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Free Music Review: Heartbreakingly Good
Hit: 5 Stars
Back in 1976, what ruled the airwaves and sales charts was the likes of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Frampton Comes Alive!. Soft rock with rounded edges was the norm. So when a leather jacketed kid dropped a tightly wound rock record that was both punky and rocking, it caused a lot of folks to sit up and take notice...even if it didn't catch commercial fire. Tom Petty's debut album with The Heartbreakers barely broke the 30 minute mark, but its perfect mix of Stones/Byrds rock and emerging punk fire straddled both camps with ease and swagger.
"Breakdown's" Top 40 breakthrough was revolutionary, as was the fact that "American Girl" was making inroads on classic rock radio (and remains a staple some 35 years later). This was a classic album in the 'band' sense, with Heartbreaker core members Mike Campbell on guitars and Benmont Tench on keyboards making contributions to what ultimately became Petty and the heartbreaker's ongoing sound. But the main thing about this debut is just how engaging it was, and how it still sounds fresh and exciting. You can hear the traces of Southern Accents grandeur on "The Wild One Forever" and the folk-rock of Wildflowers on "Mystery Man."
In other words, all the coming greatness in Petty and the Heartbreakers' future work. For their debut (and on You're Gonna Get It! to a lesser extent), Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers embraced all that was great in both American and classic British rock and made it their own.
Free Music Review: Garage rock? Power pop? Adolescent shadow? all that and so much more....
Hit: 5 Stars
In the genre of "mood music" rock few songs can match Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Breakdown" and "Wilde One, Forever" with their restrained time registers and the jazz like precision of the instrument voices, with each taking a lead and then dropping back to chorus through the song cycle. Mike Campbell, known to cognisceti. as one of the world's most technically gifted and underappreciated guitar players (along with Jethro Tull's Martin Barre) shines here on leads everyone thinks Petty is playing. "American Girl" shows off the full dimensions of back to back Rickenbachers on lead and rhythm. Perhaps we inflate the significance of those few albums we could afford in our youth, and their repetition driven by economic deprivation and the horror of pay-ola sludge pumped from the radio reinforces the perception of their greatness. But when one of my current students overheard me playing this album they said "cool new sound...who is that?" Proving forever that accurate garage rock crossed with power pop energy never looses its appeal through the generations.Free Music Review: The Wild One Lives On!
Hit: 5 Stars
Here are the beginnings of one the greatest songwriters and bands in rock and roll history. This album has some really great tunes that have largely remained ignored by classic rock radio."The Wild One, Forever" is a song that really moved me the first time I heard it and still does. "Luna" is an intriguing song that reminds me of "Supernatural Radio" that was recorded on the "Yellow Album" some 20 years later in 1996. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Tom and Heartbreakers live this year in June, and they played a real lost classic, "Fooled Again (I don't like it)" which has a great riff. "Mystery Man" features some incredible slide guitar work by Mike Campbell that you can still hear today 30 years later. If you want to understand how Tom Petty got his start, you must have this cd!Free Music Review: Oh yeah. Alright.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the good stuff. The straight ahead snarling young man brand of rock and roll.The hits you already know ("Breakdown" and "American Girl") and that's enough to justify this CD but don't miss the excellent lesser known gems such as "Mystery Man". The different styles on display here presage his later work but this stuff along with his other early records are imbued with that thrilling virile snarly-ness that us ladies just can't resist.
In addition to the excellent music, there is some hilarious album art...TP and the HBs in tight leather pants with heavy metal hairdos and...shotguns? What a scream! Ah, we thought they were sayck-EEEE way back in the day. What were we thinking.
Recommended for all fans of the straight-ahead rock genre.
Free Music Review: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the awe inspiring debut album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and showed just how much raw talent they had, which thankfully they've been able to maintain to the present day. This album is relatively short but is perfectly formed. Songs like 'Breakdown' and 'American Girl' were destined to be instant classics and 'Fooled Again (I don't like it)' is one of my all time Petty favourites, the angst and sneering emotion in that song are just brilliant. This is an excellent place to start with Tom Petty and a superb album overall. One of those required albums for nearly all CD collections. WELL worth a buy.
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