Live at the Olympia: Deep Purple: Amazon.ca: Music

Disc: 1
1. Fireball
2. Maybe I'm A Leo
3. Ted The Mechanic
4. Pictures Of Home
5. Black Night
6. Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
7. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
8. Woman From Tokyo
9. No One Came
10. The Purpendicular Waltz
Disc: 2
1. Rosa's Cantina
2. Smoke On The Water
3. When A Blind Man Cries
4. Speed King
5. Perfect Strangers
6. Hey Cisco
7. Highway Star

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Album Description

Complete, unedited 1996 show from the Olympia in Paris, released to celebrate their re-signing to EMI. Contains 17 tracks, including 'Woman From Tokyo', 'Smoke On The Water', 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Highway Star'. The line-up here is original members Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Ian Paice & Roger Glover along with Dixie Dregs guitarist Steve Morse. Double slimline jewel case. 1997 EMI release.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This one brought me back, May 21 2004

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Alan Greatorex (Middletown, NJ USA (ex Sydney AUS)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Olympia (Audio CD)

I had pretty much given up on deep Purple after the House of Blue Light and a very quick listen to Purpendicular but something made me check this album out. The opening track is Fireball and I half expected it to be some tired old rockers trotting out a mediocre version. Whoa Nelly! Was I wrong. This track and every other one is blistering! The band absolutely cooks on this album and its so cool having a complete, uninterrupted live show, in the correct order and surprise, surprise a horn section. After this I went out and bought every DP album I'd missed, saw the band at every opportunity, and was first in line for new releases. They have restored my faith and I promise you they do not disappoint, live or on record now. The only explanation I can give is Steve Morse. We owe him not just for his playing but for breathing new life into a band that was in danger of dying out due to internal conflict. Great sound and mix on this record too. So much tighter and better sounding than Nobody's Perfect. You can tell they were having fun. Get it!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Too long, too many mediocre songs, Aug 10 2003

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Olympia (Audio CD)

There are some fine songs on this double live CD, but almost all of them (with the exception of the grand "Perfect Strangers") are from Deep Purple's seventies repertoire.
The newer stuff mainly serves one purpose: to remind the listener how inferior Deep Purple's eighties and nineties releases were compared to "Machine Head" and "Fireball".

Ian Gillan and the band perform superbly on "When A Blind Man Cries", the album's best cut, and there are a handful of other fine moments as well (most notably "Highway Star"), but there is also a lot of mediocrity.
If "Live At The Olympia" had been trimmed down to a single CD, it could have been a great album. As it is, it is a good album for serious fans, but more casual ones may not make it through disc I, and are much better served by sticking with "Made In Japan".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best live Purple album ever., Dec 11 2002

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This review is from: Live at the Olympia (Audio CD)

Like it even better than Made in Japan. Never really understood the widespread appeal of MIJ. I rather hear many of DP's classics than listening to a 20 minute long songs with endless ego soloing. This straight seemed to plagued many progressive rock bands in the 70's. Every song here is played to the album standard with the exception of Cascades:I'm not your lover,( which features a nice duel between Lord and Morse at the end) and the show ending Speed King.

Gillan's vocals are much better here than on either the Nobody's Perfect and Come Hell or High Water CD's

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5.0 out of 5 stars At least equal to 'Made In Japan'
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