and why?

Favorite: Southern Accents - very eclectic and just plain fun most of the time!!

Least Favorite: Hmmmmm.......Long After Dark - I just don't know many tracks off of it....

Favorite: Tie between "Wildflowers" and "Long After Dark"

Least Favorite: "Let Me Up, I've Had Enough"

Favorite - geez, it's so hard to pick, but I'll go with 'Wildflowers' because it felt like such a personal album to me when I listened to it.

Least favorite - Greatest Hits, because I wanted more NEW songs!

Favorite - Damn The Torpedoes, just because it is their best. I also love their first album, I mean let's face it, this is the one that started it all.

Least Favorite - Easy, Southern Accents, ACK! Followed by She's The One and Pack Up The Plantation.

Favorite: Hard Promises, my first TP album, and a very unique sounding album, in general. Passionate, ballsy, almost bluesy, in a good way.

Least Favorite: Full Moon Fever. Too slick, smooth, lightweight. How 'Face In the Crowd' ever got on there, I'll never know. That song is perfect. I'm grateful the album made him popular again, but, yecch!

Favorite(s): WIldflowers and Full Moon Fever. Both are great to listen to no matter what the setting is: cleaning the house, hanging out, driving, etc.

Least Favorite: Echo - I've just never been able to get into it.

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Originally posted by ymene117:
Favorite(s): WIldflowers and Full Moon Fever. Both are great to listen to no matter what the setting is: cleaning the house, hanging out, driving, etc.

Least Favorite: Echo - I've just never been able to get into it.

Yeah, Ditto I'll Agree With That

Favorite: Into The Great Wide Open -- This was the first exposure I had to TPATH and when I took a look at Mike Campbell, I was hooked.

Favorite: Echo -- It's a painful album but the words are powerful to me.

Least Favorite: Let Me Up I Had Enough -- To this day it's ok, but not their greatest.

Favorite: Wildflowers. It's got the least weak tracks.

Least: Either Hard Promises or Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). I just don't like a lot of the songs on both of these.

Into the Great Wide Open - Musical heaven.

She's the One - I'd be reluctant to call this a proper TP album... nesides the fact that a lot of the tracks aren't very interesting, the album is padded out by pleasent but unnecessary instrumentals and the unnecessary appearence of two songs in alternate versions.

Favorites, tie between:
Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Least favorites:
Southern Accents
Echo

I seem to vary which CD is in my car. Right now it is Long After Dark so it is my favorite.

Least favorite I guess would be the movie soundtrack with Square One on it. Probably because I don't care for movie soundtracks.,

Too difficult to choose at the moment...sorry!

Favorites- Wildflowers & Echo In my opinion it shows how mature Tom had become as an artist. How deep he became. The albums are so personal and no matter what mood I'm feeling, a song from one of those albums is sure to fit. Beside that, I grew up in the Nineties, and that was the time I was introduced to the Heartbreakers, so it holds a special place in my heart.

Least Favorite- Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Never done that much for me. A few fun songs, but over all it's just not the best album.

Favorite: Wildflowers

Least Favorite: Don't got one. I'm just a guy that digs anything TP dishes out.

Favorite: The Last DJ
Least Favorite: Let Me Up
i could mention a few more albums in each category, but we'll leave it at that

Favourite: Youre Gonna Get It!
Least Fave: Let Me Up (I've Had Enough!)

Favourite ain't necessarily what I class as greatest or best btw.

Best is by far Damn The Torpedoes

I'm surprised so many here would name "Let Me Up" as their least favorite. It's definitely one of my favorites, even though it did take me a few listens to really "grab" me. There's not a weak song on it, and it's an album that stands up to repeated listenings. Unlike "Full Moon Fever", which does grab you right away and is a good introductory album to TP's music, but I agree (with another writer here) that FMF is relatively lightweight and doesn't stand up as well as LMU to repeated listening.

All that being said, it's so hard to name an absolute favorite Petty/Heartbreakers album when there are so many great ones (and so many great songs). And my "favorite" keeps changing from time to time. Not to mention the medium, believe it or not. For a long time, "Long After Dark" was my favorite on vinyl (LP), but I didn't think it sounded nearly as good on CD. And I loved "Hard Promises" on cassette, which was the first format I owned it on and played it extensively in my car. I'd have to say that my favorites on CD are "Let Me Up" and "Southern Accents", if that makes any sense. And for the record I had all the albums on vinyl through FMF, before getting my first CD.

Anyway, to take a page from "Pettyrawks":

Favorite: Tie - Let Me Up (consistent and relistenable)/Southern Accents (creative change of pace, and has some of my favorite TP&HB songs: especially Rebels, Don't Come Around, Dogs on the Run).
Best: Damn the Torpedoes (it just is the best)

Least Favorite: Wildflowers (because it meant the end of Stan Lynch as drummer; otherwise it's the best of the Rick Rubin albums and has some decent songs like "You Wreck Me" and the title track)
Least Good: She's the One/Echo (tie) - sorry but I just don't care for the entire Rick Rubin album era. But the songs "Walls" and "Room at the Top" were decent in concert.

My favorite and least favorites are the obvious suspects - Wildflowers and LMUIHE respectively. So I will list my second-favorite, and second-least favorite instead.

Second favorite: Self-Titled Debut album. There is a rawness to this album that is refreshing, and yet it has the song-writing of a seasoned-vet (big surprise from Petty, huh?). American Girl, Breakdown, The Wild One Forever, Fooled Again, Luna - these are complex songs that have held up incredibaly well given that this is a debut effort.

Second Least Favorite: Southern Accents. It's hard to admit this, because there are some killer songs on this album (e.g. Rebels, Southern Accents, Dogs on the Run) - but there's a lot of un-Pettyish filler as well. Spike, I guess, is funny in a sense, but would have been better as a b-side. And all the use of horns bugs me - it works well on Rebels, but on the rest of the album it gives a feel to the music that isn't remotely Petty. Not saying it's a bad album, I'm just saying I usually give it a miss.