Jeffrey N

Hello everyone.

Mostly a lurker here...

I have recently purchased my HT system and I am currently watching a lot of movies. I was watching "O Brother Where Art Thou" and there were a few scenes that blew me away sound-wise: The scene where the preacher was baptizing the people in the river to the sounds of the chorus and the scene with the three women washing clothes and the river while singing. I was very impressed how beautiful that these songs sounded in 5.1 and I was inspired to look into other DVD's where they are either live performances or the music is the main element of the DVD.

While I realize that "good music" is a very subjective thing, what DVD's do you own or have watched/heard that really impressed you with both the performance and the quality of sound that you could recommend to me? I do enjoy a pretty wide range of music from classic rock, punk, hard rock, pop, alternative, blues, even a little metal now and again. I was thinking along the lines of live performances, maybe a documentry of a band or artist which features studio or live performances, but my requirement is that it must be encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS.

Would "Hell Freezes Over" by The Eagles be a decent choice for my requirements?

Step up and help someone who is just discovering how cool that a decent HT system really is. :-D

I hope that I have inspired a lively discussion.

MatS

I'm pretty sure there are many threads on this topic that already exist....

but here are some suggestions

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live In New York City
The Band - Last Waltz
The Cure - Trilogy
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at the El Mocambo
Led Zeppelin - S/T aka How The West Was Won
The Blues Brothers movie

Craig

In The Flesh - Roger Waters - excellent audio (and video).
The Last Waltz - The Band - great documentary. Live concert footage, a lot of guest appearances and interesting interviews interspersed throughout.

Tony-B

I haven't seen this, but Slipknot's Disasterpieces DVD is supposed to be excellent.

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Nick Senger

Hell Freezes Over is a superb choice for a first music DVD - it was my first and it blew me away. It also makes for a great demo dvd because so many people are familiar with the Eagles' tunes and they appeal to just about everybody. I've shown it to my father-in-law who loves opera and my brother-in-law who's a diehard Scorpions fan and they were both in awe.

The video quality is decent (except for the opening interviews where it is sub-par), but the music is just gorgeous.

Cary_H

I have a growing collection of music DVDs.
I've been disappointed a number of times when I've sprung for one without having asked beforehand how decent it was from the folks on-line. It's real rare for me to buy anything now without a fair number of others who've vouched for the one I'm looking at.

With that said, I'll recommend Diana Krall's "Live in Paris", Ozzy "Live at the Budokan", and Roxy Music's "Live at the Apollo".
Despite being a mondo Zeppelin fan, I was extremely disappointed with "How the West was Won".

Todd Durham

Some of my favorites are Peter Frampton Live in Detroit, Diana Krall Live in Paris, James Taylor Live at the Beacon, Paul McCartney Back in the USA, and for pure fun....Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas kicks a$$.

Skyler

I am addicted, badly. Some are 4:3, but don't let that stop you, most concerts are.

Eagles Hell Freezes Over - DTS version ONLY
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Sting - All this time
The Corrs - Live in London
Portishead - Roseland NYC
Santana - Supernatural Live DTS
Sarah Mclachlan - Mirrorball
Diana Krall - Live in Paris
Norah Jones - Live in New Orleans
Metallica - S&M (not clean version)
U2 - Elevation 2001 Live from Boston
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live at the El Mocambo in Toronto
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live in Austin, TX (better than above)
Nine inch nails - And all that could have been (DTS ONLY!) (has Marilyn Manson hidden performances)
Depeche Mode - One night in Paris
Cranberries - Beneath the skin V2 ONLY! ( has audio fixed)
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Folsom Field
Dave Matthews Band - Listener Supported
Sade - Lovers Live
Korn - Live
The Last Waltz
Family Values Tour 1998 - the original
Faith Hill - When the lights go down
Pearl Jam - Touring Band 2000
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium
Blue Man Group -Audio (actually video, lol)

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Jeff D Han

Hey Skyler, I've been thinking of getting a
Dave Matthews concert DVD. Which one is better
in your opinion- Listener Supported or Folsom
Field? Thanks.

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clean the f**king car.

Louis C

Fourplay - An Evening With Fourplay

WadeB

Jeffery,

If you enjoyed that scene from O Brother and any of the other music in the movie, then you might like the DVD DOwn From the Mountain, which is a concert featuring the musicians from that soundtrack. Of course ALlison Krauss is the vocalist from the scene you mentioned, and her new DVD, ALlison Krauss + Union Station Live is also very good. Yet another O Bother musician, Gillian Welch has a nicely photographed (in B&W) Concert DVD called The Revelator Collection.

On a different note, I'll second DIana's Krall's Live in Paris, the best music DVD I've heard, and nominate Norah Jones' Live in New Orleans which is good but too short (and only 4:3).

Skyler

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