These three recently released videos offer video interview clips with the bands, in addition to the music videos. Each is a lighthearted look at the group offstage.
Petra includes two videos from their latest album, Wake-Up Call, "Midnight Oil" and "Just Reach Out." The other eight videos span Beyond Belief and Unseen Power: "Destiny," "Dance," "Love," "Sight Unseen," "I Need to Hear From You," "Seen and not Heard," "Creed," and "In the Likeness of You." They also clock in near 52 minutes with The Newsboys at 35 and PFR at 30.
The Newsboys include the videos of "Not Ashamed," "I Cannot Get You Out of My System," "Dear Shame," "Where You Belong/Turn Your Eyes," and "Simple Man."
While PFR only includes four videos ("Walk Away From Love," "By Myself," and "Goldie's Last Day" from Goldie's Last Day and "Do You Want to Know Love" from Pray For Rain), they make up for the lack of videos with more in-depth interview clips.
PFR takes a much more serious approach to the interview segments, although still remaining rather playful. They take time to discuss their musical tastes, their musical background before forming the band, and how they became Christians. They also provide some insight into the song "True Love" and why they wrote it, as well as the origins of "Goldie's Last Day." They also end the video with an audio-only extended version of the "gargle solo" at the end of the CD that runs several minutes.
There are several moderately-serious parts in the Petra interview segments, but most are purely humor-mainly by using very short clips, many of which are taken out of context. They talk about recording for the first time in Nashville, and working with Brown Bannister, and briefly about Wake-Up Call in general.
Between the videos on Not Ashamed is pure, unadulterated silliness. From watching Peter Furler shave to Kevin Mills' harmonica solo to a paint pellet gunfight to their post-gig game of seeing who can wring out the most sweat of their shirt, you can get a real glimpse of the funny side of the band. I appreciated that their last clip was of an altar call by John James, reminding us of the real meaning for the music, the videos, and the concerts.
Each of the videos is well produced and highly entertaining. The first two take production more to the limits than PFR, who go for a more "concert" feel. If you like the music, or like the group, it would probably be hard to go wrong here.
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1998Step Up to the Microphone
2000Live One Night in Pennsylvania (video)
2004Devotion
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1994Going Public
