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 The perfect rock and roll album October 18, 2002
Darren Burton (Ogden, Utah United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
My first impression after I finished listing to the album for the first time was that Tom Petty had created the perfect rock and roll album. I still think that if it isn't the perfect rock and roll album it as close as we are ever going to get to it.
Track 1 - "Room at the Top" and Track 5 - "Swingin'" give you a good taste of this album. If you don't like them, you won't like this album.
Track 9 - "Billy the Kid" and Track 10 - "I Don't Wanna Fight" are pure musical pleasure - rock and roll at its best. Hopefully Amazon will add samples of these tracks sometime soon.
Tom Petty, the king June 26, 2000
David Pontoppidan (New Haven, CT)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first time I heard this album I was amazed. I generally like Tom Pettys voice because it's a deep version of Bob Dylans. That's why they're so great together. But on this album Bob Dylan isn't guest starring, but that doesn't matter, because Tom Petty produces a marvellous rock sound, unlike any other. When you listen to tracks like "Swingin'", "Room at the top" and "Echo", it becomes clear, that Tom Petty doesn't make rock and roll, he IS rock and roll. The harmonica play, and the guitars are extrodinary on this album, and in my opinion, it's his best so far! He's truly a king of rock, and right now, as I'm reviewing his cd, I'm also listening to it, and let me tell you, it's impossible to sit still. If you don't buy this album you'll miss a great experience, because this album is from one of the great artists, from a long forgotten era.Pontop@post4.tele.dk
 he might be losing it January 20, 2000
harlan (az)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am a tom petty fan i own this album and 5 others by him and more in the past this album is a long step backwards from the wonderfull albums full moon fever wild flowers and great wide open while there r tracks that show some signs of life most this album is just plain out boring even room at the top the hit it has a cachy gutar line in it but the rest of the song just gos on and on it could put you to sleep if you are trying to rtelax and lisen to it i hate having to give a rock n roll act a not so great revew but 2 and a half stats is perfect but its not a 2 so i gave it 3 cause there are a few songs worth while but if u dont own much petty save ur bucks and by full moon fever or wildflowers or maby the best of almost any one of his others
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Are As Strong As Ever! January 11, 2000
W. Langan (the end of the world to your town!)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
There's 1 thing that makes me mad about this CD- it wasn't nominated for a grammy. Oh well, Tom has always been more concerned about quality music than awards! On this CD, he and the Heartbreakers have pt out their best effort in years. "Free Girl Now" gives a tormented ex-lover who has finally gotten up the nerve to leave her meddling lover her due (You go, free girl!). "Swingin'" gives a nod to some of the greatest big-band legends of the now-defunct 20th century. Then there's the tender "Room at the Top..." (wouldn't we all like to sing that to someone special?). With all that aside, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are as strong as ever!
Bringin' It all Back home June 10, 2000
Gianmarco Manzione (Tampa, FL USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Some complain that 'Echo' is a much duller affair than earlier efforts, the production is "bland," they say. However, that is what makes 'Echo' not only a great rock 'n roll record, but an opportunity to breathe in the midst of the constant onslaught of pop chart formula records full of cluttered, synthesized production and pretty girls and boys offering their oh so salacious voices for exorbitant sums of money from teenage wallets. 'Echo' is a dagger in the hearts of the "rock is dead" mantra. Yes, this album is raw, and thank God! There is plenty of pop production to be found these days, and if Petty threw his hat into that ring, oh, what a sad statement it would have been! Instead, we get a collection of aggressive yet tantalizingly delicate rock n' roll that is bound to shock listeners with its almost nostalgic remembrance of a time and place where rock was born: thirty years ago in Woodstock, Abbey Roads Studio, in Jimmy Page's guitar, in Jimi Hendrix's electric ode to our national anthem, in Bob Dylan's guttural, rhapsodic croon. Those are the places from which 'Echo' gathered its foundation, and the proof is most definitely in the pudding. Any youngster who is curious about the origins of modern day rock is advised to purchase this album, and any disenfranchised baby boomers wondering where the music went are obligated to do so.
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