At the same time as her
Greatest Hits
compilation was put together, came the Live concert, performing at the
San Diego Open Air Theatre, October 3rd, 1993.
She has recently returned to the fore with a single, By Your Side and a
new album, Lovers Rock, which the British public has largely ignored,
since it only just scraped the Top 20 upon its release, while the Americans
have lapped it up, placing it inside the Top 3.
What might have been her downfall though, is that she was only best known for
her slow numbers and before I put this DVD on, it's only those which I could
remember - Your Love is King, Smooth Operator, Sweetest Taboo and the
slightly later Paradise, plus of course, that track from Indecent
Proposal, No Ordinary Love.
Her singles chart history to December 2000 is as follows :
Feb 84 No. 6 Your Love is King
May 84 No.75 Your Love is King (re-entry)
May 84 No.36 When am I Gonna Make a Living
Sep 84 No.19 Smooth Operator
Oct 85 No.31 The Sweetest Taboo
Jan 86 No.49 Is it a Crime
Apr 88 No.44 Love is Stronger than Pride
Jun 88 No.29 Paradise
Oct 92 No.26 No Ordinary Love
Nov 92 No.56 Feel No Pain
May 93 No.44 Kiss of Life
Jun 93 No.14 No Ordinary Love
Jul 93 No.53 Cherish the Day
Nov 00 No.17 By Your Side
There are 19 chapters and the listing is as follows :
1. Programme Start
2. Sweetest Taboo
3. Keep Looking
4. Your Love is King
5. Love is Stronger Than Pride
6. Smooth Operator
7. Red Eye
8. Haunt Me
9. Like a Tattoo
10. Kiss of Life
11. Nothing Can Come Between Us
12. Cherry Pie
13. Pearls
14. No Ordinary Love
15. Is It a Crime
16. Cherish the Day
17. Paradise
18. Jezebel
19. End credits
The entire concert is in 4:3 fullscreen, but is shot with a very dark look
to it throughout which makes for a bit of a boring watch.
The average bitrate is 5.92Mb/s, occasionall peaking over 8Mb/s.
The sound, in Dolby Digital 5.1, is fine, but doesn't particularly leap
out at you and there's not much variety throughout the set.
Extras :
The Discography shows the track listing for all of her albums,
excluding the latest and the Biography runs to a few pages of info.
Nothing major that you'll really go back to.
There are subtitles in English, French and Spanish but the menus are silent and
static.
Only dedicated fans will buy both of her new DVDs, but between the two
I'd give more of a recommendation to the
Greatest Hits
release.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
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