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Bryan Adams
Live at the Budokan
Release Date: 2003 06 17
Label: A&M Records
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Three years after the release of 1998's On a Day Like Today, Bryan Adams had not gotten around to completing a new collection, so he and his record company, A&M, kept the pipeline supplied with product, releasing the 2001 compilation The Best of Me and the DVD Live at Slane Castle. By 2003, there still didn't seem to be a new album in sight, so A&M pressed up a 2000 concert Adams had performed at the Budokan arena in Tokyo that had been broadcast on Japanese television, releasing both a CD/DVD package and a DVD-only version. On the latter, his fourth live recording in the last eight years (counting 1995's Live! Live! Live! and 1997's MTV Unplugged CD and DVD), Adams turns in a bare-bones show. It's just him, on bass and vocals, Keith Scott on guitar, and Mickey Curry on drums, all of them decked out in white T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers and playing white instruments on a bare stage. All that white gives the lighting designer a chance to throw some interesting patterns on the trio, but that's it as far as staging goes. The trim, acne-scarred, forty-ish frontman comes off as an unadorned rocker, his catchy tunes very much in the tradition of guitar-dominated pop/rock dating back to the '60s. Occasionally, he slows things down for one of his many romantic ballads. Just when sameness is setting in, he invites an audience member up to take over Mel C's part on "When You're Gone," and the moment is both touching and awkward. But for the most part, it's song-song-song, and unless the viewer is a dyed-in-the-wool Adams fan, things drag long before the end. The 22-song main set, running 98 minutes, is augmented by four "bonus tracks" adding another quarter of an hour. [Live at the Budokan was also released as a DVD/CD package, containing a CD that featured 15 highlights from the 26-track DVD.] William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1How Do Ya Feel Tonight [DVD]Thornalley, Adams
2Back to You [DVD]Kennedy, Adams
318 Till I Die [DVD]Lange, Adams
4Can't Stop This Thing We Started [DVD]Lange, Adams
5Summer of '69 [DVD]Vallance, Adams
6It's Only Love [DVD]Vallance, Adams
7(Everything I Do) I Do It for You [DVD]Lange, Kamen, Adams
8Getaway [DVD]Adams, Peters
9Cuts Like a Knife [DVD]Adams, Vallance
10When You're Gone [DVD]Adams, Kennedy
11Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? [DVD]Adams, Kamen, Lange
12Into the Fire [DVD]Adams, Vallance
13Remember [DVD]Vallance, Adams
14I'm Ready [DVD]Vallance, Adams
15Heaven [DVD]Adams, Vallance
16'Blues Jam': If Ya Wanna Be Bad - Ya Gotta Be Good/Lets Make a ...Peters, Lange, Adams
17Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You [DVD]Adams, Lange
18Cloud Number Nine [DVD]Peters, Adams, Martin
19Somebody [DVD]Vallance, Adams
20Run to You [DVD]Vallance, Adams
21Please Forgive Me [DVD]Adams, Lange
22Best of Me [DVD]Lange, Adams
23Fits Ya Good [DVD][*]Vallance, Adams
24I Don't Wanna Live Forever [DVD][*]Adams, Peters
25Before the Night Is Over [DVD][*]Martin, Adams
26Still Beautiful to Me [DVD][*]Adams, Lange
27How Do Ya Feel TonightThornalley, Adams1:28
28Can't Stop This Thing We StartedLange, Adams3:53
29Summer of '69Adams, Vallance4:15
30Fits Ya GoodAdams, Vallance3:54
31(Everything I Do) I Do It for YouKamen, Lange, Adams4:10
32Cuts Like a KnifeVallance, Adams6:30
33When You're GoneKennedy, Adams3:38
34Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Lange, Adams, Kamen4:51
35GetawayPeters, Adams4:05
36'Blues Jam': If Ya Wanna Be Bad - Ya Gotta Be Good/Lets Make a ...Peters, Lange, Adams4:19
37Cloud Number NineMartin, Peters, Adams3:58
38Still Beautiful to MeAdams, Lange4:23
39Run to YouVallance, Adams5:25
40Please Forgive MeAdams, Lange2:12
41Best of MeLange, Adams4:30

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Live at the Budokan [DVD]
Release Date: 2003
Label: A&M Records








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