What are your favorite concert DVD's??

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Zeppelin's "How the West was won" is amazing

― meister, Friday, 4 November 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BI1YUG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I know....shocker! But, i was at this gig as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean audio DVD's? (How The West Was Won was released as an audio CD and DVD, the double DVD they released in 2003 was called "DVD")

If you meant just regular video DVDs:

Portishead - Roseland New York
Underworld - Everything, Everything
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Pixies - Sell Out
John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season
The Cure - Trilogy
Nine Inch Nails - Woodstock 1994 (bootleg)
Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin
Muse - Glastonbury 2004 (bootleg)
and about 2/3rds of the Metallica - Binge & Purge thing

(sadly disappointed because I'm a big fan of these bands but the DVDs aren't all that great: Butthole Surfers - Blind Eye Sees All, The Cramps - Live at Napa State Mental Hospital, Ramones - We're Outta Here (high hopes for this one, though. with all the remaining It's Alive footage!)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Can DVD (just for the Free Concert film)
Wire on the Box
Incredible String Band Be Glad for the Song has no ending
(It's not a straight concert film, though)

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

PEARL JAM - LIVE AT THE MSG
LED ZEPPELIN - DVD
AUDIOSLAVE - LIVE IN CUBA

― shox, Friday, 4 November 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis, Miles Electric: A Different Kind Of Blue, because the music (live at the Isle of Wight 1970) has never been released on CD.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I assume we're talking about legit. releases only?

The Damned - Eternal Damnation / Tiki Nightmare
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Brian Wilson - SMiLE

Haven't watched The Pixies - Sell Out yet, is it good? Some of the reviews I've read have suggested otherwise!

I wish there was a video of Killing Joke around '81 / '82.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Haven't watched The Pixies - Sell Out yet, is it good?

Very. They may not be much to look at (they never were, live), but the versions of these 28 (main show) + 15 (extra) tracks are very impressively played/sung, much better than during their first life.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Front 242 - Catch The Men is very nice as well (and I wuz dere!)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

WigStock

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

New Order - Taras Shevchenko

The Portishead live dvd is almost a definitive document.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps, the concert film

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
Bjork MTV Unplugged

(does Live at Pompeii count as a concert film???

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

― wb, Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I've heard people suggest that Stop Making Sense is somewhow contrived before - but I actually saw Talking Heads on that tour (at Wembley Arena) and the video / DVD is pretty much exactly how I remember the live perfomance. Even the transitions between line-ups / when they bring additional instruments / musicians on, which you might reasonably expect to have taken a few minutes, actually occurred seamlessly.

As with many live concert videos (and indeed albums) 'though, I do think it makes a huge difference if you were actually there when it was recorded (witness probably my two Damned nominations) or maybe witnessed something very similar on the same tour (witness probably my Talking Heads and Brian Wilson nominations).

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― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm partial to "Storefront Hitchcock" - Demme does a good job combining the intimacy of a typical Robyn solo show with some wonderful (if hackneyed) staged bits like the lightbulb sequence.

Enjoyable and low-key.

― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Saturday, 5 November 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I really love the Band's 'The Last Waltz' DVD, although I'm prone to skipping over a couple of the songs, Van/Paul Butterfield/Muddy Waters. The Scorcese/Robertson commentary is quite illuminuating in places and the music sounds fantastic.

― mzui (mzui), Sunday, 6 November 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

without any hesitation, Underworld Everything Everything

― Arnault (arc73hk), Sunday, 6 November 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

yep, Everything Everything

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

"taras" seconded. also this work of wonder, which i was watching earlier today and boggling at once again:

http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/LTM2429F.GIF

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Morrissey - "Who put the M in Manchester?"

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 27 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Love - Forever Changes concert

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

if i'm honest - Showgirl - Kylie

such a great full on proper show.

fantastic.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

This is rather jolly:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000ANVNGW.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Infinitely better than the TV coverage of the main UK Live 8 event anyway.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Also definitely worth checking out:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006CJP0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

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