBC Later... series (Later with Jools)

The Band - The Last Dance
The Residents - Icky Flix
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Tom Waits - Big Time (if you can find it!)
Woodstock

I've also heard good things about these but I haven't got / seen them myself (yet!):

Bob Dylan – Don’t Look Back
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter

I for certain would have bought a copy.

In short (and I think there's a thread somewhere about it), DVD audio and Super-Audio CD are two new formats that have higher sound quality than a regular CD and support 5.1 mixes. They haven't caught on too widely yet but most record stores seem to carry a few dozen titles in each format - stuff like The Eagles' Greatest Hits and Dark Side of the Moon.

DVD Audio requires a special player - your regular DVD player won't support it - although there are also people who ship regular audio programs on the standard DVD format, so that they can deliver five hours of continuous music (Morton Feldman's String Quartet II is available on a DVD).

I can only imagine that would be a licensing nightmare. Does anyone remember when they started putting the Beavis and Butthead episodes out on tape, but they had to cut out all the videos? (And if you got the Beavis and Butthead calendar - and I'm not saying anything, but if you got it, they took the Metallica and AC/DC names off their t-shirts.)

But Spike Jonez is supposed to have a DVD coming out with his best videos, and that'll be a good time.

Also, the Pet Shop Boys are about to release some 6 hour extravaganza of all their videos.

On my wishlist are a New Order promos compilation and a Creation records comp.

any updates here?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000GCFYOY/202-5035876-6810234?v=glance&n=283926

also RFI Wattstax?

The funny thing is, I bought the Pink Floyd at Pompei DVD at the same time as Space Is The Place. The Pink Floyd one is also a director's cut that is just as sucky as the Sun Ra one, but Pink Floyd made the wise decision to include the original (superior) version as well, making it a much more worthwhile disc.

wow, i had no idea about that. i've only seen it on dvd. i thought the blaxploitation aspects were way over-the-top (and ultimately racist), and couldn't understand why ra would sign off on such a project.

a joyful noise is the sun ra dvd to get if yer getting only one. great performances, useful, if sketchy, background info.

The Flaming Lips remastered The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi in 5.1 DD.

Beastie Boys Anthology is a Criterion release with some of the videos in a multi-angle and remix format.

I definitely second the SFA Rings Around The World. Phantom Planet has a DVD 5.1 DTS remaster for the album, but the videos are only in DD.

I also really like the Storefront Hitchcock concert movie Demme did.

I'm reviving in case anything good has been recently released on the music dvd front.

Also, I'd like to add

My Morning Jacket, Okonokos
The Pixies, QUIET loud QUIET
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, specifically Otis Redding's performance on disc 2.
Lomax the Songhunter

how are the NIRVANA 'unplugged' extras? are they as good as the you tube extras of them sat about bored while kurt reads a book?