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Holistic Guidance - Haarp CD/DVD Set
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $15.49
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Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0825646967797
Format: Live
Label: Warner Brothers
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Studio: Warner Brothers
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The fan base for Muse grows with every release. 2006 s Black Holes And Revelations broke into the U.S. Top 10 while hitting #1 in the U.K. and much of Europe, where it sold 1 million copies and was #3 on NME's Albums Of The Year list. A multiple BRIT Award winner for Best Live Act,
Muse then staged two massive sold-out performances at 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium in London last June, which increasingly are recognised as amongst the definitive live moments of the year. The best performances from those concerts, as well as bonus backstage footage, are presented on the CD/DVD set HAARP. The concerts once again demonstrated the raw power and unquenchable ambition of one of the UK's most successful long-term bands and one of, if not the, greatest, most ambitious live act in the world at the present time.
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Summary: Oh..... MY...... GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: There's not a lot more I can say. This DVD is breathtaking. Literally. The insurmountable talent in this band is blatantly and galantly displayed in the live performance DVD. It makes me wish I'd have discovered this band sooner so I could have seen them live last time they were in my town. I'm already a huge fan of their studio music, their performance here is the epitome of music being performed somehow even better than in the studio. Their emotion and power is felt in one's veins. I will pay ANY amount of money next time they come to my city. They're all key tracks. All of them. This DVD is epic.
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Summary: Spectacular
Comment: Wow. Definitely in my best of 2008 already. The band I'm in and I watched this for the first time yesterday afternoon. We made an occasion of it, just like we were all going to the actual show, and boy did Muse bring the rock to my living room. My heart rate was up, I was bobbing my neck and tapping my foot along the whole time, almost as if we were there. I felt the same good-kind-of-tired euphoria after watching as I do after seeing a great show in person. And my TV and stereo ain't even all that great.
This is an immensely satisfying DVD. Muse are a spectacle, yes, which makes them just a bit impersonal with each other onstage and with the audience. But I find this an acceptable sacrifice to the sheer epic power of their music, which would suffer a bit I think if it betrayed itself as a touch more mortal. The grandiosity and the mild distance of the stage (felt even in extreme closeups on the DVD... you never forget you're in Wembley Stadium) also keeps Muse within the geneaology of the symphonic music they clearly love (barely, I admit).
So the stage visuals and feature-film-quality editing, which starts out slowly and draws you in to the show's power, are spectacular. But the real awe is for the effortless, jaw-dropping talent of all three band members. Matthew Bellamy sings so well live I spent half the time looking for clues he was lip-synching (as far as I can tell, he was not). And thousands of young bass players must have a new hero to admire in Chris Wolstenholme, who has it all: speed, taste and groove. This show would be almost as stunning under a couple coffee-can spotlights on a corner stage in a pub, thanks to their musicianship.
It's amazing to me how every Muse song is an anthem, how they make every song sound like the first or last track on the CD, yet I never got fatigued with the formula while watching all two hours straight. (All the anthems will keep me from watching constantly, though; I'm more inclined to make an infrequent but exciting event of it from time to time.) Also illuminating were the small but significant departures from the CD versions, always beautifully chosen and expanding on the artistry of the original recordings. Finally, this is also the best integration of audience footage I've ever seen in a live video. You really feel like you're there. And all the complaints in other reviews about omitted songs on a two-hour DVD just shows how deep and well-loved their repertoire is.
I'm glad this was captured on video, becuase I think this set is going to be talked about for a long time and establishes Muse as a legend. Anybody who thinks rock music is dead or modern music sucks NEEDS to at least check out this DVD.
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Summary: An all-time live album...
Comment: One word: chills. Even a non-fan of Muse will have a tough time making it through the opening "Knights of Cydonia" without being swept away by the blistering energy. If you have had the fortune of seeing this remarkable band live, this set does a fine job capturing some of the incredible power they bring to the stage, and has proven a fine way to introduce the uninitiated to what live acts aspire to inspire.
The DVD does a far better job of lifting off (the Prokofiev from "Romeo and Juliet," while a lovely musical nod to introduce the band and the first song, is an over-long and somewhat baffling opening track on the CD), but both discs keep you riveted to the ending chords of "Take a Bow." WIth tracks spanning their studio albums (with a heavy bias towards the last two), there's a good sampling of their musical range, with the strength of their live stage presence weaving the whole effort together.
Enough words. I need to go listen again now. Buy it! Enjoy!
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Summary: Fantastic
Comment: Muse is phenomenal. I can't believe I missed this show live. If you like Muse this is a must have and if you don't then you are stupid.
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Summary: haarp by muse
Comment: Good live album but is more of the same, the dvd is value for the performace in wembley stadium only... a grey album not really necesary to buy
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