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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents Audio CD

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Title: Southern Accents
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rebels 2: It Ain't Nothin' to Me 3: Don't Come Around Here No More 4: Southern Accents 5: Make It Better (Forget About Me) 6: Spike 7: Dogs on the Run 8: Mary's New Car 9: Best of Everything

Southern Accents
Vendor was both prompt and his description of the product was accurate. a favorite Heartbreaker CD. Tony.


Tom Petty fan
This album came out when I was in high school. Love this album and anything by Tom Petty. . . found myself with the tune to the song "Southern Accents" on my mind one day a few weeks ago. . . just had to find it.


Petty's Ambition
The frustration Petty felt became evident in the tales that emerged during the recording of "Southern Accents," including a broken hand incurred when Petty punched a wall in frustration. The run-of-the-mill Long After Dark was the first album from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers to garner a less than stellar reception. The desire to create something outside the box was evident when the first single appeared. "Don't Come Around Here No More" twanged out with psychedelic sitars and a wild "Alice in Wonderland" video, and was unlike any Petty song before it.

Dave Stewart was feeling his oats outside Eurythmics and it was his eclectic production spiced up "It Ain't Nothin' To Me" and "Make It Better," yet he was just one of three outside producers, including Robbie Robertson and long-time associate Jimmy Iovine. Petty and Mike Campbell also indulged in self-production on three numbers. It does make for some odd juxtapositions, like "Spike" veering close to Randy Newman territory and the soul-inflected "Make It Better. " If you're looking for that traditional Petty sound, both the title track and "Mary's New Car" land on target.

This was also Petty's slickest album. It was given some criticism for that at the time, but the album's best songs ("Mary's. . . ," "The Best Of Everything," "Don't Come. . . ") still make this worth having. It's really a three and 1/2 star effort; INHO, the oft slagged "Long After Dark" and "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) have aged better.


be a rebel and buy this underrated album
What amazes me especially is how a song like "Don't Come Around Here No More" sounds totally different from anything else Petty has ever made, not to mention VERY freaky and haunting. Southern Accents is probably Tom Petty's most underrated album. On the flip side however, a song like "Rebels" is a lost gem. "Spike" is a very catchy song as well. An album that combines Petty's most memorable songwriting with his most underrated effort as far as radio exposure goes.


Review with a Northern Accent
This may be not TP's most acclaimed release but it is his most autobiographical, since he grew up in the everglades of Florida, a topic explored in great detail in Petty's recent book that came out in 2005. I'm a blue-blood New Englander to the core but I still love Southern Accents, because it is a quintessential American album. Because I am a student of the Civil War, "Rebels" is one my favorite all-time songs and the best reason to buy this cd. How this masterpiece of songwriting didn't end up on the greatest hits collection in 1993 is perplexing to me! Petty's haunting verse about how our history remains with us today still sends chills down my spine:

"Even before my father's fathers
They called us all rebels
Burned our cornfields
And left our cities leveled
I can still see the eyes
Of those blue bellied devils
When I'm walking round tonight
Through the concrete and metal"

While sometimes the overall sound of this cd is a bit jarring, and honestly the horns do not always fit in with Petty's laid-back sound, the wonderful "Dogs on the Run" and the final track with the late lamented Richard Manuel of The Band singing backup vocals help to make this album a must-have for hardcore Petty fans.

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