Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Last DJ
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Free Music Review: Let's Hope This Slump Doesn't Last
Hit: 2 Stars
THE LAST DJ only gets 2 stars because the lyrics are so depressing. Petty's previous slingshots at the music industry (a line in the title song from INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN, for instance) seemed to convey a sense of defiant independence, but here, Petty just seems to sound cynical and nasty, without any idea of a remedy for the problem of music-biz greed and corruption. The previous inspirational lyrics ("Refugee" and "Even The Losers" from DAMN THE TORPEDOES and "I Won't Back Down" from FULL MOON FEVER are wondrous examples) have, sadly, been replaced by mean-spirited hopelessness that cannot be mitigated by his advocacy of sanctions against Indonesia in the wake of that country's trumped-up drug-smuggling conviction against a young Australian tourist. It turns out that Petty is releasing a new album at the end of this year or the beginning of next, so let's hope it's less cynical and more hopeful than this one.Free Music Review: NIce and tight
Hit: 5 Stars
Tom sounds simply brilliant on this OUTSTANDING look at the dredges of corporate greed and materialism. The sound is very 60's Beatlesque - And man does the band (and Tom) sound fantastic.
Tom is true to his fans, and the result is pure music magic! You will play this album over and over...A winner.
Free Music Review: Petty's Dial is Tuned
Hit: 4 Stars
The Last DJ is a loose concept album that more or less says "the hell with company big shots" in keeping with the let's-bite-the-hand-that-feeds-us Heartbreaker philosophy that has defined much of the band's career. The new album, then, should not come as a surprise. After all, Tom Petty is the same rock star who once threatened to name an album $8.98 if the boys upstairs continued pegging it as the intro-album for a new line of $9.98's. The big shots caved, thankfully, and the disc hit the streets as the now-legendary 1979 "Damn the Torpedoes."
Scribblers-for-pay predictably nod to their bosses by dismissing the album as lacking contemporary relevance, but this is a rank vintage of garbage - so foul, in fact, that it should come with a warning label that says "RANK GARBAGE: INDUCE VOMITTING IN CASE OF ACCIDENTAL INGESTION." The truth is that Petty's dial is tuned with scathing clarity where today's art/pompous balogna is concerned.
Conspicuously missing, however, are the "Refugee," "Runnin' Down a Dream"-paced numbers with catchy guitar riffs and little-guy-fighting-for-his-piece lyrics that have been a constant throughout the band's career. The underdog in Petty may have finally suffered an age related breakdown (premeditated witticism) - replaced, it would seem, by some horrifying Willie Nelsonish angel of death who might actually give up the ghost before the album ends. A man disgusted, nay infuriated with the maggot-birthing corpse of American entertainment culture, and pining miserably for the days when it still had a pulse. But at least he's pining for something other than Tanqueray and hoes.
Ultimately, an angry, worn-down Petty is still Tom Petty - still Tom "American Girl, Breakdown, Refugee, Even the Losers, Don't Do Me Like That, Don't Come Around Here No More, Here Comes My Girl, The Waiting, Won't Back Down, Free Fallin', Runnin' Down a Dream, Into the Great Wide Open, Learning to Fly, Mary Jane's Last Dance, You Don't Know How it Feels, It's Good to be King, Walls" Petty. And even if the days of ruling the radio are behind him, he's still got his finger much closer to the pulse of rock-and-roll's spirit than anything in today's Top Forty.
Free Music Review: Tom Petty is a genius!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this man more than ever now that I've heard this album. Tom had the cojones to speak his mind about how horrible the music industry has become. Take a chance to turn on the local top 40 radio or MTV. What do you get? Two chorded songs made by talentless bands and hip hop songs that are filled with nonsense. LISTEN UP!
Tom is telling you what the real music world and corporate sponsorship is like! Buying up radio stations and making the DJ's play what corporate wants played instead of the music listeners! Tom tells it like it is and now we as a consumer can do something about it by not paying those high ticket prices for concerts and making your voices be heard on radio! The RIAA wants to sue downloaders for downloading GOOD music instead of listening to what the RIAA wants you to hear! BLAH! This CD is a must have!
Free Music Review: Can't stop the sun...here it comes..oh yeah!
Hit: 5 Stars
beautiful album filled up from everything from Beatles (of course) to Dylan, to The Band, to Neil Young, to The Byrds (at their very best!), but also to foregin territories (until now) for petty and his colleagues... listen for example to "Lost children" and you will catch glimpses of Cream or Blind Faith with roaring, inventive guitar work that make Mike Campbell (he is at its absolute peak on this album!!!) sound like a true rock'n'roll guitar hero! exquisite playing, to say the least! His guitar work is terrific in acoustic or electric and you find examples everywhere on this cd. "can't stop the sun" is my absolute favorite (what a finale!), a mix of Lennon in the "Abbey road" period with even touches of David Gilmour stepping in. what a revelation...
the band sounds super tight, in synch, and a word must be said about Ferrone's drumming, so tuned (listen for those toms and let your soul pulse..), accurate, deep.
the whole experience is revealing and even if so many references are made along the way (even, an ukelele ala George Harrison in"the man who loves women" or the title "can't stop the sun" which echoes our dear missed friend...), this is pure Tom petty at its very very best. Excellent keyboards from Benmont Tench with just the right amount of feeling, and wonderful backing vocals by Scott thurston (who by the way, seems to play quite an array of different plucked strings on this album). forget the crap of the music business that everybody seems to comment about, and "dig" this music in its "body and soul". the album feels like a "thousand light years from home" from the early 80's stuff that petty was doing then. Highly Recommended!