Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Echo – CD (Used)

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Author: PETTY,TOM & THE HEARTBREAKERS

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 02-04-1999

Details: Review No tape loops, drum programs or other studio gimmickry here; just Petty’s trademark power chords and wry story songs. — People Amazon.ca Just a few bars into song 1, « Room at the Top », and you know you’re in the capable hands of a master songwriter. A mellow chorus wafts by, whispered in Petty’s patented Byrdsian drawl, and the song seems to tick-tock to a stop. But storming over the top is a riff from guitarist Mike Campbell. Another chorus and you know there’s a bridge creeping up. Petty, in a gesture that’s both droll and dynamic, mutters « Hit it » to announce it. The proceedings slow again, then Campbell’s gears start grinding again, and there’s a grand crescendo that is, if you’ll pardon the pun, heartbreakingly wicked. Then Petty murmurs a deep, resonate « No-oh » in a broken, brilliantly understated way that’s rock & roll perfect! If you understand the alchemist genius that transmutes such humble metal into gold, you’re ready to curl up with 14 songs of near-similar standing. Petty and the Heartbreakers have succeeded in making an album that’s stunning in its simplicity yet as carefully ornate and wondrous as a stained-glass window. Indeed, renaissance might be an appropriate tag for the reborn Petty, except that he’s never really gone away. Like that « Room at the Top » bridge, he’s always been lurking around the corner, waiting to surprise you when the time is right. –Tom Lanham

UPC: 093624729426

EAN: 0093624729426

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood