U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle

I am really loving this DVD of one of my all time favorite bands

This DVD truly captures what it feels like to be at a U2 concert. U2 is one of the most amazing rock bands live and we see that here. This concert was filmed in Dublin outside of Slane Castle. There are some great shots of the band with the castle in the background. What truly separates this DVD from others is the band's mood as well as the enthusiasm of the crowd. There were over 80,000 people at this concert. U2 was truly happy to be back home and it clearly showed. There is a real connection in this DVD with the crowd. This DVD captures the raw emotion that one feels when going to a U2 concert; the transformation from being a spectator to an active participant of the U2 experience. Yes, U2 is a great band. Bono is one of the best singers around with a beautiful voice. The Edge is one of the best guitar players in the Rock world. But this one is about having a good time at a great concert.There are some great performances on this DVD. The concert opens with an energetic performance of Elevation. The crowd is abosolutely energized. Another great performance is Until the End of the World. Bono's cranks up the vocals in New Year's Day. He sings it with great emotion. A true highlight of the concert is Out of Control. Bono acts as if U2 is a new band introducing their first single. He screams "We hope you like it" and brilliantly starts singing the song. He later introduces each band member and where they are from. As the song slows down, he thanks each parent of the band for giving them 500 pounds so they can get their music career going. He then thanks the crowd for giving them at least 500 pounds each day and roars back into the song with the crowd going into a frenzy. Really breathtaking.Almost every song is worth talking about on this DVD. I only will discuss 2 more. U2 delivers a brilliant performance of All I Want is You. It is a truly romantic love song that is shared by couples as "their song". Bono dedicates this song to his wife. The vocals and music are truly a thing of beauty. Bono gets the crowd to chant along with him on this song. Eventually, the music stops. Bono and the crowd continue to chant back and forth. As this is going on, we hear the familiar begining of Where the Streets Have No Name. This is the highlight of the concert. As the lights start flashing and the Edges guitars begin to rev up, Bono starts running around the stage which extends into the crowd. The crowd goes into a frenzy and Bono starts singing. You could barely hear Bono singing because the crowd is singing along so loud with him. Truly incredible performance. An even better perfomance of Where the Streets Have No Name is recorded on the Boston tour DVD. That version of the song may be the best live performance of a song that I have ever seen. The U2 Go Home DVD may be the best recorded concert ever. If you're a U2 fan, you won't be disappointed. If you're not a fan, you will be after watching this concert.

I had already seen U2's CBS special entitled 'U2's beautiful day' that aired more than a year ago and knew how special this concert was to U2 fans and to the band. There was an incredible energy there that evening and U2 seemed to love every minute of it. Indeed, I have been hoping for this release since seeing that special. I even lobbied for its release with Bono when I ran into him in NYC this past spring. Usually U2 can do no wrong in my eyes. I guess I expected too much from the world's greatest band.BOTTOM LINE:If you love U2, you'll like this DVD and it's worth purchasing. There are some precious moments, like when Bono is talking about their families' respective financial contributions when they were starting out 20 years earlier. This DVD adds some tracks missing from the Boston DVD: One, Mysterious ways, and Pride, all of which were sorely missed from that production. Where's the Behind the scenes/Making of documentary? Bizarre. However, I still get goose bumps whenever I watch `Where the Streets Have No Name' on this DVD, so it passes that test.THE DVD:**16:9 gritty video with a substandard set of 5.1 mixes-- the DTS is not any better than the DD, but they're both below the standard previously set by the Boston DVD, which I thought was a lot better. However, Bono's vocals are incredibly good and come through very clearly. There are not enough crowd microphones-- you can barely here them at some key times. I can't even put my finger on exactly what's wrong with the audio, it just doesn't carry enough of the emotion that there was that night.**NO documentary of this show, which I found amazingly odd-- the CBS special had some touching moments of Bono talking about his father who had just passed away. I find it very strange that there's nothing about U2 returning to Slane.**Annoying menus that seem slapped together at the last minute.OVERALL:Not a polished U2 production- better than Popmart, but certainly not as good as the Boston DVD. I wish the audio was more engaging. Odd omissions (documentary about THIS concert and not the Unforgettable Fire) and I'll never understand why mysterious ways is a separate track, regardless of how it 'fit in.'------------------------------------------------------------From U2.com:U2 Go Home is presented in PCM Stereo, DTS and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. Aspect ratio 16:9.Here's the tracklisting:Performance from Slane, 1st September , 2001* Elevation* Beautiful Day* Until The End Of The World* New Year's Day* Out Of Control* Sunday Bloody Sunday* Wake Up Dead Man* Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of* Kite* Angel Of Harlem* Desire* Staring At The Sun* All I Want Is You* Where The Streets Have No Name* Pride (In The Name Of Love)* Bullet The Blue Sky* With Or Without You* One* Walk OnBonus track: Mysterious Ways

Arrived in good shape, well packaged for shipping. One of U2's all time best concerts! (just my opinion)

I watched this the minute it came in the door. I took a directors eye to it and started to tut at the amount of cuts and jumping from camera to camera that went on in the first song. I bitched a bit about how the steady-cam switch wasn't on but the thing is, whoever did the editing is a real U2 fan and didn't want us to miss a thing, maybe he got a bit too excited at the start but he/she didn't want us to miss a smirk on Bono's face or a glance from the Edge to check what's goin' on.It's an Irish gig (and about "effin" time too gawd damnit). I've seen U2 in a few places around the world and nowhere compares to the Irish shows and I promise you I'm not being sentimental. I booed them in NYC 2001, don't tell on me but just 10 days after the Elevation Boston DVD was taped they were awful and I booed because I'm primative like that, when it's good I cheer and when it sucks I boo!In this show they don't depend on camera angles to make it look exciting, there was actually 80,000 mad bastar... err... I mean lunatics... err I mean fans there. I know, I was there!The band makes a lot of mistakes. I like this because it's U2 doing a live performance and not the well choreographed and reviewed shows like in Boston, they're just little things that let you know there's real people up there which helps it all add up to a truly live show.Bonus... Die hard fans know you can buy a video called "The unforgetable fire". it's a sucky little documentary about the stuff they were doing back then but the point is that it's here free, so that's a little sumtin extra.The other extras include a PC desktop calendar that's wrong; the same gig dates appear year after year after year, so whoever programmed that deserves the bullet. There's other PC BS, screensavers etc, good that they put in the effort but does nothing for me.I want to give it 5/5 so badly but to be honest the camera work and the editing is a bit shady so it has to get a wee slap. Don't worry about the picture or sound quality, the important stuff is 100%.The last word... Buy it, fan or no, you'll enjoy this concert!

This is great! I bought it originally as a VHS - and was afraid to playit as often as I wanted to . . .you're reading a guy who completelywore out his Rage Against The Machine cassette.That Lennon attitude, the chewing of gum throughout the performance,the occasional self deprecation which often marks genuine unforced talent. . yes, it made me wish I had actually been able to see him live myself. At the time of original purchase and viewing I thought there was too much Yoko but I don't feel that way now. This was, after all, John Lennon - not the Beatles - and without "Grapefruit" there would have been no "Imagine".Of course, without her marriage to John Lennon, I doubt whether therewould ever have been much notice taken of Yoko. That would have beena pity. At the end of what would turn out to be John Lennon's lastever concert, Yoko Ono reads out a telling extract from someone fortunatelylong-dead that seemed to mirror the realities of the then RichardNixon America. Quite apart from the music, this littlepiece dug up by Yoko seems as relevant now as it was then. I've beenlucky enough to have found a decent dvd of this concert now, throughAmazon, so I can watch and rewatch without worry as a backdrop tothe "Events" we are all, one way and another, living through now.I'd thorougly recommend anyone reading this to do the same - it mighteven help!

great early u2 live. and the best bit for me is a half hour documentary about the making of the album with brian eno and Daniel lanois,knob twiddlers extraordinaire.entertaining

This is great stuff. Much better than the 'big' DVD release from last year, Live in Boston. 'Boston' was just too gimmicky and too self-conscious with some bits falling flat, like Bono's 'Joey Ramone'intro to In A Little While, and simply wasting songs like With or Without You. 'Go Home' is much more direct, much more honest, with great, almost 'straight to camera' delivery, of a better range of songs including fabuluous renditions of classics such as Out of Control. Definitely a case of less equals more. Enjoy.

This is one of the best live Dvd's that I have ever seen. I have seen U2 in concert before, and this is very realistic.