Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18974 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-11-04
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

DVD Description
DVD Tracklisting:

1. Intro : Count to Six and Die
2. Irresponsible hate anthem
3. Irresponsible hate anthem
3. The Reflecting God
4. Great Big White World
5. Disposable Teens
6. The Fight Song
7. The Nobodies
8. Rock Is Dead
9. The Dope Show
10. Cruci-fiction in Space
11. Sweet Dreams / Hell Outro 12. The Love Song
13. The Death Song
14. Antichrist Superstar
15. The Beautiful People BR> 16. Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes
17. Lunchbox

Synopsis
On and off stage footage from one of the most notorious bands in the world. Follow Manson and his cohorts as they spread their wings across several continents, including Russia, Japan, and most of Europe. Incendiary and theatrical live performances are complimented by revealing access to their personal, and backstage, lives.

Customer Reviews

More of the same from Marilyn Manson
Although I give this DVD 4 stars, and don't get me wrong it is good, (I'll get to that in a minute), anyone expecting anything new here from Marilyn Manson, or indeed expecting the so called "technological DVD wonders" that Manson himself has been promising, will be sorely disappointed.

Firstly, there are no "technological wonders". The DVD consists of two bits of film. One 70 minute concert in surround sound and one half hour documentary in stereo. That's it. Oh it has a menu too. So it's hardly a groundbreaking multimedia experience.
The documentary "The Death Parade" is definitely treading old ground. Anyone familiar with the video release of "Dead to the World" a few years back will recognise the format here. Fuzzy backstage footage of the band with groupies, being ill and throwing stuff, footage of religious groups protesting with digitally altered voices to make them sound like pixies, all interspersed with random segments of concert footage. Whereas "Dead to the World" had some sort of substance and a point to it, "The Death Parade" doesn't seem to have any point at all other than being DVD extra's "filler". It tells you nothing new of the band and has so many music segments in it, it never becomes anything more than a camcorder montage.

Trust me, I'll get to the good points in a minute. Now, onto the main feature of the DVD. The concert, you'll be pleased to know, plays the songs all the way through, uninterupted by pesky wobbly backstage camera antics, but before I go into that, I do have two minor gripes to get out of the way.

Firstly, the songs chosen for the DVD seem to be overly biased towards material from his latest album "Holywood", which IMHO has been his weakest work to date. It's also more annoying when live classics such as "Cake and S*****", "1996" and "Last Day On Earth" are completely missing yet we have dull album fillers like "The Death Song" and "Cruci-Fiction In Space". (Footage of all those good songs is shown in the documentary so why were they not put in the concert??)

My other gripe is that although the songs play seamlessly all the way through, the actual footage shown during a song flicks randomly between different performances of that said song and is just lip synched to look best. So one minute he's got a big fluffy hat on and the next minute he's half naked and covered in mud, all in the space of one song. Because of this you never actually achieve that "feels like you are actually there" feeling, something that I felt in abundance watching the Nine Inch Nails DVD "And All That Could have Been".

Ok complaints over now really, it takes a bigger time to explain the bad points anyway. So why after all I've said did I give it 4 stars? Quite simply it's because of the music. I've always been a Marilyn Manson fan because I like listening to the music, not because he dresses in odd clothes. People into the shock image rather than the music will find little of interest here, and if you are the sort of person that goes to a Manson concert just because of that, please leave now.

What you have here is 70 minutes of superb quality, earpoundingly loud well performed live atmospheric songs. Any fan of the music will be pleased. The opening performances of "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" and "Reflecting God" rip out of your stereo speakers like some mad rabid beast, all to an insane montage of various onstage shenanigans. Worth the price of the DVD alone. Other highlights include great performances of "Great Big Wide World", "Disposable Teens", "Sweet Dreams", "The Love Song" and the fantastic 8 minute encore version of "Lunchbox". This loud and live assault of high quality performances pretty much keeps up to standard all the way throughout the concert, only really faltering a couple of times, most notably on performances of "The Death Song" and "Astonishing Panorama", the latter of which, all you can hear is the bassline and someone seems to have flicked John 5's guitar volume down from 10 to 1 and it sounds truly terrible. Despite this, it all still reminds me of how great this band can be live, and having been lucky enough to have seen them in concert myself, this DVD helps bring back a little of that magic.

All the familiar elements of a Manson concert are here, from the elaborate speeches to the typically decadent if a little cliched "smash the stage up" finale. 15 out of 17 decent powerful live performances definitely isn't bad for your money, and that's why I gave it 4 stars. The DVD may lack the interactivity or band insight of Korn's "Deuce" DVD, and loses some of the personal "feels like you're there" feeling of NIN's DVD, but what it lacks in those departments it most definitely makes up for in power and performance. Any fan of Manson's MUSIC shouldn't be too disappointed, I wasn't. Just don't expect it to change your life!

Shake your own Manson Snowdome:
`This will help you see what its like to be nailed to this wrecking ball`
The Gods Guns & Government World Tour punched England hard and I remember surviving the Docklands show with one thought, I wanted to wrap the show up and keep it for myself. I smiled as DVD finally reached the Manson camp.
Ill keep this review simple as any flare for the dramatic can be viewed instead on the DVD.
The DVD experience resembles conjoined-twins. On the left sits an on-stage montage footage. Each live audio track is blurred with a flickering image set of various live visuals that confuse the viewer. The set list is true to the concert, erupting from the subdued COUNT TO SIX AND DIE into the classic, volcanic IRRESPONSIBLE HATE ANTHEM and REFLECTING GOD. Where would we be without those and thats just the start. Trawl through the guts of FIGHT SONG, DOPE SHOW,SWEET DREAMS and then wrench the volume up harder for ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR and let those hairs on your neck shiver!
After the remnants of BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, ASTONISHING PANORAMA and LUNCHBOX withdraw into the DVD.. take a break then meet the other twin: Behind the Tour-30 minutes of Manson seduction.
Follow the band on their visits to Russia, Tokyo, London and reminise with former members Twiggy and J5 (who co-directed this feature). Scenes from the J5 birthday, Mansons backstage surgery and Pogo acting his hyperactive self, throws you to the centre of their world.
If you sweated at the concert or you simply wish for a taste of the sour wine then buy this DVD. This will leave you searching for the next tour dates![Rated 4 out of 5 only because of the video montage effect]

top quality live collation/documentary.
I recommend this DVD to any Marilyn Manson fan, It's a quality production throughout. slick graphics and excellent sound quality as you'd expect. content-wise, you get a collation of the g-g-g tour from locations across the world. If you didn't get chance to see the tour live, it's a non-stop thumping riot of sound that features many of the bands best known songs. The actual live performance is on for about 90 mins, and is excellent to the very last scream. Following that there is a 30 minute documentary filmed by the man himself, looking behind the scenes and on the road, also a clip of an acoustic performance they did which is nice. I leave some to the imagination, but I will just say that this is a quality dvd, though probably best played seriously loud when the neighbours are out.