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Tarfumes.com - Wildflowers
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624575924
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1994-11-01
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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As you listen to Wildflowers, Tom Petty's first new album in three years and his first ever for Warner Bros., you may be struck by a certain quality, new for Petty but nonetheless familiar. The predominance of the twangy rhythm guitar; the high-pitched, nasal singing; the irresistibly catchy pop hooks; and the melancholy lyrics straining for a spiritual significance just beyond their grasp--all these elements make Petty sound as if he were a Beatle imitating Bob Dylan. Then you may realize that Wildflowers resembles nothing so much as a George Harrison solo album. That's not such a bad thing; Harrison (Petty's old bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys) has a knack for giving moody spiritualism a pop tunefulness. It's just that Harrison on his own is a second-tier rock & roll figure whose best work is long behind him, and that's pretty much the case with Petty as well. Only with appropriately reduced expectations can one enjoy Wildflowers for what it is. --Geoffrey Himes
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Summary: Nothing better
Comment: This album takes me away from my life and puts me in a place where I can just be. One of his best, Wildflowers contains the core of relationship emotion and carries the listener from the brink of self satisfaction to the dangerous precipice of relationship death and back again to solid ground. The swirling emotional lyrics are pure Petty at his finest.
I cannot explain the intense physical and emotional reaction I have to most of the songs on this album, but it makes me want more. Wildflowers moves me. ... It just moves me.
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Summary: How about a NEW RELEASE of this album
Comment: I read that tom petty said he left off some song's for this album ( California, Hope you never, Hung-up and overdue etc. ). Why not add them to this album and any other's left -off......AS A SPECIAL RELEASE. A collectors album for the fans. Heck, we know some of those song's are on "SHE'S THE ONE" cd, but they where for this album in the first place.........AND WOULD SOUND BETTER WITH " WILDFLOWERS " cd. It's worth a try by the record label. Tom petty needs more collectors albums any-way.
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Summary: Still Pretty Good to be King
Comment: One of the wonderful things about producer Rick Rubin is that it's been said that he produces by feel. His attitude is not that you play it till you get it right, but you don't play it all unless it feels right. There are stories of Rubin sending bands home if they aren't in the right space while recording. It lends a sort of perspective to his work with Tom Petty for Petty's second 'solo' album, "Wildflowers." It's solo in a circumspect manner, as just about all the Heartbreakers drop in for some song or another, and Mike Campbell co-writes a few of the songs here.
It's also Petty's most organic and acoustic sounding album short of his 2008 Mudcrutch reunion. From the delicate opening of the title track to the lullaby quality of "Wake Up Time," this is Petty at his most laid back. Once or twice, the old Heartbreakers' Rock'n'Roll mojo pops up ("You Wreck Me" and "Honey Bee"), but this is even more Dylan or Flying Burrito Brothers than it is Rolling Stones. There's even an uncanny John Lennon feel to "Only A Broken Heart."
These songs never sound forced or compressed (the way Into the Great Wide Open sometimes did). Rubin managed to coax little surprises out of Petty, nuances that Southern Accents hinted at but never quite revealed. The album doesn't just feel personal, it sounds personal. It is not too difficult to draw a line through "Cabin Down Below," "Find a Friend," "A Higher Place" and "House In The Woods" to grasp that Petty was in a private place, writing from a core spot in his psyche when "Wildflowers" was gestating.
Perhaps my sole complaint with "Wildflowers" is that it is so laid back. Where Full Moon Fever let "Running Down a Dream" rip into high gear, "Wildflowers" never works up that kind of sweat. At fifteen songs - compared to "Fever's" dozen or Damn the Torpedoes' nine - the relaxed vibe starts getting too sombulent towards the end. Rubin and Petty teamed up again and (in my opinion, at least) better their work on 1999's Echo, and while "Wildflowers" is one of Tom Petty's most idiosyncratic albums, it falls short of his finest.
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Summary: his last great album
Comment: tom petty has done alot of music in the last thirty years but i'd have to say this ranks among his best cds ever produced and definitly his best in the past 15 years, just one great track after another from "you dont know how it feels" to "you wreck me baby","honey bee" and "crawling back to you" all rank among his best work.honestly if you are a new petty and looking for what to buy first but his greatest hits, but then come to this. i highly reccomend it.
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Summary: greatest hits??????????
Comment: I don't know why, but this album should be put (BY THE MUSIC MAGAZINES,as well)in the top 10 albums of all time. This album is a 1990's "BEATLES" album. This is what the beatles would have been and sounded like in the 90's. NO QUESTION !!! I'm glad someone ( AND TOM PETTY has ), learned the brillant style of the beatles and added his own twist ( GREAT ) music, from are HISTORY in the world. ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS "DO,DO,DO,DO-IT AGAIN-and AGAIN ". (P.S.)- TO TOM PETTY," Never change what is good,make more of it " !!!!!!!!! I demand ( AND TITLED ), Wildflowers Gr. hit's # 2. As do my friends, who all love your talent.
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