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Archive:D - new DVD
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Wayne Clarke
2003-07-29 09:56:19 UTC
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Hey guys

Have you seen the new Delirious? DVD? It's called Archive:D. It was
officially released at the end of May, but has only just made it into the
shops.

It's an impressive collection of Delirious material through the years.
Nothing much new, but a great DVD collection of songs, videos, live footage
and background.

It has on it:

- the whole of "a view from the terraces" - some of you will have this on
video

- Pro:mode - another old video of songs and behind-the-scenes stuff

- live visuals - in other words the moving graphics they show on screen
during live gigs. I'm not sure why anyone would want to watch these more
than once, but it's interesting to see them included.

- lots of song promo videos - all the classics including my favourite video
"in the pursuit of happiness", and a couple of unseen videos like "I could
sing..."

- background biographies - I was disappointed to find these were just text,
not band interviews. I don't like reading text from a TV screen, but if you
persist there's some good information here.

There's also "director's commentary" on a couple of videos which is pretty
poor.


Overall - yes, worth getting, especially if you have a DVD player.

Anyone else have any views on it?


Wayne, Liverpool
Phil Crawley
2003-07-29 16:08:32 UTC
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But it doesn't feature any of Delirious's TV appearances!

http://www.crawley.plus.com/delirious/

New stuff at the bottom.
Post by Wayne Clarke
Hey guys
Have you seen the new Delirious? DVD? It's called Archive:D. It was
officially released at the end of May, but has only just made it into the
shops.
It's an impressive collection of Delirious material through the years.
Nothing much new, but a great DVD collection of songs, videos, live footage
and background.
Wayne Clarke
2003-07-29 16:30:17 UTC
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They'd all be copyrighted to the TV companies and very expensive to use.
Post by Phil Crawley
But it doesn't feature any of Delirious's TV appearances!
http://www.crawley.plus.com/delirious/
New stuff at the bottom.
Post by Wayne Clarke
Hey guys
Have you seen the new Delirious? DVD? It's called Archive:D. It was
officially released at the end of May, but has only just made it into the
shops.
It's an impressive collection of Delirious material through the years.
Nothing much new, but a great DVD collection of songs, videos, live
footage
Post by Wayne Clarke
and background.
Dave Wood
2003-07-30 08:47:48 UTC
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Post by Wayne Clarke
Have you seen the new Delirious? DVD? It's called Archive:D. It was
officially released at the end of May, but has only just made it into the
shops.
Yes, I think we all discussed here it when it was released at the end
of May. I think its fantastic to finally have all the d: video
material on DVD. Yeah I know there isn't a great deal of new stuff on
there - but it has only ever been available on VHS before now - so it
is really cool to have it all on a DVD.
Post by Wayne Clarke
a couple of unseen videos like "I could sing..."
There aren't any unseen videos... they've all been available in
various places before. For example the 'I Could Sing' video was
included on the single in Dec 2001 (and on the Touch album in the US).
But yeah, they weren't ever released on VHS or DVD before.
Post by Wayne Clarke
There's also "director's commentary" on a couple of videos which is pretty
poor.
Are you kidding? I can't believe you can think that. The Director's
Commentaries on 'Everything' and 'Its OK' are the best part of the
whole DVD. They are fascinating - hearing Andy Hutch talk about how
they made the videos, and all the funny little stories that go along
with them. If you ask me, it is worth buying the DVD just for those
commentaries alone!

DAVE!!
http://www.delirious.org.uk
Rich
2003-08-01 16:05:21 UTC
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Post by Dave Wood
If you ask me, it is worth buying the DVD just for those
commentaries alone!
... the commentaries are definitely some of the best bits on the
album, it's just a bit of a shame that they didn't get Andy to do
commentaries for his other videos on the DVD (Take Me Away, Waiting
For the Summer, Pursuit of Happiness - that it?!)....

... then again, it depends on whether you're the kind of person who
likes to listen to Directors commentaries on DVD movies ;-)

rich
Dave Wood
2003-08-04 08:11:25 UTC
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Post by Rich
... the commentaries are definitely some of the best bits on the
album, it's just a bit of a shame that they didn't get Andy to do
commentaries for his other videos on the DVD (Take Me Away, Waiting
For the Summer, Pursuit of Happiness - that it?!)....
Yes I agree it's a shame they didn't get commentaries for those videos
as well - all though... Mr Hutch has promised to write an article
about all those videos for my site! I must chase him up about that.
Post by Rich
... then again, it depends on whether you're the kind of person who
likes to listen to Directors commentaries on DVD movies ;-)
Hmm, well I'm not generally somebody who enjoys listening to Directors
commentaries on a DVD movie... 2 hours of that can be dull... but when
it's a 3minute pop video, it doesn't have time to get boring. In fact
its quite amusing listening to Mr Hutch trying to fit everything he
wants to say about the video into just those 3 minutes.

DAVE!!
http://www.delirious.org.uk

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