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Summary: Great for PSB fans - Concert Footage
Review: A great DVD for PSB fans ... it features concert footage and 3 music videos. Very cool menus and graphics.
Rating:
Summary: Great for PSB fans - Concert Footage
Review: Being a huge fan of PSP, I recently attended their latest show, "Release". I was disappointed in the show, in that there was no "show", unlike previous tours (the music was still fabulous, as always). Still being on a PSP high though, I bought "Montage", and when viewing it, was reminded of their earlier shows and how I missed that aspect. "Montage" is simply a great PSP concert video, and hopefully not the last of their stage productions. Getting Dolby Digital sound with it on the DVD is a huge plus. I have to say that I enjoyed "Montage" more than the real show I just saw! If you are a PSP fan - get it, crank up the audio, play it on a big screen, and enjoy!
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Summary: This is the concert I wish I had seen!
Review: Being a huge fan of PSP, I recently attended their latest show, "Release". I was disappointed in the show, in that there was no "show", unlike previous tours (the music was still fabulous, as always). Still being on a PSP high though, I bought "Montage", and when viewing it, was reminded of their earlier shows and how I missed that aspect. "Montage" is simply a great PSP concert video, and hopefully not the last of their stage productions. Getting Dolby Digital sound with it on the DVD is a huge plus. I have to say that I enjoyed "Montage" more than the real show I just saw! If you are a PSP fan - get it, crank up the audio, play it on a big screen, and enjoy!
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Summary: Best PSB concert film to date
Review: Ditto to much of what one reviewer said about this being fresh and innovative. After I had listened to the live versions of a few songs from the Nightlife tour on the "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" single, I was disappointed with what I heard. It made me have reservations about purchasing this video, quite frankly. I had seen the previous live videos however and I knew how good they were, so I bought this. I was very glad I did. From start to finish, a superb effort by the PSB. I especially liked the video projections that helped tell the story behind many of these tracks, or at least added to the performance (good examples are "West End Girls" and "New York City Boy"). The vocals and sound quality were excellent, and the backing vocalists could have sang all of those tracks by themselves, they were that good. Only one criticism and that is I could have done without the webcam video insert. Internet video quality is always poor, no matter how you dress it up. I wouldn't have wanted to highlight that in this film if I was the producer.Overall a very good example of how PSB has changed with the times, yet stayed true to their classic pop formula. A must have for anyone's collection. BTW do not pay attention to the parental advisory label, I saw nothing on this tape that warranted it.
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Summary: Best PSB concert film to date
Review: Ditto to much of what one reviewer said about this being fresh and innovative. After I had listened to the live versions of a few songs from the Nightlife tour on the "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" single, I was disappointed with what I heard. It made me have reservations about purchasing this video, quite frankly. I had seen the previous live videos however and I knew how good they were, so I bought this. I was very glad I did. From start to finish, a superb effort by the PSB. I especially liked the video projections that helped tell the story behind many of these tracks, or at least added to the performance (good examples are "West End Girls" and "New York City Boy"). The vocals and sound quality were excellent, and the backing vocalists could have sang all of those tracks by themselves, they were that good. Only one criticism and that is I could have done without the webcam video insert. Internet video quality is always poor, no matter how you dress it up. I wouldn't have wanted to highlight that in this film if I was the producer. Overall a very good example of how PSB has changed with the times, yet stayed true to their classic pop formula. A must have for anyone's collection. BTW do not pay attention to the parental advisory label, I saw nothing on this tape that warranted it.
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Summary: extreme nightlife
Review: exhaustively entertaining show displaying some of their best songs expressed in highly colorful ways! I enjoyed this show better than their last tour (many more theatrics and movement on the stage).
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Summary: PSB Still Fresh and Relevant
Review: Heres' what you don't get with Pet Shop Boys "Montage-The Nightlife Tour": • no preening, posturing, and star tripping • no self promotion of recent album, stage play, back catalog, merchandise or website • no endless, moronic banter between songs • no tubthumbing or strident sexual politicking.
Here's what you do get: • 111 minutes of soaring, melodic pop music, some of the best made in the past 20 years • innovative stage design and overlapping film imagery that enhances each of the 22 songs • engaging lyrics and charming stage persona of Neil Tennant • a "must have" for fans and a fine introduction to the band for anyone else with an ear for pop music. If all you know about PSB is "West End Girls," their only U.S. #1 from 1986, you may be pleasantly surprised.
Sound and video quality themselves are quite good. Videotape does not merit the Explicit Lyrics Advisory that it's tagged with-there's no objectionable language that I could discern.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I attended the US leg of this PSB tour so I was excited to pick this up when it came out. While it was essentially the same tour (minus the entire into and a couple of song changes) there were way too many clips of other film footage and special effects added to the visuals. I would have preferred something a little more like the Somewhere tour video where it is a straight forward concert shots but the Nightlife version inserts footage from their videos, stock footage and neo-60s effects over the images of the concert. If you're a fan, especially if you attended the concert this might be worth getting.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I attended the US leg of this PSB tour so I was excited to pick this up when it came out. While it was essentially the same tour (minus the entire into and a couple of song changes) there were way too many clips of other film footage and special effects added to the visuals. I would have preferred something a little more like the Somewhere tour video where it is a straight forward concert shots but the Nightlife version inserts footage from their videos, stock footage and neo-60s effects over the images of the concert. If you're a fan, especially if you attended the concert this might be worth getting.
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Summary: How did this one get past the " boys"? I'm a bit puzzled...
Review: I have been a long time fan of the boys, and I generally have almost all of their repetoire with cds, videos etc etc.I have other dvds of theirs and I have to say that with this one, i was disappointed. I really love the boys, but it's really insane that this one got approved,( i really wonder if they did approve it or if there was just some quick talk and dash involved.. hmmm sneaky..). I wanted to see the concert, and I did attend the nightlife tour in person, and I was looking forward to reliving some of that wonderful experience. I was really shocked at how annoying and utterly repetitive the montage and overlay bits were, it was mostly chaos during some songs. I was so thankful at the parts where the editor " took a break" , " backed down a bit.. " etc. It was really kind of painful to watch, cos I saw this performance get mangled by this gaudy editing. There is a really fine line as to where the montage bits were actually relevant,and to when they were just floating out there to annoy and fill up space ( which should have been filled up with the boys or the dancers!!! ) One of the most annoying montage bits was the over use of the "hyper mode traveling the city at night" parts , to me that was the clip equivalent to the over use of a vocoder in songs .... aaaaaaaaghhhhhh.. I can at least be happy with the sound, it was great and the very FEW moments where i could actually see the boys, dancers and sylvia, were quite nice. One last thing, to retour to a previous review, chris lowe has done that for years and that's just the way he is, so i don't think he's going to budge just for you. Accept him.
So, while this isn't a top choice dvd, it's still good for the audio, you should probably keep yourself busy as you listen to it to spare yourself from some eyesores.
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