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Wonderful videos and a decent helping of extras

Patrick Caldwell | Anderson, IN United States | 01/05/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"First, the exact DVD contents:

Music videos, each preceded with a short documentary-esque intro:

01. U16 Girls
02. All I Want to Do Is Rock
03. Tied to the '90s
04. Happy
05. More Than Us
06. Writing to Reach You
07. Driftwood
08. Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
09. Turn
10. Coming Around
11. Sing
12. Side
13. Flowers in the Window
14. Re-Offender
15. The Beautiful Occupation
16. Love Will Come Through
17. Walking in the Sun

Live videos:

01. "All I Want to Do Is Rock" live on "Later with Jools Holland" 1996
02. "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" live at Glastonbury 2000
03. "Sing" live on "Top of the Pops" 2001
04. "Baby One More Time" live on "VH1 Storytellers" 2002 (yes, the Britney Spears song)

Making-of videos:

01. Sing
02. Side
03. Flowers in the Window

Band commentaries:

01. All I Want to Do Is Rock
02. Writing to Reach You
03. Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
04. Turn
05. Re-Offender


The bulk of this DVD is the music videos, and they are what it does best. The video and sound quality is superb, and it helps that most of Travis's videos are wonderful, too. Fans will be delighted to have all of the band's videos on one disc. This DVD also includes videos of two songs--"Coming Around" and "Walking in the Sun"--I had never heard on their albums, which was a nice surprise. Other than the core music videos, I most enjoyed the live videos of Travis performing a few of their hits.

The short, documentary-esque making-of vinnettes and throwaway intros to each music video, however, were so short and random that they usually didn't make much sense, and I had no desire to watch them a second time. A few were interesting and relevant, but too many were simply short clips of the band members goofing around on their tour bus. The typical "making-of" extra generally consisted of very short, quick cuts of the video's set edited together, providing little to no insight into the directors' and band's work. Maybe they'll do something for you, but they didn't for me.

This DVD would still be a good value if it only contained Travis's 17 music videos, but luckily it goes a little further than that. And while I didn't consider most of the extras to be of much value, the core content is. "Singles" is probably only a diehard Travis fan's DVD, and in my case, that was just what I wanted."

Indispensable

Jose Luis Mora Martinez | 02/21/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hay muchos a quienes no les gusta de ver videos ya que no representan el real espiritu de una banda, sin embargo, para quienes gustan de Travis es interesante tener este DVD. Existen actuanciones en vivo bastante rescatables y en general el DVD da cuenta de la historia de Travis. Lo recomiendo, un grandes exitos con imágenes."