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DVD SUPPLEMENT
ON TARGET MEDIA
CAROLE KING/Welcome to My Living Room: I just want all you smart ass kids to take note: just because you make one of the biggest albums of all time, wrote some of the biggest songs of all time and can still sell lout a tour long after the biz decides you are well past your shelf date doesn’t mean that you too won’t end up a cottage industry one day. Of course, the nice thing is you get to keep all the money after expenses. A delightful live greatest hits package from a heritage icon, this set includes a bunch of songs not on the cd of this tour released few years back as well as bonus features and featurettes that geeks demand on their dvd packages. Fessing up to being 63 at the time of the taping, King is in fine voice and form and handles the new media challenges with a lot more grace than many of her contemporaries are mustering. Since there’s never more than a trio going on here, King does a great job of showing her command of the stage and the medium, particularly in the solo segments. If you found the cd to be a nice welcome back, this takes it to the next level.
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PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
TWIN PEAKS Definitive Gold Box Edition: For a show that jumped the shark early on and sputtered to a quick finish it’s had a pretty long after burn. In the rush to get TV shows out on DVD, the gap between “Peaks” seasons was a brutal wait. Here’s the kissy face for the hard core fan, a David Lynch involved super collection that of course serves up all 29 episodes. Then it throws in two versions of the pilot. Then you get a bunch of extra features that are a must for the real geek, whether deleted scenes, a new interview with Lynch or a corralling of things like the SNL satire. Then come the geegaws, in this case a set of post cards. With the holidays coming and you not knowing what to get for that friend/relative that still cares about who killed Laura Palmer, hmmm. This is a fine example of how to treat fans right.
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SHOUT! FACTORY
JOHNNY CASH CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 1976 (10697); 1977 (10698): So let’s get the kvetch out of the way: C’mon guys, these shows aren’t so long that you couldn’t have fit them on one discs. Alright, let us begin. These shows haven’t been seen for 30 years and are certainly a nice post card form another time zone with this being another Christmas Johnny and June won’t be with us. There were things you could get away with in the late 70’s that are deliciously out of step, like having Tony Orlando on board for a duet on “Doo Dah” and Johnny and June kicking it out on a depressing Guy Clark song to add holiday cheer. In 1977, the million dollar quartet regroups with Roy Orbison filling the Elvis spot to play tribute to the recently passed Elvis. Tell me it’s not a gas to hear Cash croak out “Silent Night” and “Frosty the Snowman”. Certainly a nice compliment to the recently released comp from his own show, you tell me Christmas with the Cashes in the 70’s wasn’t a gas.
SONY PICTURES
THREE STOOGES COLLECTION V. 1 1934-36: Stooges fans are a rabid lot but until now Columbia/Sony has chosen to treat them as shabbily as they were treating the Stooges with those 6 episode, over priced single discs of generally random episodes. It would take over 30 discs to complete the collection if and when the company ever got around to it. Meh. The tide has turned. This is the kick off set in showcasing the Stooges properly on dvd. Starting at the beginning and running in order, this collection serves up the first two years of Stoogosity including to what amounts to ten percent of their legacy. After an unStooge like beginning with a short told entirely in rhyme, the mayhem gets out of the gate and a legend is forged. With enough classic Curly filling these bytes and remastering that fills out every plinking eye poke and thunking head knock, this is the way Stooge fans should be treated instead of cynically milking them like the cash cow they are. Now excuse me if I go find out if it’s heredity or environment. Oh, Curlington….
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Volume 30/Number 361
October 27, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2007 Midwest Record
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