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Editorial Review:
Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early '80s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards's signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a midconcert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage.
That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the program, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anomie, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone," a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland
The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon Tour '97-98 [Region 2] Reviews:
The Rolling Stones "Bridges to Babylon Tour" (97-98) = A Classic Rolling Stones Concert = A1+!!!!!!!! 
2009-09-16 - This is a great "classic" concert by the Rolling Stones. You get the "classic" line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, & Ronnie Wood. Also, you get additional musicians, and background singers. Plus, you get guest performances by Dave Matthews, and Joshua Redman. This is a 1st class concert, by the "Stones", and a 1st class concert DVD. You get 5.1 surround sound & approximately 120 minutes of running time.
The Song Set is as Follows:
1.Opening
2.I Can't Get No Satisfaction
3.Let's Spend the Night Together
4.Flip the Switch
5.Gimme Shelter
6.Wild Horses
7.Saint of Me
8.Out of Control
9.Waiting on a Friend
10.Miss You
11.I Wanna Hold You
12.Across the Bridge (There is actually a bridge that comes out and crosses over the audience to another stage. The Stones walk across this bridge, and perform, and then walk back over the bridge to the original stage.)
13.It's only Rock & Roll
14.Like a Rolling Stone
15.Sympathy for the Devil
16.Tumbling Dice
17.Honky Tonk Woman
18.Start Me Up
19.Jumping Jack Flash
20.You Can't Always Get What You Want
21.Brown Sugar
22.Bows & End Credits
Overall, this is a great, "classic", Rolling Stones concert DVD. It includes all their classic songs. This is pure Rock & Roll at its best!!!! Thanks!!!!
Observations 
2009-08-17 - The mail service was good but the DVD doesn't play and my DVD player is opened to all zones.
everybody please listen to me carefully 
2009-08-09 - i am looking for the video performance of emotional rescue without the thermo shots. i saw this on the solid gold show years ago and been looking for it ever since. i saw it on you tube but they took it off. i dont know the reason for this but the video of emotional rescue without the thermo shots was the best performance of the rolling stones i ever saw.i wish the stones could read this let me know why they wont release this on dvd.they destroyed the video by putting in the thermo shots. thank you
Music DVD's
2008-12-12 - From the very first song to the end - this is the "Stones" at their very best! They leave no doubt why they've long been introduced at their concerts as "The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World - The Rolling Stones!"
Disappointing Audio 
2008-12-02 - The AUDIO SUCKS. Zero star rating. Sounds like a mediocre audience bootleg that was done in the rear of the venue. The performances and videography are 5 star which averages out to 3 stars. It's so sad considering the effort that went into the production that the sound was not commensurate with everything else. I'm sure glad I didn't pay good money to buy the DVD (rented from Netflix--writing this review to warn potential buyers). Still worth watching so long as you imagine yourself in last row of the nose-bleed section farthest from the stage.
