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The Brit Awards 2002
The main gripe I have about this one is the rather yuk audio quality. There's no surround audio (which doesn't bother me because fake 5.1 mixes are a waste of space generally) but all the disc has is one compressed-sounding 2.0 Dolby digital track. It sounds OK on a TV but run through a decent stereo (as most people will do with a music DVD) it sounds nasty! A nice clean PCM track would have transformed this disc - even if it meant losing a few of the less-than-brilliant videos to make space for the PCM audio!
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
It is difficult to know who this compilation of nominees for the 2002 BRIT Awards is aimed at. It is implausible that anybody will like everything here, and it is unbelievable that anyone possessed of rudimentary critical faculties will like more than three or four of the artists whose videos feature in this collection. Given the perennial determination of the BRITs to celebrate all that is mediocre, and the fact that 2001 was less than a vintage year by any standards, "BRIT Awards 2002" is mostly rather dismal viewing. There are a few heartening moments: Kylie Minogue releasing a decent single ("Can't Get You out of My Head") is testament more to the law of averages than her musical abilities, but the video is a small masterpiece of choreography and computer imaging. Destiny's Child and Dido also owe particular thanks to their directors, though it might reasonably be argued that the bulldozer that eventually destroys the house in which Dido simpers along to "Thank You" arrives about four minutes too late. Probably coincidentally, the best three videos (and the best three songs) are all animated affairs: Daft Punk's "Digital Love", Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and Radiohead's typically baleful, and beautiful, "Pyramid Song". On the DVD: That individual tracks can be easily selected is a necessity with a compilation of this sort. The "bonus features" are barely worthy of the phrase: extremely desultory biographies of the artists, and links to the official Web sites of the BRITs and Sony. --Andrew Mueller
Not very impressed!
Review date: 2002-04-15 Rating: 4 out of 10
From a purely personal viewpoint I'm not sure that this is really the best collection of pop videos from the past year - maybe 30% of the material is worthy of inclusion but the rest is distinctly average. But that's a personal opinion of course. Unfortunately (and somewhat bizarrely) there are so few music compilation DVDs being released that you either buy this or do without entirely! (and I like watching music videos so I bought it anyway).
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Excellent DVD for the price!
Review date: 2002-02-11 Rating: 8 out of 10
25 tracks on a DVD for this money is amazing! The same price as a normal CD audio album and you get 25 videos as well!!
The only gripes I have about this DVD is that it is only stereo (rather than them having 5.1 mixes of the tracks) and on the Dido track the music seems to clip a little at the loudest parts, but I guess you can't have perfection. I have tried it on two DVD players with the same result.
The videos are crisp and clear as you would expect from a DVD.
Maybe more bonus features would be welcome too.
Fantastic for an all round pop dvd:
Review date: 2002-02-06 Rating: 10 out of 10
I have to rate this dvd 5 stars, this is due to the top artists that are on this dvd. Songs from artists such as Kylie, Robbie, who have rocked out radio stations all of last year, and not forgetting this year. A dvd with so many artists and so many great 'tunes' that we all know, has to be a plus to anyone who enjoys pop music.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Anastacia
Susie Amy
Sacha Baron Cohen
Frank Skinner
Zoë Ball
Creators:
Frank Skinner (Primary Contributor)
Zoë Ball (Primary Contributor)
Guy Freeman (Producer)
Guy Harding (Editor)
Rod Main (Editor)
Lisa Anderson (Producer)
Mark Wells (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Bmg
Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
EAN: 5099720155393
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2002-02-11
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Exempt
Region code: 2
Running time: 100 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2002
Language: English (Original Language)