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 TOM PETTY ROCKS June 20, 2008
chuck white (Lufkin, Tx)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really good cd, the music is well, Tom Petty & Mudcrutch & Heartbreakers all rolled into one, don't see how anybody could not like this cd. I am a really big Heartbreaker fan & this won't dissappoint anyone who even remotely likes their music, buy it.
 Yes! That's what I'm talkin' about! June 22, 2008
Adam Briggs (Burlington, VT)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album hits on all cylinders. It's deep, passionate. rockin', and nostalgic which can be lame sometimes, but not in this case. Topanga Cowgirl is one of the best new songs I've heard in a while. It's old but still very current. What a great idea to re-unite an old band like this. I've been a Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers fan my entire adult life and half my childhood, and I have to say this is the album I've been waiting for them to make my entire life. They jam out more on songs, which is nice. Whenever they start jamming at live shows I always want more, so this is a good new trend for albums for them. Every song on this album is great. Of course some I like more than others, but once you start this album it's very hard to stop it before the end.
Mudcrutch Review June 25, 2008
Carlos R. Garcia
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tom Petty's done it again. The songs are new but they feel like they've been around for years. Another terrific album from Petty and his gang!
what do I think? June 26, 2008
Patricia A. Meade (Pinellas Park, FL)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow, not quite Tom Petty, but then Tom Petty all the way through. I don't know how else to explain it. It is different than we have heard, still good and yet a listen through it and I know I have to listen again to really appreciate what I hear.
It's Neil Young goes more country YUCK. July 2, 2008
Deborah Burrell (jax, fl)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
Tried to like it. Wanted a TP hit. It's been awhile. Now its dropped off billboard quick.
There is a reason. It is not the old TP sound. It's not the WIlburys.
It is Bad Neil Young and Crazy horse. A few guys in a barn, playing country rock, closer to country period, with slides and harmonicas, and songs about creeks and bars.
Not a hit on the whole album. Tom is about Done at this point. There are no more " waiting, woman in love, refugee, come around here no more, Spike, breakdown, even the losers, and on and on.'
The well appears dry.
The wilburys were better than this by far.
Just another garage band now.
I have loved Mr.Petty and his fine band since 1977. Just an amazing performer who has timeless songs. Not just the hits, the B sides are tremendous. Anything thats rock n roll, restless,spike, on and on and on, this band blows Springsteen and that overhyped Northern bunch away.
That said, the decline began 1991. Stan Lynch left because of the Ballads and whiny songs that were increasingly becoming the new music. Sure we would have an occasional hard rocking sound primarily driven by a wonderful riff by THE best lead guitar on the planet. Tom would have to write a lyrics to match. like Running down a dream. But they became far and between. Remember when you would buy Hard promises, your gonna get it, Torpedos, and EVERY single song was a sing along rocking masterpiece?
I think as Tom aged it became way too easy to write boring "room at the top" crap, that even he has admitted is much easier to produce than a guitar driven rocking song.
He got good reviews for Wildflowers in 1994, and it's been downhill ever since. More palply draggy songs with an occasional gem or two thrown in.
Oh well, the stones have done that for years too.
I was spoiled with TP for so long, I expected at least 7 great songs per album. That is long gone.
Either he cannot do it anymore, or doesn't want to. It always amazes me that a band will hit a formula fans love, then decide to "do something different" or as Tom puts it "we were treading water"
Note to TOM: We want you to tread water. If we wanted different we could listen to a million other bands. Your hard driven, sneering, fast talking, working man blues rockers were what made millions of fans.
So Tom keeps doing the special projects, and the DJ political statements, and the feel good self absorbed Mudcrutch stuff. Bad barn music is all it is. It's not making me happy.
I want the Tom Petty and the heartbreakers of the 70's and 80s' back. But I think they are long gone. It was a great run.
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