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.