Live 2003 (CD & DVD)

Coldplay - Live 2003 (CD & DVD)

Live 2003 (CD & DVD)
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Artist: Coldplay
Brand: Capitol Entertainment
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Politik
  2. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
  3. A Rush Of Blood To The Head
  4. One I Love
  5. See You Soon
  6. Shiver
  7. Everything's Not Lost
  8. Moses
  9. Yellow
  10. Clocks
  11. In My Place
  12. Amsterdam
Music CD 2
  1. Politik (DVD)
  2. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (DVD)
  3. A Rush of Blood To The Head (DVD)
  4. Daylight (DVD)
  5. Trouble (DVD)
  6. One I Love (DVD)
  7. Don't Panic (DVD)
  8. Shiver (DVD)
  9. See You Soon (DVD)
  10. Everything's Not Lost (DVD)
  11. Moses (DVD)
  12. Yellow (DVD)
  13. The Scientist (DVD)
  14. Clocks (DVD)
  15. In My Place (DVD)
  16. Amsterdam (DVD)
  17. Life Is For Living (DVD)

Free Music Notes for Live 2003 (CD & DVD)

Free Music Review: Justice To Their Live Show
Hit: 5 Stars

This combination live CD/DVD is taken from Coldplay's performance in Sydney, Australia on their 2003 world tour. Having attended Coldplay's concert in Austin, Texas on the same tour my opinion is that this package perfectly captures their live performance. I give both the CD and the DVD a rating of five stars because of the combination, the price, and the quality.

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.

Live 2003 (CD & DVD) Poster

The two-disc set includes a 90-minute, nine-camera, super 16 live shoot taken from their July 21 and 22, 2003 performances at the Horden Pavilion in Sydney, Australia, as well as band commentary, a never before broadcast behind-the-scenes documentary, a special tour diary and the edited audio CD. The DVD and CD will also include two PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED live tracks- "The One I Love" and "Moses."

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Riding high on the phenomenal success of A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay is in peak form on Coldplay Live 2003. This CD/DVD two-pack was filmed (on Super-16mm film) and recorded in Sydney's Horden Pavilion on July 21 and 22, 2003, during an exhaustive year-long world tour, and the medium-sized arena provides a fitting stage for the London-based rock quartet, not so grand as to overwhelm the music, but large enough to indicate their large and loyal following, which includes enthusiastic fans of either gender. Especially when played in DTS 5.1 surround, this 90-minute concert is richer, thicker, and (of course) louder than Coldplay's studio recordings, lending a wall-of-sound expansiveness to the band's signature sound, which draws from such diverse influences as Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Verve, U2, and their own unique sonic landscape. "Politik" gets the gig off to a rousing start, and other impressive! highlights include "Daylight," "Yellow," the as-yet-unreleased new song "Moses," and the popular hits "In My Place," "Clocks," and "The Scientist." And while the concert visuals are slick and professional (perhaps placing a bit too much emphasis on singer/frontman Chris Martin), this DVD and CD--the latter containing a truncated 70-minute version of the same performance--are best appreciated for their pristine audio quality. Culled from 400 hours of home video, the 40-minute "concert diary" represents a wasted opportunity, enjoyable for hardcore fans but offering no insight into the band or its individual members. Much better, then, to play the concert at healthy high volume, and appreciate Coldplay in the prime of their young career. --Jeff Shannon

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