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- Last reviewNovember 10, 2017
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![Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4598/4598962_sa.jpg)
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Not much here, but what could possibly be left?
on December 11, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
After a Nirvana boxed set and album reissues, there aren't any bombshells left for collections like this. And the sound montage that film is named after isn't here, either. Maybe it's on one of those extended/deluxe versions.
Nevertheless, some good musical sketches. And a better, darker version of "Sappy" than I remember hearing elsewhere.
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![Montage of Heck [Blu-Ray Disc]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4598/4598960_sa.jpg)
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5
A psychological autopsy
on December 11, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
Bret Morgan uses animation to evoke the mind of Gen X's most famous artist and suicide case, via audio recordings, notebooks, and artwork from the Cobain archives. Plus interviews with the friends and family who knew him best, and home video. It's just sad that even THIS probably won't be enough to satisfy the armchair conspiracy theorists out there. Kurt would be sick to see tabloid culture winning.
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![Seinfeld: The Complete Eighth Season [4 Discs] [DVD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6673/6673552_sa.jpg)
This collection brings together every episode from the eighth season of the hit sitcom Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comic who gets into numerous wacky situations with his best friend George (Jason Alexander, his ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his oddball neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards).
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5
Could Seinfeld "jump the shark," even if it tried?
on November 3, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
When I find DVD bargains for other shows, I will at least try to buy seasons in order. But I didn't hesitate to jump ahead to season 8 of Seinfeld. The later seasons are my favorite. No danger of jumping the shark; how could a show with characters George and Kramer become too outlandish?
Commentaries are given for: "Bizzaro Jerry," "Little Kicks," "Fatigues," "Checks," "Chicken Roaster" (2 tracks), "Abstinence," "Comeback," "Susie," "Pothole," "Nap," "Yada Yada," "Muffin Tops," and "Summer of George."
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![Live at Shea Stadium, 1982 [DVD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/8782/8782076_sa.jpg)
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4
Latter-day Who for the synthesizer-weary
on October 23, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
This is a good value on post-Keith Moon Who for those of us who aren't interested in any albums that follow Quadrophenia. Lots of later songs interspersed with our old favorites. But LIVE, with less electronic effects to dampen the band's amazing energy. (Still sad to not have Moon, though.)
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![Original Album Series [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/2273/2273044_sa.jpg)
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Like other 5-CD, "Original Album"/"Classic Album Series" collections from artists who are just-below-superstar status, this is all the Pretenders music most people would ever want or need. And at a good value. The group's debut album made the Rolling Stone magazine top 500 list, and the others hold up much better than most Eighties and early-Nineties music.
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy [Extended Edition] [15 Discs] [Blu-ray]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/2629/2629119_sa.jpg)
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4
Everything you need (except digital copy)
on April 24, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
A couple of potentially misleading things: the digital copy for this collection has expired, and the bonus discs are not Blu-Ray. That said, there are no less than FOUR audio commentaries for each film; behind-the-scenes, "fly-on-the-wall" documentaries for each; and the same map of Middle Earth from the books is featured in the packaging. The rest includes the same series of documentaries I remember from the original extended DVD release.
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![200 Motels [DVD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9797/9797566_sa.jpg)
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4
Baby boomers' version of "Adult Swim"
on March 20, 2015
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
I am not a huge Frank Zappa fan, but I loved the "Tim & Eric"/"Eric Andre"-style, off-the-wall humor. The original music made for the film is good, too, but beware: this movie is a true Sixties relic, unlike anything you'll find on a Best Buy store shelf.
My copy was labeled "Blu-Ray", although it seems to be a regular DVD. There are liner notes but no other bonus features.
My copy was labeled "Blu-Ray", although it seems to be a regular DVD. There are liner notes but no other bonus features.
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
My Best Buy number: 2130559526
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![Welcome to His Nightmare: Super Duper Alice Cooper [Video] [DVD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6397/6397144_sa.jpg)
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
This seems to be an offshoot of VH1's "Metal: Evolution," one of the few non-reality/tabloid programs left on that channel. Fans of that show (like me) will enjoy "Super Duper...", but, in the latter, there is less about music itself. The focus is more biographical, exploring the "Alice" stage character as a real-life Jekyll & Hyde. I was hoping to learn more about Cooper classics that get little or no radio play: "Desperado," "Billion Dollar Babies," "Dead Babies," etc. But you can only do so much in 90 minutes, even while the film chooses to conclude in the mid-Eighties.
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![The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes - Raw [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9492/9492299_sa.jpg)
Posted by: alex4
from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
Of course, much material here has been available for years, in one form or another, officially and otherwise. I have the official '74 release and a few Dylan & Band bootlegs, and I'm not an audiophile or obsessed with Dylan, but I was glad to have bought this anyway. The songs have been sifted down from the big, expensive 6-disc complete set. The rawness of the original tapes preserves them as a historical artifact which the liner notes illuminate very well.
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![He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special [DVD] [1985]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6633/6633207_sa.jpg)
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from Sparta, MI
Verified Purchase:Yes
$5 is a small price to pay for He-Man & She-Ra fans to experience Christmas on Eternia (and Earth). You'll also enjoy seeing the holiday spirit (sort of) reach Skeletor! For this one special, he's even less threatening than the Grinch!
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