Live at L'Olympia [Import]

Jeff Buckley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B00005JDJT
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,276 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #86 in Music > Alternative Rock > Singer-Songwriters

Track Listings

1. Lover, You Should Have Come Over

2. Dream Brother

3. Eternal Life

4. Kick Out the Jams

5. Lilac Wine

6. Grace

7. That's All I Ask

8. Kashmir

9. Je N'En Connais Pas la Fin [Live]

10. Hallelujah

11. What Will You Say

Editorial Reviews

Exclusive live album released through Sony in select International markets. This live album was initiated by Sony France, who believe they have an amazing recording of a particular French concert from 1995. Containing many of the hits from Grace, live favorites, and covers (some here on CD for the first time, some old), Live At La Olympia is a stunning 3 fold, soft-cover recording to add to the collection of Jeff's fans. 24 page booklet with, biography, handwritten track notes and lyrics by the artist and a rare live & studio photograph collection. Features 11 tracks all recorded Live at the La Olympia Theater in France. Includes covers of Led Zeppelin, MC-5 & Leonard Cohen. Tracks, 'Lover, You Should Have Come Over', 'Dream Brother', 'Eternal Life', 'Kick Out The Jams', 'Lilac Wine', 'Grace', 'That's All I Ask', 'Kasmir', 'Je N'en Cnnais Pas La Fin', 'Hallelujah' & 'What Will You Say (Duet With Alim Qasimov)'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Viva la France (no, seriously), July 9, 2001

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Daniel - See all my reviews

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

You can't help but get the feeling that Sony is doing everything it can to generate Jeff Buckley album sales in light of his tragically premature demise, and in spite of a total lack of any new studio material. That doesn't seem to phase them one little bit, as they trawl through his tapes to prove true the old adage that anything old truly can be new again. So if it feels like you've heard this stuff before, you're absolutely correct.

Cynicism aside, I personally have found this a far more satisfying live release than Mystery White Boy. Where MWB suffers for the fact that it was pieced together from a variety of live performances of varying audio quality, Live a L'Olympia benefits greatly from the fact that, for all but one track, it is taken from a single live performance.

You can tell that it has been sourced from a tape because the give away hiss is ever-present, and in that respect it is inferior to some of the recordings on MWB. However, you don't notice that after a while.

More to the point, the tracks run more smoothly than MWB (and don't ask me quite what I mean by that, because I'm note sure that I could tell you precisely - it's something you sense rather than articulate). And the French (for all their faults, God love them) are unquestionably astute and passionate Jeff Buckley fans, and this comes across in the performance, particularly in response to Jeff's good natured teasing - Viva la France!

I particularly enjoyed the renditions of Lover, Dream Brother, and Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin. But on all tracks the band is tight, the audience pumped, and throughout Jeff manages to remind us what an incredible, courageous and effortless performer he was.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful. But still leaves much to be desired., January 6, 2002

By A Customer

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

The sound on this CD is not the best- it was taken from a cassette that was found among Jeff's belongings after he "left us". But as many people have pointed out, it is a BETTER recording because there is a flow to it (unlike Mystery White Boy), being that it is ONE concert rather than many put together. There aren't any new songs besides "That's All I Ask", and the duet of "What Will You Say". What one might think is a Led Zeppelin cover is just one minute of Jeff messing around, playing a segment of "Kashmir" really past and singing high-pitched. It's funny, but a small let-down. Where are the songs we haven't heard? Jeff didn't play only songs from "Grace" at his concerts. Towards the end of 1996 and up until his death, he was trying to get AWAY from "Grace". Of course I will buy anything that comes out with Jeff's name on it, but if you want to hear what they've been keeping from the fans, then take advantage of the MP3's floating around on the net while they are still there. Yeah, it's illegal, but my CD burner doesn't think so.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dear Mary,, December 20, 2001

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Melissa E. Anthony "trifling_soybean" (ponte vedra beach, florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at L'Olympia (Audio CD)

Why do you promise us new recording's of your son's music, only to release the same songs yet again? We know you have in your possession countless recordings of material we have never heard, and sadly will probably never hear until you yourself are long gone. Even then you will probably have it in your will that the tapes be burned over your grave. Is this what Jeff would have wanted? I doubt it. I never knew him, but maybe you should ask his friends what they think he would have liked. Yes, the "Grace" songs are beautiful, and I will listen to them as many times as you force me to (what else have you given me to choose from?). I personally would like to know what Jeff played all those nights at Sin-E (covers, mostly....but I'm sure they are quality), and what his days in the band Gods and Monsters sounded like. Surely if Jeff was involved it couldn't have been bad. I know there are tapes of his performances in Memphis recorded days, weeks before his passing. Still, this is what we are offered, and beggers can't be choosers. This album is breathtaking. Like someone else noted, it is ONE concert instead of many concerts pieced together, and though the sound is not the absolute best, who cares? I sure don't.