Tokio Hotel Album: “Humanoid City Live”

I absolutely LOVE this cd/dvd set. A true Tokio Hotel fan will love everything about this. From the outrageous costumes, Toms solo in Pain of Love, or just Bills voice. Will definitely be worth your money. The next best thing to actually being there with them. TOKIO HOTEL FUR IMMER

Wow, where do I begin in describing the glorious explosion of sight and sound that is Tokio Hotel's Humanoid City Live DVD/CD? First of all, the quality of the DVD is amazing. The concert footage is beautifully filmed and edited, and the sound is phenomenal. The show itself is incredibly well put together, with excellent transitions and pacing, and I love how they've thrown all these interesting little twists into the arrangements to make them different from the Humanoid studio album (ex: Tom's fab guitar solo in "Pain of Love" (speaking of that, why don't we get those more often?), a very cool acoustic version of "Humanoid," Bill singing the harmony part in the chorus of "Forever Now" instead of the expected melody). Heck, even the intermission is awesome - during a brief break for the band, the big on-stage screen is used to show video of the guys that includes a number of clips from their "baby days" when they were just the most adorable little rockers imaginable.

Then there's Tokio Hotel themselves. I admit the biggest reason for the attraction I've felt for this band since first getting on to them was my connection with the content of their song lyrics (I'm probably going to have to argue with a bunch of other TH fans about this, but I'm pretty sure every one of their songs was written just for me, LOL), so I was a little surprised to find myself so totally blown away by the sheer magnitude of the musical talent and charisma displayed in this performance, to say nothing of their energy level and commitment, which are completely off the charts. I'd say they are maturing brilliantly, and Tokio Hotel fans have a lot to look forward to in the future.

The DVD extras are great too - a very entertaining "making of" Tokio Hotel TV episode (with subtitles) and a generous photo gallery set to music. Plus, I'm really glad they included a CD. I'm usually not much for listening to live music, but this set definitely deserves a place of honor on my iPod. My only complaint about the whole production is why, oh why doesn't Tom get more guitar solos? (Anyone remember Wir Schliessen Uns Ein? Sigh...) Anyway, to sum up, Humanoid City Live is absolutely a must-have for all Tokio Hotel fans, but I would also wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone looking for a powerful and emotional live music experience. Bravo, Tokio Hotel!!!

Certainly the greatest show Tokio Hotel have ever made. Perfect editing and nice extras... but one single thing have gone wrong. The image quality is TOO low! They used a DVD-5 (4.7 GB) to store the video. If they had used a DVD-9 (8.5 GB) as they did with Zimmer 483 Live things would be a 100% perfect!

My first exposure to German glamrockers Tokio Hotel was on the John Lennon tribute album on Warner Bros for Amnesty International, "Instant Karma", them doing the title track, and I was like, cool...then as I collect Cherrytree artists, another reason to follow em...and I also love European rock bands, espesh Scandinavian ones and German ones, so they were up my alley...I also love ones that don't record/perform solely in English.

Soooo, I bought the BestBuy edition of "Scream" with the DVD, despite many calling them a boyband, or teenybopper/emo...I went with my gut and I really enjoyed it and intended on following TH...then I bought the 2CD BestBuy edition of "Humanoid"...with the 4 bonus English tracks and the whole 2nd disc of the album in German...I loved both versions, even though I don't understand a word of German and it could be a harsh-sounding language...it just added a certain character to the album's more electronic elements. THEN I found for cheap their 2nd German album "Zimmer 483", which I dug because it has many of the songs on "Scream" in their original German tongue, and Bill's higher voice, haha.

Then, this new "Humanoid City Live" and the 2CD/1DVD "Best-of", out around the same time...what to buy first?? Well, the Best-of was expensive at BestBuy, like 40 bucks...I figured I'm not paying THAT price, so I'll look for deals or it cheaper online...I know it's an import pressing (on Island/Universal Germany), shipped and priced domestically, which happens a lot...Universal US is importing the deluxe 2CD Florence & The Machine "Lungs" at the end of February, so I will buy it then. Anyhoo, just saw the "Best Of" here on Amazon new from a seller for 18 bucks...so I'm ordering it.

That means, it was "Humanoid City Live" that I bought next...couldn't do much better than 17 at BestBuy so I bit...nice package, photos and graphics...GREAT recorded sound on the CD...compared tracklistings to "Humanoid" and "Scream", and I saw there was this song on the live album, "In Your Shadow I Can Shine", not on either studio album...is that a new song??? Or was it an obscure B-side, on a soundtrack, or previously recorded only in German, and on "Zimmer 483" or "Schrei"???

Then I popped on the DVD...first, I saw a bit of the "TV" episode...pretty cool, in German and with Engliah subtitles...which I prefer, as TH IS a German band and they are doing things naturally, not pandering and recorded it in English. THEN I popped on the show, to get a quick glimpse before I jump in fullforce...really cool stage setup, a more elaborate presentation than what the Flaming Lips would do, almost space-age and def inspired by "The Fifth Element" as product description says. THEN, Bill comes on stage and I was like, HEY, it's ADAM LAMBERT/Glambert!!! Anybody pick that up?? He cut his hair short and wears these over-the-top clothes and makeup and he looked just like Adam!! Same facial features, hairstyle and costumes!!! Adam has a German twin in Bill...and vocally, there are similarities too. The band is tight and in fine glamrocking form.

AWESOME...but funny that they are musical twins to Adam Lambert. wow!!

Now, all I need is "Schrei"...gotta look for deals online as that thing is expensive...prob out-of-print and rare...maybe it's getting reissued?? I also need the DVDs the band released..."Scream Live", "Zimmer 483 Live In Europe", etc...Tokio Hotel are a great band.

THE DVD, REALLY IS AMAZING. THE STAGE, THE COMBINATION OF CAMERAS, THE PLANS, THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE IF YOU WERE IN THE SHOW. RECOMMEND TO ALL THE FANS THAT BUY BECAUSE IT IS A UNIQUE MATERIAL AND COLLECTOR. NOT TIRED OF SEEING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.