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Tom Petty - Echo...............the ultimate breakup album

pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited November 2008 in Other Music
Anybody else agree? Tom Petty is one of the few artists out there that dont get progressively worse with each record. I think he has made all of his best records from the 90s to present.
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  • pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    i think "Blood On The Tracks" is the ultimate break up album
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • pjfan020pjfan020 Posts: 426
    yeah i'll agree....full moon fever up to highway companion is pretty fucking awesome IMO. The earlier stuff is great but I'd agree with you.

    "she went dooooooooooooowwwwnnn...swinging."
    "Tonight we're just gonna play you some good old American Rock and Roll." tom petty-7-15-05
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    pjfan020 wrote:
    yeah i'll agree....full moon fever up to highway companion is pretty fucking awesome IMO. The earlier stuff is great but I'd agree with you.

    "she went dooooooooooooowwwwnnn...swinging."

    I think the earlier albums were more about hits. These ones are just about consistent good songs, not worried so much about what will be on the radio.
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    He never makes a bad album. Highway Companion is awesome.
  • diomedjamdiomedjam Posts: 14
    echo just rocks. it might be my favorite tom petty album

    people always claim jackson browne's I'm alive is the greatest break up album ever. it's got some catchy stuff, but petty's album is easier on the ears. I have to go with petty.
  • hailhail82hailhail82 Posts: 330
    So many amazing songs on Echo, it's ridiculous. Definitely one of his best.
    Using the word "methinks" in your message board posts doesn't make you look smart.
  • Gonzo1977Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    Petty is amazing.

    He's one of the greatest songwriters out there.

    He always manages to write that massive hit.

    I loved Echo.

    The Mudcrutch stuff is really cool too.

    "Scare Easy" is quite possibly his best song in over a decade.
  • He_Who_ForgetsHe_Who_Forgets Posts: 200
    I don't get why people seem to talk bad about that album. I absolutely love it. Great songs. I wish he would play them live....
    me you wouldn't recall, cause i'm not my former.
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    youre right about his best albums coming out in the 90s
    i think wildflowers is his best album.
  • rizzdaddyrizzdaddy Posts: 262
    He_Who_Forgets wrote:
    I don't get why people seem to talk bad about that album. I absolutely love it. Great songs. I wish he would play them live....

    The reason it's one of the best breakup albums is because he was going through a divorce at the time he was writing it. He even calls it his breakup album on the "Runnin' Down A Dream" DVD. He did play some of them live, I saw "Billy The Kid" live once...Get the "High Grass Dogs: Live At The Fillmore" DVD, he plays quite a few of them on there.
    08-19-08 (Riverside Theater) Vedder(Solo) Milwaukee, WI
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  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    rizzdaddy wrote:
    The reason it's one of the best breakup albums is because he was going through a divorce at the time he was writing it. He even calls it his breakup album on the "Runnin' Down A Dream" DVD. He did play some of them live, I saw "Billy The Kid" live once...Get the "High Grass Dogs: Live At The Fillmore" DVD, he plays quite a few of them on there.

    i have that dvd on vhs :))

    no doubt my favourite petty album, that one one line in room at the top just kills me (for different reasons back then)

    but yeah nothing beats 90's petty, wildflowers, she's the one ost, echo, dynomite
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
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