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N Sync - Live at Madison Square Garden

Here's the full 90-minute show that 'N Sync performed live on HBO at Madison Square Garden in July 2000, including footage of fans outside the Garden before the show telling the camera how much they want to meet their idols. The taped show itself is flashy and professional, full of costume changes and allowing each Sync singer his own lead as they work their way through more than a dozen of their hits, including "It's Gonna Be Me," "Space Cowboy," and of course "Bye Bye Bye." Still, for a group that prides itself on its mildly hip-hop dance styles, the camera work is surprisingly slipshod when it comes to capturing the five boy-toys dancing in unison. The perfect gift for that 13-year-old girl in your life. --Marshall Fine

'N Sync is, simply put, the hottest band in the universe. They have reached heights never even imagined in the wildest dreams of budding stars around the world. Live at Madison Square Garden was shot in July 2000 at Madison Square Garden in New York City on their sold-out "No Strings Attached" tour. This program includes live performances of the smash hits "Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me," and "This I Promise You" as well as a few of their classic hits like "Tearin' Up My Heart" and "I Drive Myself Crazy." The program:

1. No Strings Attached
2. I Want You Back
3. God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You
4. Tearin' Up My Heart
5. Justin's Beat Box
6. It's Gonna Be Me
7. I Drive Myself Crazy
8. I Thought She Knew
9. Just Got Paid
10. Space Cowboy (Yippie Yi Yay)
11. It Makes Me Ill
12. This I Promise You
13. Digital Get Down
14. Bye Bye Bye

'N Sync - PopOdyssey Live

'N Sync - Most Requested Hit Videos

'N Sync diehards can toss out their haphazard VHS copies of the boy band juggernaut's music videos and relish them over and over on this DVD, which compiles their most popular songs and presents them in Dolby Digital 2.0 or 5.1 Surround Sound. The disc eschews their early bubblegum phase in favor of the hits from 2000's No Strings Attached and 2001's Celebrity--"Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me," the relentlessly catchy "Pop," and "This I Promise You" (which is also presented in an unreleased Spanish-language version). No special features are included, but a live performance of "Gone," from MTV's Road to Celebrity special, and a frantic run through "Pop" from the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, minus Michael Jackson's appearance, are included, along with a remix of "Girlfriend" featuring rapper Nelly. The videos are well constructed (especially "Pop") and largely innocuous--like the group itself--and will undoubtedly please 'N Sync completists and their parents alike. --Paul Gaita

N Sync - N the Mix

Late '90s contender in the time-honored sweepstakes for teen idolatry, 'N Sync is best explained by the late blues sage Willie Dixon: "The men don't know, but the little girls understand." The quintet's buoyant dance pop, chopped and channeled to weld post-New Jack rhythms with creamy harmonies, won't qualify them for their own patent application, but musical originality isn't the point. "The official home video," 'N the Mix with 'N Sync, gives the Orlando, Florida group's mostly female, young teen constituency an unabashedly glowing portrait of Justin, JC, Lance, Joey, and Chris performing for their fans, musing over their musical kinship, and moving behind the scenes.

This 75-minute valentine will remind parents of venerable Tiger Beat profiles, right down to the bullet-point crib sheets on individual members listing full names, birth dates, and "likes" ("Hard Rock café menus" among the more perplexing choices). Versions of their first hits, "I Want You Back" and "Tearin' Up My Heart," videos for two subsequent tracks, plus sneak previews for two additional songs are interspersed with documentary footage, and there are plenty of quick-cut glimpses of their tightly choreographed, athletic dance routines, garbed in de rigeur sportswear and fashionable logos. The souvenir package also includes "an exclusive 1999... locker poster." --Sam Sutherland

N Sync - The Reel N Sync

'N Sync fans should know that this DVD of footage of the pop superstars shot by group member Joey Fatone during their pre-stardom days in 1996-97 features no songs or audible live performances, so its "must-have" status is entirely relative to one's need to own all things 'N Sync. The hour's worth of camcorder footage features a baby-faced Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Lance Bass en route to or from shows in Europe and Asia or horsing around in hotel rooms; since Fatone is usually operating the camera, he gets the least amount of onscreen time. One gets an idea of the sheer hectic quality of their lives from the group's alternately manic or exhausted appearance; shots of their buses being swarmed by hysterical fans should prove alarming to parents. But the boys also seem happy, and their antics are occasionally amusing, which should please fans. The full-frame DVD offers no supplemental features. --Paul Gaita

N Sync - Making the Tour

A first-class and candid look at what went into 'N Sync's "No Strings Attached" tour, Making the Tour begins at 'N Sync's manager's compound in Florida as the group plans to promote their 2000 CD, No Strings Attached. The members of 'N Sync are the creative and driving forces behind their own success, and they wanted to create this video to show their fans how they make a tour happen. Join their planning sessions, where they realize they have seven new songs to choreograph and rehearse, and begin to plan the staging, sets, lighting, and special effects.

This documentary shows bits of interviews with each band member, the various rehearsal spaces, their frustration over too much material to prepare, meetings with some of the behind-the-scenes professionals, the beginning of the bus tour, and their meet-and-greet with fans before the first show. Throughout the DVD you hear bits and pieces of 'N Sync's music. It is not until the tour finally starts that you get some full-length concert performances--"Bye Bye Bye" and "This I Promise You." Clever editing leads you to believe that these are from an appearance at the Tacoma Dome in Washington State, but it is the same footage used in the Live from Madison Square Garden video. (One telltale remark did slip through: "Hey, New York, is this close enough for you?") Also included are music videos for "Bye Bye Bye," "This I Promise You," and "It's Gonna Be Me" for a playing time of 80 minutes. --Larry Clark

Making of the Tour originally aired on MTV as a half-hour special and offers a behind-the scenes look at the preparations needed for such an extravagant tour. 'N Sync's second Jive DVD, Making of the Tour, is over one hour long and contains footage not featured in the original MTV special. Fans will get a sneak peek into the touring process with footage from rehearsals and band meetings discussing lights, wardrobe, staging, sets and other important aspects of this hugely successful show. As an added bonus, Making of the Tour will contain video clips for the smash hit singles "Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me," and "This I Promise You."

MTV Total Request Live - Best of Carson

The wildly popular afternoon video request show hosted by Carson Daly on MTV, a modern American bandstand featuring a live audience, appearances by pop stars, and a crowd of onlookers who clog the sidewalks outside the cable network's Times Square studio, is given both a "best of" and "behind the scenes" treatment in this video. Christina Aguilera appears in the studio to wiggle and lip-sync her way through "Genie in a Bottle," and a few boy bands, including 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, show up to look serious, croon their tunes, and make the young girls in the audience squeal and squirm. Seemingly as a deliberate counterweight to the carefully packaged entertainment that's a mainstay of the show, production personnel appear in interviews to talk about how the live show is spontaneous and often plagued by mistakes, including guests who don't show up on time and audience members whose behavior or language isn't exactly ideal for afternoon television. A remote segment with Limp Bizkit, whose heavily tattooed frontman Fred Durst ends his performance at a beach resort by literally blowing up a boat, seems to have been tagged on the end to counter the sugary quality of earlier performers. This is an entertaining look at the show, and those who wouldn't miss it every afternoon will no doubt love seeing how the show gets produced. --Robert J. McNamara

N Sync - Unauthorized Biography

This 50 minute DVD features a fan's inside look at the ban d including profiles of each band member &, rare personal f ootage tracing their rise to stardom. Special DVD features include instant scene access and a photo gallery for each N 'Sync member.

'N Sync: Live from Madison Square Garden [Region 2]