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Summary: Excellent Rush Video Collection
Review: This Rush DVD called Chronicles has most of the videos they did for the albums that they recorded on Mercury Records between 1974 and 1989. It starts with the 1977 promo clip for Closer to the Heart(check out Alex Lifeson with long hair and Neil Peart's moustache, pure 70s). Next is The Trees from 1978(with Geddy playing his Rickenbacker bass). Next is Limelight and Tom Sawyer(both videos shot in Le Studio in late 1980). Red Barchetta follows from the long out of print film Exit...Stage Left. Subdivisions from Signals follows and shows a kid struggling in school. Distant Early Warning from Grace Under Pressure with the kid riding the missile and Geddy with his Steinberger bass is next. Red Sector A is from the Out of Print Grace Under Pressure live video. The Big Money edit follows then its Mystic Rhythms both from Power Windows. Then, Time Stand Still and Lock and Key from 1987's Hold Your Fire round out this DVD. On this DVD, you get bonus clips for Afterimage and The Enemy Within from 1984's Grace Under Pressure which were previously available on the OOP video From the Camera Eye. I feel a Rush Chronicles II is in demand. They should put on there A Farewell to Kings, Xanadu, Circumstances, La Villa Strangiato, Vital Signs, Countdown, The Body Electric, Show Don't Tell, The Pass, Superconductor, Roll the Bones, Stick it Out, Nobody's Hero, Half the World and Driven. How about it Universal or Anthem?
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Summary: NEED MORE RUSH
Review: Yes, it's a must have for any tried and true Rush fan, but seeing this stuff just makes you ponder all the UNAVAILABLE footage that surely must exist. For me, the biggest thrill on this set is the studio version of Tom Sawyer taken from the same sessions as Limelight and Vital Signs (which deplorably, is NOT included in this DVD). Geddy on the Rickenbacker and Alex Lifeson with his black Gibson hollowbody during the solo...not to mention the psychotic and very difficult but musically perfect drum fills following the solo. Awesome, simply awesome. Why don't they just release an entire DVD of the making of Moving Pictures? Could you imagine seeing them recording The Camera Eye and YYZ? That would be sick and YOU JUST KNOW THE FOOTAGE EXISTS! Also, it's a crying shame that they haven't released Exit Stage Left domestically. Of course, you can find it in Brazil if you go online and order it and wait a few months for it to be shipped out. Still, it's well worth the wait. Maybe they will finally release some of this stuff for their 30th anniversary...as I wishfully think away. Also, I completely agree with the reviewer who said they need to release a Chronicles II so we can see the newer videos that have NEVER been released. How many times did MTV play those videos anyway? Once?!? Maybe twice?
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Summary: Great for Nostalgia Purposes, But Sound Quality is Subpar
Review: I have debated purchasing the Rush "Chronicles" DVD for some time, but when I purchased their recent DVD release "Rush in Rio" and found it to be terrific, I decided to take the plunge on this one.It is fun to watch the videos that I used to watch on MTV and haven't seen in 15+ years. The early videos ("Tom Sawyer", "Limelight") were mostly studio shoots while they really started getting into high-end production with the albums "Signals, "Grace Under Pressure" and "Power Windows". The graphics for "The Big Money" look cheap today, but if I remember correctly, they were cutting edge in 1986. It's very interesting to see the different styles of Lee, Lifeson and Peart over the period encompassed by the DVD. As others have said, the sound on the DVD leaves much to be desired. There are noticeable cutouts in sound on numerous songs, especially some of the earlier tunes ("Closer to the Heart", "The Trees"). I played the disc in my home entertainment center (with 6 speakers) and in a DVD player merely hooked up to a TV and found the same issues with both. I thought it was just me, but other reviews here seem to illustrate the same issue. My suggestion would be to buy "Rush in Rio" instead and wait to see if the band will issue a complete video collection with remastered sound in the future.
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Summary: great concert, horrible sound
Review: this was a big dissapointment the band is great the songs are great.Whoever is responsible for the sound recording should be fired!!! this would have easily been a 5 star dvd.
Rush should re do this
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Summary: Very good, but not without a few flaws.
Review: At long last (and many years late) Rush has entered the DVD medium with Chronicles. As a long time fan of the band, I have anxiously anticipated the day when anything from Rush's collection would be transferred to DVD. Now that the day has arrived, hopefully (and there are plans to do so) the live concert VHS catalog will be transferred to DVD as well. Unfortunately, for those who are wishing for a Different Stages live DVD, it's not going to happen... Technically speaking, this is a very good, but not quite perfect DVD. The video motion clips on the song selection menus are a nice touch, and the remastered soundtrack is a vast improvement over the muddy quality of the VHS version. The two extra videos (The Enemy Within and Afterimage) are a wonderful addition to this package, as I have missed being able to watch them on Through The Camera Eye, as my copy was unfortunately destroyed many years ago and could never replace it before it went out of print. The inclusion of the Tom Sawyer studio performance clip instead of the Exit Stage Left clip on the VHS tape was a nice surprise, for I never actually cared much for that particular version. In addition, I had never even seen the studio version clip until now, so for me, that was a bonus! This DVD is not without its flaws, though. As much as the sound quality is improved for this disc, on the live clips (Red Barchetta, Red Sector A), there are spots where the volume is a bit uneven, especially during the first minute of Barchetta. I hope the producers of forthcoming DVD transfers of Exit Stage Left and Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984 (if they do indeed happen) don't make this same mistake. And, since all of the material was shot before 1987, thus years before DVD, the picture quality is not that stunning. In fact, after comparing many of the clips between the DVD and my older VHS copy, I have found it quite difficult to even tell the difference between the two. All in all, this is a nice introduction to DVD, yet it would be even nicer if the rest of Rush's video clips had been included with the extras, namely the rest of Through the Camera Eye, which included Vital Signs, Countdown, and The Body Electric. Still it is a worthwhile collection as is, and ideal for the serious or casual Rush fan.
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Summary: Finally a Rush DVD of some kind!
Review: I've been a huge Rush fan ever since I was a fetus. For my money, there's simply been no other band in the history of Rock to match their combination of musicianship, ingenuity, and overall talent. Naturally I've been waiting for their first ever DVD pretty much since the invention of DVDs. Rush Chronicles - The DVD Collection is a great ensemble of videos that I haven't seen for years and years, but it lacks something of a...umm...personality. Alex, Neil, and Geddy are all intriguing PEOPLE as well as musicians, so why not include some interviews or (at least) small biographies to make the whole package seem less impersonal? Plus it would've been nice to actually include ALL of their Mercury Era videos (they "forgot" about Countdown, The Body Electric, Vital Signs, and XANADU!). Why keep these things out? There's a fine line between wetting the public's appetite by leaving out a few things and just annoying the public (the fans) by making them wait forever for something incomplete. What they DID include, however, was pretty great - especially that cool, little timeline on the DVD menu. All in all, I'm mostly appreciative that Rush released SOMETHING on DVD. Now I can crank up Tom Sawyer (with its CD quality sound) JUST for my neighbors! Isn't that what life's all about, anyway?
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Summary: could've been better
Review: I think that when this was released RUSH Chronicles on DVD format they should have included some more videos. Especially since with RUSH IN RIO they got all 28 songs from the concert ont the first disc. Most of the videos are good especially "Subdivisions". I don't know why Afterimage and Enemy Within are bonus videos which you can see by clicking on the RUSH thing in the main menu, because they were already included on the VHS version. I think they should've included Analog Kind and Body Electric and everything that was in the Camera Eye video. Also it would've been nice to see Superconductor and Roll the Bones. The DVD includes a performance of "Red Barcheta" from the EXIT STAGE LEFT video and "Red Sector A" from the GRACE UNDER PRESSURE TOUR video, I think it would've been nice to see maybe "Mission from A SHOW OF HANDS. A previous reviewer said there should be a Chronicles 2 but, you can probably fit all their music videos onto one disc. With the 30th anniversay there are many rumors about different Rush releases one of them being a Rush video anthology which is a good sign!
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Summary: Great for Nostalgia Purposes, But Sound Quality is Subpar
Review: I have debated purchasing the Rush "Chronicles" DVD for some time, but when I purchased their recent DVD release "Rush in Rio" and found it to be terrific, I decided to take the plunge on this one. It is fun to watch the videos that I used to watch on MTV and haven't seen in 15+ years. The early videos ("Tom Sawyer", "Limelight") were mostly studio shoots while they really started getting into high-end production with the albums "Signals, "Grace Under Pressure" and "Power Windows". The graphics for "The Big Money" look cheap today, but if I remember correctly, they were cutting edge in 1986. It's very interesting to see the different styles of Lee, Lifeson and Peart over the period encompassed by the DVD. As others have said, the sound on the DVD leaves much to be desired. There are noticeable cutouts in sound on numerous songs, especially some of the earlier tunes ("Closer to the Heart", "The Trees"). I played the disc in my home entertainment center (with 6 speakers) and in a DVD player merely hooked up to a TV and found the same issues with both. I thought it was just me, but other reviews here seem to illustrate the same issue. My suggestion would be to buy "Rush in Rio" instead and wait to see if the band will issue a complete video collection with remastered sound in the future.
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Summary: Could stand for a remix
Review: My only beefs with this dvd:
1. Why not mix it for better sound?
2. Why not dump more videos than the tape with 2 extras? It's a dvd, for crying out loud! Gimme more!!
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Summary: Great DVD
Review: I like anything by Rush. This is no different. Great to see the old videos on DVD.
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