Dixie Chicks - Top of the World Tour Live (2003)

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 Amazon.com

On top of the world

I own many Dixie Chicks CD's and DVD's and proud to say they have a big part in my existing music library. It was terrible how politics could even dominate the music world, especially affecting some of the best performers on the circuit. In addition, the many southern bible thumper radio stations who joined the politics should be ashamed of themselves. Had I lived in the south I would have turned your stations off for good after what you did to these girls.

At any rate, I was thrilled with the results of the music rewards ceremony winnings by these ladies. I think the people of our nation have spoken more than once over the past few years how they feel about nasty politics.

Great job ladies rising from such a blow to your careers, but I think your fans have demonstrated we are behind you all the way, which is meant to say keep making great music. We buy your music often, think this group is one of the best and wish them continued success. Please don't stop making great music like this album and your others and we won't stop buying it. That's a promise to three of the most talented young ladies we are privilege to have bringing us the best sounds of country on the market. June 4, 2008

One of the best

One of the best concerts in my dvd collection. Incredible talent, beautiful music. My family has watched this again and again and always enjoyed. March 29, 2008

I can't believe I watched the whole thing...and enjoyed it all!

Since I'm just a moderate fan of the Chicks, I only rented this, and their previous PBS concert ("An Evening With..."), to see them sing "Goodbye Earl" and "Wide Open Spaces". These were the only two songs I knew by name, before I watched the Dvd's.

I started watching the first one, "An Evening With..." (it's in full-screen, with some widescreen shots mixed in), but found it a bit too slow, so I switched to the "Top of the World Tour Live" (which is in widescreen). I was a little confused at first, because I wasn't sure if Natalie's clothing kept changing, or if I was just imagining it? Or maybe, they were just quickly cutting to the other blonde Chick? Anyway, I jumped forward to chapter 4, and when Natalie said, "Well, hello Houston...Cleveland...Boston, etc., I realized what they were doing. Why they didn't start off with chapter 4, first, is beyond me, but I then went back and watched the entire concert! Without the shots of the different clothing and hairstyles, I would have skipped many of the songs.

Yes, some of the edits were too quick, but the quick edits were much less frequent, when the slower, softer songs were sung. I also wish they would have had fewer shots of Natalie wearing black, or sporting her crazy Mohawk hairstyle. To counter this, I just briefly looked elsewhere (on the screen), and waited till the next edit came.

I then watched "An Evening With...", and enjoyed Natalie's humor and sweetness. In addition, I enjoyed seven of the songs, and no longer found it too slow. I liked both concerts equally, but for different reasons.

"Top of the World Tour Live", had more style and flash; while "An Evening With...", had much more charm and humor.

I guess it's true what they say..."The Chicks Rule!" August 17, 2007

There's a reason there's so many bad reviews of this DVD...

and it has nothing to do with politics or country music bashers stopping by to drop a 1 star bomb. Simply put, this thing is horrendously edited.

The decision was made by someone on the production team to shoot several cities (I believe about 12 based on a section where you see Natalie saying "Well, helllllooooo (name of city here)" to various audiences.) on the Top of the World tour and use footage from each. That wouldn't be an issue if they selected,say, the best performance of "Sin Wagon" from the 12 and used it in full. But what they choose to do is slice shots from EACH performance and slap 'em together.

This gives you the equivalent of a 90 minute music video and it is extremely tiring to watch. You're watching Natalie in a black top under a blue spotlight, suddenly the perspective changes and Natalie's now in a Nudie shirt under a yellow spotlight.

BOTTOM LINE:
Everyone complaining about this video is correct. It's not the Chicks' fault, it's bad editing. While I can't vouch for AN EVENING WITH yet (still waiting to get it from NetFlix) I CAN tell you this is a definite waste of hard-earned money. Do NOT buy this. June 26, 2007

Dixie Chicks - Top of the World Tour Live

The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised. May 13, 2007

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