Tindersticks: Bareback - Nine Films by Martin Wallace [2004]
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Binding : DVD
EAN : 0607618023997
Label : Beggars Banquet
Manufacturer : Beggars Banquet
Publisher : Beggars Banquet
Release date : 2005-04-12
Title : Tindersticks: Bareback - Nine Films by Martin Wallace [2004]
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Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2004-10-26
Region code : 0
Studio : Beggars Banquet
Theatrical releaseDate : 2004-10-26
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review by: date: 2005-04-01 rating:Riding bareback could be risky
This could well be a bit of a disappointment to those expecting a set of promotional videos to the Tindersticks greatest hits (me) because that is not what it is, nor what it purports to be - it is a vehicle for their favourite film maker, Martin Wallace and includes all the material that the band have made with him, from their earliest work to the present day, though oddly omitting the videos to 'No More Affairs' or 'Dying Slowly'.
The nine films are virtually non-promos and of the nine tracks the band only feature in performance in three of them 'Bathtime', 'Rented Rooms', and 'Can We Start Again?' They also crop up briefly in the grainy home-movie footage that is 'City Sickness'.
The other films showcase Wallace's talent for crafting memorable vignettes of everyday existence. Inspired by the melancholia of the music, 'Travelling Light' and 'Sometimes It Hurts' feature the Tindersticks couple, two plain people separately and together meandering through life's mundanities.
In 'Can Our Love', Wallace visits Prague, 'Don't Ever Get Tired' is a film of a little boy having his hair cut, and 'The Art of Lovemaking' is actually a short film set to the instrumental rarity 'Sexual Funk', and is like some Orwellian Sex Education clip, showing a couple in different sexual positions without ever being together in the same shot.
'Rented Rooms' is cool though, in black and white showing the singer sharing a dressing room with a bunch of dancers before breaking into a full colour swing interlude where the girls are revealed as erotic dancers in g-strings and sequins. Visually stunning but musically it ruins the song.
Never mind, the DVD is packaged in tasteful Tindersticks style - brown cardboard gatefold sleeve flipping open to hold the DVD in a cardboard sleeve on one side and a CD-sized booklet with video credits on the other.
Interesting, amusing at times, but ultimately no subsititute for a live disc...please.
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