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Kylie Minogue: Live - Kylie X 2008

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I was very excited to hear that KylieX2008 is finally coming to DVD. When I first ordered it, I was a little sceptical because I haven't really heard anything about the DVD coming to NTSC format (for US & Canada). After I read the reviews, I had to order it - watched it for the first time last Saturday and fell in love with it!! This is by far one of Kylie's best tours!! It was very successful last year and is completely different from her previous concerts! Kylie is backed up by her band (with brass players), a minimalist set with huge LCD screens which cue as curtains, and different acts. Here's the setlist:
ACT 1: Xlectro Static - Kylie is dressed as a spiderwoman/dancers as robots
1. Speakerphone
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Greg Kurtsin Remix) - love this version and I like how she adds some lines from her unreleased song "Boombox."
3. Ruffle My Feathers - an unreleased track from the X sessions
4. In Your Eyes (X2008 version) - this is an electro remix of IYE. Love this version!
ACT 2: Cheer Squad - Kylie and her dancers are dressed as cheerleaders/American football players at a pep rally!
5. Heart Beat Rock
6. Wow
7. Shocked (DNA Mix)
ACT 3: Beach Party - my favorite section! Kylie and her dancers are dressed as sailors
8. Loveboat - One of my favorite songs off of Light Years! I like how she also incorporates the LoveBoat theme song in the beginning
9. Copacabana - The Barry Manilow cover with her dancers acting out the song with Kylie's vocals!
10. Spinning Around - Kylie does a mash-up with Spinning Around to the music of Cheryl Lynn's Got To Be Real
ACT 4: Xposed - Kylie is dressed as an "erotic bellboy"
11. Like a Drug - Kylie sings as she is riding on a platinum skull
12. Slow - it's slightly remixed with a rock feel to it. Kylie also sings some lines from "Free."
13. 2 Hearts - Kylie grooves to this song along with her band!
ACT 5: Naughty Manga Girl - Kylie is dressed as a Manga inspired character while her dancers are dressed as Samurais and Geishas!
14. Sometime Samurai - a video interlude with her acrobats
15. Come Into My World (Fischerspooner Remix) - the set is awesome! Petals and snow flying from the air while Kylie comes out of a black pyramid.
16. Nu-Di-Ty - one word: HOT!!
17 Sensitized
ACT 6: Starry Nights - Kylie is dressed in a blue gown - this is the slow section of the concert
18. Flower - an unreleased song from the X sessions
19. I Believe In You (Ballad Version) - I really like this song as a ballad. It sounds very melodic
ACT 7: Black Versus White - Kylie is dressed as an 18th century coachman while her dancers are also dressed in black & white.
20. On A Night Like This - starts out as an Overture, Kylie's pianist playing the piano while the dancers are dancing the waltz, and next we see Kylie!
21. Your Disco Needs You - it's good to see that she resurrected this song from when she did Showgirls Greatest Hits Tour.
22. Kids - Kylie sings this with her background vocalists.
23. Step Back In Time - starts off acapella and then becomes remixed with a color theme!
24. In My Arms
ACT 8: Encore
25. No More Rain
26. The One (Freemasons Mix)
27. Love At First Sight (Ruff & Jam US Mix)
28. I Should Be So Lucky - a nice way to end the show!
Overall, this is her best tour to date!! Anyone that's a fan of Minogue's and loves the X album will really appreciate this show!

Just wanted to start off by saying that THIS is the DVD that you've been asking for. This version WILL play in ANY DVD player here in the states. Even though there is not a picture for this particular version of the X Tour DVD but I just received it over the weekend and it works just fine. And let me also mentioned that this particular tour has surpassed all of the ones that I have viewed previously. I'll just mention to you that you'll see definitely see how she's grown as an artist and performer from her previous tours with the songs selections she uses. Don't want to give too much away so if you enjoy seeing Kylie live or her DVDs then you'll have to pick this one up. Discover for yourself and hope that you enjoy!

The musical arrangements from the X CD as well as her past hits are outstanding, the song selections well thought out, and all choreography, costumes, and stage setings simply superb. Without a doubt, this is one of her best concerts. In addition, the filming of the concert is amazing to watch in High Definition. There are so many memorable performances from the show, but several that come to mind are Speakerphone, WOW, Copacabana, I Believe in You, Your Disco Needs You, In My Arms, and The One. I can't wait to watch it again!

This review focuses on the BLU RAY transfer than on the actual concert. You can read the SD reviews for the overall quality of this concert. With that said this BLU RAY can best be described as a huge disappointment. For those of you expecting a transfer similar to Celine Dion's Live In Vegas tour, prepare to be disappointed. This transfer misses on all counts. Mediocre sound and an extremely soft, blurry grainy picture best describes this hot mess. I compared the picture of this BLU RAY against my SD copy of the Kylie Catch The Fever tour 2002 concert, and the picture quality of the 2002 concert just blows this away. The fact that the 2002 picture was nothing earth shattering should give you an idea of how bad this video looks. The Kylie X concert is watchable when the shots are distant and there are no close ups. But when a close ups of Kylie is shown, the picture gets so grainy that it looks like ants are crawling all over her face. The editors seem to have realized this because camera shots are all over the place. The camera will show a 6 second close up of her face, realize that the picture looks horrible then keeps panning out until it finds a decent show. When I watched this concert I felt like I was sitting in the nose bleed section than on the floor. The video and camera work look like the work of amateur trying to bootleg the concert. It is not BLU RAY quality, or even SD DVD quality. The picture quality is akin to a 1980's BETA movie. The sound is better although no different than sound quality of 2002 Catch the Fever tour.

If you like the CD and feel like you have to get the concert, save yourself some money and get the SD release. It can't be any worse than this hot mess.

Let me start by saying that I love Kylie Minogue. Really, I do. Beautiful woman, a gracious smile, a great body and the voice of a princess. I have six DVD's from this girl who I deeply admire. She is my queen of pop (yes, I know all about Madonna since the 80's) and I don't have any blank spaces in my mind of heart for anyone else (in the pop world, I mean). But this Blu-Ray edition is really somehow disappointing. The image doesn't have the quality expected of a Blu-ray disc, maybe because it was poorly filmed or something went wrong in the editing process. My disc has the information that it is a PAL version, but plays without problems in both my blu-ray players. Nothing wrong with my queen or the concert itself. If you are a Kylie fan like myself, buy it. Don't have high expectations on the image, though.

For those of us who have still not been able to see Kylie Minogue in concert, we are grateful that there are several well filmed and produced concerts out there. The newest one, X, does not disappoint. This concert appears to be the most ambitious one yet. In it, there are several costume changes, sets, dancers, and "glitz" that Kylie's fans expect. This is a fun, well-paced experience from start to end. Kylie looks fantastic and she sounds great, as well.
I was a little concerned that I would have trouble playing this on my home player but it plays perfectly on my pc as well as home video system. I recommend this highly, particularly for those who love X, as the cd is featured prominently throughout.

After reading all the negative comments I never bought the bluray. The price finally dropped enough that I decided to buy and see for myself. I compared my dvd to bluray and the bluray is definately better. Picture is not the most stunning HD image but it's definately an improvement over dvd. Overall I would recommend picking up if you've got a good tv and sound system. It's Kylie! Gotta have the best!

I've enjoyed all of Kylie's concerts, especially Manchester and Showgirl; this one was nice to see because of the new songs and variety in staging and choreography. Compared to a lot of modern singers, one thing that's always impressed me personally about Kylie is the hard work she puts into choreography and staging. She's always been very conscientious about delivering a great show for her audiences, and this one is another winner. While to be honest I like her earlier concerts better, this one is still well worth getting, because she's evolved over time (like Sade, M, others), in a good way.

I just recently found out about Kylie Minogue a year or so ago, wish I'd found her years earlier, as she's one of the top 2-3 female pop vocal performers ever. I watch her concert DVDs regularly and highly recommend all of them, including this one. Well done, and thanks for keeping the music coming, Kylie.

To the music,

Ken

If you live in the U.S. it is very hard to find any Kylie Minogue products in stores, so discovering this on amazon was a great find. It has excellent sound quality and arrived in great condition and on time.

Having never had the chance to see Kylie live in person, I have to rely on her dvd releases to see her concert tours. Some have been great, such as the two Showgirl tour variations, others like the Fever tour have left me feeling flat. I had heard, read and seen quite a bit about the X tour, so I was dissappointed that its intial dvd release did not include a US version. However, now those of us in the US can get this show on DVD, and it's pretty well worth the wait. Kylie's stage is empty , it basically reminds me of an open laptop, the stage is just flat and open and it has a giant video screen behind it. I was worried that this tour may suffer from a lack of an actual set, but the video screen is put to to good use and the stage surface itself is also able to display different projections. It makes this a nice change from the norm in terms of how the show is staged. I was not a huge fan of the X album, ans although there are quite a few tracks from that disc in the setlist, the overall song selection is still pretty good. Showgirl was a hits tour so I had no expectation that this show would not be focussed on the accompanying album. As always Kylies band, dancer and Kylie herself give their all and put on afu entertaining show. As much as I love Madonna, and think her live shows set the bar for this type of tour, Kylie seems to truly be having a good time on stage, where as Madge often seems like she is just going through the motions. I wanted to give this dvd 4 stars but I am docking it a point because the picture quality on this dvd is really bad. I actually had to watch it in parts, because the jerky almost slow motion effect that permeates every close shot gave me a splitting headache. Im not sure what the reason for filming it in this style was, but it really makes this disc hard to watch. Overall a good show and worth the purchase even if the video quality is poor and distracting.