Paul Simon, You're The One (DVD-A), Warner Bros. Records, 2001 | Performance 8 | Sound 8 | Now here’s an interesting choice for a surround remix. If you were Paul Simon's record company, would you choose his 2000 release You’re The One as the artist’s first DVD-A release? I suspect not. But suspicions can be wrong and, in fact, this album, understated and perhaps a bit too deep for some people, works extremely well in surround and delivers its message of age, wisdom and reflection very effectively.

artist: David Alan This title is currently unavailable from Amazon.com album: David Alan format: DVD-Audio label: DTS Entertainment release year: 2001 performance: 6 sound 8.5 reviewed by: Brian Kahn This epononymously titled DVD-A is David Alan’s first solo album, being released on the DTS Entertainment label. It contains a DTS track that can be played through a DVD video player, as well as the DVD-Audio track.

artist: Fleetwood Mac function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); album: Rumours format: DVD-Audio label: Warner Music Group release year: 2001 performance: 9 sound 8 reviewed by: Richard Elen Take an extremely popular album that was one of the first back-catalog reissues at the dawn of CD (when it did extremely well), give the 24-track masters to the engineers who originally recorded the album to remix it for 5.1 and even ask the band to contribute to the process, and what do you get? You get a virtually perfect approach to repurposing existing catalogue items for the new medium of DVD Music.

artist: Metallica album: Metallica "Black Album" format: DVD-Audio label: Elektra release year: 2002 performance: 7.5 sound 6 reviewed by: Jerry Del Colliano Perhaps I am dating myself by saying that the first live stadium show I ever saw was Metallica on their …And Justice For All tour at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. As a guitar student and a member of a pretty bad heavy metal cover band at the time, the event changed my life forever. On top of the theatrics and the inspired performance, Metallica at the time had a visceral energy that I have yet to this day to hear from a live act. Moreover, their “fuck it” attitude towards MTV, “corporate rock” and hypocrisy is the stuff teenage rebellion thrives on. Little did I know that this attitude was about to change forever on their next studio record.

artist: Larisa Stow function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> album: Moment By Moment format: DVD-Audio label: DTS Entertainment release year: 2001 performance: 8 sound 8 reviewed by: Richard Elen I first heard of Larisa Stow in 1999, when she won the L.A. City Music Award for Outstanding Singer/Songwriter, but I never heard her album until I bought this DTS DVD-Audio/Video release. It’s an excellent demonstration of the surround music medium, and the music is great also, which is how it should be. The pressing question here is: why hasn’t this lady got a major record deal?