Unplugged (1998) Review by Steven Stanley

If you have read my album review of this performance then basically just apply it to this, it has high points with great new songs like 'Back To You'. Amazing reworks of old classics... '69' and the 'Blues Jam', but overall it doesn't do much to excite me. A surprise inclusion is 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started / It Ain't A Party... If Ya Can't Come 'Round' which wasn't on the album, although 'The Only Thing' makes way for it on the video. They should have just put it all on... including 'Depend On Me'.

It was the first BA video to be released on DVD and although it has extras, it's just a biography. I'll forever be annoyed with this video though because a Wembley '96 release was due in '97... but I'm guessing the record company thought 2 live CD's/Video's in the same year would be overkill... thus Wembley has been condemned to the vaults of time. One can only pray to baby Jesus of Nazareth, Allah, Buddah, The Giant Panda, The Reverand Big T and all that is holy and sacred that Wembley '96 someday gets released. Amen.

Key Tracks:
Back To You
Blues Jam

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