Having bought my cheap DVD player add on to my MacBook Air I have been exploring a large box of music DVDs in the attic that I haven’t watched in years.
I started with what on here have been seen as amongst the best and in the last two (work) days I have managed to watch the 25th anniversary of The Band Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads.
Both excellent as I remembered them from 15+ years ago when I last watched them.
I have the long Tom Petty documentary set up next.
Any recommendations for cheap music DVDs not available in any other form greatly appreciated. Didn’t think I would be saying that in 2020!
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Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii is one of my favourites.
A Floyd evening this Saturday on Sky Arts (Freeview 11) including the above and also the new Waters Us and Them film, a week before its general release.
I’m looking forward to Us & Them. All the clips I’ve seen on YouTube look fantastic. Especially the Animals songs.
Yes, me too – not sure if it will be the full release or an edited version though – hoping for the full show!
By the way, the restored, re-edited, remixed Delicate Sound of Thunder show that was included in last year’s Later Years box gets a standalone release in November in various configurations of cd, vinyl, dvd and bluray, and restores the songs omitted from the original release.
The new David Byrne is spectacular. Or rather, Spike-tacular (har de har)
Um ….
Ashes of American Flags – Wilco
Live in Barcelona- Bruce Springsteen and the E St Band
Live Rust – Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Rockshow – Paul McCartney and Wings
A Reality Tour – David Bowie
Stripped – Rolling Stones
As I mentioned elsewhere prince’s Sign o the Times is only £1.99 on iTunes.
I’ve been playing that and Stop Making Sense last two days while “working”.
The Zep live set is good, and I have a good AC/DC one – it’s Brian, but it’s great.
New Order, Pet Shop Boys and DEVO are my top 3 music video collections. The Jam have a good part live tv part videos set too. And REM road movie is a great document of them at the top.
I’m rather partial to NO’s 3:16 DVD, which includes most of their magnificent Reading Festival ‘comback’ from 1998.
And Live In Glasgow is a bumper double DVD set – one from 2006, one packed with old and rare stuff.
I prefer REM’s ‘Tourfilm’ from the Green tour.
Suede have done three damn good ones – Love & Poison (feat. Bernard) Introducing the Band (the 1994 tour with the 17-year old Oakes) and the 2010 reunion at Th’Albert Hall.
Cerebellum-tastic!
I saw them at the Oxford Apollo on that 1994 tour and they were flipping great.
Yep. I wasn’t even particularly a fan but somehow saw them twice in 1994, including at young Oakes’ first gig, and they were glorious.
Another rather spiffy show’s just been made available – the Roundhouse in 1996, therefore featuring young master Codling looking, it has to be said, rather gorgeous. That was the peak of their coolth.
The Albert Hall one is currently on YouTube – posted officially by the band…….
Costello’s Detour (on the tax dodger’s site) is one I enjoyed, this may be subjective as I’m a fan. Also, maybe more so, EC and Allen Toussaint’s joint set Keen As A Pistol, Sharp As A blade, which has some really cooking moments.
My first recommendation would be Sex Pistols There’ll Always Be An England at Brixton Academy.
But many many people here would disagree with me.
Recommendation #2 is Marillion Utrecht 1985. The bulk of the show is Misplaced Chilhood, but I think that’s only available in the box set from a couple of years ago.
First saw The Last Waltz 20-odd years ago, and I was fairly unimpressed.
Saw it again a couple of years ago – I was very wrong, it is a brilliant show.
Feats First – The Life and Music of Lowell George
Flawed (not much input from the other Feats, not enough playing) but fascinating insights all the same.
Bit steep at £15 or thereabouts, maybe. Not sure if that counts as cheap or extortionate. I only have a dozen or so music DVDs, carefully chosen, as I prefer to just listen to recorded music, unbound to a moving image, so maybe I’m not a good judge. I like having this one though, so perhaps you’d also appreciate it.
But as far as vfm goes, a Lowell kind of guy would find it a worthwhile purchase. Civilians probably wouldn’t choose to invest.
There’s a decent Feat concert DVD too, called Skin It Back. Appears on Dodgers from time to time.
Yeah, I’ve got that. There’s a nice version of “Fat Man In The Bathtub” on it!
I was going to recommend the Concert for George as it’s a concert video I have watched no end of times – it is a pure joy, and the finale always brings a lump to my throat. I say ‘was’ because I’ve just checked the availabilty and it’s suddenly not cheap at all. The best value is the 4 disc (2cd + 2 Blu Ray) at around £35. It’s even pricey on eBay.
I have that on DVD so will go and dig it out for next week when I am working.
There’s a good DVD of the ARMS benefit for Ronnie Lane with Jeff Beck, Clapton, Steve Winwood etc which is worth looking out. In fact the Clapton/Winwood Madison Square Gardens concert is good too.
Plus of course RT live….
David Bowie – A Reality Tour is on Sky Arts next Friday 11pm, followed by Floyd – PULSE and Rog – Us + Them.
Reality Tour is the best Bowie concert film in existence. The best live album too. Yep, I said it.
You’re right, Moose. Although we haven’t seen and never will see complete footage of the Diamond Dogs/Philly Dogs and Isolar tours, of course.
Reality Tour partly has the advantage over the Isolar shows not because the band is better, because it isn’t*, but because some of the material – Heathen, Disco King etc that didn’t exist earlier.
Mind you, Isolar II does have the advantage in trouser-acreage.
(*though there’s not much in it)