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Whistle Stopper - Greatest Hits
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $8.46
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Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517522961
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen Records
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Studio: Geffen Records
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Summary: CLASSIC PETTY
Comment: THIS IS A CLASSIC AND CONTAINS A FAVORITE SELDOM HEARD SONG "MARY JANES LAST DANCE" WHICH HAS A DISTINCT RYTHM THAT STANDS ALONE FROM A LOT OF HIS SONGS. I LOVE IT!
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Summary: Same old greatest hits
Comment: this is worth it if you don't have the 93 version, if you do don't spend $8 on the one exchanged song. go for anthology as its a much more comprehensive TP album. i'll be at the show in selma, tx in aug.
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Summary: How about a "CLASSIC HIT'S BEST OF" ?
Comment: I think tom petty's catalog of songs would be better on a 2 disc ( not together ) hits albums. One of these called " CLASSIC HITS " the other, called " HITS AGAIN -the late years ". Songs like " women in love, deliver me, change of heart " and other great songs played alot on the radio, would then have room to be on a collection. Of course, this would be "THE CLASSICS ", version. Song's like " runnin down a dream, free fallen etc.", just don't mix well with the classics. SO JUST DIVIDE THEM UP, on 2 different cd's. Besides it makes more room on individual cd's for other great songs form those 2 era's, to be on a 20 song set list cd. Think about it, RECORD COMPANY's. It makes the fans happy, you make lots of money, and history wise ( a better long term money selling hit's collection ).
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Summary: Go ahead, give it to me
Comment: Tom Petty is the embodiment of a classic rocker. He and his band, The Heartbreakers, are in the same league as Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band or Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. The personify a certain working class ethos and stuck to their roots, all while codifying their influences to a sound that became singularly theirs. In Petty's case, that was a love of sixties rock that revolved around The Byrds and The Rolling Stones, with the Heartbreakers adding inspired backing.
When the leather jacketed face of Tom Petty first smiled from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1977, his look and sparse, muscular backing had many prematurely lumping him into the punk camp. But discerning listeners caught on quick, with the chiming "American Girl" and the bluesy "Breakdown" becoming favorites. When You're Gonna Get It! arrived soon after, both the rocking "I Need To Know" and the hook-laden "Listen To Her Heart" flirted with the Top 40 and more eyes came to Petty's talent. "Listen" is an amazing confection, both chiming Byrds-ish guitar and muscular hook.
Even with these signs of greatness, it was Petty's third album that delivered the goods. Damn the Torpedoes remains a classic, the moment when Petty hit his stride as a songwriter and The Heartbreakers became more than the sum of their influences. Four songs from that album are here, the blistering "Refugee," the pleading "Don't Do Me Like That," along with the stellar "Here Comes My Girl" and "Even The Losers."
What followed his turn to super-stardom was the legendary price war with MCA, with the suits wanting to make Hard Promises a premium price release, and Petty demanding it be kept lower...to the point that he threatened to title the album 8.98. Petty won the battle and delivered and album that was stellar, and had a great single in "The Waiting." The real curiosity was that Petty gave up one of his best songs to Stevie Nicks, and their duet on "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" catapulted her solo "Bella Donna" album to number one.
Petty continued to make strong albums, but none in the classic range of "Torpedoes." Long After Dark was one of the most straight ahead rock albums he'd released, yet "You Got Lucky" one of the most new-wavey singles. There was the arty Southern Accents, which found the sitar-accented single "Don't Come Around Here No More" playing out in a deliciously psychedelic fashion (and the "Alice In Wonderland" inspired video). Then there was the rollicking and under-rated Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), with the Bob Dylan co-composition "Jamming Me."
Still, things were starting to feel like diminishing returns. That is, until Petty decided to try a solo album. The stripped down and back-to-basics Full Moon Fever re-certified Petty's greatness as a songwriter, and was as solid from start to finish as "Torpedoes." "Running Down a Dream" is as good a rocker as he's ever done, "I Won't Back Down" is an anthem that threw down a gauntlet (and became a post 9/11 rallying cry) and "Free Falling" could be Petty's best song ever. It was more acoustically based than his Heartbreakers albums, and set the tone for future solo albums like Wildflowers.
That success brought cloning when the band got back for Into the Great Wide Open, which is an OK album that followed a perfect one. Regardless, the creative juices still were flowing for "Learning To Fly" and the title track, which are more fully produced than the "Full Moon Fever" songs. It also brought Petty and the Heartbreakers to the end of their MCA tenure (roughly 2/3's of their history so far). This "Greatest Hits" is basically the same as one issues in 1992, the difference is that a remake of Thunderclap Newman's "Something In The Air" is replaced by "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" (and the great "Last Dance With Mary Jane" is still here). Given that the older Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits is no longer listed as 'new,' this is a great place to get Tom Petty's singles in one solid swoop.
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Summary: great
Comment: tom petty is the greatest as is the cd. i recieved it quickly. buy it
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Hailing from the state of Florida, singer-songwriter Tom Petty has come to epitomize a new rootsy style of California rock'n'roll. Rhythmically, the music harkens back to the basic crunch of the Rolling Stones and the dancing pop of the Beatles, while Petty's gravelly vocals and sing-song narrative style suggest roots in the folk-blues Americana of Bob Dylan. This new Greatest Hits collection replaces the classic hit of "Something in the Air" with "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" featuring Stevie Nicks.
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