Soul On Fire (Ohne Filter music compilation)
Picture: C+
Sound: B- Extras: D Music: B-
We have covered so many volumes of German TV’s Ohne
Filter TV series that it is sometimes hard to decide which to recommend,
though we all have our favorites. With
such a proliferation of titles already issued, Inakustik has issued a
compilation of tracks form 13 different releases called Soul On Fire and
it finally gives the many unfamiliar with the show a chance to get to
experience it better.
Running longer than any single volume released to date,
the sample concert performances are as follows:
1)
Poetry Man – Phoebe Snow
2)
The Gift – Joe Louis Walker & The
Bosstalkers
3)
Pale Spanish Moon – John Miles
4)
Bitter Moon – Mark King (of Level 42, the
best track here)
5)
Sign Your Name – Terence Trent D’Abry
(before name change, see review)
6)
I Put A Spell On You – Bill
Wyman’s Rhythm kings
7)
Do Be Down – Curtis Mayfield
8)
Daisy Jane – America
9)
Close To The Truth – Tony
Joe White
10)
I’d Rather
Go Blind – A. Strehli/S. Brown/M. Ball
11)
Frederica
(I Don’t Need You) - Walter Trout
12)
Warm Rain – Ian
McLagan
13)
Souls On
Fire – Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Even at this point in time, most of the entire episodes
each song comes form have been reviewed elsewhere on this site, with more on
the way. Most of the choices are not
bad, though some of the lesser shows were skipped, but the America program is
technically the weakest. It is still a
good sampling that everyone should check out, especially if they have never
seen the show.
The full frame 1.33 X 1 image varies throughout from song
to song, but is more often clearer and later PAL taping material than not. The sound is here in both Dolby Digital 5.1
and PCM 2.0 Stereo mixes, as is the case with all the regular titles in the
series. Again, the sound leans more
towards the better installments, but you can learn more specifics by again
visiting the individual reviews elsewhere on this site. This has the poorest extras of any DVD in
the series so far, only offering an alphabetical list of most of the titles
issued to the date of this release in 2003.
Why it does not repeat the text biographies on each artist is odd, since
that would not take up hardly any space at all. At least this runs about 70 minutes, and not the less than an hour
the regular shows do. Soul On Fire
is one of the better compilation possibilities they could have issued and it is
a nice convenience for the consumer to have this viewing option.
- Nicholas Sheffo
