Video Addictions

Starring:Robert Palmer
Studio: Universal Music & VI
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

No song menu, videos are butchered by voice over
Hey Robert, stop yakking.
Island Re-Releases Early 90's Palmer Retrospective

Video Addictions
Starring: Robert Palmer
Manufacturer: Universal Music Group
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000UM080
Release Date: 2005-07-19

Customer Reviews:

No song menu, videos are butchered by voice over.......2005-12-01

Like another reviewer here, I was looking forward to seeing the "Johnny and Mary" video on this DVD as it rarely receives airtime. Imagine my disgust when the first part of the video has Robert Palmer giving voice over commentary, ruining the opening of the music video! Most of the other music videos have this same voice over commentary for the first 30 seconds.

Another omission is a DVD menu to select each video clip, instead you have to navigate sequentially through the music videos + commentary.

Hey Robert, stop yakking........2005-09-30

Other reviewers have covered the main concepts and contents of this Robert Palmer collection competently enough, so I'm just going to mention some good and bad extra details that you may find useful. At the time of writing this review, Amazon doesn't have any copies for sale. I bought mine for under $18 in Australia, so if you have a multizone player check out the Australian retailers.
When firing up the DVD I was stunned to find there was no option for choosing an individual song. While the songs do actually have chapter stops, you can't pick a song from the front-end menu. You have to select "play all" and then keep hitting the ">>I" button on your remote. A real nuisance if you want to hear the 13th song!
My other major gripe involves Robert giving a brief introduction to the camera for each clip. While I found this to be interesting and a nice touch, the problem is that the producers made an artistic decision to have Robert talking over the "intro" of the song (or the "outro" of the previous song). So the punchy and seriously groovy intro of "Johnny and Mary" is completely lost. I was not impressed.
A couple of positive points - the sound quality is great on all the songs, video and audio appears to have been remastered .
At the price I paid this was still a good value Robert Palmer collection, but a big opportunity still exists for someone to release a comprehensive Robert Palmer clip DVD collection with more songs, a decent menu system and no voiceovers interfering with the music.

Island Re-Releases Early 90's Palmer Retrospective.......2005-05-12

Video Addictions is a 1992 Island Records release now being reintroduced on DVD nearly two years after singer Robert Palmer's passing. This collection of MTV music videos (which was hosted by Palmer himself), does feature some truly rare work from the singer's early days as a solo artist in the mid 70's, as well as some of the earliest known footage of Palmer in concert (opening for Little Feat circa 1976). Other than introducing the songs and occassionally describing briefly about the concept of the video, Palmer himself added nothing to this collection. This isn't actually a career retrospective as there is no interview or discussion corresponding with the videos, just the singer introducing clips with little history or context for them or for the songs. If you enjoyed Robert Palmer's music, you do get videos for most of his noteable hits including "You Are In My System", "Looking For Clues", "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On", "Simply Irresistible" and of course "Addicted To Love", as well the his videos with The Power Station. Several late 80's/early 90's videos are excluded however, likley due to licensing conflicts (Palmer left Island Records in 1987, and "Simply Irresistible" is the only non-Island clip in this collection). Top 20 Hits like "Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You", "Early In The Morning", and "You're Amazing" are not represented at all, although there is a video (made new in 1992) for his late 70's hit "Every Kinda People", remade specifically for this project. All in all, it's what's missing that overshadows what's here. These clips alongside an interview, especially with the aforementioned missing songs included, would have made a great DVD retrospective for the late singer. As is, Robert Palmer fans will have to make do. This is the only widely available DVD release of any of Palmer's solo work currently available in the US.

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