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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide Open Audio CD

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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Band: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Title: Into the Great Wide Open
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Release Date: 1991-07-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Learning to Fly 2: Kings Highway 3: Into the Great Wide Open 4: Two Gunslingers 5: Dark of the Sun 6: All or Nothin' 7: All the Wrong Reasons 8: Too Good to Be True 9: Out in the Cold 10: You and I Will Meet Again 11: Makin' Some Noise 12: Built to Last

Brilliant
What a brilliant band. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This is one of the best TP&TH album ever. It is a must have for any Tom Petty fan. .


Tom, what happened?
I don't know if TP gave up subtances or alcohol prior to writing the songs for this album but if he did he should go back on them. Man this is a lame album. This is terrible. Lackluster, dull, uninspired and cheesy. TP's first couple albums he comes off as this wirey little prick who you'd better not mess with, and it showed. His music had attitude and cajones. But this stuff. . . man, it's like he morphed into my grandpa crossed with
Michael Bolton or Peter Cetera. Ish.


A Great Wide Classic
It's probably Petty and Co most consistantly good album. This is one of those "classic" albums that really get overlooked. There's the "hits" of course that you know like Learning to Fly and Into the Great Wide Open (which featured Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway in the video) but there are other equally great songs that never hit the airwaves like the upbeat emotions of King's Highway and You and I Will Meet Again, the "rockin" Makin' some Noise, Out in the Cold and Dark of the Sun and Tom's version of a love song, Built to Last. Even the seeming "throw away" songs like Two Gunslingers is lyrically interesting and fun. It's a CD that no "Petty" fan should be without. .


WHAT THE HECK is "In the dark of the sun" ??????
"IN THE DARK OF THE SUN ". . . . . . SAY WHAT ??? I don't get it. This is tom petty's worst song ever. I like the album, it's fun but that song is enough to drive me crazy. The title song is as well, ( in to the great wide open ), its good but once you herd it. . . . . You herd it. . . . AND thats fine ( NO REPEATED LISTENS ). But the rest of this album is pure magic, fun, and doesn't get old with age. This is a good album, Just 2 weak songs.


Free Fallin'
Perhaps if it had, "Into The Great Wide Open" might not have been so disappointing. This was the album that should have come before Full Moon Fever. Where Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne seemed to capture a Heartbreaker's sound stripped down on the hits like "I Won't Back Down" and "Running Down a Dream," on this album, The Heartbreakers seemed compressed and smothered in layers of pudding. It made "Great Wide Open" the first Heartbreakers album for me to fall below excellence.

Things open promisingly with the cool single "Learning to Fly" and one of Petty's early music industry diatribe in the title track (shades of The Last DJ!). "Kings Highway" is an example of a song that could have been perfect had it not been slathered in Lynne's excess. And in all honesty, some of these songs echo "Full Moon Fever" a tad to closely. "For All The Wrong Reasons" plagiarizes "Free Fallin'," while the Ben E. King influenced "Built To Last" sounds like it came from a Traveling Wilburys session.

The heartbreakers also don't rock out all that much here. Only "Out In The Cold" kicks up any real dust, with "Making Some Noise" being a bit stunted. "All Or Nothing" is also a song that captures Petty and The Heartbreakers at their easy-going best, along with the great verse

"Your Daddy was a Sgt Major,
you didn't want to, but he made you
wipe his brass from time to time. "

Unfortunately, the majority of ITGWO sounds too typical, to average for it to rise not just above its predecessor, but above TP&THB's work to this point. It's fine for completists (like myself), but you could just as easily start with Damn the Torpedoes or their Anthology: Through the Years.


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