Thursday, November 1, 2018

CD Preview: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ The Best of Everything

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ The Best of Everything
Hot on the heels of a very cool four-disc Tom Petty box set – American Treasure – comes word of a career-spanning “best of” set that encompasses the late rocker’s solo work as well as recordings with his two bands, the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch. On November 16th, 2018 Geffen Records/UMe will release The Best of Everything, a two-CD set that features 38 tracks including two previously-unreleased songs.

The Best of Everything will be released simultaneously as a two-disc CD set sporting deluxe packaging and in all digital formats. Two different vinyl versions, in both black and clear vinyl, will be released on December 7th. The set includes an essay on Petty written exclusively for the collection by Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and former rock critic Cameron Crowe. All the material has been re-mastered from “pristine transfers of the original studio multi-track masters” sayeth the press release announcing the album.

The set features a number of familiar hits, Heartbreakers’ tunes like “American Girl,” “Refugee,” “Learning To Fly,” and “Breakdown” (one of the band’s earliest tracks) as well as a solo hits like “Wildflower” and “I Won’t Back Down.” Of the two unreleased tracks, one is the autobiographical “For Real” and the other is an alternative version of the title track, which restores a never-heard second verse to the song that was originally recorded for the 1985 album Southern Accents. Check out the complete track list below and then get thee over to Amazon.com and order your copy of Tom Petty’s The Best of Everything!

Editor's Note: UMe has changed the release date for the CD, digital, and vinyl versions of The Best of Everything to February 1st, 2019


Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers photo by Aaron Rapoport
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers photo by Aaron Rapoport
The Best of Everything track list:

Disc One
1. Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2. You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
3. I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
4. Saving Grace - Tom Petty
5. You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty
6. Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
7. Listen To Her Heart - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8. Breakdown - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
9. Walls (Circus) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
10. The Waiting - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
11. Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
12. Southern Accents - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
13. Angel Dream (No2) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
14. Dreamville - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
15. I Should Have Known It - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
16. Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
17. American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
18. The Best Of Everything (alternate version) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Disc Two
1. Wildflowers - Tom Petty
2. Learning To Fly - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3. Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4. The Last DJ - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
5. I Need To Know - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
6. Scare Easy - Mudcrutch
7. You Got Lucky - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8. Runnin' Down A Dream - Tom Petty
9. American Dream Plan B - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
10. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (featuring Stevie Nicks) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
11. Trailer - Mudcrutch
12. Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
13. Room At The Top - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
14. Square One - Tom Petty
15. Jammin' Me - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
16. Even The Losers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
17. Hungry No More - Mudcrutch
18. I Forgive It All - Mudcrutch
19. For Real - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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