Coldplay - Live 2003 (CD & DVD)

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Hit: 5 Stars

Instead of screwing the consumer and giving everyone yet another reason to download rather than purchase, someone in charge made the intelligent decision to package the CD and DVD together. Additionally, the packaged material is doubled, while the price is not. Smart.

The quality of both the performance and the production value are the real stars here. Personally, I don't like to see live releases from bands until after at least three to four studio albums to their credit; it usually makes for a more balanced concert experience. However, even with their growing record career, this recording presents a solid set list.

The CD works as a kind of live collection of Coldplay's greatest hits to date, taken from their rare first EP, "Parachutes," and "A Rush Of Blood To The Head," with a B-side and new song thrown in for good measure. Overall, the audio CD is a great recording and a great selection of tracks; shinning stars are "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face," "One I Love," and the great big sing-along "Everything's Not Lost."

The DVD is awesome! I have seen far too many live concerts that fall short of capturing a band's live performance. Additionally, there have also been an onslaught of bad "free" DVDs that have recently come packaged with new CDs, which are simply a weak ploy to try and combat rampant internet piracy. In sharp contrast, "Coldplay Live 2003" presents the band perfectly. Taken from the same Sydney performance from July of 2003, it shows the band in top form, featuring the entire concert, whereas the CD runs out of available space. Special features include lyrics (which the CD booklets do not), simultaneous multiple angles on fours tracks (taken from the stage show's giant screens), and a 40-minute documentary, featuring footage from Italy, a hometown gig in London, at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and at Red Rocks in Colorado. Overall, knowing that the 90 minute concert was shot on sixteen 16mm cameras in near-dark exposure conditions, edited in only four months, and features a very decent documentary detailing live concerts and backstage footage, "Coldplay LIve 2003" is a good accomplishment. The focus of the DVD, performance and documentary, remains on the band which is a great creative decision and the most entertaining for the fans.

The most important thing for me as a fan, whether live in person at a concert or watching live footage of the band, is that they perform just as well live as in studio, if not better. Coldplay did that in Austin and they do that here from Sydney. Additionally, the members of Coldplay seem to be good people: as seen from their on-stage performance (wanting to offer their best musically and include everyone in the audience) as well as in the documentary when they did not complain about a late night concert and an early, next morning radio show performance.

Overall, a solid concert, a great concert film, and worht watching or listening to again and again.

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