Jools Holland - 10 Years Later [2002]

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Bad sound.......2007-11-29

Don't know whether its a limeter or compressor causing the
problem, but volume is changing way too much in the transition
between fairly quiet moments and loud ones!
Really annoying!

Great stuff.......2007-05-08

This is a great DVD, plenty for everyone. Of course there are many omissions for regular Later viewers...

To echo another review, No More Drama by Mary J. Blige is astounding. I was fairly unimpressed by Mary before I saw this performance on TV, I can't say I'm a fan of hers now, but this is a must see. Pure - 100% commitment by Mary and her band.

Other highlights for me are: REM, Radiohead and David Gray. Nick Cave is great - which I was surprised by. Robbie Williams' Angels is also a surprisingly entertaining performance. I did think Colyplay with Yellow were a little rough around the edges, but this performance is quite early in their careers.

I confess I'm not particularly enamored by some of the more 'worldy' stuff on this DVD, I've watched them lots of times, but I'm obviously not cultured enough to 'get it' :)

what no crowded house.......2007-02-02

despite many different performances by crowded house/neil finn / and the finn brothers on later,you have neglected to put them on any of your dvd,s including this one.you were happy to have them light up your show when they appeared at the time.shame on you jools.

Highlights the poverty of music on television.......2003-12-03

Later...with Jools Holland
10 years is very impressive for a man who has no dress sense, no interviewing technique and a sense of humour so incomprehensible his jokes leave his guests shuffling with embarassment. Nevertheless, the BBC have given him nearly twenty series of Later..., a sort of 'Top of the Pops with pubes' as Robbie Williams describes it in his interview on disc one. This three DVD series rightly celebrates what has become a rich catalogue of live music.

Disc one, '10 years later...with Jools Holland' is a retrospective, selecting 30 memorable performances and mixing them up with the occasional comment from the man in question, who leans on his piano and says things like 'music is of course the universal language.' Jools has, obviously, always been about the music, and the thirty cuts here do offer something for everyone. The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' with full orchestral accompaniment, a note perfect 'Glory Box' from Portishead, the majesty of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's 'The Star and the Wiseman'. If it were anyone else stepping about in their white shoes like a slow-motion haka it would be daft, but they look great. Psycho pixie Bjork licks her lips and sings 'The Hunter'. David Gray may wobble like a parcel shelf plastic dog, but he reminds us that he actually is quite good. Blur deliver possibly their best ever rendition of Parklife, Nick Cave's Bad Seeds gather round his piano and sip red wine while he muses about kittens in trees and women mayors in 'God is in the house'. The Blind Boys of Alabama sing 'run on', which will be familiar to fans of Moby's Play, and Jools justifies his job with an appearance with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
You may raise an eyebrow at Norma Waterson's bluegrass or aging latino gentleman Ibrahim Ferrer, but when Baaba Maal follows Coldplay's predictably professional 'Yellow', it starkly highlights the poverty of our experience of music on television. For broadening our horizons and showcasing music we'd never otherwise hear, thank you Mr Holland, and here's to series 21.
5/5

Eclectic mix - but at times, awsome!.......2002-12-26

Having been a regular viewer and admirer of 'Later' of the period covered by this DVD it does come across as a broad and eclectic mix, but then this is one of the major attractions of the show - one of the few quality live music shows on UK TV, these days, and to be honest, for years now. The absolute highlight track for me, is the incendiary performance of Mary J Blige. The majority of 'Later' performances were captured in one take. I somehow doubt that even an artist of the quality and integrity of Mary J could have maintained the earth shaking intensity of her performance over several takes. Buy it, watch it, time and again, and gasp in amazement at the shear sincerity of her performance. If you remain unmoved, go check you pulse. Artists normally perform two or three tracks on the show, so picking one track from 30 artists must have been painfully hard. Nonetheless, there are many other quality performances. Beth Gibbons with Portishead would normally have shone brightly, but having been sequenced directly after Mary J she/they had an lot to beat. Top quality show. Representative release and great value.

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The best and the first of the "Roughies" on one DVD.......2005-09-13

"All you kids make me sick...no better than the girl who sells herself to a man. You're worse...Now, you listen and you listen well. You're damaged merchandise and this is a fire sale...Down inside you're dirty. Do you hear me? Dirty!"

Of all the clips cut together to introduce a Something Weird Video it is those words from "Scum of the Earth" that stand out, so I was certainly looking forward to seeing the entire movie. With "The Defilers" and "Scum of the Earth" as a double-bill, this DVD offers supposedly the "best" and the "first" of the "Roughies."

Remember to click on "Let's Go to the Drive In" on the main menu so that you get the complete experience, which includes not only lots of naked women but also Julie Andrews too (she explains the Motion Picture Association of America seal). You can never have too many clips from intermission at the drive in, and who does not want to buy boxes of popcorn with mermaid pictures on them? We get the trailer for "The Defilers," which thinks that if you show still shots instead of action clips then the nudity and violence will not offend anybody. There are also very long trailers for the skin flicks "The Pick Up," and "The Curse of her Flesh," the short, "Naked Fury," which is actually about a photography session with two models who were very good sports and apparently natural born wrestlers, and the trailers for "The Sex Killer" and a second one for "The Defilers."

"The Defilers" (1965) is supposedly based on a true story about two guys who decided to make a woman their sex slave. You think you know which of the two guys is the real sicko, but you end up being wrong, which I suppose counts as character development. This was the first film producer David F. Friedman made after splitting with Herschell Gordon Lewis, and the idea was to make the best looking "Roughie" ever (shooting angles are key here for making it look like a real movie). In the commentary track for "The Defilers, Friedman explains how he and Lewis invented the "Roughie," which is shot in black & white with more violence than sex to set it apart from the "Nudie Cuties" (e.g., Doris Wishman's "Nude on the Moon"). Friedman has read a book about a kidnap story and made this movie about "two spoiled AHs that kidnap this poor girl" and taken her to their private hideaway. The two AHs are Carl Walker, Jr. (Byron Mabe) and Jameison Marsh (Jerome Eden), introducing Mai Jansson as Jane Collins, from Sweden via Spank McFarlane's acting school. You have Friedman's trademark whipping scene, lesbian scene, and so on (he talks about following the rules and going down the checklist). The standout scene is Jameison on the beach with the tease of undoing the string bikini, which certainly qualifies as an erotic scene compared to the rest of the film. "The Defilers" was shot in five days and $11,000 and really does look better than anything else I have seen in this genre to date, and director/cinematographer Lee Frost deserves the credit on that score.

The Drizzle Guard might be one of the great inventions of the 20th century and I just love the countdowns to show time. Then we have trailers for "All Women Are Bad," an indictment of the fair sex, "Sock It To Me Baby," and "Banned," which is supposedly about the making of a film that was banned. These are long trailers; the concept of teasers is clearly lost on these people. Following another short, "Intimate Diary of Artists' Models," we are back to trailers for "Aroused," "The Ultimate Degenerate," and "Confessions of a Psycho Cat." All of these trailers have more nudity and violence than either of these movies and indicate much more of an anti-woman bias than the two films on this DVD.

When you finally get to "Scum of the Earth" (1963) you are surprised because you sort of expected a trailer for it. But there are even bigger surprises in store. Directed by Lewis ("Blood Feast," "2000 Maniacs") there is none of his trademark gore and for a "Roughie" there is virtually no nudity. Kim Sherwood (Vickie Miles) is a high school student who is talked into doing some modeling by Sandy (Sandy Sinclair) for Harmon (Thomas Sweetwood)) the photographer. But it is a set up. Offered $500, the price of her college tuition, for doing some nude shots where her face will not be seen, more revealing photos are taken and Kim is offered a choice: Do more nude shots or her dad (Edward Mann) copies. Kim resists and has to visit Lang (Lawrence Wood), the head of this little pornography ring. This is where he suddenly launches into the infamous speech. What is so weird is that he goes from having a relatively calm discussion with Kim to suddenly reading her the riot act on being "dirty." Also, the speech is shot in a series of progressive close-ups, unlike the rest of the film. Then the cinematography and Lang both go back to normal. Weird. Lang has a couple of bad apples working for him, one of whom is Larry (Mal Arnold), a self-proclaimed "minor" who want to do more than just pose with Kim, and that is where a baseball bat becomes more than just a prop.

Once you finish the three-hour tour through the DVD go back and listen to the commentary track for "The Defilers" and check out the Gallery of Drive-In Exploitation Art with Sex-Hygiene Book Pitch. The common denominator in these two "Roughies" is that in the end good triumphs over evil when one of the bad guys decides he is not as bad as he thought. "Defilers" is a 4, "Scum" is a 3, and the DVD extras are a 5. Altogether this is a 5-star introduction to the genre, especially since you get "the speech."

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Defilers/Scum of the Earth [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
V/Jansson, M Miles
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6306244700
Release Date: 2001-02-20

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