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Old 27-12-2005, 9:14 AM   #1
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What did Santa Bring? Name your best DVD (& or CD) pressie

DVD - Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum DD5.1 & DTS (glorious but especially Autobahn & Radioactivity )
CD - Well actually its a quality SACD (rarer than rocking horse sh!t)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding )
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Old 27-12-2005, 9:42 AM   #2
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did get john peels biography...looking forward to reading it.
hunting down cds/dvds in the sales on line at the mo..
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Old 27-12-2005, 10:09 AM   #3
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Only got one disc-based present which was:
AC/DC - Back in Black
in dualdisc format.
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Old 27-12-2005, 10:32 AM   #4
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Most chuffed with two of my DVD gifts:

Shadowlands movie (finally released on R2 DVD after 10 years!!)
Vicar of Dibley complete set! (Amazon was meant to email alert me when this became available, but I had to rely on a hawk-eyed relative to get it for me instead!)
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Old 27-12-2005, 12:33 PM   #5
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DVD - Rush R30. Watched the entire concert on Christmas night. Massive improvement over Rush In Rio.
Also got the R1 Sin City Extended/Unrated set.

CD - Kate Bush - Aerial
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Old 27-12-2005, 1:57 PM   #6
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DVD - Clarkson - Heaven and Hell
CD - Darkness - Heaven and Hell!!
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Old 27-12-2005, 2:29 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulBoy
DVD - Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum DD5.1 & DTS (glorious but especially Autobahn & Radioactivity )
Ditto! Mind you I had to give someone a very strong hint

WOTW too..... which is hopefully being exchanged for Roger waters DVD... live at the Berlin wall as I already own it.
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Old 28-12-2005, 10:30 AM   #8
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Well I bought myself the lastest Foo Fighters album with DVD.

I was given X-files DVD season 6.
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Old 28-12-2005, 12:04 PM   #9
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DVD - so i married an axe murderer
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Old 29-12-2005, 11:03 AM   #10
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Sin City DVD

Weird as hell but thought it was great.
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Old 29-12-2005, 11:38 AM   #11
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Rush R30 - Better use of "crowd" than LIR

Ryan Adams - 29

Rolling Stones - Rarities

John Lennon - Imagine 2xDVD

Sin City - R1 Extended Cut

DVD - Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

DVD - Johnny Guitar

Book - Solo Beatles on Apple

Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia - CD & DVD-A
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