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Thursday, 28 February 2019

Tidy Tunes 2019 #28/28 The Best of Everything (Alternate Version) - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

The Best of Everything (Alternate Version / Extra Verse) - Tom Petty and The Heatbreakers
Taken from the album
'The Best of Everything - The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016'
Released 1st March 2019


Another previously Unreleased Track on the Compilation:
For Real  - Tom Petty and The Heatbreakers

Track listing for the album
Unless mentioned otherwise all tracks are by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Disc 1
1. "Free Fallin’" - Tom Petty
2. "Mary Jane’s Last Dance"
3. "You Wreck Me" - Tom Petty
4. "I Won’t Back Down" - Tom Petty
5. "Saving Grace" - Tom Petty
6. "You Don’t Know How It Feels" - Tom Petty
7. "Don’t Do Me Like That"
8. "Listen to Her Heart"
9. "Breakdown"
10. "Walls (Circus)"
11. "The Waiting"
12. "Don’t Come Around Here No More"
13. "Southern Accents"
14. "Angel Dream (No. 2)"
15. "Dreamville"
16. "I Should Have Known It"
17. "Refugee"
18. "American Girl"
19. "The Best of Everything" (Alt. Version Previously Unreleased)

Disc 2
1. "Wildflowers" - Tom Petty
2. "Learning to Fly"
3. "Here Comes My Girl"
4. "The Last DJ"
5. "I Need to Know"
6. "Scare Easy" - Mudcrutch
7. "You Got Lucky"
8. "Runnin’ Down a Dream" - Tom Petty
9. "American Dream Plan B"
10. "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around" (feat. Stevie Nicks)
11. "Trailer" - Mudcrutch
12. "Into the Great Wide Open"
13. "Room at the Top"
14. "Square One" - Tom Petty
15. "Jammin’ Me"
16. "Even the Losers"
17. "Hungry No More" - Mudcrutch
18. "I Forgive It All" - Mudcrutch
19. "For Real" Previously Unreleased)

This was originally scheduled for release last year and was announced at pretty much the same time as the release of what turned out to be my album of the year, An American Treasure Boxset. I'm guessing they did not want to dent sales on either product and delayed the release of the this collection until now.

This one is released tomorrow so I thought I would slip a little something into the Tidy Tunes series seeing as it is the last day. 

The Best of Everything (Alternate Version) was recorded during the making of the 'Southern Accents' album and it contains an extra verse in it that has not appeared on record before (but you just know the bootleggers have had it for years!).

Now while I recognise that this "Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection" might be appealing as an introduction to the catalogue of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, his Solo releases and Mudcrutch, I am also a little skeptical of labels just cashing in on his name and legacy by presenting an album that only features two songs out of 38 that have been unreleased before. 

All of these tracks have been available elsewhere and many on previous Greatest Hits, Best Ofs, and Anthologies.




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Wednesday, 19 December 2018

My Favourite Album of 2018: An American Treasure - Tom Petty

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An American Treasure - Tom Petty
Reprise Records
 Compiled by: Mike Campbell, Adria Petty, Dana Petty, Benmont Tench, and Ryan Ulyate
Released 28th September 2018
US Chart #9
UK Chart #38
 


  Tracklist
    1970's
1-1 Surrender (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Sessions 1976)
1-2 Listen To Her Heart (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA 1977-11-11)
1-3 Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA 1977-11-11)
1-4 When The Time Comes (from You're Gonna Get It! 1978-05-02)
1-5 You're Gonna Get It (Alternate Version feat. strings from You're Gonna Get It! Sessions 1978)
1-6 Radio Promotion Spot 1977
1-7 Rockin' Around (With You) (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976-11-09)
1-8 Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) (Alternate Version from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976)
1-9 Breakdown (Live at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA November 11, 1977)
1-10 The Wild One, Forever (from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1976-11-09)
1-11 No Second Thoughts (from You're Gonna Get It! 1978-05-02)
1-12 Here Comes My Girl (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-13 What Are You Doing In My Life (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-14 Louisiana Rain (Alternate Version from Damn The Torpedoes Sessions 1979)
1-15 Lost In Your Eyes (Unreleased Single from Mudcrutch Sessions 1974)
  
1980's
2-1 Keep A Little Soul (from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)   
2-2 Even The Losers (Live at Rochester Community War Memorial, Rochester, NY 1989)
2-3 Keeping Me Alive (from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)
2-4 Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger (UK B-side single of 'I Won't Back Down' April, 1989)
2-5 The Apartment Song (Demo Recording with Stevie Nicks 1984)
2-6 Concert Intro (Live Introduction by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-7 King's Road (Live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-8 Clear The Aisles (Live Concert Announcement by Tom Petty, The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-9 A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) (Live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA 1981-06-28)
2-10 Straight Into Darkness (Alternate Version from The Record Plant, Hollywood, CA 1982-05-05)
2-11 You Can Still Change Your Mind (from Hard Promises 1981-05-05)
2-12 Rebels (Alternate Version from Southern Accents Sessions 1985)   
2-13 Deliver Me (Alternate Version from Long After Dark Sessions 1982)
2-14 Alright For Now (Album track from Full Moon Fever 1989-04-24)
2-15 The Damage You've Done (Alternate Version from Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Sessions 1987)
2-16 The Best Of Everything (Alternate Version from Southern Accents Sessions 1985-03-26)   
2-17 Walkin' From The Fire (from Southern Accents Sessions 1984-03-01)   
2-18 King Of The Hill (Early Take with Roger McGuinn 1987-11-23)
  
1990's
3-1 I Won't Back Down (Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 1997-02-04)   
3-2 Gainesville (from Echo Sessions 1998-02-12)   
3-3 You And I Will Meet Again (from Into The Great Wide Open 1991-07-02)   
3-4 Into The Great Wide Open (Live at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, 1991-11-24)   
3-5 Two Gunslingers (Live at The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 2013-05-25)   
3-6 Lonesome Dave (from Wildflowers Sessions 1993-07-23)   
3-7 To Find A Friend (from Wildflowers 1994-11-01)   
3-8 Crawling Back To You (from Wildflowers 1994-11-01)   
3-9 Wake Up Time (from Early Wildflowers Sessions 1992-08-12)   
3-10 Grew Up Fast (from Songs And Music From 'She's The One' 1996-08-06)   
3-11 I Don't Belong (from Echo Sessions 1998-12-03)   
3-12 Accused Of Love (from Echo 1999-04-13)   
3-13 Lonesome Sundown (from Echo 1999-04-13)   
3-14 Don't Fade On Me (from Wildflowers Sessions 1994-04-20)   
  
2000's
4-1 You And Me (Clubhouse Version 2007-11-09)
4-2 Have Love Will Travel (from The Last DJ 2002-10-08)
4-3 Money Becomes King (from The Last DJ 2002-10-08)
4-4 Bus To Tampa Bay (from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2011-08-11)
4-5 Saving Grace (Live at Malibu Performing Arts Center, Malibu, CA 2006-06-16)
4-6 Down South (from Highway Companion 2006-07-25)
4-7 Southern Accents (Live at Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL 2006-09-21)
4-8 Insider (Live with Stevie Nicks at O'Connell Center, Gainesville, FL 2006-09-21)
4-9 Two Men Talking (from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2012-11-06)
4-10 Fault Lines (from Hypnotic Eye 2014-07-29)
4-11 Sins Of My Youth (Early Take from Hypnotic Eye Sessions 2012-11-12)
4-12 Good Enough (Alternate Version from Mojo Sessions 2012)
4-13 Something Good Coming (from Mojo 2010-07-15)
4-14 Save Your Water (from Mudcrutch 2 2016-05-20)
4-15 Like A Diamond (Alternate Version from The Last DJ Sessions 2002)
4-16 Hungry No More (Live at House Of Blues, Boston, MA 2016-06-15)

Tom Petty
20th October 1950 - 2nd October 2017

Almost a year after the passing of Tom Petty this marvellous collection of Studio, Outtakes, Alternate Versions and Live Recordings, including music from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty Solo and Mudcrutch spanning 1974 through to 2016 was released.
 Mudcrutch
In 1974 Mudcrutch had released one single three years before (Up in Mississippi in 1971 and decided to make their move from Gainesville, Florida to Los Angeles, California in the hope of making it. Failing to secure a spot on a major label they found someone who had some belief in them and signed with the Independent label Shelter Records which was owned by Leon Russell. They released Depot Street as a single in 1975 but it failed to chart. On this Boxset there's an unreleased single Lost In Your Eyes recorded in a 1974 session (the final track on Disc 1). 
In late 1975 Shelter decided to break the band up and retain only Tom Petty under contract.   Several months later, Petty regrouped with former Mudcrutch members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench to form The Heartbreakers along with fellow Gainesville natives Stan Lynch (drums) and Ron Blair (bass).
 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty was probably not considered as "An American Treasure" back at the start as he and The Heartbreakers gained more attention in the UK when their debut album was released in November 1976. In the States it only peaked in the chart at #55 (and that was in 1978!) whilst in the UK it reached #24.
The Four CD Boxset covers the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s dedicating a disc to each era. The three live tracks from the Capitol Studios in 1977 (Listen To Her Heart, Anything That's Rock and Roll and Breakdown) are pretty cool. I recently picked up a copy of the whole show and it was great hearing them sounding so fresh back then. The rest of the tracks on Disc 1 cover the first three albums (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - 1976; You're Gonna Get It! - 1978; and Damn The Torpedoes - 1979). I love how the album opens with Surrender (an outtake from the Debut album).
On Disc 2 we enter the 80's and here we find some excellent stuff: Keep A Little Soul, an outtake from the Long After Dark Sessions is wonderful (Keeping Me Alive is another outtake from the same album). The only other outtake is Walkin' From The Fire which was recorded during sessions for Southern Accents.
Disc 3 contains some great stuff from Petty's Solo outing Wildflowers: a couple of Alternate versions and an Outtake in Lonesome Dave. Gainesville and I Don't Belong are Outtakes from the Echo Sessions.
Disc 4 contains Bus To Tampa Bay and Two Men Talking both Outtakes from Hypnotic Eye and there's alternate versions of tracks from The Last DJ, Hypnotic Eye and Mojo. 
What I really loved about this collection was that it would have been almost too easy to just bring together all the hit singles etc but they really went the extra mile to bring Outtakes, Alternate Versions, Live tracks and maybe lesser known album tracks by digging around into Tom Petty's archives. I guess if you wanted the hits then you are best looking elsewhere. This is really an album for the fans who are appreciative of some of the hidden gems that were maybe just gathering dust.
I'm glad to annouce this one as My Favourite Album of 2018. 




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Thursday, 5 October 2017

S4L Radio: Show #10 Playlist Tom Petty Tribute

On this week's S4L Radio Show we have a musical tribute to Tom Petty. It will include songs by the man himself along with his band The Heartbreakers, various collaborations he has been involved in as well as a mix of cover versions of some of his best songs.

 I hope you enjoy it. 
Thanks For The Music Tom

The Playlist


On The Playlist
The Last DJ - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
We open with a song about the radio as is our custom and where better to turn than to the year 2002 with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and their tale of The Last DJ...
 "Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say"

Depot Street - Mudcrutch
The single on Shelter Records from 1975 before they originally disbanded with Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench creating a new band - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Mudcrutch would rise again in 2007 and release their Self-Titled Debut Album in 2008 and their 2nd was released last year (2016) entitled very simply 2. They did actually release another single with a Limited run of 500 Copies on the Pepper Label in 1973 called Up In Mississippi (Discogs lists it as 1973 but Wikipedia lists it as 1971).

Saving Grace - Tom Petty
Single taken from the Highway Companion Solo album released in 2006.

Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys
There had been "Supergroups" before 1988 but none quite like this one: George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. Actually Petty's involvement came quite by accident. Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house (as you do!) and as he was going to record a B-side for the single This Is Love. He already had Lynne and Orbison on board and when he went to pick the guitar up he invited Petty to tag along. Getting a studio at such short notice was going to prove difficult and Harrison suggested they phone Bob Dylan as he had a home studio and thus Dylan got involved. The record company were so blown away by the song that they felt it was too good to be a B-side. The song was written on the day of recording and within five hours they had created a little masterpiece. Harrison's response to the label was to decide to form a band (with the motley crew who had written and sung on the song) and recorded another nine songs for an album that would be released in October 1988. The album was a huge hit in the States (#3, in the UK only #16). The single reached #21 in the UK and #45 in the States.

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
A lot of people forget that Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, though written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, was actually a Stevie Nicks release. In fact it was her Debut Solo single and also featured on her Debut Solo Album Bella Donna.
Whilst a huge hit in the States (#3) it only reached #50 in the UK (which to this day I still find amazing)!
Nicks has often performed the song with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and is known as an Honory Member of The Heartbreakers. I have included the live version from Petty's 30th Anniversary Show in Gainsville on The Playlist.

Band of The Hand - Bob Dylan with The Heartbreakers
Theme song for the 1986 Movie Soundtrack (deleted at present but available on iTunes apparently). During 1986-87 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers had been Dylan's backing band.

I Won't Back Down - Johnny Cash
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers had played as the backing band on the second album of the American series by Johnny Cash - Unchained (1996) and Petty and a couple of Heartbreakers featured on the third in the series American III: Solitary Man. On Unchained Cash recorded Southern Accents, and for American III: Solitary Man he did one of Petty's Solo tracks, and did it pretty well if I may say so myself.

Free Fallin' - The Almost
From the 2010 album Punk Goes Classic Rock.

Here Comes My Girl - Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs
From their highly acclaimed Under The Covers Vol.2 (2009) and now part of the Box Set Completely Under The Covers (2015) released by Demon Records.

You Wreck Me - Taking Back Sunday
From the 2009 album A Revolution In Sound: Warner Bros. Records.

Refugee - Melissa Etheridge
Opening track to her Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled released in 2005. I quite like this one as she's given it a nice wee acoustic touch before launching into a full out rock version.

Breakdown - Grace Jones
I had actually forgotten about this version. Totally bizzare choice for Grace Jones that was released as a single in the USA and appears on the 1980 album "Warm Leatherette".

You Got Lucky - The Gaslight Anthem
Released as a Double A-Sided 7" along with Forty-Five back in 2012. The song was included on the Deluxe Edition of their album Handwritten.

Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid) - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
One of my favourite tracks off of Damn The Torpedoes.

The Waiting - Linda Ronstadt
Was released as a single and featured on her album Feels Like Home released in 1995. The version on The Playlist is her performance of the song on Letterman in March 1995.

Fooled Again (I Don't Like It) - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
From their Debut album released in 1976. Another favourite album track (there are so many to choose from!). Version included on The Playlist is from The Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1977.

Walls - Glen Campbell
There were actually two Tom Petty songs on Meet Glen Campbell released in 2008 (the other was Angel Dream). Both songs were originally released on the 1996 album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers... She's The One - Songs And Music From The Motion Picture. The Meet Glen Campbell is an album I totally love (an album of cover versions that features songs oiginally released by Travis, Green Day, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, the Foo Fighters, The Replacements, U2 and John Lennon. It's top notch stuff).

Hometown Blues Rosanne Cash
From the 1981 album Seven Year Ache.

Rebels - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
From Southern Accents (1985).

American Girl - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
I included the live version from the Gainsville show on The Playlist (mainly for Mike Campbell's great guitar solo!).

The Parting Shot
This One's For Me - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Taken from their tenth studio album Echo (1999).

"Some other time, some other day
We'll sing this again some other way
So much has gone by, don't know where to start
Well this one I'll keep here in my heart"


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Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Tom Petty - The S4L Top Twenty Singles

When you've released more than 60 singles whittling it down to the best twenty is no easy matter. Here at S4L we love the challenge and so here is our S4L Top Twenty Singles that featured Tom Petty either with his band The Heartbreakers, Solo, Guesting or with The Traveling Wilburys.

Update: I have updated links on this piece today on the anniversary of Tom's passing.

He is still missed.

Doug
2nd October 2018

Click on the links to listen to the songs:

20
Released 2014

19
Released 1994

18
Released 1985

17
Released 1987

16
Released 1979

15
Released 1985


14
Released 1978

13
Released 1978

12
Released 1989

11
Released 1991

10
Released 1981

09
Released 1985

08
Released 1980

07
Released 1989

06
Released 1991

05
Released 1989

04
Released 1988

03
Released 1981

02
Released 1977 
(1976 in Some European countries)

01
Released 1976

I've included in the link the very final performance and the last song he played live in concert from The Hollywood Bowl 25th September 2017/
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