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Still sealed double dvd in digipak
One can almost forgive the average American consumer who, when faced with Danko Jones’ impressive-looking, career-documenting dvd, Bring On The Mountain, will wonder if these seemingly globe-trotting, festival-conquering rock gods are in fact a real band or some clever movie director’s Spinal Tap-like fabrication. After all, DJs go through drummers like nobody’s business, seem thrilled to play music — not for fame and fortune, but for the pure love of it (quite the foreign concept these days) — and eponymous bandleader Jones Jekyll and Hyde duality — which sees him sober, reflective, self-effacing, and polite off-stage; impetuous, filled with swagger, borderline sexist, and even prone to violent blood-letting on-stage — only blurs the lines between rock & roll fantasy and reality even further. And yet, despite these confusing signs, Danko Jones — both the man and his band — are very much for real, and their single-minded passion for rock & roll, through endless trials and tribulations, is ultimately the raison d’etre for both Bring On The Mountain and this Canadian hard rock trio’s considerable success in Europe, Japan, the world, and elsewhere (if not the U.S., where they’ve shifted a mere 30,000 albums in 16 years). And it should be since the documentary’s feature-length 90 minutes, exhaustive detail, and lengthy dialogue spread amidst extensive concert footage are really not as suitable an introduction for neophytes (lots to digest) as they are rewarding for die-hard fan consumption. Chances are only the latter group will have enough of an appetite for this, along with extensive booklet liner notes, complete videography, live performances, and even a short film called The Ballad Of Danko Jones, whose celebrity cameo list says it all about the band’s fanatic appeal. Having said all that, it’s precisely all of this well-kept-secret stuff that makes Bring On The Mountain so simultaneously exciting when it comes to Danko Jones and depressing for what it says about rock & roll’s poor health in general: that a hard-working, creatively consistent band has to content itself with minor celebrity in some quarters while flying under the pop culture radar in others. A can’t-miss for the diehards, and an educational experience for bystanders willing to take a plunge.
Track list dvd 1: The Films
1. Bring On The Mountain-documentary
2. The Ballad Of Danko Jones
Track list dvd 2: Live And Music Videos
1. Samuel Sin-live
2. The Rules-live
3. Cadillac-live
4. Way To My Heart-live
5. Sound Of Love-live
6. Sex Change Shake-live
7. I Love Living In The City-live
8. Bring On The Mountain (Become The Mountain)-live
9. Play The Blues-live
10. Invisible-live
11. Full Of Regret-live
12. Lovercall-live
13. First Date + I Think Bad Thoughts-live
14. Had Enough-live
15. Bounce-video
16. My Love Is Bold-video
17. Samuel Sin-video
18. Cadillac-video
19. Sound Of Love-video
20. Lovercall-video
21. I Want You-video
22. I Love Living In The City-video
23. Dance-video
24. Baby Hates Me-video
25. First Date-video
26. Don’t Fall In Love-video
27. Code Of The Road-video
28. Take Me Home-video
29. King Of Magazines-video
30. Sugar High-video
31. Full Of Regret-video
32. Had Enough-video
33. I Think Bad Thoughts-video