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Tom Petty: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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Label: Gone Gator Records
Released: 1976
Time:
 30:25
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Denny Cordell
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tompetty.com
Appears with: Traveling Wilburys, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, George Harrison
Purchase date: 2002.07.10
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Rockin' Around [With You] (M.Campbell/T.Petty) - 2:25
[2] Breakdown (T.Petty) - 2:42
[3] Hometown Blues (T.Petty) - 2:11
[4] The Wild One, Forever (T.Petty) - 3:00
[5] Anything That's Rock & Roll (T.Petty) - 2:23
[6] Strangered in the Night (T.Petty) - 3:29
[7] Fooled Again [I Don't Like It] (T.Petty) - 3:48
[8] Mystery Man (T.Petty) - 3:01
[9] Luna (T.Petty) - 3:56
[10] American Girl (T.Petty) - 3:30

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


TOM PETTY - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
MIKE CAMPBELL - Guitars Galore
BENMONT TENCH - Organ, Piano
RON BLAIR - Electric Bass, Cello
STAN LYNCH - Drums, Keyboards

PHIL SEYMOUR - Background Vocals

GREGG GELLER - Reissue Producer
NOAH SHARK - Engineer, Mixing
MAX REESE - Engineer
KEN PERRY - Mastering
JOE GASTWIRT - Digital Remastering
GREG ALLEN - Design, Reissue Art Director
ED CARAEFF - Photography
GARY PETERSON - Project Assistant
JO MOTTA - Project Assistant
ZOX - Art Direction, Design, Photography
SHAWN AMOS - A&R
CHRIS WALTER - Photography
MICHAEL PUTLAND - Photography
ADRIAN BOOT - Photography
MARTY JOURARD - Photography
ANDEE COHEN - Photography
VANESSA ATKINS - Editorial Supervision
DANIEL GOLDMARK - Editorial Research
VIGON NAHAS VIGON - Logo Design
BILL FLANAGAN - Liner Notes

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1976 LP Shelter SR-52006
1991 CD Gone Gator/MCA MCAD-10135
1991 CS Gone Gator/MCA MCAC-10135
1999 CD MCA 31066
2002 CD Warner Brothers 78177

The band's gold-certified self-titled debut album, originally released in 1976, features such classic rock staples as 'American Girl', 'Breakdown', 'Rockin' Around (With You)' and more! Expanded & remastered. 2002



At the time Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' debut was released in 1976, they were fresh enough to almost be considered punk. They weren't as reckless or visionary as the Ramones, but they shared a similar love for pure '60s rock and, for the Heartbreakers, that meant embracing the Byrds as much as the Stones. And that's pretty much what this album is — tuneful jangle balanced by a tough garage swagger. At times, the attitude and the sound overrides the songwriting, but that's alright, since the slight songs ("Anything That's Rock & Roll," to pick a random example) are still infused with spirit and an appealing surface. Petty and the Heartbreakers feel underground on this album, at least to the extent that power pop was underground in 1976; with Dwight Twilley providing backing vocals for "Strangered in the Night," the similarities between the two bands (adherence to pop hooks and melodies, love of guitars) become apparent. Petty wound up eclipsing Twilley because he rocked harder, something that's evident throughout this record. Take the closer "American Girl" — it's a Byrds song by any other name, but he pushed the Heartbreakers to treat it as a rock & roll song, not as something delicate. There are times where the album starts to drift, especially on the second side, but the highlights — "Rockin' Around (With You)," "Hometown Blues," "The Wild One, Forever," the AOR staples "Breakdown" and "American Girl" — still illustrate how refreshing Petty & the Heartbreakers sounded in 1976.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All-Music Guide
© 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



If Bob Dylan had been a garage rocker instead of a poet, there may not have been room for Tom Petty on the rock landscape. But things turned out great: Petty burst on the scene as it was splitting into two camps (rock and punk) and somehow managed to please both with his whiny sneer and taut, jangly guitars. (Dylan went on to be...Dylan.) Frantic tunes like "Rockin' Around (With You)" and "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" (predating the Jags a few years later) helped land the band--temporarily--in the punk and new-wave camp, although choppy guitars and nervous energy were as much a part of the band's style as was a more traditional guitar sound. The now-classic "American Girl" was a brazen nod to the Byrds, and Stones-ish rock sentiments fueled the bar-band leanings of "Hometown Blues" and the sexy "Breakdown." "The Wild One, Forever" proved that beneath the sneer there was a sensitive guy who knew how to write a great love song.

Lorry Fleming - Amazon.com



Two years after Petty’s debut, You’re Gonna Get It is another batch of sharp, swaggering rock tunes to hit the record stores recovering the path Petty strode to mega stardom. The astonishing brilliance of a few tracks on this record seal its fate as a classic Petty album: "Listen to Her Heart" continues his tribute to the jangly guitar style of the Byrds' "I Need to Know" and nails Petty’s plaintive singing style and gut delivery (those muscular guitar lines don’t hurt either); "Magnolia" sways pleasantly like a summer afternoon with love in the air; and "Too Much Ain’t Enough" further mines the gritty sound of a garage band stretching out. "You’re Gonna Get It" and "When the Time Comes" are both above-average rockers, with signature Petty vocals that are by some turns threatening and others genteel as well as 12-string guitar chords laden with heavenly abandon.

Lorry Fleming - Amazon.co.uk
 

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ROCKIN' AROUND WITH YOU

Why be lonely
Why be blue

You got me babe, I got you
And I can't stop thinkin' about
How I dig rockin' around with you

I was waiting
You came through
You know no one else will do
Yeah and I can't stop thinkin' about
How I dig rockin' around with you


BREAKDOWN

It's all right if you love me
It's all right if you don't
I'm not afraid of you running away
Honey, I get the feeling you won't

There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do
We've said all there is to say

Baby breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I'm standin' here can't you see
Breakdown it's all right
It's all right
It's all right Breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I'm standin' here can't you see
Breakdown it's all right
It's all right
It's all right


HOMETOWN BLUES

Baby can't wait, baby gotta go
Gotta do a number on a late night show
Do a little song, do a little dance
Gonna make the best of her big chance

It don't really matter if she don't or if she do
Just tryin' to make the best of the hometown blues

I gotta friend, gotta little girl
Says she's the best in the whole wide world
Said it's so good, said it's unreal
Might not last, but it's no big deal

It don't really matter if she don't or if she do
Just tryin' to make the best of the hometown blues

Baby, save me, save me
Save me with your sweet smile
Honey I really need you
To help me kill a little bit of time

All of the girls run with a crowd
They go wild when the lights go down
They gotta little money, live in a dream
Wanna be the queen of their little scene

It don't really matter if she don't or if she do
Just tryin' to make the best of the hometown blues


THE WILD ONE FOREVER

Well the moon sank as the wind blew
And the street lights slowly died
Yeah they call you the wild one
Said stay away from her
Said she couldn't love no one if she tried

But then somethin' I saw in your eyes
Told me right away
That you were gonna have to be mine
The strangest feeling came over me down inside
No matter what it takes
I'll never get over how good it felt
When you finally held me
I will never regret baby
Those few hours linger on in my head forever


ANYTHING THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL

Some friends of mine and me stayed up all through the night
Rockin' pretty steady till the sky went light
And I didn't go to bed
Didn't go to work
I picked up the telephone
Told the boss he was a jerk

Your mama don't like it when you run around
With me
But we got to hip your mama
That you got to live free
Don't need her, don't need school
You don't like your daddy and you don't like rules

So, c'mon baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playin' on the radio
Sounds so right
Girl you better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock and roll's fine
Anything that's rock and roll's fine

Oh oo oh hold me little baby
I'm a little bit shakin'
I'm a little bit crazy
But I know what I want
I want it right now
While the 'lectric guitars are playin' way up loud

C'mon baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playin' on the radio
Sounds so right
Girl you better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock and roll's fine
Anything that's rock and roll's fine


STRANGERED IN THE NIGHT

Well it was dark at midnight
There was hardly any moon
And no one really saw much
No one was really sure
But something didn't seem right
Something was kinda queer
A roar turned into whispers
Everyone stood there

As the sound split the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night

Well I didn't see no shotgun
I didn't see no knife
But I saw this crazy black guy
With the demon in his eye
And I heard him say "white man"
I've seen that silver cue
You don't remember me well
But I remember you

As the sound split the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night

Well the knife just left his fingers
As the black guy took his aim
White guy's head exploded
The black guy howled in pain
Then everybody scattered
I heard some woman scream
God damn you old black bastard
You've blown away my dreams

As the sound split the night
They ran hiding from the light
Like strangers in the night
Like strangers in the night


FOOLED AGAIN (I DON'T LIKE IT)

Strange voice on the telephone
Tellin' me I better leave you 'lone
Why don't somebody say what's goin' on
Uh oh I think I been through this before

Looks like I'm the fool again
Looks like I'm the fool again
I don't like it
I don't like it

You never said you had no number two
I need to know about it if you do
If two is one I might as well be three
It's good to see you think so much of me

Looks like I'm the fool again
Looks like I'm the fool again
I don't like it
I don't like it

You never said you had no number two
I need to know about it if you do
If two is one I might as well be three
It's good to see you think so much of me

Looks like I'm the fool again
Looks like I'm the fool again
I don't like it
I don't like it


MYSTERY MAN

Don't hide from me baby
Shame on you
Incognito honey you're so crude
I don't mind
Take my hand
Baby I wanna be your mystery man

Yeah you got ruby lipstick
Rose petal rouge
And dime store jewelry
Cheap perfume
I don't mind, take my hand
Honey I wanna be your mystery man

You know I do, you know I do
Oh you know I do, you know I do
Yeah you know I do, you know I do
Baby you know I do, you know I do

Don't hide from me baby
Shame on you
Dime store jewelry honey you're so crude
I don't mind
Take my hand
Baby I wanna be your mystery man

You know I do, you know I do
Oh you know I do, you know I do
Yeah you know I do, you know I do
Baby you know I do, you know I do


LUNA

White light cut a scar in the sky
Thin line of silver
The night was all clouded with dreams
Wind made me shiver
Black and yellow pools of light
Outside my window
Luna come to me tonight
I am a prisoner
Luna glide down from the moon

The clouds are all silver and black
Floating around me
Luna come into my eyes
Luna surround me
With black and yellow pools of light
Fall by my window
Luna come to me tonight
I am a prisoner
Luna glide down from the moon

The clouds are all silver and black
Floating around me
Luna come into my eyes
Luna surround me
With black and yellow pools of light
Fall by my window
Luna come to me tonight
I am a prisoner
Luna glide down from the moon


AMERICAN GIRL

Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin'
That there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441 like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful when something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

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