Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Fun interviews, but NO song shown in entirety . Cheap Trick is undoubtedly one of the best live acts around today.  They have such great stage charisma, top notch talent, and they consistently get better with age!  What other band sounds better 30 years later?    After my disappointment with the Special One CD, I was excited to hear about this DVD; I heard most Special One songs live, and couldn't understand why they translated to tape poorly.  Having these songs stripped and performed live would be exactly the hot product to put out.  And the songs DO sound much better now, such tremendous intensity Robin has live, the guitars and bass sound great, and there's a great build up to the climax of each song.    However, what's really the downer about this DVD is that although you get fun fictious anecdotes and silly interviews of the band between every track, you then get 2/3 of each live song.  NOT A SINGLE SONG APPEARS HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY.  It's like a Behind the Music (without drama or drugs) based around a new live show.  The banter is great, but this clip-show format KILLS the replay value of this disc.      The closest comparison I can give is the 2-DVD version of Silver, how the second DVD has fun clips and chat between tracks and then overlays into the songs.  That's exactly what this is like, however, you do not get the benefit of the complete uncut show.    Bonus features are fun, with the band and their families visiting Japan, although the two live special appearances they played are again not shown in their entirety.    Perhaps someday we'll get the Budakan show on DVD or an updated Every Trick in the Book DVD.    Update 6/14/05:  Exactly a year later, I've still yet to pop this into my DVD player for a second watch, and Cheap Trick's still my favorite band.
Output (English): NEG