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AC/DC - Family Jewels Actor: AC/DC Number of Items: 2 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Sony Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 71 Average rating: 4.5 "Amazing Collection" I also echo the other reviews. Buy this DVD set now. It is hands down the best Music Video compilation I own. As someone who has been a fan for many years and has seen them many times this collection is a dream come true. All Hail Bon Scott who was the voice of the band I fell in love with. The videos are amazing to see. Seeing him in a school girls outfit singing "Baby please don't go" never gets old. It looks and sounds great. Finally a Video compilation for fans. This set made me remember why I love this band. Thank you AC/DC for doing it right. From Bon to Brian you can't go wrong. "Family Jewels - Priceless!" To echo the sentiments of another reviewer on this board, the music really speaks for itself. No fluff. If you're an AC/DC fan, you're going get this package regardless of what I say. If you're on the fence on whether to purchase this, well I guess it depends how much the visual experience means to you. For myself, the energy of the music is compounded by the stage presence of Angus and Bon Scott (I'm a Scott-era fan). Five star product. "awesome 70's meet great 80's" would recommended this to any ac/dc fan. if you like the brian johnson stuff you will definately love the bon scott stuff. bon scott ruled was just tragic couldn't have some of his interviews in it. both singers actually made this band great and would play it over and over again while listening to the cd's i dug out of the stuff that wasn't on the dvd. "This set shows just how good this band was with Bon" If I were to review disc 1, I would give it 5 stars! The stuff unveiled for us on this 20 video disc is just fantastic. The audio and video for items 20 to 30 some years old is just terrific. I had forgotten just how good this band was with Bon as the front man. Songs like "Riff Raff", "Whole Lot of Rosie", well the list goes on and on. Buy this for disc 1 alone, it is worth the price. I give this only 4 stars because of the Brian Johnson years. Let's face it, "Back in Black" is their most successful release but the videos from there were obviously shot on a soundstage over the length of a day. I hope not much longer. The sameness of each video from it's respectable release just has the sameness to it that the performances aren't memorable unlike the separate video shoots from the early days. And the songs just aren't as good on disc 2. This collection reminds us how much we miss Bon Scott and just how great would this band be if they were still fronted by him. Still an Essential purchase for the AC/DC fan. A load of videos for a cheap price! "ESSENTIAL video collection even if not the full overview. " This is a great collection of songs and videos by a great band. I'll take it backwards: The second DVD covers from "Back in Black" to "Razor's Edge" in 1991. The "Back in Black" footage is not the black and white live footage most of us have seen but color footage where they're on a stage. Other than the "Flick of the Switch" promos, the others were from "Who Made Who", "Fly On The Wall" (which is kept in its original mini-movie storyline), and "Clipped" videos, now being released on DVD. Why "Big Gun" from "Last Action Hero" didn't make it, I don't know considering Sony put the soundtrack out. No videos from "Ballbreaker" and "Stiff Upper Lip" made it on here (although I think SUL has the videos as CD extras) because of them being signed to another label. Hopefully if they do a CD retrospective they will allow some of those songs on there. Even though there are pieces missing, the songs people know and love ("Back in Black" gets 5 cuts) are here. The audio quality is great, although anyone looking to hear it in Surround will be disappointed. The first DVD is what makes this worth the purchase because a lot of people have never seen Bon Scott as the lead singer, and this is as up close as you can get. The dynamic between Angus and Bon comes off as being harmonic than competitive. You see a charismatic frontman that knows how to have fun with the crowd. I think that what will surprise a lot of people are the promo videos like "Let There Be Rock", "Jailbreak", and the lifted from the Stones' back of the truck "It's a Long Way To The Top", all done years before MTV existed. Just be forewarned that the audio quality on the live clips on the first DVD are not that great, but the video footage and frantic energy of the band more than makes up for it. This is a great legacy if AC/DC never plays a note again. Other than the missing songs, the other thing that bothered me were how the DVDs were packed, where the discs are touching.. It might be worth putting them in different packaging if you're going to play this one more than a few times. Final comment: Let There Be Rock needs to be out on DVD, and the Australian versions of the Bon Scott era AC/DC should be released in the US as most of them are radically different.