Stage: Live [DVD AUDIO]

Tracks:

Warszawa
"Heroes"
What In The World
Be My Wife (previously unreleased)
Blackout
Sense Of Doubt
Speed Of Life
Breaking Glass
Beauty And The Beast
Fame
(Band intro)
Five Years
Soul Love
Star
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Art Decade
Alabama Song
Station To Station
Stay (previously unreleased)

Customer Reviews:

Bowie in 5.1 Surround sound!!.......2006-11-08

This has always been my least favourite Bowie live album. Tony Visconti cleaned up the sound on the original version which made it loose the atmosphere, this however has been rectified with EMI's new re-release and to top it all it has a 5.1 surround mix. This is great except for Sense of Doubt where the base seems to be lost unless you listen to the Stereo version. Stay is fantastic and I have no idea why it was left of the original. I'm sorry to say that it's still my least favourite live album but has been vastly improved with this edition.

The Transmission Transition.......2006-01-21

This was the tour where Bowie played Bowie instead of hiding behind a persona. The choice of songs was inspired, its the way he chose to play them that leaves me slightly cold. One of the reasons the songs sound as they do may well have a lot to do with the influence of Carlos Alomar his guitarist, who openly admitted to wanting to bring more of a funky sound to Bowies material. This may work on one or two tracks (Stay, in particular) but at other times it all sounds to smooth for songs from his earlier career. This is an interesting transition period for David and altho Lodger and Scary Monsters was to follow, you can already begin to hear the calling of Nile Rodgers (much to Alomars delight). The other dvd-a album available, David Live is a much better piece of work and if you have to choose, leave this one alone and go for David Live. You wont be dissapointed

This is how a Live Surround mix should be done!.......2005-12-06

This disc is the second one in the new DTS Signature series of DVD-A releases and is absolutely superb in terms of technical quality and sound quality.
Rarely has a live show sounded so good - it's as if you are onstage with the band and David's vocals are, to quote the liner notes, "In your lap".
The album was originally recorded with the ill-fated Quadraphonic format in mind, and this shows well in the reissue featured here. Tony Visconti has done a superb job and you can feel the vibe right from the opening number.
Another good idea was restoring the show to it's original running order - the first vinyl release was arranged in chronological order for some reason.

There are a couple of little niggles here.
1 - this is only the second DVD-A I have ever seen without a Dolby Digital stream in the Video_TS, so unless you are DVD-A capable or have DTS decoders, you cannot play this disc.
2 - the stereo mix is not a dedicated one, but is a downmix derived from the surround.
3 - the stills are poor. 20 tracks, yet only 7 slides have been used.

This apart, the sound really is superb.
Well worth buying.

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