Bob Marley and the Wailers Live at the Rainbow (1977) Review

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(More customer reviews)So it falls to me to review this first? This June 1977 concert at London's Rainbow Theater captures the recently reconfigured Wailers ending a European tour to promote the masterful 'Exodus' album. The rare videotaped performances of 'Trenchtown Rock' and 'Rebel Music', and 'Crazy Baldhead', dating from the earlier Wailers repertoire, and performed wonderfully well here, are the treasures of this collection, however. Missed notes on some songs, including the beginning of 'Exodus', and guitarist Junior Marvin's failure to notice his boss Bob about to start singing 'Lively Up Yourself', are minor annoyances, as is the loss of Aston Barrett's famous distinctive bass line in 'No More Trouble', jettisoned in favor of a 'new', harder sound (surely a reaction to the exciting energy of London's 'new wave' summer of 1977). By the way, it always annoyed me that the front cover picture on the VHS and now the DVD editions is most definitely not from this 1977 show, but rather is the same photo that graces the 1975 Live at the Lyceum album. I wish those responsible would show some commitment to historical accuracy, and use a photo from the actual show in '77. The DVD sound and picture are good, considering the age of the videotape source. I purchased my DVD copy of 'Live at the Rainbow' from Amazon France, and it includes an accompanying DVD entitled 'Carribbean Nights', which is an informative and enjoyable look at Marley's life and times. While 'Caribbean Nights' contains no full-length performances, it does contain several exciting if brief film clips of various performances such as the Leeds, UK 1973 show with Peter Tosh. Hopefully these early performances will someday make it onto DVD as well.


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Juan Luis Guerra: Grandes Exitos En Video Review

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(More customer reviews)compre este dvd porque me gusta juan luis guerra especialmente sus exitos viejos,el disco esta excelente y le daria 5 estrellas si estuvieran los exitos: bachata rosa,como abeja al panal,y carta de amor.aunque sea en vivo pero no estan ni en video ni en vivo por lo demas todo esta perfecto.esta es la lista de tracks:
1.El niagara en bicicleta
2.Burbujas de Amor
3.El costo de la vida
4.Vivire
5.Ojala que llueva cafe(en vivo)
6.La Hormiguita
7.Coronita de Flores
8.La Cosquillita
9.Palomita Blanca
10.A pedir su mano
11.Estrellitas y duendes
12.Quisiera
Bonus videos:
13.La Bilirrubina(en vivo)
14.Amapola(en vivo)
15.Visa para un sueño

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Kenny Chesney - Road Case: The Movie Review

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(More customer reviews)A great title to add to any collection. An in-depth look behind the scenes of multiple tour stops in 2003. Watch the video and then go buy tickets to a KC concert in your area.

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Shakira - MTV Unplugged (1999) Review

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(More customer reviews)An innovative performer in the Latin pop music market, this is Shakira well before she showed up on any babe magazine's "100 Most [whatever]" list. Leave it to MTV to provide the best sound, best camera work, and best overall production value for this excellent concert. Whether or not you're familiar with Shakira's songs, I believe you'll be happy you watched this edition of "Unplugged."
Eleven songs were recorded for this show, which took place in August of 1999, ten of which came from her then latest album, "Donde Estan Los Ladrones?" Characteristic of a first-rate live performance, many of the songs had a different arrangement and/or changed instrumentation, with the result being a totally fresh feel to the numbers. Shakira's changing vocal texture and phrasing is what sets her apart from every other singer, and what injects the passion into her songs. Even though I don't understand much Spanish (I have yet to avail myself of the subtitle option), I can't help but pay close attention while she's singing. That's how cool her voice is.
The concert has some great surprises, a few of which were the accompaniment by mariachi band Los Mora Arriaga in "Ciega, Sordomuda"; the rearranged version of "Estoy Aqui" (the only song from the "Pies Descalzos" album); and the middle eastern influenced music and dance in "Ojos Asi" (not to be missed). There's so much that meets the eye during this performance.
DVD extras: you'll find the oft-included bio, discography, and photos, but the highlight by far is the half-hour "Behind the Camera" feature, which has interviews with Shakira, her collaborators and producers. Very well done.

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Peter Gabriel - Play: The Videos Review

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(More customer reviews)I didn't buy a lot of music video compilations in the 90's but for Peter Gabriel I made an exception. Why? Because his stuff is always groundbreaking. Like the Taking Heads video compilation, Gabriel's "Play" has stunning videos that matched the stunning music. Since Gabriel fans have to wait so long between music releases (that's not a complaint just the truth), it's nice to have a bunch of DVD releases back-to-back to keep us happy.
The picture quality is exceptionally good and the 5.1 mix is similar to that for the SACD re-releass (although I wish that they'd release all of those in hybrid format so I could play them in my car). All of my favs are here although some are curiously missing such as the alternate version of "Don't Give Up" plus we get a number of marvelous videos from his more recent albums and singles. I've always loved the song "Lovetown" and loved the moody, interesting video for "Growing Up".
We do get a brief 16 minute piece that covers the making of the videos as an extra. I do like having the option of the introductions to the various tunes, though. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" really wouldn't have fit on here as its really Genesis material. I'm hoping that he'll issue the famous "Rockpalast" performance separately or that Genesis will put out a companion DVD to their boxed set about the years with Gabriel. I also miss the video Gabriel shot with Laurie Anderson for "Excellent Birds" (which has aired only once to the best of my knowledge). It was quirky and fun and I always liked Laurie's slightly different mix of the same song (which Gabriel went back and changed signficantly compared to the version on "So"). I also would have liked to have had the video from the Amnesty International HBO special with Gabriel's rearrangement of "Biko" (which has never appeared anywhere else in any form to the best of my knoweldge)."Digging in the Dirt" I like quite a bit as well.
The "Modern Love" video is a flashback to seeing him when he toured just after leaving Genesis. It's fun to compare this early video to later ones.
If you're a Gabriel fan and don't have any of this (or even if you have the CV video from years before), you'll enjoy this. Pick it up and turn it up really loud. Even if the TV is off, you'll enjoy having this "greatest hits" compilation of his best video bits over the years. Man he has been prolific when it comes to videos (compared to other performers).


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Peter Gabriel's impact on the music world is unparalleled. Included here in this DVD collection are the often outlandish video clips that have accompanied Gabriel's music over the years-18 visually stunning videos that capture a truly remarkable career. Track Listing: Father Son Sledgehammer Blood of Eden Games I Don't Remember Big Time Lovetown Red Rain In Your Eyes Don't Give Up The Barry Williams Show Washing of the Water Biko Kiss That Frog Mercy Street Growing Up Shaking the Tree Shock the Monkey Steam The Drop Zaar Solsbury Hill Digging in the Dirt

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 119: The First Duty (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)Wesley Crusher has gotten busted again and this time, it might cost him his Starfleet Career.
He and the people is his squadron have had a shuttle accident and a cadet died as a result. The others barely managed to survive. The squad leader, played by Robert Duncan MacNeil, (Tom Paris) tries to cover up the cause of the accident.
The accident was actually caused by them performing a banned manuver called a diamond-slot formation. This manuver was considered too dangerous to be performed by inexperienced pilots.
The investigation by the Enterprise crew gets closer and closer to the truth and Wesley is faced with making one of the most difficult decisions.
This episode has a special appearance by Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) as Boothby, the groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy.
This is one of the best 50 episodes for the Next Generation series.

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The Monkees, Vol. 15: The Chaperone/The Case of the Missing Monkee (1966) Review

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(More customer reviews)... this is a good one. I think "Chaperone" is among the best of them. The boys throw a party to set Davy up with the girl. Micky is at his most adorable, in drag, no less! The humor is a wee bit more sophisticated than some, if it can ever really be called that. "Missing Monkee" has just a few dull moments, and rates high on the dorky factor (but didn't we love the Monkees because they were brave enough to be dorky?) I would classify it as a Peter episode. It's the hospital one, for those of you who are trying to remember, as I was.
I am a long time Monkee fan and these episodes rate right up there.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 72: Menage A Troi (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)This episode is one of the funniest EVER! When Deanna's mother shows up, she creates all KINDS of problems including the whole deal with her calling Deanna "Little One". Funniest scene is at the end, when Picard's reciting Shakespeare to the Ferengi who kidnapped Lwaxana and her...trying to conivce them of his "sincerity"
Lwaxana: I have a new love, Jean-Luc. And you can't keep killing all my lovers, now that simply has to stop.
Ferengi: KILLING?
Lwaxana: Oh, he's insanely jealous.
This one is really great.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 97: The Host (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am not a Crusher fan, nor am I a big Riker fan, and if someone had told me the concept of the episode, I would have rolled my eyes, but this is one of the most profound, beautiful things I have ever seen on TV. Odan, the symbiotic being Crusher is attracted to, is incredible--he gives the notion of "having a beautiful soul" substance. His impulse to love, and the enforced restraint in Riker's body is riveting--Jonathan Frakes displays some of his best acting ever.
One wishes the episode didn't have to end as it does--Crusher's all-too human failing can't rise to the challenge of unconditional love--but it is fitting, and inevitable, given the episodic format.
I recommend this highly to anyone.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 95: The Drumhead (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)"The Drumhead" is one of the finest Star Trek Next Generation episodes ever made, reprising the disgraceful period of slander,innuendo, and insinuation conducted under Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950's that led to the blacklisting of many talented Hollywood writers and actors.
Legendary actress Jean Simmons is outstanding as Admiral Nora Satie who gradually and insidiously feeds her paranoia and megalomania with the careers and reputations of her opponents during public trials masked as "hearings", ultimately ending with a trial of Captain Picard himself.
The casting of Simmons in this role has an interesting twist -- she played the part of Varinia in the screen adaptation of Howard Fast's novel "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick, and written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. This landmark film helped break the blacklist.
This episode serves to remind us all about the value of individual rights and freedom.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 36: The Dauphin (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a stellar episode of the second season. The Enterprise beams aboard a beautiful woman who is destined to rule an alien planet. Wesley Crusher has a chance encounter with her and falls in love with her, much to the disapproval of the girl's caretaker. This episode gets especially suspensful when Wes learns that the woman he's fallen in love with isn't what she appears to be.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 135: The Quality of Life (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)The question of sentience versus property and the right to use it as seen fit by those considered sentient is once again in question as a brilliant scientist comes aboard the Enterprise with two things in her favor: a particle fountain that the Federation might have use for, and her invention of the portable repair crew she uses to do work that would take others hours: the Exo-Comps. Data realizes that the exo-comps are becoming sentient and are therefore alive, but everyone else seems to think he is mistaken, so Data has to make them realize this the only way he can when all other tests and their results fail to convince them; he traps Geordi and Captain Picard on the particle beam station as the beam is about to explode. Only through expressed consent of the exocomps can Picard an Geordi be rescued at the sacrifice of one of the little machines. And as a result, a better understanding of both the machines and Data formulate. It's a great episode in the exploration of both the extent of humanity's understanding of artificial intelligence and how much life should be cherished, whether man-made or nature born.

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M2k Video Gospel 2000: The First Collection of Music Videos Featuring Gospo Centric & Brite Music Artists Ever (1999) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an awesome video it has Gospel Gangstaz, Kirk Fanklin, Trinitee 5:7, Walter Hawkins and etc. B-Rite and Gospo Centric put this wonderful video together and it is worth ordering and you can get your praise on! It really is good for when you feel like watching a music video and chillin at the house!!

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 80: Legacy (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)Next Generation fans got to resolve the death of Tasha Yar in the classic episode "Yesterday's Enterprise," but in the Star Trek universe the crew still has issues to resolve. When an escape pod from a Federation freighter lands on Turkana Four, the brutal colony world from which Tasha escaped, the Enterprise shows up for the rescue armed to the teeth. The leader of the Coalition claims that their opponents, the Alliance, hold the men from the pod hostage. As proof of their good word, the Coalition provides the services of Ishara Yar, who they say is Tasha's sister. Although there are initial doubts about her, the crew warms to Ishara. She is willing to help them with their rescue mission but there is this one little problem: Ishara has a proximity detector implanted in her body, which will set off the alarms. Of course Dr. Crusher removes the device, which is exactly what Ishara and the Coalition wanted her to do.
Certainly the viewers are more suspicious of Ishara Yar than the Enterprise crew, mainly because "Legacy" is a little heavy handed in how it develops the mystery, which is to say that it just begs you to be suspicious every step of the way. It is something of a shame that the good memories of their fallen comrade are so abused. This is one of the few Next Generation episodes that truly leaves you with a bad feeling. Fortunately all future episodes dealing with the fate of Tasha Yar are a lot better than this one.

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Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Review

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(More customer reviews)After my first viewing of Broadway Danny Rose, I was extremely dissapointed. I just didn't "get" it. I did not think it was about anything, and that it contained none of the humor, wit, and philosophical musings about life that Woody had so perfectly achieved before and since (see Annie Hall or Hannah and Her Sisters). I couldn't have been more wrong.
I decided to watch the film again, to determine exactly what about it that so many people loved so much . I was truly mystified. But during that second viewing, I really began to soak in the message about the lovable "loser" Woody plays, not to mention the fact that I couldn't stop laughing! How could I have missed this stuff before? This is Woody at his most subtle best, in a masterpiece comparable and perhaps even surpassing Manhattan (another one that took me a few times to appreciate).
Bottom line: if you are looking for pure slapstick, watch Bananas or Sleeper. If you are looking for a deep, thought-provoking drama, watch Crimes and Misdeameanors. But if you are looking for a subtle charmer that deals with the little problems of life in an original, compelling way, watch Broadway Danny Rose (and Manhattan).

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 117: The Outcast (1987) Review

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Although some people think that this episode was about homosexuality and are offended by it, while others think think it's too subtle or euphemistic, I think it explores transgender issues -- the gender identity of an individual (Soren) -- instead of their preferred partner's sex or gender.
Male to Female transsexuality is probably the closest analogy to what took place in this episode, in which Soren, a person from a gender-neutral planet, discovers that she is female.
And considering how many today are beginning to think that gender is a cultural concept and that traditional male-female roles are too black-and-white, this episode was ahead of its time, by having a gender-neutral race portrayed.
Finally, the issue of involuntary psychiatric committment for one's "lifestyle" is portrayed, when Soren is "treated" for being female and Riker tries to protect her from authorities. There are some on Earth today who still think transgenderism, homosexuality, etc. are mental illnesses.

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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 172: Journey's End (1987) Review

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(More customer reviews)In this episode, Wesley Crusher resigns from the academy. He seems troubled and curt with everyone...not the humble and likeable Wesley we've come to know. However, while Picard struggles to obey his conscience and avoid a forced relocation of a small group of planet dwellers to satisfy the treaty with the Cardassians, Wesley finds 'the path' that he's been heading toward all his life.
I like this episode very much.

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