Dashboard Confessional - Mtv Unplugged (Bonus Dvd)
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Artist: Dashboard ConfessionalEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-12-17
Music Label: Vagrant Records
Soundtracks:
- Swiss Army Romance
- The Best Deceptions
- Remember to Breathe
- The Good Fight
- The Sharp Hint of the New Tears
- So Impossible
- Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
- Turpentine Chaser
- Living in Your Letters
- For You to Notice
- The Brilliant Dance
- Screaming Infidelities
- Saints and Sailors
- Again I Go Unnoticed
- Hands Down
Music reviews of Mtv Unplugged (Bonus Dvd)
Music Review: I hope the audience were paid royalties : P
Rating: 4 Stars
Of all the live albums I've heard, this has got to be the most prominent singing I've heard. Okay so Christopher Ender Carrabba enjoys having the audience sing along with him everytime he performs. Pardon the reviewers for not knowing. But most importantly pardon the fanatics who are bashing the reviewers with "well for those who aren't fans of...blah blah" comments.
I'm not a fanatic, but I enjoy music. I enjoy Dashboard Confessional's poetic and heartfelt songs. Most importantly I enjoy seeing artists perform these songs from their heart. This CD/DVD is definitely one of those performances.
Hearing the CD is awesome alone. But popping that DVD and playing it thru your beloved home theater is another experience. The audio recording and mixing quality is exceptional. The DVD is even mixed in 5.1 surround. The picture quality is exactly how you see MTV shoots their UnPlugged sessions. And for the price it's being sold, it beats everything else on the market with absurb mark-ups.
I would have given it 5 stars, but the thing is I came to hear Chris Carrabba sing his heart out - not the audience. The audio engineers already did a great job, but they should have lowered the audience volume a few notches down. We already know the audience love singing along his songs, so they could have prepared for that and remedied the situation in post. The only reason it isn't annoying is because you get used to it. Sigh.
I can understand those live performance instances when they allow the audience to sing a phrase or two. In fact it's amusing when that happens. In this case, all the familiar Dashboard songs they also sing their hearts out. They could have done this in any other Dashboard performance, but when it's being recorded for an album release it's just bewealdering that you can only scratch your head.
That said, it's still a solid album with a solid price worth collecting. In fact the arrangement of some of the songs are even better than the studio versions, which tend to be bland at times.
I don't mean to offend the Dashboard Confessional fanatics, but that's just the way it is. For the rest of us who enjoy their music, this is one great purchase you won't regret.
By the way, due to the obvious date of this performance you won't find "Vindicated" here. But how perfect it would have been...
Description of Mtv Unplugged (Bonus Dvd)
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.The MTV Unplugged concept was probably invented with someone like Florida singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba (a.k.a. Dashboard Confessional) in mind. Carrabba's relentlessly sad, impossibly frail acoustic songs--which effectively spawned the emo-core genre--have given alienated, cardigan-wearing guys and gals a snappy soundtrack to their pain. Dropping the heavily-inked guitarist amid his flock captures both the intimacy and awkwardness propelling Dashboard Confessional's best songs. Indeed, whether Carrabba is flying solo or is joined by a band, his MTV Unplugged--presented as a CD with an accompanying DVD--ranks as one of the most interactive sets ever; the fans know every single word to every single song and gosh darn if they don't sing their hearts out, sometimes completely hijacking the choruses. From opening number "Swiss Army Romance" through to the modern-rock hit "Screaming Infidelities," the assembled holler themselves hoarse in a glassy-eyed solidarity that would be eerie if it weren't so sweet. The sing-along aspect might be a drawback for fans searching for pristine live versions of studio recordings, but then again, Dashboard Confessional?s music is nothing if not communal. --Kim Hughes
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