The Magic of Music DVDs: Video Compilations, Live Concerts, and Oddities!

[@davekennedy6315]

The extended Thriller video is incredible too.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

it's in 4k on KZbin now.. worth a watch

[@Zerdok311]

Being one of your older viewers, I really gotta say keep going with your “old man bitching” series dude. I’ve quite enjoyed these vids and you always surprise me with your refreshingly mature takes on music and media. Plus, I’d imagine this series has a well of content to pull from!

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i think if i find a compelling old man thing to talk about then i'll make another one.. music vidoe DVD's where such a huge part of my life growing up and I felt like I had ignored the topic for too long

[@janicestewart8291]

During covid lock-down, I got on Amazon and started looking and purchasing all the music/ bands concert DVDs I could get my hands on--- It saved my sanity. Had to laugh, you showed a few of the DVDs I bought. I purchased the 1969 Woodstock concert, Live Aid 1985, Queen, Elton, Dire Straits, The Cure, The Stones, etc...etc... There's nothing better, like you said...to just jam out at home.

[@itmightgetdark]

growing up, my best friend's dad would always put on music DVDs like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon back when surround sound systems were a rarity. I still love Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

surround sound was a luxury back then, only my rich friends had it lol, then we finally got it when i was mid-teens

[@HiGlowie]

Kodachroooooooooome

[@tylerbrunton7696]

Really glad to see one of the other Smashing Pumpkins DVDs in the thumbnail. Great video!

[@SteveBrandon]

I'm glad that I have ABBA's music videos on DVD because, while the 4K remasters generally were improvements, the colour grading on the "Super Trouper" video has a super green tint to it that makes Frida look like she's beginning to turn into the She-Hulk while the standard definition DVD version definitely did not have that green tint. (On the other hand, the ABBA video DVD I have has part of the visuals in "Waterloo" looped for some reason while the 4K version has the missing part of the film restored.) I have a Weird Al Yankovic music video compilation DVD from the late 1990s but, when the spoof biopic WEIRD came out, I was reminded of his earlier 1985 mockumentary The ComplEAT Al which I had rented as a kid and which I noticed was still available on DVD at Amazon Canada. It's got the music videos from his first three albums but I was mainly interested in the biopic portions and I had completely forgotten about the extended sequence with Al's first trip to Japan which was where I first learned about the existence of "Pachinko" machines.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

he could release a new video collection with all the video content he's released since the last one he put out... i'd buy it

[@Antiprogressivepraxis]

Def Leppard Historia DVD. 📀 🎸

[@jbird_inc]

I've recently got into collecting music DVDs/Blu-Rays and am now hooked. Discs mastered in 5.1 surround sound amazing and as a huge NIN fan I have collected all video content Trent has put out on disc.

[@JR-tg2nq]

Around 2004, I started buying music video dvd, being in the radio industry I have collected a lot of the Promo only, and other promotional service dvd releases as well as trading with others to get older video collections from ETV and telegenics, also some good collections on laserdisc like mtv closet classics, the tube's (where the lead singer tells u to flip the disc over) and many commercial sets, usa and imported. You are right having the physical media is best because you control what you want to see in the best quality & no ads. You get versions that nay not be available. Great video from a music video collector.

[@brind4001]

The PLAY dvd was my introduction to Peter Gabriel. Probably as good an intro I could have had tbh.

[@patrickreichert1442]

I have many VHS 😂 and DVD compilations from my favs and a lot of concert bootlegs in DVD as well! Always excited for the extras and Easter eggs!

[@ChrisXperince]

I have all those too, plus I used to make full discography music video on my computer, I miss those times and FREEMAKE full version

[@patrickreichert1442]

@@ChrisXperince awesome bro!

[@KCroyales3]

having your favorite band performing live on DVD...I don't know man...sounds like a real Cool Dad thing to own

[@LarryMarsh]

When Im looking for CDs at Goodwill, other thrift stores and garage sales. Im always looking for music DVDs.

[@jpturboz4323]

There was always a Music DVD that I really wanted that showcased the band's live shows, behind the scenes, and special songs on a special cd, and the DVD was Enlarged To Show Detail by 311, which is a very underrated band in my opinion

[@cactoidpinata]

Another great subject! Remember the dual sided discs that were CD on one side and DVD on the other? Chevelle had a couple of those. Ever had a music video ruin a song for you? I have unfortunately. A couple of my favorite music videos are Filter + TCM - Trip Like I Do and David Bowie + NIN - I'm Afraid of Americans. Static X has been doing some cool stuff with their shorts, even though I hate shorts, lol. I'm glad you mentioned Stop Making Sense, great DVD!

[@DancingwithGhosts]

nawww but i have been majorly let down by a music video that has a great song. The SIlversun Pickups song "It Doesn't Matter Why" is suchhh a good song with such a cheap, cheesy music video... the song sounds so epic yet the video is so low-budget and lazy

[@harrybehemoth2751]

I would not have pegged you as a Genesis fan. That's a great DVD. Most of their concert and documentary DVDs are great too.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

huge genesis fan.. i have almost all of their media.. DVD's, CD's.. the only thing i didn't manage to get was their live CD boxset.. the grey one

[@GTV-Japan]

I loved music video DVDs! There was a time where music videos were only on MTV a few times and then disappeared forever. So it was great to cheaply buy some DVDs and see 10 year old videos you thought you’d never see again. 📀

[@DancingwithGhosts]

absolutely! and to see for the first time videos you didn't even know existed. I would often wonder why I would see a lot of a certain video but not the other, probably boiled down to behind the scenes politics at Mtv or the song popularity

[@GTV-Japan]

They clearly had to play what was most popular but even mega hits were out in less than a year. But did MTV decide what was a hit? Yes. Certainly. Were you old enough to remember the makeover MTV had in 1997? Tried to take it back to the original format. Total Request Live was a serious show at 10 pm. Lots of interactivity aimed at older audiences. But then it didn’t work and they went with teeny bopper stuff and ran with it forever after.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@GTV-Japan i was barely coherent enough to know about pop culture at that point in time

[@GTV-Japan]

@@DancingwithGhostsah ok. It was a cool experiment but it didn’t work.

[@jonbourgoin182]

I worked at a record store in the mid 2000s and the sheer amount of these things on offer was unbelievable. Bands that you'd never think would have a DVD, had at least one. Even if it was just a collection of music videos... Edit dude I just remembered to ask, do you remember ENHANCED CD's? Music CDs that you could put in your PC and get bonus content? You should do a video on those! On the back of the jewel case it would say "Enhanced CD" at the bottom Edit 2: you said this was the last video on past music stuff. Boo

[@joshtoten]

He did technically do one on those. It was more about hidden tracks but he did mention the ones that had interactive stuff.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah, enhanced CD's might be the fourth video in the series.. i'd have to buy some up off eBay.. i only have like one or two.. one of them is limp bizkit of course it's like 120p quality of someone spray painting their "significant other" logo lol

[@jonbourgoin182]

@@DancingwithGhosts blink 182's Enema of the State has a pretty cool bonus video on it with an instrumental of What's My Age Again on it.

[@markjackson419]

The history of the eagles is a two disc biography of the eagle on blu ray. It also has an amazing bonus disc with a full concert from the Hotel California tour. I also enjoy Jimi Hendrix concert DVDs. My favorite is called blue wild angel, Jimi Hendrix live at the Isle of Wight.

[@ng0249]

always enjoyed good music dvds when i was younger. edit: radiohead's meeting people is easy is supposed to be good, or so i've heard.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i don't have that one surprisingly

[@blankdisk5]

As a former DVD purchasing addict I gotta show love for music DVDs, truly a lost art (along with DVD menus). While the Chris Cunningham DVD is a cornerstone of my collection, the two music DVDs I watched more than any other were NIN's "And all that could have been" and Marilyn Manson's "Guns God and Government". Both have amazing editing, and both have extra content that any fan would eat up (ie Manson performing with NIN at MSG, and a behind the scenes montage of MM's tour featuring all the Holywood tracks that didn't make it into the main performance). The one thing I thought you'd mention but didn't was NIN's "Broken" movie (maybe because it was never released on DVD). The only way to get that movie for most of the 90's was to know someone who had it and get them to dub it for you. I saw a so-so copy of it when i was about 17-18 and it truly disturbed me, and honestly traumatized me for many years and I'm still not sure if some of the more violent bits were real or not.

[@joshtoten]

Yeah, Broken was nearly impossible to come across until Trent released a bootleg DVD on torrent sites in like .. 2005? He also had a DVD bootleg for Closure when I watched the hell out of during those days. Never did come across a VHS copy in the wild. 😢

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i'd heard about it and was interested in it but if it wasn't at my local CD store, i had no other recourse back in the day

[@kyliepollert8341]

My suggestion is to make a video on CD compilations like "NOW! That's What I Call Music", as well as ones made by companies like Razor & Tie (as mentioned in "What's the deal with Kidz Bop?" video) and Time Life Music that were sold on TV in the 90's; these include the likes of "Monster Ballads", "Sounds of the Eighties", "Rock This Way" and "Living in the 90's", to name a few. While this trend has bygone thanks to Spotify, KZbin and Apple Music, I owned several of these growing up and they were my introduction to many classic songs and artists/bands.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

good suggestion, i wrote that one down

[@BraveBladeProductions]

Metallica's S&M DVD is still my all time favourite concert film. When concerts are properly captured it can be a real treat for music fans.

[@slunkster2990]

All I think I can say is that I think you said it perfectly! This video is exactly the kind of shit I think or have thought about.. You taking the time to do it is well yea I like all your stuff man just keep doing it! People come for the 'you' not the content after the while anyway, right? Love your channel oh I have jammed your music a bit too, I will continue to do that :)

[@HiGlowie]

We were given Right Beside You In Time for free after a NIN show. Some of my favorite music DVDs were Primus’ Hallucino-Genics, Blame It On The Fish and NIN’s And All That Could Have Been

[@DancingwithGhosts]

hallucinogenetics was the tits! playing the entirety of Frizzle Fry on Disc 1 or set 1 was epic

[@thebeatlesandoasis05]

Machina is the best Smashing Pumpkins album and that “Try” video is amazing

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i still enjoy it.. i re-watched it again while making this video. I wonder why it all took place in The Netherlands or whatever and that was never really acknowledged

[@attaxwrongnes]

Those work of director dvd were awesome. Pre access to most visual media it was inspiring to watch beastie boys sabotage vhs and fugazi's instrument and pavement slow century dvds . viewphoria by the pumpkins is another good one and as a young metal head in the mid 90s i liked who then now by korn and dead to the world by marilyn manson. Nirvanas live tonight sold out is another classic. But thats enough just listing all music dvds and vhs tapes this video and the 2 before it have been great man keep up the good work.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

I own some Live Concerts DVDs. Coldplay Live 2003 in Toronto, A James Brown DVD and Martin Scorceses The Last Waltz, which is the last concert by "the Band" and RHCP in Slane Castle🤔

[@illuminatedGaming33]

One of my favorites is "Motorvision" by Soundgarden i think from 91 or 92. My friend's mom had a VHS copy and I traded Yoshi's island (snes) for it, for i had beaten the game, literally 100 times and this tape seemed edgy and what "older kids were into" my mom found it and assumed it was explicit and almost took it away. I guess cause...you know "rock n' roll, grunge, Seattle" means drugs and stuff...she viewed it and was like, well....i guess you can keep it lol. Great memory and i still have the VHS in storage.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

that's awesome

[@kc9715]

My all-time favorite concert DVDs - SLAYER : Live Intrusion and SLIPKNOT : Disasterpieces. 🤘

[@ducko5404]

Disasterpieces was Slipknot at their absolutely best

[@mikeshannon9834]

I must have watched SP's Vuephoria on VHS almost as much as I listened to Siamese Dream. Peter Gabriel's secret world live is the best concert film of all time. And rushs doc and the sound city docs are the best music docs of all time.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

ooh very nice, all very good picks!

[@ertertwert1]

I still buy live concert blu rays/dvds mainly to copy the audio.

[@Ace_of_Horns]

I have an appreciation for music videos and the dying art of music dvds, but when it comes down to it I just wanna hear the music. Especially with how many music videos have segments where the music pauses and the sound effects from the video will start playing.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah those pauses are annoying and can be awkward if you have a music video playlist going on at a party or something

[@ducko5404]

I really loved Pantera’s compilation DVD 3 vulgar videos from hell. It combines their home videos Cowboys From Hell: The Videos, Vulgar Video and 3 Watch It Go. It was sucha fun release for die hard teenage Pantera fan. It includes music videos, live videos, interviews and Jackass style backstage footage of them fucking around and partying.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

my ex was obsessed with pantera (esp phil anselmo) so she had me watch those, they were indeed entertaining

[@ashtraydekay6624]

this was a great video, but one type of release you left out, was the "band home movie" like the pantera home videos, and korns' "who then now?"

[@eye_made_this]

As some one who makes music videos for a living, this video pleases me!

[@Harjawaldar]

Still have all of my music DVDs, mostly metal concerts. Fun to put on during pregaming beers or on a night with the boys. A good thing about the music DVDs is that many of them have high audio quality, from 700kbs-1500 kbps, which is so much better than the compressed sound from some ripped concert on youtube. I usually find the stereo track to sound better than the 5.1 if they offer the choice. I'd say my most played music DVD is Ozzy live at budokan from 2002. A thought on music videos: was watching VH1 and MTV the other day and they air a bunch of 80s and 2000s music videos in really poor video quality. It would be so cool if someone took the time to transfer them to HD, if that's even possible. They could have such a cultural impact from that, instead of looking like old relics.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah you really have to have your 5.1 set up properly to achieve it's maximum potential. There are channels on KZbin that are converting old videos to 4K (especially michael jackson for some reason)

[@Harjawaldar]

@@DancingwithGhosts I think I need some acoustic treatment in my living room.

[@theaceofspades56]

Always enjoyed and still enjoy music DVD's. My favs are still: Type O Negative After Dark and Symphony for the Devil. Samhain Live 1984 Pantera 3 Vulgar videos from hell (Preferably the rerelease with menu options 'cause the og was just like VHS with no way to easily choose certain moments without fastfor thru 4hours of stuff) Judas Priest The Electric Eye. I really could go on haha. Funny enough, I got that same Smashing Pumpkin's DVD after I watched your SP albums rated vid awhile back. I always found that those music video DVD's were a great introduction to an era of the band you might not have checked out otherwise.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

that SP video packed in a lot of value for the price!

[@SynthfulDuck]

When I was a progmetal kid I saved up for Dream Theater's Live at Budokan DVD :)

[@DancingwithGhosts]

nice! i bet they put on a good show

[@joshtoten]

The alternative angles option on the nine inch nails and all that could have been DVD blew my teenage brain the first time I came across it lol.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah that one's def a classic, i should have included that one instead of beside you in time

[@BawesomeBurf]

I love my music DVD collection. Some of them can be found on KZbin, but it's always a crapshoot if it's gonna be a complete, high quality, official upload, or if you'll have to sift through dozens of fan uploads of varying quality to try and piece together the full experience. One really annoying thing I've noticed about finding some old thrash metal music videos is that the uploads can be super low quality. While that is understandable as far as the video is concerned, it is unacceptable to have the audio sound so bad as well. Especially when it's just the unedited version of a standard studio track. You may not have access to the masters anymore, but just download the friggin' mp3 and replace the audio.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah.. for the audio to sound like shit too that's gotta be a pretttyyy damn low res upload.. even at 128kbps mp3's can still sound passable

[@btr3k]

Can totally relate, though my music tastes are more on the electronic side... one concert DVD I got was Underworld's Everything, Everything. I wasn't exactly a fan of theirs, but I heard it was good, and after the DVD I appreciated their music much more. That makes a good concert video, right? Also a soft spot for Orbital's DVD for their album "Altogether" which I got when I was in Japan. I don't think it's available in the US, so that makes it collectible... um, right? I did have the capacity to actually play it at one point, but I'd have to figure out getting a region free player these days.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i also loved the electronic DVD's as well.. I have a Warped Records DVD that has videos from most of their artist roster at the time on their including aphex twin. I'd love to see DVDs from Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Portishead, chemical brothers, crystal method. etc..

[@mirceadobarta9533]

@@DancingwithGhosts Massive Attack - Eleven Promos Sneaker Pimps - The Videos Portishead - Roseland New York The Chemical Brothers - Singles 93-03 & Don't Think

[@chicagotransitauthority3161]

I don’t have many of these, gotta collect more. I do find it cool that LaserDiscs also had concerts

[@DancingwithGhosts]

not only do i not own one single laser disc.. no place sold them that i could see when i was a kid

[@chicagotransitauthority3161]

@@DancingwithGhosts yeah tower records sold em, but sadly was before my time

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@chicagotransitauthority3161 we didnt have a tower records

[@joshtoten]

Also on the disc rot issue: remember to back up ANY (and as daunting as it might be, ALL to be really safe) DVDs you have while you can. Cuz them things sure ain't gonna last forever. My poor Tub Ring Sonics & Optics DVD is on it's last leg, barely wants to load on anything. Took HOURS to rip too. Thankfully I have it preserved now.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i've always sucked at ripping DVD content onto my computer, have they made an easier way to do that these days?

[@joshtoten]

@@DancingwithGhosts yeah, I use the freeware makemvk. You just pop the disc in, let it scan, pick which chapters/audio you want then let it rip.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@joshtoten damn that sounds like something even i can't fuck up

[@joshtoten]

@@DancingwithGhosts The only fuck up I've run into is running outta space lol. Especially when it comes to them dual layer DVDs that are like 7-8gb each. Or in the case of the nine inch nails DVDs, the angles save as a whole nother copy so you've got two 4gb files there unless you wanna go through the pain of editing them together.

[@melancholoid]

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

[@patrickreichert1442]

The Woodstock 94 and 99 dvds (and vhs which I own too 😂) are classics!

[@DancingwithGhosts]

haha i also own the VHS tapes! Back when I was a teenager and I first bought this I honestly thought every band only got one song 😂

[@patrickreichert1442]

@@DancingwithGhosts Wow thats awesome! And 😂 every band gets just one. I mean I remember discover bootlegs and thinking “this can’t be legal!” and then indulging heavily in bootleg purchases. How very naive of me lol

[@BenjaminNixon]

I remember Green Jellÿ/Jellö's original schtick was they were a video-only band, so their first album, Cereal Killer, was originally only released as a compilation of videos. It was a cool gimmick, but presumably it didn't bring in a lot of money and it was soon after repackaged on CD/cassette as the "Cereal Killer Soundtrack". Sonic Youth made videos for every song on the Goo LP and released it as a video compilation. I love Sonic Youth, but most of the Goo videos are cheap and uninteresting.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

oh wow that is interesting!

[@MonoGrinded]

There was an Australian Industrial death metal band called The Berzerker and they had a great documentary DVD about making their first album. Long story short recording music at home in the late 90s on Windows 98 fucking sucked (but is fascinating to watch now)

[@ducko5404]

The Berzerker was pretty sick. At times super cringey too.

[@MonoGrinded]

@@ducko5404 not all the songs are great but yeah they have heaps of bangers too

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

One Hour Photo is very good thriller with Robin Williams😃

[@YuzoKoshiroSan]

The Disasterpieces DVD changed my life.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah that one was fucking epic.. the original line-up with the best set of songs

[@thestarwarsman573]

Let's not forget blink-182's "The Urethra Chronicles." It might not be purely music videos, but it's a damn treasure.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

oooh yeah i came pretty close to buying that when i was a teenager but i didn't quite understand what it was

[@ColeslawVariant]

We just found a dvd of Meatloaf performing with an orchestra at a goodwill for $4.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yep the S&M orchestra show

[@O3Sine]

I see that Chris Cunningham dvd in there ❤

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i was obsessed with that DVD growing up.. I wish he would one day direct one of our videos.. those "artist series" dvd's turned me on to a lot of new music i wouldn't have otherwise heard

[@Cherryberrygirl89]

Iron Maiden Rock in Rio and Alice in Chains music videos. Dude I miss Sam Goody 😢

[@DancingwithGhosts]

dont forget alice in chains mtv unplugged

[@Cherryberrygirl89]

@@DancingwithGhosts yesss

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

Woodstock 99, never forget Wycleaf Jean😂😂

[@DancingwithGhosts]

oh god .. you just made me remember 😅

[@jackko21]

I had that michale jackson dangerous tour concert dvd

[@DancingwithGhosts]

the like... 5 solid minutes of constant applause and freak outs at the beginning of the show is mind blowing, then they'd cheer more when he simply removed his sunglasses.. younger people will never know how big of a deal MJ was

[@johncostigan8747]

I still collect hard copy anything. Including concerts. Digital is for the birds. Nobody actually owns anything, and it can be taken from you in an instant. I’ll have my movies and music, uncensored, forever. 🤷

[@Tuxy79]

Cool. This is news to me.

[@onkkell]

a music video curator, if you will

[@trisky210]

Music dvds is what truly killed mtv.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i'd say cheap reality tv shows were the culprit in that case

[@robfobjanstar]

I got three concert dvds. One Good Charlotte DVD and Two Fall Out Boy Concert DVDs

[@matthewwalter5432]

You complain too much chill

[@davekennedy6315]

That is the ONLY great thing that modern/digital tech brought that I genuinely LOVE, KZbin for music videos! It is fantastic the staggeringly huge collection that you can bring up by entering the details of your favourite musician or group/act. There is also extensive live footage from the majority of artists. Obviously this, like ALL digital media, is only the case until KZbin no longer proves profitable.

[@davekennedy6315]

24 Hour Photo is an incredible movie and Robin Williams is ultra disturbing in the role!

[@davekennedy6315]

If you want THE greatest music video of all time (multiple award winning!) then please check out Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy! An expensive to produce music video that couldn't/wouldn't be played on the vast majority of TV channels/Music Video channels.

[@davekennedy6315]

Apex Twin has defo also got some superb music videos too though, agreed!

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yep! smack my bitch up is a classic, i wish they'd re-release it in 1080p at least along with the rest of their videos, prodigy was very good at their visuals