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Kurt Cobain
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Important rather than good
I rated this DVD as a 6, but the whole Box would get a 10. The footage shown on the DVD is good in that sense thats its fun to have seen it. I doubt the DVD will find it's way back in the DVD-player, at least not for a while. The CD:s have SOME tunes that are on them just because they are historically interesting: the DVD is packed with them. Nearly every track on the DVD can be found in alternate versions from other dates on other recordings: often with better sound and picture quality. The rehearsals in 1988 sounds fun, and are fun the first time you watch it. The 1991 recordings are also historically important, but nearly impossible to listen to due to the bad sound. The tracks I will return to on the DVD are Sappy (my favorite Nirvana track), Talk to me and Seasons in the sun. The last two can not be found on any bootleg videos and the Sappy recording on this DVD is the best version I have seen. The whole point of the box was to include tracks that not even the bootleggers owned and although the majority haven't seen the great video recordings of shows in Texas, Holland, Roma and Reading, the bootleggers have. If this was a "greatest hits of live videos" I would have rated it higher, but It would have lower the rate of the box in total as its not made to show the best: rather to show the important. But as this is not sold without the CD:s I doubted whether I should rate this as the 10 the box deserves or as the 6 the DVD alone deserves? Bottom line: Buy the Box, the CD:s is more listenable although every track (including everyone on the DVD) is important.
- anders305a
- Feb 28, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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