Name: Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More [DVD]
Brand: Warner Bros.
SKU: 426871
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Live at the Olympic

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Album: Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More [DVD]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I'm Crying
2)	Done Somebody Wrong
3)	I Got A Woman
4)	Carol
1)	Last DJ, The
2)	Money Becomes King
3)	Dreamville
4)	Joe
5)	When A Kid Goes Bad
6)	Like A Diamond
7)	Lost Children
8)	Blue Sunday
9)	You And Me
10)	Man Who Loves Women, The
11)	Have Love Will Travel
12)	Can't Stop The Sun
13)	Change Of Heart
14)	I Need To Know
15)	Shake Rattle And Roll
16)	Around And Around
17)	Mary Jane's Last Dance
18)	You Wreck Me
19)	"Fun In The Desert" Outtakes
20)	Commercials
21)	Weblinks

Album: Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More [DVD]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I'm Crying
2)	Done Somebody Wrong
3)	I Got A Woman
4)	Carol
1)	Last DJ, The
2)	Money Becomes King
3)	Dreamville
4)	Joe
5)	When A Kid Goes Bad
6)	Like A Diamond
7)	Lost Children
8)	Blue Sunday
9)	You And Me
10)	Man Who Loves Women, The
11)	Have Love Will Travel
12)	Can't Stop The Sun
13)	Change Of Heart
14)	I Need To Know
15)	Shake Rattle And Roll
16)	Around And Around
17)	Mary Jane's Last Dance
18)	You Wreck Me
19)	"Fun In The Desert" Outtakes
20)	Commercials
21)	Weblinks

Performer Notes

Tom Petty: Ron Blair, Mike Campbell , Scott Thurston, Benmont Tench, Steve Ferrone.
Released nine months after the studio album The Last DJ, Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More is a DVD project that contains a performance of the full album, in order, plus an encore of some old Heartbreakers favorites and rock & roll oldies. Petty must value The Last DJ, since he not only performed the full album in concert -- a rarity in rock & roll -- he also released it as a live video, indicating that he had more faith in the material than his audience had demonstrated thus far. To a certain extent, it's hard not to admire that stubbornness, and by releasing Live at the Olympic, Petty does give listeners a second chance to evaluate the material. To be fair, it sounds a lot better live (augmented by Jon Brion's orchestral arrangements), since the Heartbreakers are always a strong live band, but when "Change of Heart" and "Need to Know" come in after the album, it's a relief, because the bandmembers are playing material worthy of them. It's a professional DVD -- it's well shot and the sound is excellent in both the PCM stereo and DTS mixes (however, it takes entirely too long to cycle through the menu screens) -- and that may make this a good souvenir for the hardcore fan, but those final six songs are so much fun that it makes anybody else wish that this was a straight-up hits concert instead of a showcase for The Last DJ. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine