New Order - 511

Rating:
Summary: Worth the cost.
Review: Just watching the electrifying guitar work in "She's Lost Control" is worth the price. Yes they ARE older and not the pretty "young men" of the past, but on the whole are much better musicians. It is nice to see and hear them laugh and clown around on the stage.I do miss Gillian as she was not performing, but Phil Cunningham more than pleases.As for requests,I would LOVE for New Order to re-release the 5.8.6. video as a dvd.

Rating:
Summary: Worth the cost.
Review: Just watching the electrifying guitar work in "She's Lost Control" is worth the price. Yes they ARE older and not the pretty "young men" of the past, but on the whole are much better musicians. It is nice to see and hear them laugh and clown around on the stage.I do miss Gillian as she was not performing, but Phil Cunningham more than pleases.As for requests,I would LOVE for New Order to re-release the 5.8.6. video as a dvd.

Rating:
Summary: excellent DVD here is the following songs on DVD
Review: this is an excellent DVD here is the songs :

list 1

1)Crystal
2)Transmission
3)Regret
4)Ceremony
5)60 miles an hour
6)Atmosphere
7)Brutal
8)Close range

LIST 2

1)She's lost control
2)Bizarre love triangle
3)temptation
4)Love will tear us apart
5)Digital
6)Blue Monday
7)Your silent face

Rating:
Summary: a good collection of songs, but...
Review: this is not a satisfying DVD for the New Order fan. my chief complaint is that it was filmed primarily during daylight hours. New Order has spent years refining their stage show, and the lighting that accompanies a New Order show greatly enhances the experience...especially with the almost signature "New Order blue" lighting scheme that brings even more to the sensory experience. secondly, i don't care, even a little bit, about mud covered drunk morons...and i really don't want to have them occupying half my screen during the best parts of a truly great song like "Temptation"...this is just offensive and stupid. overall, this release reeks of indifferent production and design, although the band itself is obviously having a good time and the twilight rendition of "Your Silent Face" nearly redeems this otherwise forgettable insult to any fan (and, hence, the second star).

Rating:
Summary: a good collection of songs, but...
Review: this is not a satisfying DVD for the New Order fan. my chief complaint is that it was filmed primarily during daylight hours. New Order has spent years refining their stage show, and the lighting that accompanies a New Order show greatly enhances the experience...especially with the almost signature "New Order blue" lighting scheme that brings even more to the sensory experience. secondly, i don't care, even a little bit, about mud covered drunk morons...and i really don't want to have them occupying half my screen during the best parts of a truly great song like "Temptation"...this is just offensive and stupid. overall, this release reeks of indifferent production and design, although the band itself is obviously having a good time and the twilight rendition of "Your Silent Face" nearly redeems this otherwise forgettable insult to any fan (and, hence, the second star).

Rating:
Summary: terrible lie
Review: This is one of the worst shows I have ever seen from any band much less a formerly great band. Here is an instance where a band should NOT have reunited. These performances are done with very little energy-the lead singer Bernard Summer looks terrible, a joke-reading from the teleprompter for the words to songs that probably everyone in the audience knows by heart. If any band has the right to do Joy Division songs of course it's New Order-they WERE Joy Division after all. The problem is that they do 5 JD songs (the 5 in the title of the DVD, 11 being the # of New Order songs done)and I guess Ian Curtis' voice is too much of an obstacle. They should have left them alone. It also looks like 90% of the music is pre-programmed. Understandable in the case of a band which uses as much electronics as New Order...but...it wasn't always like that. The band live used to be dynamic. Also it's not a good idea to focus on the keyboardist's hands when all he is doing is pressing keys that are pre-programmed with whole songs. It looks stupid. So...don't waste you're money. Does anyone want my copy?