Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ and More [Bonus CD]

Artist	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Warner Bros.
Producer	Tom Petty, George Drakoulias, Mike Campbell, James Pluta
Release Date	2003 07 22
Song List	1: The Last DJ [DVD] 2: Money Becomes King [DVD] 3: Dreamville [DVD] 4: Joe [DVD] 5: When a Kid Goes Bad [DVD] 6: Like a Diamond [DVD] 7: Lost Children [DVD] 8: Blue Sunday [DVD] 9: You and Me [DVD] 10: The Man Who Loves Women [DVD] 11: Have Love Will Travel [DVD] 12: Can't Stop the Sun [DVD] 13: Change of Heart [DVD] 14: I Need to Know [DVD] 15: Shake, Rattle & Roll [DVD] 16: Around and Around [DVD] 17: Mary Jane's Last Dance [DVD] 18: You Wreck Me [DVD] 19: "Fun in the Desert" Outtakes [DVD] 20: Commercials [DVD] 21: Weblinks [DVD][*] 22: I'm Crying [*] (4:17) 23: Done Somebody Wrong [*] (4:07) 24: I Got a Woman [*] (3:01) 25: Carol [*] (5:29)
Style.Categories	Heartland Rock, Album Rock, Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll

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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. [The bonus CD, Bad Girl Boogie, contains four covers cut during the Last DJ sessions -- "I'm Crying," "Done Somebody Wrong," "I Got a Woman," and "Carol." It's inconsequential, but it's a fun bonus disc.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide