| Product Summary | | Label: Warner/reprise/maverick | | UPC: 00093624795520 | | Release Date: 10/8/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60570466 | | Item#: MTP7SF | Format:  CD |
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| Released in 2002, The Last DJ features Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at their finest, with the songs "Money Becomes King," "Dreamville," and the superb title track. This edition is packaged with a CD-ROM featuring behind-the-scenes footage.
"When it's good, it's really good." Austin Chronicle
"His most consequential songs in years." Entertainment Weekly
"Earnest and straightforward, as rock and roll should be...[Petty's] honesty -- coupled with his talent -- is revitalizing." PopMatters
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (vocals, guitar, ukelele, piano, bass); Scott Thurston (guitar, lap steel guitar, ukelele); Mike Campbell (guitar, bass); Benmont Tench (piano, organ, keyboards); Ron Blair (bass); Steve Ferrone (drums). | | Additional personnel includes: Lenny Castro (percussion); Lindsey Buckingham (background vocals). | | Producers: George Drakoulias, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Money and its corrupting effects on rock music are the subject matter on much of THE LAST DJ, the umpteenth Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album since the band's eponymous 1976 debut. The singer is shocked--shocked!--to find just how insidious the green stuff's effects are on the music business. On hearing this, a listener might reasonably wonder if Tom Petty has spent the last 30 years under a proverbial rock, but being a Tom Petty album, of course, tunes and songcraft are beyond reproach and much may be forgiven. | | Both songwriter and listeners find themselves on more familiar ground with "When a Kid Goes Bad," about the kind of kids that make the headlines after criminal misadventures with firearms and the like. The broad rock & roll landscape of "Blue Sunday" is vintage Petty in its minimalist retelling of a brief encounter on the road. "Lost Children" is a heartfelt prayer that develops into an extended guitar jam. Ultimately the plain, unvarnished pop of "You and Me" reveals Tom Petty doing what he does best--telling a simple story simply. |
Musical Guests | | Lindsey Buckingham | | Lenny Castro |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/08/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 47955 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624795520 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (10/02, p.67)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "At once nostalgic and forward-looking, THE LAST DJ is quintessential Petty, by turns strident and starry-eyed."Entertainment Weekly (10/11/02, p.83)
- "...Basically an album-length rant about greed and corruption in the music biz....about as entertaining as polemical pop music can be..." - Rating: A- Uncut (12/02, p.130)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...[Petty sings] with rawer passion than the genre usually allows..." Mojo (Publisher)
(12/02, p.108)
- "...A sage and solid record then...anyone who's ever dug Petty's considerable craftsmanship can approach it with confidence..." |
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| | Bio | | | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Not many artists can match Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' long record of commercial success along with a simultaneous period of creative growth and critical acclaim. In April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George & Ira Gershwin Award For Lifetime Musical Achievement. Previous recipients of the university's award include Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Petty was the first artist of the rock era to earn this distinction. "I may not own any George and Ira Gershwin records," said Petty at the ceremony, "but I'm honored to be here and I want to thank my fans for showing up at my concerts from time to time." In 1999, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers received their own star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, an honor that acknowledges both their musical achievements and their humanitarian involvement with such organizations as Greenpeace, the National Veteran's Foundation, USA Harvest, Rock & Wrap It Up, and AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research). Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers--hailing from Gainesville, Florida before officially forming in Los Angeles--kicked the musical doldrums of the mid-'70s in the face with their 1976 self-titled debut album. It featured a stripped-down-but-accomplished brand of rock that blended jumpy rhythm & blues rhythms, ringing guitars and keyboards, over which Petty grabbed listeners by their throats with his disarmingly blunt lyrics and extremely direct vocal style. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album. 1978's follow up, You're Gonna Get It!, proved the debut album's intensity was no fluke. Marking the band's first gold album, it featured the singles "Listen to Her Heart" and "I Need to Know." Success followed success (including Tom's debut solo album and his appearances as a member of The Traveling Wilbury's, as well as more hits with The Heartbreakers).
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