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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Hypnotic Eye (Warners)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Hypnotic Eye (Warners)

Most rock fans agree TP and his cracking Heartbreakers had a decade-long dream run after their self-titled debut in 76. Their taut Beatles/Byrds pop-rock welded to a nuggety rock'n'roll attitude and P

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: I'm a Man (2006)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: I'm a Man (2006)

...Petty and the Heartbreakers have not been short of...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Live Anthology (Universal)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Live Anthology (Universal)

...simply because they love and respect them. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were always confident... ...Benmont Tench to shine. This is a lot of Tom Petty, especially if you have followed his career...

THE BARGAIN BUY: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Greatest Hits

THE BARGAIN BUY: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Greatest Hits

...about the early acclaim afforded the latest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Hypnotic Eye....

PRIME ROCKS, CLASSIC ALBUM (2018): Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes

PRIME ROCKS, CLASSIC ALBUM (2018): Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes

...commemorates the anniversary of Tom Petty’s death with this special encore. Damn... ...Torpedoes, the third album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It's probably no longer... ...it? The '79 third album Damn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker was more than difficult... ...the songs are so distinctive and defining. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were established as a...

Tom Petty: Chair man of the bored

Tom Petty: Chair man of the bored

...meet your heroes and so it has been for me and Tom Petty. In more recent years I did a numbingly boring...

Tom Petty: Village scribe, meet the village idiot

Tom Petty: Village scribe, meet the village idiot

...came on an “interview” I did with Tom Petty, a man I had once had the misfortune to...

The Searchers: Love's Melody (1980)

The Searchers: Love's Melody (1980)

...guitar jangle influenced bands like the Byrds, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, REM and many more. The...

BOB DYLAN: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO . . . (2018): The man in the irony mask

BOB DYLAN: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO . . . (2018): The man in the irony mask

...Arena this past August) and his worst (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Mt Smart Stadium in... ...to such disappointment. That said, at the dire Tom Petty/Dylan show in Auckland – the opening...

Beachwood Sparks: Across the River of Stars (digital outlets)

Beachwood Sparks: Across the River of Stars (digital outlets)

...McGuinn and Gene Clark, maybe even some of Tom Petty's country-flavoured Southern rock? Then...

Joe Ely: Live at Antones (2000)

Joe Ely: Live at Antones (2000)

...been out of place opening for the Stones or Tom Petty, playing Farm Aid, writing with John...

BENMONT TENCH INTERVIEWED (2014): The Heartbreaker's solo flight

BENMONT TENCH INTERVIEWED (2014): The Heartbreaker's solo flight

...Mudcrutch broke up in '75 he, founding member Tom Petty and guitarist Mike Campbell – by then in... ...– formed Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the rest of that...

NILS LOFGREN: THE EARLY CAREER, CONSIDERED (1975/1976): Head over heels for Nils

NILS LOFGREN: THE EARLY CAREER, CONSIDERED (1975/1976): Head over heels for Nils

...of guitar rock which anticipated the likes of Tom Petty and Nick Lowe. “A hot platter in a bad...

Roger McGuinn: The Byrd who can't fly from his past

Roger McGuinn: The Byrd who can't fly from his past

...song King of the Hill co-written with Tom Petty (who "borrowed" heavily from the...

The War on Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues (Longtime Listener)

The War on Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues (Longtime Listener)

...shave off a little early Springsteen and early Tom Petty, but mostly they sound like a bunch of people...

Adam Hattaway and the Haunters: Bug Eyes (digital outlets)

Adam Hattaway and the Haunters: Bug Eyes (digital outlets)

...from country-rock, the Stones, garagebands and Tom Petty too overtly. The result was “it can be...

THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2012 Adam McGrath

THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2012 Adam McGrath

...Jerry Jeff Walker; ‘Yer So Bad’ by Tom Petty The last CD or vinyl album you bought was . ....

CMON CMON, PROFILED (2025): Something beginning with C

CMON CMON, PROFILED (2025): Something beginning with C

...single. As they admit, there's a strong Tom Petty component in that song, and there's also a...

John Prine: The Missing Years (1991)

John Prine: The Missing Years (1991)

...The Missing Years, had Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt, Phil Everly, David Lindley and...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Chris Wade

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Chris Wade

...phase…. The last vinyl was a stack of Tom Petty 7 inch singles my dad bought me. One song,...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE BEVIS FROND: Scuz me while we kiss this guy

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE BEVIS FROND: Scuz me while we kiss this guy

...and the vocal delivery of Roger McGuinn/young Tom Petty in places. No surprise then to find a track by...

The Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys Collection (Rhino/Warners)

The Traveling Wilburys: The Traveling Wilburys Collection (Rhino/Warners)

Cannot lie about this: when the first Wilburys album came out in '88 I gave it a cursory listen and wrote it off as some geriatric project which was doubtless enjoyable for all concerned, but was actu

JEFF LYNNE CONSIDERED (2016): Otis Wilbury, I presume?

JEFF LYNNE CONSIDERED (2016): Otis Wilbury, I presume?

...twiddling for Brian Wilson, fellow Wilburys Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Harrison, for Ringo,...

Beck: One Foot in the Grave (XL)

Beck: One Foot in the Grave (XL)

...of emotional intensity (Asshole which Tom Petty covered pretty well for the soundtrack to...

J.J. CALE REMEMBERED (2014): Old slowhands together

J.J. CALE REMEMBERED (2014): Old slowhands together

...– who include Willie Nelson. Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler (whose vocals owed much to...

Johnny Cash: Peace in the Valley (date unknown)

Johnny Cash: Peace in the Valley (date unknown)

...to find him covering material by Soundgarden, Tom Petty, Will Oldham et al., let's defer to the other...

BOB DYLAN, BROWNSVILLE GIRL CONSIDERED (1986): The classic that got away?

BOB DYLAN, BROWNSVILLE GIRL CONSIDERED (1986): The classic that got away?

...and a few co-writes (Got My MInd Made Up with Tom Petty and Under Your Spell with Carole Bayer Sager)....

The Calico Brothers: Tell It To The Sun (Double Happy)

The Calico Brothers: Tell It To The Sun (Double Happy)

...not Orbison in the line-up), strum'n'sing Tom Petty and so on. Here those influences are slightly... ...Wilburys (Dylan's Tweeter excepted) and recent Tom Petty. And for that we thank them. A grower....

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2015; READERS' CHOICES

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2015; READERS' CHOICES

...Universe – OK so it sounds just like the Tom Petty album he produced (“Into the Great Wide...

Nikki Lane: Denim and Diamonds (New West)

Nikki Lane: Denim and Diamonds (New West)

...(think the Bangles from the South) as it is Tom Petty, Patti Scialfa's country-soul (Born Tough, Try...

ONE WE MISSED: Miller Yule: Let it Burn (bandcamp)

ONE WE MISSED: Miller Yule: Let it Burn (bandcamp)

...influences from, artists like John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Jakob Dylan and even those...

King Wilkie: Low Country Suite (Zoe)

King Wilkie: Low Country Suite (Zoe)

...who did similar duties for Johnny Cash and Tom Petty) have staked a claim in alt.country and...

Benjamin Booker: Benjamin Booker (Rough Trade)

Benjamin Booker: Benjamin Booker (Rough Trade)

...was in the punk scene in Gainesville, Florida (Tom Petty's hometown) and found his feet in the milieu...

PHIL SEYMOUR REMEMBERED (2018): Here then and gone yesterday . . .

PHIL SEYMOUR REMEMBERED (2018): Here then and gone yesterday . . .

...pop credibility was respected by the likes of Tom Petty who called on him to sing on his cornerstone...

BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE, edited by MARK DAVIDSON and PARKER FISHEL

BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE, edited by MARK DAVIDSON and PARKER FISHEL

...change in the 1960s. As Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers – and of many Dylan... ...to poets (Ginsberg obviously), fellow artists (Tom Petty, George Harrison, session musicians),...

SONG OF THE SOUTH, a doco by Tom O'Dell (Sexy Intellectual/Triton DVD)

SONG OF THE SOUTH, a doco by Tom O'Dell (Sexy Intellectual/Triton DVD)

...the Allmans there could never have been Tom Petty either. Before the Allman Brothers Band the...

Judith Owen: Mopping Up Karma (Courgette)

Judith Owen: Mopping Up Karma (Courgette)

...some seriously overblown ballads for movies. Tom Petty Heartbreaker Benmont Tench plays organ, Julia...

Howard Devoto of Magazine: The floorboards creak . . .

Howard Devoto of Magazine: The floorboards creak . . .

...-- including a semi-comatose and coked-out Tom Petty. I also met Dolly Parton and at the end David...

JAKOB DYLAN INTERVIEWED (2002): Out of his father's long shadow

JAKOB DYLAN INTERVIEWED (2002): Out of his father's long shadow

...and the album's songs were in the tradition of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Heartbreaker... ...than Bob's bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty. Elsewhere he writes and sings in a manner...

ROUTE 66 REVISITED (2019): On the road again . . . and again

ROUTE 66 REVISITED (2019): On the road again . . . and again

...about every genre. Pub rock by Dr Feelgood Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers This is close to the...

ROY ORBISON 1960-65: The years of monumental pop

ROY ORBISON 1960-65: The years of monumental pop

...Wilburys alongside Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. His solo song Not Alone...

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2022: THE READERS' CHOICES

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2022: THE READERS' CHOICES

...outside of that there was the fantastic Tom Petty Live at the Fillmore set, Tall Dwarfs -...

The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

...fine and play-loud album so adeptly juggles Tom Petty/Byrds, slacker alt rock and post-grunge 90s...

GRAEME JEFFERIES, CONTINUED (2023): Putting his foot down again

GRAEME JEFFERIES, CONTINUED (2023): Putting his foot down again

...and seems to discreetly reference Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down (although he insists he...

Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch (Reprise)

Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch (Reprise)

...recent Runnin' Down a Dream DVD doco about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (in Absolute Elsewhere,...

The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang (Shock)

The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang (Shock)

...the Replacements' punky thrash and Tom Petty's way with a lyric and melody would have been...

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

...attack and nuance. Mudcrutch; 2 (Warners) When Tom Petty got back together with his pre-Heartbreakers... ...Any way you cut it this is another good Tom Petty album, even if Mudcrutch most often are just...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Sophie Mashlan

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Sophie Mashlan

...be dead? I would have loved to do a set with Tom Petty. The three films you'd insist anybody watch...

DANNY CLICK INTERVIEWED (2004): Jimi beating up Buck

DANNY CLICK INTERVIEWED (2004): Jimi beating up Buck

...outfit - has lived with lots of references: Tom Petty crossed with John Mellencamp, the Allman...

THE BARGAIN BUY: Cream; The Best of Cream

THE BARGAIN BUY: Cream; The Best of Cream

...just $10 at JB Hi Fi stores here. Pick up the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits (same...

BOB DYLAN. BY WAY OF EXPLANATION? (2018): Another chapter in the convoluted story

BOB DYLAN. BY WAY OF EXPLANATION? (2018): Another chapter in the convoluted story

...Arena this past August) and his worst (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Mt Smart Stadium in... ...to such disappointment. That said, at the dire Tom Petty/Dylan show in Auckland — the opening...

THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST DVD REVIEWED (2007)

THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST DVD REVIEWED (2007)

...into New York new wave, mock opera, Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, Springsteen, Tubeway Army, the Specials,...

Aretha Franklin: Don't Play That Song For Me (1970)

Aretha Franklin: Don't Play That Song For Me (1970)

...Music Experience in Britain. Among others. As Tom Petty notes in the introduction to The Live...

CHUCK BERRY, THE LEGACY CONSIDERED (2023): The poet who gave us rock'n'roll music

CHUCK BERRY, THE LEGACY CONSIDERED (2023): The poet who gave us rock'n'roll music

...you'd like to have heard Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty or some other fan turn it into the classic...

ROCK IN THE REAR-VIEW (2023): Country-rock, from Garth, Bruce, Bon Jovi and Tom to Lucinda

ROCK IN THE REAR-VIEW (2023): Country-rock, from Garth, Bruce, Bon Jovi and Tom to Lucinda

...him. His running mates included Bon Jovi, Tom Petty and many others who took songcraft to that... ...and another searing guitar solo. The spirit of Tom Petty is embedded too, and we're reminded she opened...

Carlene Carter: Stronger (YepRoc/Southbound)

Carlene Carter: Stronger (YepRoc/Southbound)

...Johnny Cash, her partner Howie Epstein (of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) and her sister Rosie. That...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . DARONDO: The soul man who went AWOL

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . DARONDO: The soul man who went AWOL

...fans and where he has that same vocal style as Tom Petty -- he opens with a line which might sum it all...

Jeff Kelly: Beneath the Stars, Above the River (Green Monkey/digital outlets)

Jeff Kelly: Beneath the Stars, Above the River (Green Monkey/digital outlets)

...Granada touches the spirit of a more gritty Tom Petty in his Traveling Wilburys period) or move...

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Sony)

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Sony)

Bob Dylan doesn't exactly make easy listening music, but Together Through Life finds him in a musically mellow mood and although darkness lurks in the lyrics (guns, death, danger, songs of love and lo

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2021: THE READERS' CHOICES

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2021: THE READERS' CHOICES

...Scarecrow, Springsteen's Nebraska and Tom Petty's Southern Accents all merged together ..and...

Warren Zevon, The Wind

Warren Zevon, The Wind

...admiring luminaries such as Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, some Eagles and Emmylou...

Green Pajamas: Green Pajamas Country! (Green Monkey Records)

Green Pajamas: Green Pajamas Country! (Green Monkey Records)

...at times Kelly's slightly nasal vocals recall Tom Petty in menacing country mood, and in the truckers...

The Castiles: Baby I (1966)

The Castiles: Baby I (1966)

...succesfully followed Dylan down this path are Tom Petty (the Live Anthology in 2006) and Bruce...

MICK, MAC and LU (2021): Jagger, McCartney and Lucinda Williams

MICK, MAC and LU (2021): Jagger, McCartney and Lucinda Williams

...Williams' Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty. Williams' vowel-draggin' Southern drawl and...

Lucinda Williams: Live from Austin, Tx 1989 (DVD, New West)

Lucinda Williams: Live from Austin, Tx 1989 (DVD, New West)

...of the Byrds' Roger McGuinn or fallen off a Tom Petty album of the period. But there was more to...

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, a documentary series by TONY PALMER (Isolde/Southbound DVD)

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, a documentary series by TONY PALMER (Isolde/Southbound DVD)

...Dylan in No Direction Home; Bogdanovich on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . . . There are docos in...

Greg Fleming and the Trains: Edge of the City (LucaDiscs)

Greg Fleming and the Trains: Edge of the City (LucaDiscs)

...More Time -- which rings in like classic Tom Petty -- everything cuts right back to nothing as...

JACKSON BROWNE, INTERVIEWED (2022): The world still in motion

JACKSON BROWNE, INTERVIEWED (2022): The world still in motion

...Carly Simon, James Taylor, Gil Scott-Heron, Tom Petty and others. Wherever there was a need –...

Eric Clapton and Friends: The Breeze; An Appreciation of J.J. Cale (Universal)

Eric Clapton and Friends: The Breeze; An Appreciation of J.J. Cale (Universal)

...crafted music to organise this tribute with Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler (who copped some of Cale's...

The Mastersons: No Time for Love Songs (Red House/Southbound)

The Mastersons: No Time for Love Songs (Red House/Southbound)

...of a style which includes the later Byrds and Tom Petty, mid-period Lucinda Williams, Emmylou's...

The Dwight Twilley Band; Twilley Don't Mind (1975)

The Dwight Twilley Band; Twilley Don't Mind (1975)

...on). Then you are into Matthew Sweet; early Tom Petty before he went all soft after the Traveling...

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs: Under the Covers Vol 2 (Shock)

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs: Under the Covers Vol 2 (Shock)

...All the Young Dudes, a strong You're So Vain, Tom Petty's Here Comes My Girl . . . Any album that has...

JON HERINGTON PROFILED (2016): Ain't 'bout that adult entertainment, surely?

JON HERINGTON PROFILED (2016): Ain't 'bout that adult entertainment, surely?

...elegantly obvious as Runnin' Out of Time which Tom Petty might lift and repurpose. But actually it's...

RYAN ADAMS CONSIDERED (2014): If you liked that here's many more

RYAN ADAMS CONSIDERED (2014): If you liked that here's many more

...appear to be acoustic Springsteen, classic Tom Petty and in places the smooth sheen of LA bands of...

Damien Binder: Bright Side (digital outlets)

Damien Binder: Bright Side (digital outlets)

...between early Jackson Browne and late-period Tom Petty or Roger McGuinn. Binder was the mainman in...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Dave Rowlands of Clap Clap Riot

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Dave Rowlands of Clap Clap Riot

...Translation, Home Alone 2 – Lost in NY, Tom Petty – Runnin' Down a Dream The last CD or...

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2018: THE READERS' CHOICES

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2018: THE READERS' CHOICES

...his band sound as fresh and youthful as ever. Tom Petty; An American Treasure - this retrospective is...

GENE CLARK, THE ONCE AGAIN BYRD: A true American dreamer

GENE CLARK, THE ONCE AGAIN BYRD: A true American dreamer

...for the Byrds tribute album Time Between. Tom Petty owes his early career to the Byrds. The...

SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

...With dark echoes of the Searchers and Tom Petty (the minor chord mood of The Needles and the...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . COTTON MATHER'S KONTIKI: But it sounds like everyone, or nothing, else!

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . COTTON MATHER'S KONTIKI: But it sounds like everyone, or nothing, else!

...Dylan in '66 . . . and we'd add pre-Wilburys Tom Petty to the mix, the Replacements doing Weezer, Big...

RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM, a doco by PETER BOGDANOVICH (DVD, 2008)

RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM, a doco by PETER BOGDANOVICH (DVD, 2008)

...this four-hour doco of the 30-year career of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Unlike Martin Scorsese...

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2016: THE READERS' CHOICES

THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2016: THE READERS' CHOICES

...they only went to Sydney. Mudcrutch – Tom Petty in relaxed mood , “Trailer” is...

THE BEATLES AND THE BRITISH INVASION 1963-64 (2023): A beginners guide

THE BEATLES AND THE BRITISH INVASION 1963-64 (2023): A beginners guide

...fans break down the doors trying to see them. Tom Petty: “I saw the Beatles on television and I... ...the Byrds in the US and subsequently Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers andf the Ramones in the...

Jimmy LaFave: Depending on the Distance (Music Road/Southbound)

Jimmy LaFave: Depending on the Distance (Music Road/Southbound)

...and Talk To Me sounds like a dialed-down Tom Petty song and a plea for forgiveness for a mistake...

Various: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Tipitina's/Shock)

Various: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Tipitina's/Shock)

...Dr John, Joss Stone, Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Tom Petty . . . And of course the hometown crew turn out...

Chris Hillman: Bidin' My Time (Rounder/Southbound)

Chris Hillman: Bidin' My Time (Rounder/Southbound)

...Chris Hillman. It was the final album the late Tom Petty produced, and he appears here – in an...