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Free Music Review: FOOLED AGAIN! (i like it ha)
Hit: 5 Stars
Great Album, happy my mother made me listen to this stuff growing up! now my 3yr old lil girl sings the songs with me! Fooled again is my favorite TP song along with breakdown. great stuff, Tom might be the greatest song writer ever!Free Music Review: one of the finest debuts
Hit: 5 Stars
Tom Petty and the heartbrakers debut cd is one of the finest debut albums.Each and every song rocks and this a must have for every classic rock fanFree Music Review: There is only ONE Heartbreakers - JOHNNY THUNDERS R.I.P!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this Tom Petty LP, but goddamnit, there is only ONE Heartbreakers: Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure, Billy Rath, and Jerry Nolan.Free Music Review: Tom Petty songs never get outdated
Hit: 5 Stars
I grew near Gainesville, and have seen him perform many times. Tom Petty is a great songwriter.Free Music Review: the Wild one Forever
Hit: 4 Stars
Tom Petty is a real rock n roller first and foremost. The guy is a brilliant songwriter. He truely understands the craft and magic behind sitting down writing a song and recording it with a band, a band of friends you hang with and party with and make music with. When his former band Mudcrutch split up after signing with famed English producer Denny Cordell's (Leon Russel, Procol Harum) indie label Shelter Records in 1974, Tom was recording his debut record with session musicians in Hollywood but decided one day to go home and check on his old friends. Guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist/pianist Benmont Tench along with a rhythm section consisting of Stan Lynch on drums and Ron Blair on bass. He realized the huge potential, snagged em, brought em in and cut the first Heartbreakers album released in '76.
Of course Mudcrutch had played some great bar music in the Southeast but for some reason on record it didnt translate so when Petty brought in 2/3ds of that band plus 2 new guys it seemed like something had been missing all along and this record shows it. In 76, Springsteen had just gotten hot with Born To Run and the singer/songwriter rocker idea was there. Petty had that but he also had a great set of songs that like Springsteen, told stories. Slice of life rock n roll stories about friends, relationships, past times, and a sort of epic poetry style that packed the good with the bad. Rockin Around (With You), Anything Thats Rock N Roll and Hometown Blues are decent British influenced punk styled rockers that landed the band huge attention across the pond but it was stand out rock gems like The Wild One Forever, Strangered In The Night, and the brooding truely rocking classic Fooled Again that really make this an inspired record front to back.
The more country oriented Mystery Man show the bands early influences and its the bands first single Breakdown that show that heavy Dylan sound they were flirting with. Breakdown and American Girl went onto become radio favorites but at the time this album was really a cult item. It would take the next 2 years before it went fully discovered (in America). The album is great, it really demonstrated everything Petty and band loved and made it their own. It was like an accidental miracle, finding these guys you love to play with, finding that song and making your first real record and that youthful attitude is all over it. The world is right there infront of us lets take it. Any real rock n roll fan needs this debut from one of the best bands of all time.