Great Concert Dragged Down By A Decent Rockumentary
I love ABBA. I have all their dvds available. I brought "ABBA In Concert" last Christmas but haven't found the time to review it until this morning. What can I tell you about this 25 year old tape? Well, let me just say that the perfromances are nothing short of excellent. The remastering job is superb, both visually as well as audio. You feel, for the mos part, like you're at the concert. However, there's one porblem: too much documentary, not enough concert. I was hoping we'd get a full concert rather than a few complete performances and a ton of documentary footage. So while I do recommend this dvd, keep in mind it isn't a complete concert dvd.
A Must See!!!
I totaly enjoyed this DVD. The quality was excellent and the nostalgia was priceless! I always wanted to see ABBA in concert but since they never really toured in the United States it was not in the cards. This was fantastic!
Too much rockumentary hero worship for me
I like Abba and wanted a DVD of their concert for '79, a show which I saw back then. There are good moments but my biggest complaint is there is too much documentary about how great they are, how Take a Chance on Me came to them, but my biggest complaint, the track "I Had a Dream" which was the best song of the show is butchered with a documentatary halfway through the song. To see "I HAd a Dream" uncut, you had to go to the extras. Why wasn't it the other way around? Maybe there is another Abba DVD out there which just plays the show and goes light on the documentary.
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