I believe the additional ten tracks are going to be on the reissue.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 02:30 (eight years ago) link
I'm so tired of being tiredSure as night will follow dayMost things I worry aboutNever happen anyway
:(
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
Finally the expanded version? My wallet is ready for this.
https://www.stereogum.com/2089262/tom-petty-you-dont-know-how-it-feels-demo/music/
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Nothing official yet, but:
“The family and the band are in a joyful process of discovering the Wildflowers sessions and demos and wanted to share a tiny bit of that with the fans today,” Adria Petty said when debuting the track on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio channel.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Revisited the album plus the outtakes. Nothing's really bad, but I don't think cutting down the album was a bad idea either - if anything, they should've pared it down even more as I don't think there's enough top-drawer songs to sustain an hour's worth of listening. (At minimum, I could've done without the lumbering "Cabin Down Below" and "House in the Woods" and would rather have the middle section settle into an unbroken run of sad, moody little numbers.)
One of his better ones, but I still prefer Damn the Torpedoes and Full Moon Fever.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 May 2023 05:48 (one year ago) link
"Crawling Back To You" – one of my favorites songs by anyone. It's made many a mixtape/CD-R.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 15, 2010
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 10:16 (one year ago) link
My kid wrote a song on piano and it has the same riff in the same key as “cabin down below.” He couldn’t believe it
― calstars, Friday, 12 May 2023 11:44 (one year ago) link
I’m so tired of being tiredSure as night will follow day
― brimstead, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 12, 2023 3:16 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think crawling back to you is my favorite petty song
― Spottie, Friday, 12 May 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's a really good track. I really think the album's a whole lot stronger without "Cabin Down Below," "House in the Woods" and even "Honey Bee" in there breaking up that mindset of a guy who's mentally circling what's become the clear and imminent dissolution of his marriage, like he's slowly going down a drain. That stretch from "Only a Broken Heart" through "Wake Up Time" works better without them, and "Crawling Back To You" works especially well in that context. I guess "Honey Bee" can arguably fit in there as some kind of lingering memory of lust, but it sounds too incongruous to me - I think it would've been better as a B-side.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 May 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
“It’s hard to find a friend” might be my favorite
― brimstead, Friday, 12 May 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
there's some great stuff on here but also some pretty dire stuff. "honey bee" and "cabin down below" - tom petty being horny and leering, no thank you. "crawling back to you" struck me as too mopey and self-indulgent when i got to it, maybe because the middle half of this thing is a bit of a slog.
"wildflowers" and "you don't know how it feels" are top-tier. "it's good to be king" deserved a vote, it's pretty sharply observed imo with a great outro. "time to move on" is lovely.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
What do you think of "You Wreck Me"?
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
i dig it, the riff wins me over and the lyrics are generic enough that i don't object lol.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
"it's hard to find a friend" is another one i really like.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
"You Wreck Me" is great. It does stick out like a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers track, but it's enjoyable enough that I can't complain.
It's funny, the first five tracks is easily the most engaging and enjoyable stretch of the album, but they could almost be used for another album - the whole point of Wildflowers doesn't really coalesce until you listen through the mopey and bitter ones that come later. ("Time to Move On" does fit in with those but it comes in pretty early as track 3.)
The other problem with "Honey Bee" and "Cabin Down Below" is that they sound like boring fake blues pastiches. Rolling Stone originally compared one of them to CCR/John Fogerty's work, and to be fair, I can kind of hear where they're coming from, but it's missing a crucial element to make it work on that level - Fogerty's vocals. I never had a problem with Petty's vocals, but it doesn't have what Fogerty's voice has to make this stuff work.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 May 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
i think the riffs have an enjoyable malevolence to them. the electric guitars on this album always sound amazing and the playing is always tasteful. but the subject of those songs is "i have a boner." they're kinda rapey tbh. i don't know solo fogerty but ccr didn't really do that as a subject iirc.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
Fogerty might be one of the few white male singer-songwriters who rarely wrote about boners and women.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
When Big Thief released their album last year, my first thought was "This reminds me of Wildflowers." Light not shallow, hooky by design, the song craft is so fine that I have trouble separating the casually masterful from the merely casual.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
love that connection, Alfred.
"Honey Bee" at least feels almost like an homage to old blues, could be a companion song to "I'm a King Bee" after all. "Cabin Down Below" is completely forgettable but I do enjoy it mostly based on what you said there, map, about how great this record just sounds
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 May 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
I really like the guitar tones on cabin and honey bee
― brimstead, Friday, 12 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
yeah absolutely! those guitars sound amazing.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
this album is like digital mastering at its finest
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 12 May 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
thought it was weird they remastered it. og sounds perfect.
― Spottie, Friday, 12 May 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
Changing the name from "You Rock Me" to "You Wreck Me" made a big difference for that song. I love it as a kind of throwback Heartbreakers rocker, and it cooked live.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 May 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
FWIW, the original CD was mastered with quite a bit of digital compression added. When they remastered it for the deluxe set, they actually did three different remasterings: a “loud” version for streaming (using a similar amount of compression), a less-compressed version for the CD release (which does sound better to me than the original CD), and a version with no compression/full dynamic range for vinyl and hi-res digital vendors.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 May 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
The making of documentary available on Prime comprised of 16mm film they found in 2020 is enjoyable.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 24 November 2023 23:37 (five months ago) link
Since doing a deep dive on him around the time he died I’ve been struck by how much pain Petty quietly lived with for most of his life – from growing up with an abusive father to living with an unstable spouse to becoming a heroin addict in his late forties. This record (and documentary) kind of reinforces that.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 November 2023 00:05 (five months ago) link