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Kylie Minogue: Live in Sydney

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one of the most amazing show i've ever seen in my entire life!
from the opening coming down in a huge anchor singing "Love Boat" Kylie Minogue shows that she is the real Princess Of Pop!.
the costumes and the coreography are great and the stage too! all the show is very cool.
the most amazing is the Medley "Step Back In Time/Never Too Late/Wouldn't Change A Thing/Turn It Into Love/Celebration" i love the part in the 'Celebration' when the crownd goes wild with this song! - also "Light Years", "What do i have to do?" and the Olivia Newton John's cover "Physical", when she sang "Shocked" was very cool. also she sang "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" in a very slow version. love when she performed "Put Yourself in My Place" 'cause her voice is amazing! and i love when on "Hand on your Heart" the crowd sings with her!, she performs 19 Tracks completely Live! including her #1 Hit "Spinning Around" when she comes up the floor with the Hotpants and the Brodway version of "Better The Devil You Know"...
this show is outstanding, really amazing concert!

includes Backstage scenes and the "Spinning Around" Music Video. this edition (Region 1 Edition) includes the unedited version of the Video, so you can see Kylie's ASS!!! LoL

"Live in Sydney" is one of the best concert DVDs ever. The concert itself is beautifully staged, well chreographed and Kylie does a bang up job on the vocals. Kylie sings her old standbys but with a new twist (such as "Better the Devil You Know"). The backstage footage is boring at best. Do Kylie's fans really care about her dancers? Besides that blunder, the rest of this disc is awesome.

The promo video for Spinning Around is toned down a little. Still sexy, but they edited out some of her hot pants shots. The famous close-up shot in the beginning of the video where she spins around has even been removed. Other than that, this is one of the sexiest concerts ever recorded. DTS sounds great, and the camera work is pretty good except more and longer shots of Kylie would have been nice, especially during Physical. Still, this is her best DVD with great replay value making it the one to own.

I haven't generally followed pop music for the last couple of decades, being more or less caught up in writing my own music, in genres unsuitable for pop release. I became aware of Kylie from a video clip on a Bally's TV ad, and finally got to check her out.

Because of the newness factor I didn't experience the kick into high gear until "Physical" - from then on, I was totally captivated by the music, the dancing, (what I could hear of) the message, everything!

Kylie does this old Olivia Newton-John tune at a somewhat slower pace, in more a dance than a rock groove. As other reviewers note - sultry it is; but it's beyond that - there's a passion, some might even consider it a spiritual inner flame burning, consuming her as she does her pole dance - while holding a wireless microphone in one hand, I might add. She's in the midst of 4 more scantily clad female Italian dancers on/with their own poles. The track is altogether mesmerizing - intensity is raised to a fever pitch. Plus you hear one of the most sublime funk guitar solos ever recorded. And there's this little hitch/hook they put into the rhythm at the beginning of each chorus . . .

From here on the intensity (plus the conveyance of Kylie's signature brand of 'meaningfulness') never let up for me.

Another tune that thoroughly bowled me over was the song "Light Years". This with its strenuously joyous tone evoked the earliest space-rock song - way back in the beginning of the 60's, the chart-topping "Telstar" by the British band the Tornadoes (Telstar was an early communications satellite). The groove is impulsive - the melody, singing and dancing infectious - and the rhythms grip you in a subtly powerful way. In certain sections the outstanding keyboardist gets busy sounding like the Moody Blues' mellotron player, dating from their 'In Search of the Lost Chord" album, and he never overdoes it.

There's no hint of the eerie (so powerfully expressed in the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home"), or the thunderously negative reverberations of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" - still there's nothing lightweight going on in this track. I couldn't make out all the words on this first hearing, but I doubt it's too far removed from the soul searching familiar from the Byrds' space-rock oeuvre - "Eight Miles High", "5D", Mr. "Spaceman", and the lengthy "Space Odyssey". Even if not the lyrics, the feeling's all there - just one more living monument of magnificence.

Musically, Kylie and/or her production team have assembled a formidable group of musicians and writers. Her backup singers are astoundingly talented. The different sounds the keyboardist lends to the multiple grooves are tasty, sinuous, profound, searing, environmentally overarching - whatever is needed, and performed with such aplomb as to be unobtrusive, while essential to the overall story/sound. The guitarist and rhythm section are complete masters of the many beats, styles and sub-genres which so effectively interlock to make this music what it is.

Visually (and in some sense musically) Kylie somewhat evokes Madonna, but without the iconic self-absorption, and totally minus the hard-edged art crowd vibe. But her content, her depth, mirrored in the genuine devotion and elation of her fans, seems more in the direction of the ever-wonderful Ms. Carey.

The dancing and choreography is, as usual with concert footage, difficult to fully grasp/appreciate, being that you can only see what a given camera angle is able to display. These film editors have maybe the most difficult job in the universe. As I think about it, this spectacle of sight and sound would have been almost ominously incredible to experience in person. Woe is me!

I'm looking forward to enjoying, and even studying this music for a long time to come.

Thank you, Kylie!

I haven't generally followed pop music for the last couple of decades, being more or less caught up in writing my own music, in genres unsuitable for pop release. I became aware of Kylie from a video clip on a Bally's TV ad, and finally got to check her out.

Because of the newness factor I didn't experience the kick into high gear until "Physical" - from then on, I was totally captivated by the music, the dancing, (what I could hear of) the message, everything!

Kylie does this old Olivia Newton-John tune at a somewhat slower pace, in more a dance than a rock groove. As other reviewers note - sultry it is; but it's beyond that - there's a passion, some might even consider it a spiritual inner flame burning, consuming her as she does her pole dance - while holding a wireless microphone in one hand, I might add. She's in the midst of 4 more scantily clad female Italian dancers on/with their own poles. The track is altogether mesmerizing - intensity is raised to a fever pitch. Plus you hear one of the most sublime funk guitar solos ever recorded. And there's this little hitch/hook they put into the rhythm at the beginning of each chorus . . .

From here on the intensity (plus the conveyance of Kylie's signature brand of 'meaningfulness') never let up for me.

Another tune that thoroughly bowled me over was the song "Light Years". This with its strenuously joyous tone evoked the earliest space-rock song - way back in the beginning of the 60's, the chart-topping "Telstar" by the British band the Tornadoes (Telstar was an early communications satellite). The groove is impulsive - the melody, singing and dancing infectious - and the rhythms grip you in a subtly powerful way. In certain sections the outstanding keyboardist gets busy sounding like the Moody Blues' mellotron player, dating from their 'In Search of the Lost Chord" album, and he never overdoes it.

There's no hint of the eerie (so powerfully expressed in the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home"), or the thunderously negative reverberations of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive" - still there's nothing lightweight going on in this track. I couldn't make out all the words on this first hearing, but I doubt it's too far removed from the soul searching familiar from the Byrds' space-rock oeuvre - "Eight Miles High", "5D", Mr. "Spaceman", and the lengthy "Space Odyssey". Even if not the lyrics, the feeling's all there - just one more living monument of magnificence.

Musically, Kylie and/or her production team have assembled a formidable group of musicians and writers. Her backup singers are astoundingly talented. The different sounds the keyboardist lends to the multiple grooves are tasty, sinuous, profound, searing, environmentally overarching - whatever is needed, and performed with such aplomb as to be unobtrusive, while essential to the overall story/sound. The guitarist and rhythm section are complete masters of the many beats, styles and sub-genres which so effectively interlock to make this music what it is.

Visually (and in some sense musically) Kylie somewhat evokes Madonna, but without the iconic self-absorption, and totally minus the hard-edged art crowd vibe. But her content, her depth, mirrored in the genuine devotion and elation of her fans, seems more in the direction of the ever-wonderful Ms. Carey.

The dancing and choreography is, as usual with concert footage, difficult to fully grasp/appreciate, being that you can only see what a given camera angle is able to display. These film editors have maybe the most difficult job in the universe. As I think about it, this spectacle of sight and sound would have been almost ominously incredible to experience in person. Woe is me!

I'm looking forward to enjoying, and even studying this music for a long time to come.

Thank you, Kylie!

This is the best Kylie concert dvd out there. It includes her great songs like "Hand on your heart". This one is better than the Manchester show (4 stars).

Kylie has made an excellent DVD! She has different kind of clothes (maybe 7 or somethin') Well, she hasn't only se*y clothes (Spinning Around, Physical etc.) but she can also wear really beautiful clothes like in the first four tracks. She has good clothes in every tracks and especially the music video "Spinning Around" which made her famous again, is very very hot and spicy!

I like this DVD, the tracks are very good performed. There's good dancers and also backstage footages! Very good material indeed! Kylie sings also the classic songs like "Put Yourself in My Place", "Hand on Your Heart", "Better the Devil You Know" etc.
The new songs and old classic sound good together. Maybe the only bad thing is that there's no "Loco-Motion" and the classic track "I Should Be So Lucky" is very short and peaceful. I recommend the DVD "Live in Manchester". It has those songs very good performed! Especially "Loco-Motion".

The Track list:

Love Boat

Kookachoo
Hand on Your Heart
Put Yourself in My Place
On a Night Like This
Medley:
[Step Back In Time
Never Too Late
I Wouldn't Want to Change a Thing
Turn it into Love
Celebration]
Can't Get You Out of My Head
Your Disco Needs You
I Should Be So Lucky
Better the Devil You Know
So Now Goodbye
Physical
Butterfly
Confide In Me
Kids
Shocked
Light Years
What Do I Have to Do?
Spinning Around

+promo video "Spinning Around"

Kylie is at her best here! Her singing is great, she looks great, and it is pure fun. The crowd is crazy and you can tell they pump her up. The band, backup singers, and dancers give it there all. If you like Kylie or great pop music BUY THIS DVD
I LOVE YOU KYLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kylie: Live in Sydney - the "On a Night Like this" Concert. This DVD has been out for some time, and i have only just purchased it. Shame on me! Why did i just get around to Purchasing it?? Because i was at the actual concert when it was recorded, sitting towards the back (im at the back because in the 10 mins i was on the phone to get tickets, all 7 concerts in Sydney sold out!!) and i wanted to relive such a wonderful night. This concert and Kylie Fever are her best, speaking from 1st hand experance in the audiance.

How to sum up Kylie: Live in Sydney?? If you have the DVD or when you purchase it. Pay attention to the the song "Shocked" -watch out for a young girl about 8 yrs old in a pink top.. her Facial expression says it all!!! with mouth and Eyes wide open, she looks like shes about to jump out of her skin with pure joy and excitement!

This DVD is a must! here is what some leading Aussie news papers have to say-

"To the delight of the screaming crowd she sings her latest hits, including her number one single Spinning Around. Its an intoxicating mix of pop, cabaret, camp, glitz and glamour and adoring crowd - Throngs and throngs of Gay men, Couples and teenagers Lap up every single foot-tapping minute of it. Kylie is in her element, revelling in her status as the Queen of Pop - a Woman at the Apex of her Career" - Daily Mail

"...Tonights show scales heights of theatrical aceness...GENERATION K..has glimpsed heaven. And, that is just slightly wonderful." NME

"...If her sell-out concerts and stunning performances are any measure, Kylie's Pop Crown looks safe for many years to come". Sunday Mirror.

"..As well as a formidable singing voice, she has a personality all her own, and its shines best amid Hi-NRG beats, Sliver tassels and six inch stiletto heels...its Riotous fun...a fantastic encore..has the audience screaming themselves silly" The independant.

and i would like to say-
"Buy this DVD and become apart of Generation K, and Enjoy the Experiance which is Kylie, The Aussie Diva. " - Me :-)

I recently received this DVD and I can tell you that it is AWESOME!!! Kylie sings all her greats and puts on a great show. She even samples "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" before it's release. The concert is high energy and full of fun and anyone who has not discovered her yet, I guess you been under a rock, you should definately get this DVD and all her previous releases.