Product Description

Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 11/25/2003 Run time: 52 minutes Rating: Nr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39723 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-11-21
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Live, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 85 minutes

Amazon.com
A Dixie Chicks in-the-round stadium concert is a visually bold and captivating enterprise, one quickly discovers watching Top of the World Tour. An unusual record of the rousing band's 2003 sweep through giant North American venues, Top of the World freely mixes and matches images culled from multiple shows, demonstrating how Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, and Martie Maguire electrify cavernous spaces as surely as they do smaller ones. Still, size doesn't matter where the Chicks' full-bodied, engaging bluegrass, anthemic country pop, and flat-out rock is concerned. "Longtime Gone" and "Tortured, Tangled Hearts" sound like the polished but authentic roots music one expects from the Chicks. "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" is a flavorful rocker, while the feminist anthem "Wide Open Spaces" still gets women hopping in the aisles. In a quieter vein, the moody, powerful "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)" hushes the masses like nothing else. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

A crime committed on the Dixie Chicks
I love the Dixie Chicks, and their performances in the concerts that provided footage for this DVD were probably great - but there's no way to tell.

From what I can see, this DVD was put together by monkeys who had available an unlimited supply of espresso and cocaine. No shot lasts longer than two seconds, and footage from many different concerts is slammed together pell-mell with no regard for anything like continuity. The camera shots themselves are about as creative as a home movie of a high school football game, and the general feeling I get is that the people who made this didn't really give a damn about the Dixie Chicks, or about anything except slapping this DVD together with nail guns, pressure board, duct tape and fast-drying glue, and then dropping it on store shelves to start the cash hose flowing.

The Dixie Chicks deserve much, much better than this, and luckily they get it in "An Evening with the Dixie Chicks," which is the best DVD of their music to date. If you bought this garbage, go exchange it for "An Evening," and you'll be glad you did.

Wonderful Music at an Amazing Price
All throught the year you heard the hype about the chicks.. the media couldn't stop talking about them, they were on everybody's mouths.. why???

Their first headlining tour... the multiplatinum streak continuing with one of the top selling albums of the year... setting concert ticket sales records, and breaking previous records on their first day of ticket sales.... that's why!!!

So now, if you were one of the many who couldn't get a ticket before they sold out, or if you were one who loved their live show, a full lenght concert has been released on CD & DVD (separately) for America's listening and watching pleasure.

The Chicks surely understand their live shows energy cannot be captured on any media. That's why tickets weren't cheap. But don't be fooled by the LOW price on this DVD... it rocks this country!!!

They say actions speak louder than words, but here the music is louder than any comments made about the band during the year. The only thing louder than their music is the tremendous fan energy all throughout the concert.

If you like the Chiks music (that's why you're reading this, right?) buy this DVD immediately. At around 10 bucks you get an amazing concert... and an extra video (wow! what a video, better than Cash's Hurt) for Top of the World (the song form Home).

The tracklist for this concert includes
Goodbye Earl
Some Days You Gotta Dance
There's Your Trouble
Long Tome Gone
Tortured, Tangled Hearts
Travelin' Soldier
Am I the Only One (Who Ever Felt this Way) (on the CD only)
Hello Mr. Heartache
Cold Day in July
White Trash Wedding
Lil' Jack Slade
A Home
Truth No. 2 (on the CD only)
If I Fall You're Going Down With Me
Mississippi (on the CD Only)
Cowboy Take Me Away  
Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)
Landslide
Ready To Run
Wide Open Spaces
Top of the World (live version on CD only, included here as a bonus concept Videoclip)
Sin Wagon

EXCELLENT - as usual
It was a great concert in person, and this is a great DVD. Fun editing shows the Chicks in different outfits and hairstyles, all within the same song. Excellent musicianship, great production values, this dvd is for anyone who loves an excellent concert by talented performers.
Rock On Chicks!