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I was checking the music DVD rack at Wal-Mart to see if they had the 3 DVD collector's edition of Plug Me In when I noticed the Queen logo on one of the cases. It was a mostly white DVD case, so I thought it was the ANATO DVD thing. I looked...and it was Live in Japan 1985. This DVD is a curiousity. Queen Productions hasn't officially released it under their label yet. The back of the case features a pic of the band...from the Hot Space tour (1982). There's a sticker on the front saying it's an import...and I believe it's an import of a bootleg! At Wal-Mart!
The whole thing is cheap. Single disc, no booklet (not even a little card with the track listing), and only the most basic menu ("Play Concert" and another menu consisting of the track list). I can't quite determine where the show was sourced, as it loses the titles at the beginning of the laserdisc ("We Are The Champions - Final Live in Japan"), but it still has some Japanese subtitles for Freddie's speeches. I wish they had remixed the audio so the synths weren't so loud, Brian May's guitar so low, and the bass oddly prominent.
Overall, I don't particularly like this show. The Works tour was their worst. Roger Taylor's drumkit is mostly what ruins that tour for me. He uses electronic drums way too much, and they sound like shit. This DVD, however, is an upgrade from my homemade DVD of the same show. I used high quality DivX rips to make a much more basic DVD of the show (no track selection on my at all).
The whole thing is cheap. Single disc, no booklet (not even a little card with the track listing), and only the most basic menu ("Play Concert" and another menu consisting of the track list). I can't quite determine where the show was sourced, as it loses the titles at the beginning of the laserdisc ("We Are The Champions - Final Live in Japan"), but it still has some Japanese subtitles for Freddie's speeches. I wish they had remixed the audio so the synths weren't so loud, Brian May's guitar so low, and the bass oddly prominent.
Overall, I don't particularly like this show. The Works tour was their worst. Roger Taylor's drumkit is mostly what ruins that tour for me. He uses electronic drums way too much, and they sound like shit. This DVD, however, is an upgrade from my homemade DVD of the same show. I used high quality DivX rips to make a much more basic DVD of the show (no track selection on my at all).