Category: Reviews – Classics
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) LP
Twelve years after they started, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers found themselves in a fairly unique position in pop music: they’ve been working long enough and had been influential enough that radio waves were beginning to get crowded which artists who cited the band as an influence – or at least seemed like it. On…
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Pack Up The Plantation: Live! 2LP
It’s far a far less common occurrence now (when virtually every band in the universe releases a live album and, thanks to digital technology, is able to “fix” every flaw in the show in post-production) but, at one time, the release of a live album meant that the band in question was confident enough in…
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Southern Accents LP
Throughout music history, many albums have been made which are said to be conflicted due to the tensions apparent within the band coming out in the music. Some of those albums turn out to be phenomenal – there was conflict brewing in Nirvana and it came out in In Utero and it was great. The…
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Long After Dark LP
In the first half-decade of their association together, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had already hit some pretty spectacular highs and lows on a condensed timeline. Virtually from day one, the group established that they had some great potential to write hits (see “American Girl,” “Here Comes My Girl” and “Refugee” as easy and fantastic…
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises
When it comes to making a follow-up for a career-defining release, the catch is that whatever comes can often feel like a diminished return no matter how good it might be – because the new music simply does not have the same spark which ignited the breakthrough of the previous album. It’s kind of heartbreaking…
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn The Torpedoes LP (reissue)
It might sound like a grandiose claim to say something like, “Truly and genuinely rare is an album like Damn The Torpedoes – it has really introduced some of the biggest and most respected institutions in the modern music industry,” but those who might think so simply do not know the whole story of the…
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Various Artists – Singles soundtrack
Singles (Original Film Soundtrack): 25th Anniversary 2LP/CD Reissue While there are several great soundtracks which were released in the 1990s (soundtracks for Tank Girl, The Crow and Great Expectations all leap to mind), arguably the greatest and most culturally important of the lot proved to be that of Cameron Crow’s first “rock memory scrapbook” picture,…
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David Bowie with Trevor Jones – Labyrinth (reissue LP)
While his career was characterized by no small number of unusual events, arguably the greatest concentration of weirdness about David Bowie’s career can be found in the 1980s. Within those ten fateful years, Bowie released albums which have come to be regarded as: some of his finest: Let’s Dance was the album which broke the singer…
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Faith No More – Angel Dust
Where would hard rock and heavy metal be today without Faith No More‘s 1992 classic Angel Dust? This question brings shivers to my fragile old soul and I prefer not to even think about the answer to that blasphemous query. Twenty-five years after its release, I don’t think any fan of Faith No More would argue…
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Chemical Brothers – Come With Us
Ever encountered a moment when, through no fault of its own, an album just seems to go under-appreciated and/or just generally taken for granted, reader? It’s not an incredibly common occurrence, but it does happen; every so often, an album will suffer because it really just feels like “more of the same,” no matter how good…