Echo IS a damn good album.

"Broken skyline, movin' through the airport
She's an honest defector
Conscientious objector
Now her own protector..." ~~Tom Petty

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Originally posted by little nel:
Echo IS a damn good album.

"Broken skyline, movin' through the airport
She's an honest defector
Conscientious objector
Now her own protector..." ~~Tom Petty

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Does your favorite album change from time to time? Mine does. Right now it's Echo and You're Gonna Get It in heavy rotation. Echo surprises me sometimes, how much I love it - it took a while for it to get under my skin.

Kelly,

Oh, absolutely! I could never choose just one album by any of my favorite artists, especially Tom Petty. It would be like choosing your favorite child! It's wrong! But, I will, at times, favor one album over all others often because of current personal circumstances or particular experiences or whatever. I think because so many of his songs are open to interpretation you can count on finding personal comfort and/or support somewhere in his vast repertoire. And the emotional resonance in Tom's music...love, defiance, determination, resignation, optimism, sadness........is universal. That's why we love him because he real, he's sincere, and he's one of us

"Broken skyline, movin' through the airport
She's an honest defector
Conscientious objector
Now her own protector..." ~~Tom Petty

I'm gonna go out on a limb here... I don't persay have a favorite as many of you have said but I'll go one by one and see what I like about all of them!

TPHB- it's their first and you can tell but it doesn't take away from the quality... Besides Breakdown I think Side 2 (yes SIDE 2 that means I have it on record) is the best part of the album. Strangered in the Night-Luna-American Girl. Great way to end the record... it get all serious and slightly dark then they finish with a bang.

YGGI- Not at the top of my list but some great classics come from here. Have to be in the mood to listen straight through for me but still great... Magnolia-Too Much Ain't Enough-I Need to Know- Listen to Her Heart these are a great combination gets the album rocking and you have to flip the record over to get two of them (yes another record)

DTT- Weird story with this one I was actually in Louisiana when I got this album so Louisiana Rain makes me think of when I was down there... Love Love Love this album you can put it on and listen striaght through the whole thing. Can't say enough about this album.

HP- Has a good mix of what EVERYONE knows and what FANS know... love The Waiting of course, Nightwatchman, Insider and Something big are a good example of the mix. Also Kings Road is a good upbeat rocking song. Think many forget about this album but it's a good one if you want off the beaten path from the band (and yes it's on record too!)

LAD- Album just like DTT. A play through album not a dull spot in it... All the songs get you going and can change your mood in an instant. Top 5 album also one that doesn't get the credit it deserves. Also isn't played enough by the band dark album but also a great album!

SA- Started as a Solo album for those who don't know like the sound like how there's a few different components to it has great classics Rebels, Don't Come Around Here No More and Southern Accents. Good to throw this one in from time to time.

That's the first half.... I'll let you guys read that and get the second have of my thoughts (not like it matters anyway) a little later after midmorning nap time

"I'm runnin down a dream. That never would come to me. Workin on a mystery. Goin wherever it leads. I'm runnin down a dream."


Been to: 8/15/95, 7/7/01, 7/5/02, 12/13/02, 12/14/02

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Originally posted by little nel:
Kelly,

Oh, absolutely! I could never choose just one album by any of my favorite artists, especially Tom Petty. It would be like choosing your favorite child! It's wrong! But, I will, at times, favor one album over all others often because of current personal circumstances or particular experiences or whatever. I think because so many of his songs are open to interpretation you can count on finding personal comfort and/or support somewhere in his vast repertoire. And the emotional resonance in Tom's music...love, defiance, determination, resignation, optimism, sadness........is universal. That's why we love him because he real, he's sincere, and he's one of us

"Broken skyline, movin' through the airport
She's an honest defector
Conscientious objector
Now her own protector..." ~~Tom Petty

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Beautifully said, little nel! You articulate the emotional power of his music so well.

I love them all but my favorite is Damn the Torpedoes, followed by Long After Dark, Wildflowers, Southern Accents. I also really like the Playback box set. I enjoy hearing stuff that was never released or B sides. Really like Casa Dega and Trailer off Playback.

I think it's funny how many times we die-hards can visit this same question. We just never get tired of it!
Plus, I know at least for me, that every time this question comes up, I have a different favorite!! lol
My favorites this week are:

1. Self-titled
2. Long After Dark
3. Echo

~ How about a cheer for all those bad girls ~

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Originally posted by wilburygirl: every time this question comes up, I have a different favorite!! lol
My favorites this week are ~

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exactly! You could ask & answer the question every day, couldn't you? Today my favorite is Damn the Torpedoes. Tomorrow, I predict it will be Echo again because I'll be in the car listening to it over and over. Wednesday, it may be Hard Promises - I'll let ya know

Is The Last DJ anyone's favorite yet? I have to listen to it some more.

"Full Moon Fever"

Even though it was getting a little too commercial cos of "Free Fallin`"

"Long After Dark" a close 2nd place..

-Steve

Do you have a favorite song on each album?

I like them all...but "Yer So Bad" , "Love is a Long Road", and "Mind With a Heart.."

on Long After Dark: "One Story Town" and "Change of Heart"..

UGH..I can't decide, they all rock!!!

-Steve

"Keep one eye on the weather / You had it good, you wanted better."

Aren't those lyrics classic!

I remember buying that album right when it came out...

I play it today like it's still new..

"Keep one eye on the weather / You had it good, you wanted better."

My ranking of TP&HB or TP solo albums, from favorite to least favorite:

1. Damn the Torpedoes
2. Long After Dark
3. Southern Accents
4. Let Me Up (I've had Enough)
5. Hard Promises
6. You're Gonna Get It
7. Full Moon Fever
8. Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers (self titled)
9. Into the Great Wide Open
10. Playback (the extra songs)
11. The Last DJ
12. Wildflowers
13. Echo
14. She's The One (soundtrack)

My favorites are Full Moon Fever, Damn the Torpedoes, Wildflowers, and Echo. Usually I've got one of these that I'm listening to more than the others, it changes once in awhile but its usually one of those. I also like my Anthology too since I can listen to lots of great songs all at the same time.

~ Most things I worry about never happen anyway ~ Tom Petty

that's pretty cool Stephanie, I used those lyrics (Mind with a Heart..) on my aol profile for eons..

ShesAnAmericanGirl & MyseteryMan,
"Damn the Torpedoes" is AWESOME..
I guess I am most attached to "Full Moon Fever", cos it was the very first (tape) I bought back then from Petty, and literally under 5 months later, I bought almost his whole collection from before then...

-Steve

"Keep one eye on the weather / You had it good, you wanted better."

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and "Full Moon Fever" is his most overrated (although still a very good album).

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Blondkid.....Full Moon Fever can NEVER EVER be overrated, the album is a masterpiece.

"Yeah, and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
bad nights take forever
and the good nights don't ever seem to last."

I think Full Moon Fever is a great "introductory" album because, by virtue of being uncluttered with instrumentation, it's easy to hear and understand TP's voice. All the lyrics are clear on the first listen, the melodies are great, the instrumentation is light and tasteful.

But I do agree that it's an overrated album. When it first came out, it became my second favorite after Damn the Torpedoes. But for me it doesn't stand the test of repeated listening quite as well as some of the other albums. For example the "Let Me Up" album was the album before FMF, and while Let Me Up doesn't grab the listener as immediately as FMF, I can listen to it numerous times without getting bored. With FMF, it sounds great but it's all up front, all right there immediately. The other albums such as Let Me Up seem more dense, more layered, compared with the clean & lite FMF. Probably this is due to FMF being a "solo" album while Let Me Up is a "band" album.

I like both types of albums, but for my ears the "band" albums were better for repeated listening than the solo albums. Even in concert, I thought some of the FMF albums sounded better with input from the rest of the band. For example, on "Free Fallin", sometimes Benmont has added a piano part that sounds just great on it. On the album, there's no piano part on that song. I'm assuming Ben just added that as he saw fit, rather than TP thinking of it later, though one never knows. But that's what happens when you had the band playing songs off of TP's solo album, the two entities are not exactly the same, so the band's take on FMF was not identical to the album. At any rate, I loved FMF when it was new, and I'd encourage anyone who doesn't know TP's music to listen to that album first. But without the full band, it's clean simplicity makes it one that I play less often than the others, over time.

Full Moon Fever is a Pop/Rock Masterpiece. AND... I think it might prove to be one of the most important records for TPaTH and their longevity. It is not my favorite, but I believe that on this record Tom realy expanded within himself as a songwriter... and by that I mean began a journey that is still in it's infancy. I believe the success of that venture removed any sort of restraint that might have been building in Tom with the Heartbreakers... and because TPaTH survived all of the ego manueverings around the solo success of Tom they are a much stronger band... and Tom discovered that they are soooo much better together... Sadly we lost Stan in the process, but he was gonna go sooner or later and strike out on his own... in my mind anyways. I think because of FMF... we have the band we have today... because once you make that hugely popular POP masterpiece and sell a bazillion records... you don't have to keep chasing it... you can just please yourself...

""Once upon a time there was this thing called grunge. Then No Doubt got popular, and that was the end of it." - Dave Grohl

I DONT THINK I COULD PICK JUST ONE THERE ALL GREAT.I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO WHATS NEXT.

i would have to say ''full moon fever'' i named one of my daughters from ''runnin' down a dream'' tom sings about singing a little runaway with his friend del, well, i named her shannon after del shannon. it's one of his best songs, i see tpath ervey time they come to milwaukee, when they break out with runnin down a dream & american girl, well, i can't tell just anybody what it does to me!! with a history of great music like tom's i can't make up my mind because the're all kick ass!! lisa