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Echo | 
| Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Buy New: $125.00
New (3) Collectible (1) from $122.99
Rating:  162 reviews
Sales Rank: 419729
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 093624729419
EAN: 0093624729419
ASIN: B00000JU1C
Release Date: June 8, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: unopened in original sealed package
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| Tracks:
| • | Room at the Top | | • | Counting on You | | • | Free Girl Now | | • | Lonesome Sundown | | • | Swingin' | | • | Accused of Love | | • | Echo | | • | Won't Last Long | | • | Billy the Kid | | • | I Don't Wanna Fight | | • | This One's for Me | | • | No More | | • | About to Give Out | | • | Rhino Skin | | • | One More Day, One More Night |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Just a few bars into song 1, "Room at the Top," and you know you're in the capable hands of a master songwriter. A mellow chorus wafts by, whispered in Petty's patented Byrdsian drawl, and the song seems to tick-tock to a stop. But storming over the top is a riff from guitarist Mike Campbell. Another chorus and you know there's a bridge creeping up. Petty, in a gesture that's both droll and dynamic, mutters "Hit it" to announce it. The proceedings slow again, then Campbell's gears start grinding again, and there's a grand crescendo that is, if you'll pardon the pun, heartbreakingly wicked. Then Petty murmurs a deep, resonate "No-oh" in a broken, brilliantly understated way that's rock & roll perfect! If you understand the alchemist genius that transmutes such humble metal into gold, you're ready to curl up with 14 songs of near-similar standing. Petty and the Heartbreakers have succeeded in making an album that's stunning in its simplicity yet as carefully ornate and wondrous as a stained-glass window. Indeed, renaissance might be an appropriate tag for the reborn Petty, except that he's never really gone away. Like that "Room at the Top" bridge, he's always been lurking around the corner, waiting to surprise you when the time is right. --Tom Lanham
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| Customer Reviews: Read 157 more reviews...
ECHO, and NO MORE--------" A little strange " August 4, 2008
I like that this album has great length ( good number of tracks ), BUT..... the song's "ECHO and NO MORE" are really STRANGE songs. I just don't get them. Since no lyrics where added (A MAJOR MISTAKE ), I have know way of knowing what, tom petty is trying to say in these two songs. As with all of tom's music, the music is good but sometimes the subject or words are really a tough one to see what he's singing about. This only happens once in a while ( don't get me wrong ), But it happened twice on CD. At least he didn't rip everybody off with NOT ENOUGH SONGS on the album. But in this case, 2 song's less is a BETTER ALBUM. STRANGE that the STRANGE song " EHCO"...........is the title of the album.
A sad, surly echo July 23, 2008
Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tom Petty took a long time between his 90's albums. Wildflowers was in 1994, Into the Great Wide Open, the last album with The Heartbreakers came out in 1991. For only the third time in the decade, Petty mustered up an album of new material and headed back to the studio, again (as on "Wildflowers") with producer Rick Rubin. Once more. Rubin guided Petty through music that appears natural, unforced and from the heart.
The twist was that Petty was coming of a divorce with his wife of 20 years, and these songs reflect the turmoil in his life from the time. He has even gone as far as to say that he won't perform many of these songs again, as they're too painful for him to revisit. "Room At The Top" builds slowly, then cascades into a great Mike Campbell solo and Petty's dry vocal hits a boiling point. It's classic Petty and one of the best songs on this, maybe Petty's most under-rated album next to Long After Dark.
It is also, clearly, his most personal. "Wildflowers" often felt like Petty was delving into his personal thoughts, but songs like "One More Night One More Day" drip with sadness and pain. This is a diary of a life coming undone, in the way Phil Collins' Face Value or Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights made brilliant cathartic art from relationship pain. There is hurt (the title song, "Rhino Skin"), anger ("Go Down Swinging," "Free Girl Now") and a nostalgic wish for better memories ("Accused Of Love"). The songs on "Echo" are easily the most consistent since Full Moon Fever, with the production striking a balance somewhere between Jeff Lynne's and the oft-times too laid back pace of "Wildflowers."
"Echo" is an album of heavy substance. There are moments of brief humor ("Swinging") but just as often, a certain surliness underneath the rockers - "I Don't Wanna Fight" could easily be his best kiss-off aside from Damn the Torpedoes' "Don't Do Me Like That" - belying the Heartbreakers' usual tight and muscular playing. Had this been earlier in his career, my general thinking is that this would have been maybe two songs shorter and heralded as a masterpiece. Regardless, "Echo" is an album of such complexity and emotion, that it stands head to head with Petty and The heartbreakers' best.
 Fabulous October 17, 2007
R. D. Seale Jr. (Birmingham, AL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I won't repeat any of the great reviews already given ("echo" them...?), but if you are still in doubt, just listen to the title track, and you ought to be sold. It is one of the most sadly beautiful songs I have ever heard and is worth the price of the Cd itself.
An underrated work August 9, 2007
Roland T. Gunner (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The more I listen to this underrated gem, the more I appreciate it. Some Tom Petty albums just get better with age.
Petty digs deep and emerges with arguably the best Heartbreakers album this side of Damn the Torpedoes! April 12, 2007
Aussie Petty Fan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It has been widely circulated that Petty wrote Echo during his emotionally draining divorce. It is easy to think this as the strain in Tom's relationship had long been informing his writing.
Tom states in his book - "Conversations with Tom Petty" - a fantastic read - that the songs for Echo were written when he was in a happy place having met Dana which must have given Tom great therapy in overcoming his mid life blues that had plagued him during his mid 40's.
It is undeniable that he draws from his painful experience in the songs however the strength and dignity within himself ensures his "I Won't Back Down" attitude prevails.
The Heartbreakers joined Tom for this album which was a terrific move with the band again resiliantly backing and enhancing Petty's tunes with Mike's guitar the barometer for Petty's mood and the last real notable contribution from the slowly deteriorating Howie Epstein.
The result is a fine rock album with several excellent written tracks among the very finest Petty penned.
Tunes such as "Room at the Top" and "Swingin" - singles in the US, shine with a most resiliant spirit with Petty in complete control.
"No More" "One More Day, "One More Night" and "Echo" bring out his mellow and reflective side with the title track one of the greatest performances ever by Tom Petty. He is up there with Dylan with the phrasing and shows alot more emotion on that track.
Mike Campbell gets a rare gig with the enjoyable but should only have been performed live and not put on the album - "I Don't Wanna Fight". After a career of brilliance and loyalty, we can forgive him for that.
Echo spawned a great tour, it hit the US Top 10 and earned the band mostly nothing but praise and respect.
Rock fans who appreciate great songwriters will not be dissapointed with this purchase, in my opinion you get to hear Tom close to his very best on several tracks with the whole album one fine rocking experience.
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