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: As ultimately a live DVD is a live album plus
: visual. I mean I heard you name check the
: bridge to babylon tour DVD positively so why
: not just review it?
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: I mean if an obstacle in reviewing DVD is
: that it's beyond the scope to review the
: visuals such as camera work or visual
: performance skills from an artist then a way
: to solve it is to simply rip the DVD into
: audio file and treat it as a live album and
: only review it from the context of the audio
: only. So there really is no reason why to
: snub it especially considering your love for
: live album in general
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: Also you mention that you want a 2cd life
: retrospective of Sparks with full band. Well
: why not just listen to the Sparks Dee Vee
: Dee. While they do play the entire Hello
: young lovers for the first act. There's a
: second set where it's basically the best of
: 70's Sparks with a full band plus A two hand
: one mouth version of change and a reprise of
: dick around. That's a perfectly good
: substitute for a live album.
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: Also when you get into U2 I can't imagine
: how it is possible to accurately assess U2
: as a live artist without reviewing Under The
: Blood Red sky DVD. The Cd is completely
: worthless due to a) incomplete setlist b)
: taking performance from different concert c)
: reducing the distortion from The Edge guitar
: to make the album "more
: commercial"
:
: The DVD however captures the Red Rick live
: performance that defined U2 as a live artist
: (if that was a double album I would say it's
: U2 best album and give it a hex D).
: Reviewing U2 without reviewing the DVD is
: like reviewing The Who without reviewing
: Live At Leeds as you are ignoring a core
: part of their legacy.
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