Massive Attack - Eleven Promos

Starring:Olegar Fedoro, Shara Nelson, Tricky, Mira Sorvino, Grant Marshall (II), Massive Attack, Tracey Thorn, Robert del Naja, Mushroom Vowles
Director: Michel Gondry, Wiz, Jonathan Glazer, Walter Stern, Stephane Sednaoui, Baillie Walsh
Studio: Virgin Records Us
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Best band with the Worst Videos...
Great Videos MONO SOUNDTRACK
My Mind is Upside Down!
For the Value - It's Worth it!
Massive flashbacks...

Massive Attack - Eleven Promos
Starring: Olegar Fedoro , Tracey Thorn , Shara Nelson , Massive Attack , and Mushroom Vowles
Director: Wiz , Stephane Sednaoui , Jonathan Glazer , Walter Stern , and Baillie Walsh
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000639HM
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Customer Reviews:

Best band with the Worst Videos..........2006-03-02

Massive Attack is one of the best bands ever in my opinion, so it's twice the shame that their videos should feel like rejected concepts tossed at other bands. Rapping at a table. Bad lip-syncing down a boring street. Returning to a gritty apartment. A white guy watching his wife cheat on him with two black men. A baby singing in the womb. A stripper video that is a great example of nudity for nudity's sake. These are some of the worst video concepts ever completed, even early 90's Madonna videos had more taste than this. It's astonishing when the band and their live shows are so clearly intending to bring us something different.

I have to say though, that the video for ANGEL should be seen, as it is the one great video they've done.

Great Videos MONO SOUNDTRACK.......2004-04-11

I was pretty disappointed with the DVD's sound. I have not a problem if the band decided to release the videos in mono, but somebody along the way forgot to inform the customers about this decision, and the disc itself has printed "LPCM Stereo" on it. That is the ONLY problem I have with the soundtrack.

I don't ask for 5.1 sound, simply because 90% of music DVD's with 5.1 are "faux", in other words, echo and reverb added on the surrounds, which results in horrible sound imaging. Much better off with PCM Stereo and using your amplifier's Dolby Prologic II if you can.

Why am I disappointed? Well, I don't recall if the videos were in stereo when I watched them on TV, but if they were, which I highly think the case, then a mono soundtrack doesn't hold true to the original video as it was conceived.

Anyway, still a collection of great videos from some amazing directors like Gondry and Sednaoui.

Recommended

My Mind is Upside Down!.......2004-02-13

This is a nearly perfect music-DVD. The videos (the good ones) are top notch. They will continue to bring you back for more viewings.
There are, however, very dissapointing things on this DVD. The actual DVD menu is absolutely sparse and pretty bad. And the first four or five videos you can forget about - one of which is pretty much soft-core porn (seems bizarre and stupid).
Disregarding those minor draw-backs the remaining videos shine! If it were not for the bad things mentioned above this would easily be five stars.
Some videos are genious - they are simply works of art created around songs that are works of art unto themselves.
This DVD is no question worth the price - i could watch the videos of Angel, Teardrop, Inertia Creeps, or Karmacoma at least ten more times. I can also imagine this as a backdrop for a chill-out time with your friends
THOUGHT PROVOKING, INTERESTING, TWISTED, BUT SOMETIMES UTTERLY STUPID.
(sorry if i'm being too harsh)

For the Value - It's Worth it!.......2003-07-22

I seem to buy a lot of DVDs with videos on them, and I could not pass up these 11 promo videos from Massive Attack. It's like a GREATEST HITS or SINGLES package, so it should please the casual as well as obsessive fan. Songs go chronilogically in order throughout the disc. There are no extras - just eleven videos in stereo with no bells or whistles. But most of these don't need explaining. The good part is that you have many guest vocalists near the end - Tracy Thorne of EBTG, and Tricky to name two. So it seems to lend itself to parties or bar settings! Video quality is fine, though on widescreen televisions you may see some funky aspect ratios. This is built for squares! It's only in 2.0 stereo, but so were the singles. Wish more bands would release their videos this way!

Massive flashbacks..........2003-07-16

In 1991 I was fortunate to be a vocalist for a band and we opened for Massive Attack during their first US tour supporting Blue Lines. They didn't bring Shara Nelson and their stage show wasn't quite worked out yet but they had 3 videos on VHS that they were handing out. The VHS has been long lost so to get this DVD is a flash from the past for me. But some of their later videos (circa 1998) I couldn't quite get into as much. Too much focus on 3-D in the camera. But still it is cool to have this DVD and travel down memory lane.....

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