30 WINNIPEG SUN I FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 2004 COMPACT decades, from Move it on Over to The Guess Who One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer. But damned if he doesn’t do it Running Back with the vitality of a man half his Thru Canada age. He isn’t the only one having a good time. ViK / BMG ### —DS If your Christmas list includes a local friend or relative who digs Live Stock music and is between 40 and 60, Devo your holiday shopping is a snap. Live in the Land Just hit the video store and pick up The Guess Who’s Running Guess Who top list of new concert DVDs of the Rising Sun Back Thru Canada DVD. The main event is the more than we can say for seems to be favouring on this live Sick / MVD band’s memorable Live in Boston, filmed in DVD, it won’t be long. If you buy Yeah Yeah Yeahs Talk about devolution. Older, storm-lashed concert at 2002 just weeks after the this for your kid, you’re a sad grayer and thicker around the mid- CanWest Global Park in drug-fuelled death of excuse for a parent. If you buy it Tell Me What Rockers dle, the once-mighty Spuds tarnish 2000. But along with the bassist John Entwistle. for yourself, you’re just sad. to Swallow their legacy by squeezing back into powerful 16-song gig You’d think watching # —DS those yellow jumpsuits and flower- (which originally aired on Pete Townshend and Interscope / Universal pot hats for a 2003 tour of Japan, CBC), you get five bonus Roger Daltrey carry on in Wondering what all the fuss over where they robotically pump out tunes that didn’t make DARRYL the wake of tragedy David Bowie Yeah Yeah Yeahs is about? Check their hits like trained seals. Please, the initial cut, one song STERDAN would be moving. But A Reality Tour out this live DVD and you’ll know. boys, stop before you embarrass from the tour’s opening [email protected] mostly it’s just depress- Bizarro singer Karen O is a mes- yourselves. Oops, too late. show in Newfoundland, a ing — like watching two ISO / Sony merizing combination of Iggy Pop, #1/2 — DS 20-minute interview with Burton escaped lifers shackled together The Thin White Duke is a benev- Patti Smith, Courtney Love, P.J. Cummings and Randy Bachman, on a raft, paddling like hell but olent monarch in this stylish 2003 Harvey and a kid on a sugar high, Jefferson Airplane and rehearsal footage. On second going in circles. Hearing them plod live set, romping through a gener- while the guitar-and-drums band thought, better buy two copies — through a sluggish set with a new ous 30-song set that reaches from rock way harder than one nerd and Fly Jefferson Airplane once you get a load of the way bassist is bad enough; hearing Ziggy Stardust to New Killer Star. a goth oughta. Plenty of extras these old guys can still kick out them snipe at each other in the No major extras, but after a 150- including videos, backstage The Doors the jams, you’re gonna be sorry interviews (Roger’s first thought at minute show, who really needs an footage and fan interviews. you don’t have one for yourself. John’s death: “F—! I’m stuck with encore? #### —DS Live in Europe: 1968 the miserable one!”) is worse. We ####1/2 —DS ###1/2 —DS still have hopes for a new Who Eagle Vision / EMI album; DVDs, not so much. Curtis Mayfield Two flashback-inducing sets for The Who Isle of Wight: #### Steve Earle / Live at Ronnie Scott’s the hippie in your household. Fly Boston: # Jefferson Airplane is a decent doc- Live at the Isle of The Flatlanders / Sanctuary / EMI umentary on the seminal psyche- Wight Festival 1970 The silken-voiced ’70s soul leg- delic San Franciscans, with a slew Gene Simmons Susan Tedeschi end plays an hour of classics like of interviews, archival footage and Eagle Rock / EMI full performances of classics like Speaking in Tongues Live From Austin, Texas People Get Ready, Pusherman and Live in Boston Freddie’s Dead at a British club in White Rabbit and Somebody to Sanctuary / EMI New West / Sony 1988, during his tragically brief Love. The Doors’ Live in Europe is Warner KISS bassist Gene Simmons comeback. Sadly, Superfly isn’t on a spottier affair, with assorted TV That title should read Live From and live versions of chestnuts like Not all Who albums are created spends a mildly amusing hour Austin City Limits. Each of these the set list, but an interview by equal. Neither are all Who DVDs — hanging out in his Hollywood man- Paul Weller is decent consolation. When the Music’s Over, Light My excellent DVDs has a full hour-plus Fire and Hello, I Love You, fleshed especially not these two. Live at sion, playing standup comic on an set that was shot and edited down ###1/2 —DS the Isle of Wight and Live in Australian lecture tour, cavorting out with interview snippets and for the long-running music show. tales of Morrisonian excess from Boston sit at opposite ends of the with celebs and models, hyping And each entry in this new series spectrum. The former captures the his wares and jabbering about his George tourmates Grace Slick and Paul is a sure-fire winner with great per- Kantner. original band in full, breathtaking favourite subject: Himself. formances and unaired footage. Airplane: #### flight at a U.K. rock festival, blast- ## —DS Whether you start with a raucous Thorogood ing through a fiery 85-minute set 1986 set from a young Steve Earle, 30th Anniversary Tour Doors: ### —DS that includes most of their then- Christina Aguilera a folksy 2002 gig by local heroes latest album Tommy. Despite the The Flatlanders, or an eye-opening Eagle Vision / EMI amateurish production, if you’re a Tangerine Dream Stripped: Live in the U.K. 2003 gig by funky blueswoman “I know I’m fulla s—t, but I’m Who fan — and who isn’t? — it’s Susan Tedeschi, this is the next having a good time,” says the Live in America / 1992 essential. Which is RCA / BMG best thing to being there. Delaware Destroyer. We couldn’t Eagle Vision / EMI No, it doesn’t quite live up to Each: ####1/2 —DS put it better. At a recent U.K. gig, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. the title. But judging by the S&M Thorogood plows through the blue- # stage set and outfits Xtina collar blues-rockers he’s been —DS doing for FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 2004 I WINNIPEG SUN 31 Top Tens DISCS Pop Singles For more CD reviews www.canoe.ca 1. AWAKE IN A DREAM Kalan Porter LIVE actually seems to consist of left- 2. YEAH! Usher overs from the original sessions, 3. LET’S GET IT STARTED The Donnas judging by the personnel and Black Eyed Peas recording data. Even better, their 4. I BELIEVE Fantasia Gold Medal joint tour quickly collapsed into vio- 5. AMERICAN IDIOT Green Day lence and jealousy, with Kelly suing 6. BALLA BABY Chingy Atlantic / Warner Jay for $75 million after being pep- per-sprayed and booted off the bill. 7. COME CLEAN Hilary Duff Thank heaven for bad girls “Make up to break up, that’s all we 8. EVERYTIME Britney Spears — ’cause bad girls get better do,” croons Kelly here with remark- 9. AMAZING George Michael every day. At least, The able insight. Guess that means a 10. I BELIEVE Diana DeGarmo Donnas do. threepeat is only a matter of time. On their sixth album and sec- #1/2 Source: Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems ond major-label release, these —DS California punkettes trade in their Rolling Stones Ramones shirts, buy some old 2Pac Local Best-Sellers Stones albums and get in touch Live Licks with their inner guitar-rawk god- Live 1. CHUCK Sum 41 Virgin / EMI desses. Leaner, cleaner and Death Row / Koch 2. STARDUST … GREAT AMERICAN sharper than their previous work, Gold Medal’s dozen cuts find the SONGBOOK VOLUME III We call shenanigans! Since the Well, at least we know Suge gals tempering their trademark girl-group brashness with slightly Rod Stewart early ’90s, the Stones have stuck to Knight has a sense of irony. mellower ’70s rock and metal grooves, stronger melodies and more 3. HILARY DUFF Hilary Duff the same game plan — put out a # —DS studio album, do a world tour, put laid-back, sultry vocals. 4. WORDS & MUSIC John Mellencamp out a live album. But with the two- Sure, they still “just want to get you undressed.” But instead of just SOUNDTRACK 5. CONFESSIONS Usher disc Live Licks — their eighth con- kneeing you in the crotch and ripping off your clothes, Brett 6. AMERICAN IDIOT Green Day cert release — Mick, Keef and the Anderson and co. shimmy up beside you, breathe huskily in your ear 7. MIRACLE Celine Dion lads are getting ahead of them- and talk you out of your trousers — before kicking you out of bed 8. FUTURES Jimmy Eat World selves. And pushing their luck. Live and asking “is that all you’ve got for me?” Ouch. It doesn’t get much 9. THE CHRONICLES OF LIFE & DEATH Licks, taped on their last tour, fol- better — or badder — than that. Good Charlotte lows 2002’s Forty Licks best-of and Wish we were as impressed with the DualDisc technology utilized 10. GENIUS LOVES COMPANY 1998’s live set No Security, making on Gold Medal.