Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Breakdown
2. American Girl
3. Hometown Blues
4. Wild One Forever, The
5. I Need to Know
6. Listen to Her Heart
7. Too Much Ain't Enough
8. Refugee
9. Here Comes My Girl
10. Don't Do Me Like That
11. Even the Losers
12. Waiting, The
13. Woman in Love, A (It's Not Me)
14. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - (previously unreleased, with Stevie Nicks)
15. You Got Lucky
16. Straight Into Darkness
17. Change of Heart
DISC 2:
1. Rebels
2. Don't Come Around Here No More
3. Best of Everything, The
4. So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star
5. Jammin' Me
6. It'll All Work Out
7. Love Is a Long Road
8. Free Fallin'
9. Yer So Bad
10. I Won't Back Down
11. Runnin' Down a Dream
12. Learning to Fly
13. Into the Great Wide Open
14. Two Gunslingers
15. Mary Jane's Last Dance
16. Waiting For Tonight
17. Surrender - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | David A. Stewart, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Stevie Nicks, The Bangles | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
ANTHOLOGY: THROUGH THE YEARS includes the previously unreleased "Surrender" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (with Stevie Nicks).
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards); Mike Campbell (guitar, bass); Benmont Tench (keyboards, background vocals); Howie Epstein (bass, background vocals); Ron Blair (bass); Stan Lynch (drums, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Stevie Nicks (vocals); Scott Thurston (guitar); David A. Stewart (Coral sitar); Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass); Steve Ferrone, Jim Keltner (drums); Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, The Bangles (background vocals).
Producers include: Denny Cordell, Rick Rubin, Jeff Lynne, Jimmy Iovine, Noah Shark.
Recorded between 1976 and August 2000. Includes liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
Digitally remastered by Joe Gaswirt (OceanView Mastering, Los Angeles, California).
Neatly fitting in between 1993's GREATEST HITS and the 5-CD PLAYBACK box set that came out two years later, this 34-track collection is a chronological tour of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' MCA Records material. The consistent quality found throughout this two-CD set that's bookended by the sinister-sounding "Breakdown" and chiming "Surrender"(a song Petty wrote in the '70s but didn't get around to recording until August 2000) boggles the mind.
Tight playing and a palpable sense of passion from the four-piece Heartbreakers transform songs like "Even the Losers", "Rebels" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" into rock & roll manna. Elsewhere, this Floridian singer-songwriter's sharp eye for pop culture ("Jammin' Me") and storytelling mastery ("Into the Great Wide Open," "Two Gunslingers") become pleasantly recurring characteristics. The inclusion of a scorching live version of the Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star" show Petty and company to be as potent on stage as in the studio. By the end of this musical tour it's hard to argue with the lofty statement Cameron Crowe makes in his liner notes calling Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "...the greatest and most consistent American band of the last twenty-five years..."
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...A century of great American music from a great American institution...
Uncut (02/01/2001)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Conatins most [of his essential tracks], and more, including '81s Stevie Nicks duet...
Q (08/01/2001)
...It's hard to imagine a better summary of the Heartbreakers' 25-year career. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (12/01/2000)
...It's hard to imagine a better summary of the Heartbreakers' 25-year career. - Rating: AQ (8/01, p.154) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Conatins most [of his essential tracks], and more, including '81s Stevie Nicks duet...Uncut (2/01, p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...A century of great American music from a great American institution...
Entertainment Weekly (12/01/2000)
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