| | |  | WORLD MUSIC | Home » » The Police: Certifiable - Live In Buenos Aires (2-DVD 2-CD Set) | | | | | | | Description: | | DVD 1: 109 minute concert presented in surround and stereo.
DVD 2: Bonus features: "Better Than Therapy," directed by Jordan Copeland, 50 minutes of exclusive content detailing the Police's historic reunion tour with interviews with the band and crew. Also contains two photo galleries of the Police on tour, one by guitarist Andy Summers and one by Danny Clinch. Includes 2-CD set as well.
2-CD Set Track listing:
CD 1:
1. Message In A Bottle
2. Synchronicity II
3. Walking On The Moon
4. Voices Inside My Head/When The World Is Running Down
5. Don't Stand So Close To Me
6. Driven To Tears
7. Hole In My Life
8. Truth Hits Everybody
9. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10. Wrapped Around Your Finger
CD 2:
1. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
2. Invisible Sun
3. Walking In Your Footsteps
4. Can't Stand Losing You/Reggatta De Blanc
5. Roxanne
6. King of Pain
7. So Lonely
8. Every Breath You Take
9. Next To You | | | Features: | |
• Condition: New
• Format: DVD
• NTSC; Color; DVD; Box set; Widescreen
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| Jordan Copeland | | Format:
| NTSC, Color, DVD, Box set, Widescreen | | Number of Discs:
| 4 | | Studio:
| A&M Records | | Run Time:
| 159 minutes | | Average Customer Rating:
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58 of 59 found the following review helpful:
 Incredible Awesomeness!Dec 25, 2008
By Oscar Jordan
The Bad: The packaging is weak because the discs keep sliding out.
With that out of the way this CD/DVD package is a miracle of great mixing and whatever post production fixes they did. I saw them twice on the '07-'08 tours and own bootlegs of them playing in various countries on this tour. This package sounds better than anything I ever saw live or heard in a bootleg format. They also play their set list better on this DVD package than they ever did from what I heard. It was recorded live in Buenos Aires over two days so the editors had some brilliant performances to choose from.
This piece of product is everything a TRUE Police fan would want them to sound like. They're not arrogant, ambitious and faux punk-rock-reggae guys hungry to make it anymore. They're mature, famous, top-notch musicians, playing excellent songs.
The overall sounds, guitar tones, bass, drum sounds and mixing is top of the food chain. The video coverage and shot composition is superb. Purists who still think it's 1983 may not dig all the song modifications such as the lowered keys, modulations and new-fangled textures, but they can bite me. Sting isn't 27 anymore and he sings those old songs with the honesty of a guy in his 50's the way he should.
Summers got raked over the coals on guitar forums for playing too much outside stuff during his solos on this tour. It was like he forgot what a pentatonic scale was. He was also hitting a lot of clams (bad notes) and sounded under rehearsed. In this package he brings it all together and wails with precision, great ideas and wild abandon. His patented shimmering chord textures are ungodly. Whoever helped him design his pedal board needs to get The Nobel Prize. He fades in perfect synth parts over muted guitar lines and gets great dirty tones. He's a joy to listen to on this package. He is a true guitar innovator. It doesn't even matter that he rarely played his trademark Telecaster. The Strat/Whammy combo gives him a lot more expression and he expresses a lot on these discs.
Copeland has calmed down in his maturity and refrains from rushing, speeding up, or over playing like the old days. I miss the old Copeland. It's what made The Police such a rhythmic force of nature. He still replicates a few of his signature reggae/ska/rock fills but he's much more in service of the singer these days. He plays wonderfully but I miss the tension and shameless virtuosity he use to create. The days when Summers would scream at him on stage to, "Slow down!" are long gone. Today he sounds like a normal drummer imitating Stewart Copeland on Xanax. His current style of drumming works much better musically and it's not like Sting is demanding him to "rawk" harder either. It's a different band. Sting lost the rawk long ago as well. This is a smooth rawkin' band.
Sting is a Golden God. His voice is in rare form. He hits all the high notes (Thanks to some lowered keys.), holds them forever, improvises vocal passages and plays perfect bass. He actually sings high parts while improvising funky melodic lines at the same time. He plays bass like a songwriter; tasteful and always in service of the song. His bass tones are rich, full and never muddy. His ideas for filling out some of the songs with Taurus pedals and pre-recorded backing tracks works like a dream. It compliments the songs while still maintaining the spaciousness that is part of the Police sound. It all works!
If you're a true Police fan you deserve to pleasure yourself with this package. The accompanying documentary of the behind the scenes rehearsal stuff is great. If you missed the tour, it's ok. This package sounds a lot better than actually being there. It's The Police the way they deserve to be heard.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
They. Sound. Amazing.Dec 08, 2008
By D. Richards
As a fan of The Police and Sting's solo career, I couldn't pass this one up because I didn't get to see the tour. I broke out the CD's first and listened to them while driving around. Didn't know what to expect, but I quickly progressed from "Hey, they sound pretty good" to "Oh My God! They sound #$@@ing GREAT!" All of the classics sound awesome, and when they want to play the songs traditionally, they sound better than ever.
But what I liked the best was when they changed it up a bit. My favorite song in the package is "Voices Inside My Head/When The World Is Running Down." They start out with this light jazz/funk groove and the song sounds completely fresh and then they bust right into the normal arrangement of When The World...and it sounds as good you remember it, if not better.
I saw Bono a couple of times last go round and I think he's losing a step vocally, at least when he's not hiding in a studio. Sting, on the other hand, sounded perfect and his solo years have given him an expressiveness that adds to their songs.
Anyway, I watched the concert after I knew all the songs and it's even better when you're watching them. Andy looks a little punchy, but he sounds great. Otherwise, they look like they own the stage together. The documentary is also well worth watching.
If you've ever bought a Police album, you need this.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great Drumming!Feb 06, 2010
By Jon7190
Many people have commented on how generally great this DVD is, and I agree. I wanted to write this to specifically say how awesome I thought the drums were. Stewart Copeland was always one of my favorite drummers. His unique style of rock/jazz/reggae playing helped define the Police's sound, a degree of influence most drummers don't have on their band. His beats and fills were always interesting. Based on this album, I think he has only gotten better, and it is so great to get to listen and watch him play on a modern, state of the art concert film. It isn't mentioned on the packaging or any reviews I've seen, but there is a drums only angle choice on 2 songs. Cool! If you a drummer and you are reading this, just buy it! (I wish I hadn't waited 2 years.)
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
don't hesitate-this is from heaven!Dec 25, 2010
By Burke D. Richardson
"flick hound"
Although I've been a rabid Amazon shopper for ten years, I've never bothered nor have I been moved to write a review-until now. Both the concert and the documentary are extremely moving, both in terms of the band's stunning musical virtuosity and the time-mocking brilliance and originality of their songwriting. The Police just plain embarrass most music acts present and past. And although I'd love another studio album, you'll see in the concert footage that the old songs have become living entities of their own, and are so loaded into people's lives and consciousness through generations and across cultures that only groups like the Beatles can compare. I'm extremely bummed out that I missed this tour, but the DVD/CD pack almost makes up for it. Don't hesitate even if you have all the Police albums. This is musical manna.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
awesomeFeb 17, 2010
By R. Miller
totally worth it and a great vid from the best band of the 80's... makes you wish you could see it live. Closest youll ever get to a concert of theirs with a great documentary and newer live versions of classic songs.
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