Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Crushgen24/88 · #41 04-02-2010, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Miracle

So what album should be my next purchase? Long After Dark? Hard Promises?

Do you have any of Tom's solo records?

Arash · #42 04-02-2010, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Miracle

So what album should be my next purchase? Long After Dark? Hard Promises?

I would say Echo, cause it's my favorite heartbreakers album, and has some of their best songs ever on it IMO.

Miracle · #43 04-02-2010, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Crushgen24/88

Do you have any of Tom's solo records?

I have Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers. I thought those were his only solo records.

Crushgen24/88 · #44 04-26-2010, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Miracle

I have Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers. I thought those were his only solo records.

Highway Companion is also solo, technically. I also like Southern Accents, for what that's worth. Sorry it took so long to respond to this BTW.

Also, the tracklist, cover art, and release date for MOJO just came out:

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers will release Mojo on June 15.

Here is the track listing and the album cover art!

1. Jefferson Jericho Blues
2. First Flash Of Freedom*
3. Running Man’s Bible
4. The Trip To Pirate’s Cove
5. Candy
6. No Reason To Cry
7. I Should Have Known It
8. U.S. 41
9. Takin’ My Time
10. Let Yourself Go
11. Don’t Pull Me Over
12. Lover’s Touch
13. High In The Morning
14. Something Good Coming
15. Good Enough

Matthes · #45 04-27-2010, 12:13 AM

Some information about the new album taken of their hp:

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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS MOJO
Tom Petty - Vocals, Guitar
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Benmont Tench - Keyboards
Ron Blair - Bass
Scott Thurston - Harmonica, Guitar
Steve Ferrone - Drums

Some time in the last few years Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers took a left turn. Maybe it was when Petty woke up in the night with the idea of reuniting his first band, Mudcrutch, to cut the album they never got a chance to make back in the early 70s. Maybe it was when the Heartbreakers assembled the mammoth multi-disc The Live Anthology, which detailed thirty years of concerts. Maybe it was when they gave all their home movies, outtakes and live footage to director Peter Bogdanovich to create the Grammy-winning four-hour career documentary Runnin’ Down A Dream. There have been side projects and experiments since the band last went into the studio to cut a new Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album. With MOJO, they have taken their recent freedom and experimentation to heart. They have gone off the reservation and all signs indicate they aren’t coming back.

The first thing that hits you about MOJO is that the spirit of the Mudcrutch sessions has carried on with the Heartbreakers. This is the sound of a band playing together in a room - not a studio - facing each other, all singing and playing at the same time. The music is alive, with no overdubs or studio trickery. What you hear is what they created on the spot at that time.

Tom Petty says, “With this album, I want to show other people what I hear with the band. MOJO is where the band lives when it’s playing for itself.”

As for the songs, MOJO showcases a wide variety of American music from rock ‘n’ roll to country and both electric and acoustic blues. And then there are the images in Petty’s lyrics which slip in on the melodies and set up a home in your head: The barefoot girl in the high grass chewing on a stick of sugar cane, the run-in with the law that begins when a carload of buddies decide to party with the motel maids, and the hilariously audacious idea of opening an album with an electric blues rocker about Thomas Jefferson’s love affair with Sally Hemings. Petty would probably chuck a rock at anyone who called him a poet, but he sure is a southern writer of humor and sensitivity.

MOJO has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a wacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything that Heartbreakers have done before. It’s the kind of album nobody’s supposed to be able to make anymore. It got here just in time.

Matthes · #46 05-11-2010, 11:45 AM

Video of the first official single of the new album "I should have known it":
http://www.yeahoyeah.com/mjvideo.aspx?id=3091

Absolutly brilliant!

This is the kind of song when you hear it the first time and suddenly you have a bright smile on your face.

Mike Campbell plays excellent and I like to see them sitting around and jamming. If the whole album has this feeling it's gonna be great for sure.

Another info is that they are the music act of the season final of SNL on 15th of May.

Arash · #47 05-11-2010, 01:23 PM

So the whole album is recorded live in the studio?

Miracle · #48 05-12-2010, 12:31 AM

I'm kinda liking this new song

Miracle · #49 05-21-2010, 12:53 AM

There's another new video up. For whatever reason, it's blocked from viewers who are outside the US.

Did anyone else catch the band on SNL last week?

Matthes · #50 05-21-2010, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Miracle

There's another new video up. For whatever reason, it's blocked from viewers who are outside the US.

Did anyone else catch the band on SNL last week?

Try this link:
http://www.spinner.com/2010/05/19/to...d-coming-vide/

I'm from Germany and I can watch this video. The new song is called "Something good coming".

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