New Wave Outpost Forum

I got this in yesterday and was both happy with it and annoyed with it. I was happy because I was getting pretty cool tv performances by bands such as Talk Talk, OMD, DM, Bananarama, etc. but I was annoyed because at the beginning of every performance, they have this little cd that flips over and gives you the band name and title of the song. What that does is takes away the first 10 seconds every video. It kind of works ok for the songs that don't have an early vocal intro but the ones that do, you miss the first 10 seconds. Most of these videos were Musikladen performances so maybe the source tapes had bad intros and they had to cover it up. I don't know but when it's an official release like this, I expect a little more. Anyways, just thought I'd let everyone know that before they decide to buy this dvd. Overall, the quality's decent and it is really cool to get tv performances by all of the 80's bands. Just really wish they wouldn't use those introductions.

Sean

I was thinking of getting this as well. I still think I might. It would be worth it I think for the television clips.

Were the TV performances sung live or lip-synced? I vaguely remember a lot of lip-syncing going on the 80's and I hope our favorite New Wave artist didn't succumb to this.

These were lip sync or voice overdubbed. I guess maybe for television, they didn't want to mess up. It's kind of funny because some times the band members would not be playing anything and you can still hear music. Even more funny, the crowd doesn't re