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Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (DVD/CD)
Live At The Royal Albert Hall was recorded on September 22 at the height of what has been an amazing year for Adele. Available on DVD and Blu-ray, “Live At The Royal Albert Hall” features the full 90 minute concert performance, plus special behind the scenes footage shot throughout the day leading up to the concert.
The package also includes an exclusive live CD of the entire show. This is the first time all of Adele’s hits and best loved songs will be on one CD plus her stunning covers of Bonnie Raitt’s “If I Can’t Make You Love Me” and The Steeldrivers “If It Hadn’t Been For Love”
This version contains mature language.
Track Listing:
1.Hometown Glory
2.I ll Be Waiting
3.Don t You Remember
4.Turning Tables
5.Set Fire To The Rain
6.If It Hadn t Been For Love
7.My Same
8.Take It All
9.Rumour Has It
10.Right As Rain
11.One & Only
12.Lovesong
13.Chasing Pavements
14.I Can t Make You Love Me
15.Make You Feel My Love
16.Someone Li
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Paul Mercury
December 5, 2011 at 5:11 am
Live Adele? Yes, please!,
I received Adele Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD/CD set today, which I’ve been looking forward to for a few weeks. Having already watched the DVD, and listened to the CD, here’s my review:
Let’s start with the production value, which is a dicey proposition with concert DVDs. This one was top notch. The director did a nice job of capturing Adele, her songs, and the audience. He didn’t get too cute with silly camera tricks or over editing, which is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to concert DVDs. I’m watching the concert to see the show, not what cool tricks you learned in film school. I was very pleased with the production value of this DVD.
Moving on to the packaging and content, very simple which equals nice in my book. The box, discs, and booklet have a nice black and white theme to it, which again, captures Adele and her music properly.
The DVD includes the concert (duh!) and an 8:30 clip, documenting Adele from literally her first of coffee to the moment she walks onstage. I’m a sucker for that type of stuff, so I enjoyed that–esp since it was brief.
Now for the meat of the DVD–the concert itself. I always enjoy watching live Adele clips, because not only does she have a great, great voice, but also a big stage presence. She has this aura about her that I don’t think even she realizes at this point in her career. Just magical.
The setlist was your typical Adele setlist, with a mix of new/older songs, with a couple of covers thrown in for good measure. Solid setlist. Her voice, however, wasn’t the greatest this particular concert. Now, days after filming this show she cancelled the rest of her 2011 tour and had vocal chord surgery and you can tell her voice was tired and not right. It didn’t sound bad, it just wasn’t the powerful voice I’ve come to love. Put it this way–an 70% Adele is 100 times better than 99% of the other artists out there, past and present. For that reason, I wish they would have held off until after her surgery to put out this DVD. Perhaps we’ll get another one within the next couple of years. I hope so.
Overall, I enjoyed this DVD. Like I said earlier, I love live Adele and to have an hour and 41 mins at my disposal is greatness! This DVD makes me want to see her live even more, which will happen once she returns from vocal chord surgery.
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|R. Perez "rperez_01"
December 5, 2011 at 4:53 am
Adele will take your breathe away….again.,
I was able to preview this and it is with pleasure that I call myself one of the biggest Adele fans ever. It is almost impossible to find someone you don’t know that makes you feel as if though they took the words right out of your mouth and put them in song. She said that she concentrated on making music for the ears, not the eyes, but in this video, you’re clearly able to see that the eyes get a treat as well- she is breathtaking.
In a modern age, where concerts rely on special effects, pyro, dancers, and theatrics, Adele manages to achieve the same results one would get from such shows by just having a backing band, 2 background singers, and a stool- her voice IS the show! I will be honest, I was worried about Adele having so many throat problems while on tour and when she had surgery in early summer, I was expecting a drastic notice in her voice. You do hear her throat a little scratchy in the dvd/cd but the “imperfections” only managed to bring more truth to the songs.
It should be in everyone’s bucket list to catch an Adele show- I guarantee she is not to be missed!
1.”Hometown Glory”
2.”I’ll Be Waiting”
3.”Don’t You Remember”
4.”Turning Tables”
5.”Set Fire to the Rain”
6.”If It Hadn’t Been for Love”
7.”My Same”
8.”Take It All”
9.”Rumour Has It”
10.”Right As Rain”
11.”One & Only”
12.”Lovesong”
13.”Chasing Pavements”
14.”I Can’t Make You Love Me”
15.”Make You Feel My Love
16.”Someone Like You”
17.”Rolling in the Deep”
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