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This Disaster: Live In London DVD
2004
Geffen

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Review by: Brian
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Published on December 10th 2004

There isn't a whole lot of fault to be found on New Found Glory's This Disaster: Live In London DVD. Though you've pretty much made up your mind on the band by now, and don't need to read this to know whether or not you'll be spending your hard-earned cash on it, it's still an admirably shot, competent performance video. Both the video and audio quality is the best I've seen from most band DVDs, but is likely helped by Geffen's budget when looked at on the bigger scale. Still, it's crisp and clear and the numerous angles used make sense.

The basic premise of the DVD is that right in the middle of the set, the venue's power fails. The band is forced to entertain the audience for 45 minutes any way they can, and a fair portion of it is shown. Reggie and the Full Effect represenative James Dewees, who plays keyboards for a good number of the set's songs during the show, helps out playing some apparently improvisational moog numbers and such, and the band gets occasional singalongs going to keep the crowd enthused.

Extras on the DVD include an in-store acoustic rendition of "I Don't Wanna Know," which is a bit droning and flat in the vocals at parts, an acoustic take on "All Downhill From Here," and "Truth Of My Youth," a slideshow of various pictures set to an instrumental of the said song. Also, there's a good hour of a 'Behind the Scenes' feature which generally just shows various footage of the band fucking around on tour and such, with even some rarer songs and B-sides played as the background music for clips. Of highest note is Jordan's ability to rather flawlessly impersonate various foreign personalities.

The only true problems here may be that Jordan's vocals are pretty high in the mix, and the song choice. Though it was bound either way to be heavy on the latter albums in the band's discography, they have plenty of uptempo/fast-paced songs that could've been picked over more blasé takes ("It's Been A Summer" and "I Don't Wanna Know" could probably take well-deserved hikes). I literally passed out around the second half of the band's set. It's likely a mix of the aforementioned problems and personal bias, but the band certainly could've tried harder to keep things interesting for the 20-song set, although hearing the almost-hardcore of "Intro" live is interesting and enjoyable. The band already does a piano-accompanied, acoustic rendition of "I Don't Wanna Know" during the power failure, so I don't see a need to play it with the full band a second time once power was regained. The breakdown goes as follows: Nothing Gold Can Stay - 1 [besides "Hit Or Miss"], S/T - 4 [including "Hit Or Miss"], Sticks And Stones - 8, Catalyst - 7.

It's definitely one of those you do or you don't types. Though it sure won't convert non-followers into instant fans, it's a lot of fun for current enthusiasts of New Found Glory with a more than sufficient length of extra features.

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Posted by md40_07 on 2005-06-26 18:37:55
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Everyone who disses NFG can go die. This was a great DVD with over 20 of there best songs on it. The extra footage was also great and the best part was when the power went out and they played some acoustic stuff. They didn't need the power cause they were already bringing it!

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 17, 2004 at 2:36 PM (EST)
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chief wiggum:this is papa bear put out an apv for a male suspect driving a car of some sort heading in the direction of uh, you know that place that sells chilli. suspect is hatless i repeat hatless.

"dr. riveara dr. nick riveara please report to the coranor imeadiatly.
the coranor, i'm so sick of that guy!"

and the next qoute is from a deleted scene:
homer: i can't live with this shame anymore. i don't care what it takes. i'm going to overcome this. it'll be like that movie. you know wher that women skier fell off the mountain. i think it was called don't fall off the mountain
marge: and whats your point?
homer:i am going to ski! i mean graduate from high school.

the score is for the qoutes

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 17, 2004 at 1:55 PM (EST)
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"...the singer started going through reverse puberty while developing some sort of tumor in his nose passage. He now sounds like the love-child of a telephone operator and one of the chipmunks."

Full marks for that comment.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 17, 2004 at 6:35 AM (EST)
My Score:

These guys are growing on me. I like just the hits though.

-Chinatown

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 7:15 PM (EST)
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i think the most amazing thing about this band is that they're so popular in the "pop punk" style and among teenage girls, yet they're all really ugly. I mean, that lead singer - dude, he looks like a young version of Eugene Levy. And then there's the fat guy - although fat guys are cool. The only reason I can like Bowling For Soup at all is because one of their members is like 400 pounds. That guys looks like fucking Jabba The Hut, he's kinda scary looking. I bet he's really fun to play cards with

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 5:18 PM (EST)
My Score:

i loved when these guys got booed off inland invasion 2

Posted by inagreendase on 2004-12-15 22:56:39
My Score:

I scored this as a DVD and nothing else.

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 6:43 PM (EST)
My Score:

chad is retard.he climbed on stage and got pulled of by some other guy. the behind the scenes are pretty funny but not as funny as viva la bam season 1. go buy it it's funny as hell.

Posted by DriftAway on 2004-12-15 00:57:36
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Wow Brian, You've steeped to a new low.

You actually rated this release higher than Exile in Oblivion.

Wonderful! Brilliant! I can now tell your taste in music us incomparable.

You get the "special" award.

Posted by DestroyPopRadio on 2004-12-14 16:45:06
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They started off pretty strong, but then it seemed like after 2 albums, the singer started going through reverse puberty while developing some sort of tumor in his nose passage. He now sounds like the love-child of a telephone operator and one of the chipmunks.

Posted by DriftAway on 2004-12-14 12:49:34
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I guess if you're the kind that likes rummaging through garbage, this ones for you.

Whe these fags played at Warpt tour in '02 i saw the lead singer catch a boot with his face, definitely in the top 5 funniest things I've seen in my life

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 at 10:32 AM (EST)
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im only 15 so its a rule to like NFG...once i turn 16 they are gonna suck so bad.

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 1:48 PM (EST)
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Black or not, I'd imagine most people are offended by New Found Glory's existence.

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 1:44 PM (EST)
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As black man, I am offended by this DVD.

-BSD

Posted by inagreendase on 2004-12-11 23:10:01
My Score:

The song from Nothing Gold is "2's & 3's."

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 10:11 PM (EST)
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saw them with green day recently and when the guitarist came down to the edge of the barricade to sing along with fans, he got clocked in the face. the dude who landed the punch didn't even get thrown out. thats what i call justice.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 9:51 PM (EST)
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ANYTIME new found glory plays its a fucking disaster. ... zing!

Posted by KB on 2004-12-11 21:37:04
My Score:

New Found Glory embody's everything that is wrong with new-school punk....actually, I dont even really consider it punk....and no this isn't flamebait

Posted by boba_fett on 2004-12-11 20:45:40
My Score:

"what was the song from nothing gold can stay?"

Its New Found Glory.

uhh... thats the band. the song is hit or miss.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 5:40 PM (EST)
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"This disaster"... how appropriate

Posted by Big_Guy on 2004-12-11 03:56:16
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"james dewees was totally in coalesce. like, totally."

Shhhhhhhh

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 2:26 AM (EST)
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"what was the song from nothing gold can stay?"

Its New Found Glory.

Posted by 8dollarclarinetsolo on 2004-12-11 01:01:56
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what was the song from nothing gold can stay?

Posted by colin on 2004-12-11 00:15:16
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i can nearly guarantee that the performance on this dvd is nowhere near the energy of the show they put on when they did the first tour in support of "nothing gold can stay"... i saw these kids a few years back after they got big and what a fucking letdown. total lack of energy, they were old, tired, and sloppy with the same tricks they'd been using for years.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 10, 2004 at 11:03 PM (EST)
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Great, they kept up with the clay-figure stylings of their last album!

-Chinatown

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 10, 2004 at 10:58 PM (EST)
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james dewees was totally in coalesce. like, totally.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 10, 2004 at 10:50 PM (EST)
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Posted by primeevil7 on 2004-12-10 22:46:22
My Score:

I'd prefer more old stuff, but i'm picking this up anyway.