Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Last DJ
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Free Music Notes for The Last DJ
Free Music Review: TP still has the touch...and his message is on the mark
Hit: 5 Stars
This is yet another classic Tom Petty album--the best thing he has put out since 1994's "Wildflowers". The musicianship is still there, and the message is loud and clear.Tom is angry at the state of affairs in the music industry, and he well should be. The state of modern day radio, with its completely boring, unoriginal, generic, and sometimes downright tedious formats, is at an all-time low. Tom covers this very well in his modern-day classic title track of this album. "Money Becomes King" further emphasizes this point, while "Joe" really takes a jab at the Britney Spears' and boy bands of the world. I smile every time I hear these lyrics, as I couldn't agree more. Mr. Petty is right on the money.
However, Tom still has his more trademark mood on songs like the slower tracks "Dreamville" and "Like A Diamond" not to mention the fun, rollicking track "The Men Who Loves Women". The tracks are overall shorter on the second half of the album as Tom settles into a more familiar mode. The closing track "Can't Stop The Sun" is the only lengthy one in this stretch (almost 5 minutes) and is vintage Tom Petty.
Tom Petty, the LEGEND, has not lost his touch, and with this album he also shows a lot of guts. I strongly recommend this album for anyone who has been a fan of Tom Petty. The man proves time and time again that he is a musical genius. This album fits right in with his classics of days past.
Free Music Review: Petty becomes King
Hit: 5 Stars
Embarrassingly enough this was the first Tom Petty album I owned. I walked into our local music store (which has since closed) and bought this sometime in 2003. I immediately enjoyed the music and was able to fall right in to the world that Tom Petty was creating around him, although I knew nothing of the music industry. Joe was my favorite song at that time because it said everything that I wanted to say about Britney Spears. Now, as I grow older I love the album as a whole because it does something that most albums don't do anymore--stand for something. It's good to see an old rocker end a CD with the lyric...
"And you may think it's all over
But there'll be more just like me
Who won't give in
Who'll rise again
Can't stop a man - from dreaming"
Petty got it right. The music industry is falling under because of artists who have learned how to stand of for themselves and not sell their soul. All that gibberish aside, once again the music is great. The production is even better. Petty's voice sounds so strong and alive and the instruments are so so well tracked thanks to the engineer and mixer. All throughout the album you hear a radio trying to tune in to some kind of station. Petty had this to say about that, "`The Last DJ' was really about losing our moral compass, our moral center." I'm glad and proud to own this album and hopefully they'll be more just like it that will lead us back.
Free Music Review: Wake Up Time
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally, an artist who has put together an album of songs that comment on something I've been talking to friends about for years: The pathetic state of the music business. Petty slams the industry from every angle on "The Last DJ" with a few other subjects tossed in for good measure. Choose your pick of quality material here because it's the best thing he's done since "Wildflowers" in 1994. This cd is almost as consistent as that one was, with a fire and spirit that I thought Petty would never recapture after the sluggish "Echo". The one feeling that stands out after listening to this album is depression. You can feel Petty desperately trying to find some place where music isn't prepackaged and demographized. He doesn't just sound angry he sounds hopeless as well, particularly on "Money Becomes King", "The Last DJ" and "Dreamville". It's a shame that elderstatesmen like Petty get the shaft when it comes to radio and video play. This once well-embraced artist is now viewed as over-the-hill and not worth the time. Petty is aware of this on "Joe", and it's yet another sad reminder of how radio used to be, no genres, no commercials, just lone DJs sending out messages in bottles and hoping that intelligent life received them. Who knows, maybe Petty will have sudden media attention and trendy attention paid to him like Eric Clapton did in the early 1990's.Free Music Review: It's Good to Be King
Hit: 5 Stars
In the current musical landscape, a new CD from the likes of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has to be appreciated pretty much like discovering a rose in the midst of a desert. The Last DJ has to be some of the best music penned by Tom Petty in quite some time.While lyrics have never really been Petty's strong point, his biting satire in "Joe" takes on the music industry with undertones of swiping at the likes of CEOs in general. "When a Kid Goes Bad" is biting rock and roll that is reminiscent of the days when the guitar was king. Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham makes a guest appearance as a vocalist on the whimsical "The Man Who Loves Women."
Throughout the album, Petty seems to be commenting on today's musical entertainment scene. His lyrics from "The Last DJ" seem typical: "There goes the last DJ/who plays what he wants to play/and says what he wants to say.../there goes your freedom of choice/there goes the last human voice/there goes the last DJ."
The CD is dedicated to "everyone who likes music just a little bit more than money." Whether or not Petty and the Heartbreakers have a good or bad effort, one thing remains constant...they are brutally honest with totally refreshing music that does not have to hide behind gimmicks. "The Last DJ" just may be Petty's most honest work to date.
Free Music Review: Tom Petty - Rock and Roll Poet and Poetic Rock & Roller
Hit: 5 Stars
The world's greatest rock and roll band and r & r songwriter has given us another great 'album.' I love this band and Tom Petty so much and I think the songs from Tom Petty here just speak the truth, going right to the heart of what's going on with "popular music" - and radio play and MTV - and all that surrounds it. What passes for music, what passes for talent, every little dip calling him/her-self an "artist", all the major [stuff] being foisted on the sheep....well, I am glad Tom and the HBs are still doing what's right. They really do rock! This particular CD has some bittersweet to it and I hear it and keep hoping it's not a 'goodbye' work, because that would be a loss and I would be very sad. Tom, if you're reading, know that we love you and those of us with brains and ears and hearts and soul are with you. Thanks for the always extraordinary musicianship and fabulous rock and roll. It's just a crazy old world. You gotta listen to Dylan and Prine and other poets and turn off the MTV and turn off 'mainstream' radio and keep making MUSIC and keep making us all DANCE and SING - well, if you want to; we hope you will anyway. You play JOY, TP & the HBs, and we are so glad you do. Finally: I think "Refugee" (not on this CD) is one superb work!