The Live Anthology (4 CD)

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology (4 CD)

The Live Anthology (4 CD)
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Artist: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set, Live
CD Release Date: 2009-11-23
Music Label: Reprise Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Nightwatchman
  2. Even The Losers
  3. Here Comes My Girl
  4. A Thing About You
  5. I'm In Love
  6. I'm A Man
  7. Straight Into Darkness
  8. Breakdown
  9. Something In The Air
  10. I Just Want To Make Love To You
  11. Drivin' Down To Georgia
  12. Lost Without You
  13. Refugee
Music CD 2
  1. Diddy Wah Diddy
  2. I Want You Back Again
  3. Wildflowers
  4. Friend Of The Devil
  5. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
  6. It's Good To Be King
  7. Angel Dream (No. 2)
  8. Learning To Fly
  9. Mary Jane's Last Dance
  10. Mystic Eyes
Music CD 3
  1. Jammin' Me
  2. The Wild One, Forever
  3. Green Onions
  4. Louisiana Rain
  5. Melinda
  6. Goldfinger
  7. Surrender
  8. Dreamville
  9. Spike
  10. Any Way You Want It
  11. American Girl
Music CD 4
  1. Runnin' Down A Dream
  2. Oh Well
  3. Southern Accents
  4. Crawling Back To You
  5. My Life/Your World
  6. I Won't Back Down
  7. Square One
  8. Have Love Will Travel
  9. Free Fallin'
  10. The Waiting
  11. Good Good Lovin'
  12. Century City
  13. Alright For Now

Free Music Notes for The Live Anthology (4 CD)

Free Music Review: Too Much Ain't Enough
Hit: 5 Stars

As told in the liner notes, this set was distilled from 3,509 tracks from 169 shows spanning the band's history. I got the collectors edition of this set which is available from the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers web site (or from Best Buy) for $99, and includes all tracks in this standard 4-CD edition, plus:

* A fifth disc with the following tracks
1) Think About Me
2) Down South
3) I Need To Know
4) Billy The Kid
5) I'd Like To Love You Baby
6) Image Of Me
7) Born In Chicago
8) Like A Diamond
9) The Last DJ
10) No Second Thoughts
11) Ballad Of Easy Rider
12) Don't Come Around Here No More
13) Too Much Ain't Enough
14) County Farm

* A blu-ray disc with all 61 tracks in crazy high fidelity audio quality

* Two DVDs - one of the "400 Days" documentary focused on the 1995 studio sessions and tour for the Wildflowers album, and one of the NYE 1978 Santa Monica show

* Vinyl reproduction of a 1976 live set with four tracks

* A bigger "liner notes" book, and some reproduced backstage passes on a sheet of cloth

So is the standard four-CD set offered here worth it? For under $20 (and less than one-fifth the cost of the deluxe version), you get 47 tracks amounting to about 4 hours of music.

For the key songs that made Petty and the band famous (Breakdown, American Girl, Refugee, The Waiting, Here Comes My Girl), this set delivers red-hot versions that rival the studio albums recorded mostly around the time the songs were new and the band had everything to prove. I've heard many live versions of these songs, and the ones included here do not disappoint.

Before the track list for this set was announced, I just hoped they would include angry, edgy vintage performances of songs like Straight Into Darkness and A Woman In Love (It's Not Me), and they did.

With those bases covered, the set proceeds to stretch out on tracks that reveal the musicianship of the Heartbreakers, in covers, extended renditions (It's Good To Be King: 12:15), and full-on improvisations (Lost Without You). At first glance, you might wonder how tracks like Melinda, Goldfinger, or Like A Diamond managed to edge out some of Petty's more celebrated songs, but the value is revealed on hearing - a great keyboard part or guitar solo, or just an instance when the band all fell in together beautifully. One gets the idea that a large part of the reason for this set (or at least its length) is to let Tom Petty share with the world some of the moments when he felt the Heartbreakers really shone bright.

That said, there are a number of well-known Petty songs that did NOT make it into this set. These include:

Rockin' Around (With You)
Listen To Her Heart
Don't Do Me Like That
Something Big
King's Road
You Got Lucky
Change of Heart
Rebels
Love Is A Long Road
Face In The Crowd
Yer So Bad
Into The Great Wide Open
You Wreck Me
Cabin Down Below
Walls

This set also carefully sidesteps live tracks that have already been released in other collections like the Playback box set (Psychotic Reaction, King's Highway), and doesn't touch Pack Up The Plantation (which I REALLY hope will be restored and re-released in its entirety as a DVD/CD combo - please?)

If any weakness could be found in this set, for me it would be the fact that I'd like to hear more of the older recordings. Many tracks in the set are post-2001, and the samples we get of tracks from 1981 (ie Nightwatchman) sound utterly fantastic. I'll probably find myself repeating those more often, and skipping tracks like I'm A Man, or Mystic Eyes.

Also, I'm surprised that more Fillmore tracks weren't included, like the epic version of Mary Jane's Last Dance (which rivals the shorter version included here), or the blazing cover of the Stones' It's All Over Now. And was there no viable recording of Hang On Sloopy?

And the final criticism - I feel bad saying this, but - Steve Ferrone's drumming (while technically very adept) just doesn't hit me in the heart like Stan Lynch's. Stan had a soulfulness that brought out the power and pathos of the songs. And the years when the band had both Stan and Howie, and those harmonies came through - it was unlike anything else. Fortunately you can hear them both on a number of these tracks.

All things considered, this is a beautiful gift to fans, offered at a pretty amazing price - whichever edition you choose.
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The Live Anthology (4 CD) Poster

The Live Anthology is a multiple-disc set of recordings drawn from thirty years of live performances. The collection brings together material from 1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordings covering every era of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' tours and represents the best tracks as chosen by producers Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate.
The producers made no fixes or overdubs, letting the newly mixed original recordings showcase the invention, spontaneity, craft, and the musicianship that has made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers among the most celebrated live performers of their time. Along with powerful interpretations of their own classic hits and originals, The Live Anthology features the band tackling some of their best-loved cover material, from classics to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations. The theme from Goldfinger, the Zombies' 'I Want You Back Again,' the Grateful Dead's 'Friend of the Devil,' early Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well,' Booker T. and the MGs' 'Green Onions,' James Brown's 'Good, Good Lovin' and many more. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers travel wide, paying their musical debts through song and showing just how confidently the band moves across genres and over time.

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