Jesus Jones – Live At The Marquee
Picture: C
Sound: B- Extras: D Concert: D
If you make a short list of music acts that
single-handedly ruined Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave and anything good and potent
Rock stood for, then Jesus Jones would be at the top of the list. Still performing together (!!!), they have
this uncanny ability to get worse and worse and worse no matter what they
do. This new concert-as-torture-test
runs something like two hours and it’s a nightmare like a George Romero zombie
film, minus the entertainment value.
Of course, there is that instant hit from hell, Right
Here, Right Now. It was supposed to
be about the joy of The Berlin Wall & USSR falling. Too bad it totally ignored neo-Conservatism,
the dark side of Globalization and every other key political development that
would have the song as impossible as Walking On Sunshine by Katrina
& The Waves to listen to today, with the latter needing a mega-disaster to
make it go away. This nightmare
continues. To top it off, lead singer
Mike Edwards’ voice is gone and then he decides to wax poetically about how
remarkably well his songs stand up.
Yea……….. in Hell!
The 1.33 X 1 image is shot on NTSC analog videotape and
looks ill defined and blurry. The Dolby
Digital 5.1 spread the sound around in an ambience of madness that surrounds
you with bad music throughout. It is
not that sonically impressive to boot.
Extras include a lame interview and “biography” notes that are really
two frames of sarcasm about their career that talk at the audience. To paraphrase Mike + The Mechanics: “All I need is a Tylenol, all I
neeeeeeeeeeeeed its true. All I need is
a Tylenol. All I need is a Tylenol…………”
- Nicholas Sheffo
