Limited double vinyl LP pressing of this 1993 collection. Greatest Hits is the biggest selling title in the band's illustrious catalog, with sales surpassing twelve million copies since it's release. The album contains nineteen classics including "American Girl," "Refugee," "Don't Come Around Here No More" and many others. The collection also features the singles from Tom Petty's solo album Full Moon Fever including "Free Fallin," "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down A Dream." Two 'new' songs were also featured: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" became one of Petty's most popular songs, reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The other new song on the album is a cover of the Thunderclap Newman hit "Something in the Air".
In the 1970s and '80s, amid the rise of New Wave and synth pop, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers almost single-handedly brought old-school power-pop and garage-rock musical values into the mainstream. The roots-conscious Floridians are often regarded as "heartland rockers," and tunes like the jangling, Byrds-like "American Girl" certainly make a case for that appellation. At the same time, "Don't Come Around Here No More" and "You Got Lucky" eagerly expand that stylistic template with haunting atmospherics and neo-psychedelic touches.
GREATEST HITS offers a handy, hook-laden, single-disc summary of this great American band. It traverses the Heartbreakers' journey from raw, lean '70s enfants terribles to elder rock-&-roll statesmen. Conveniently, it also includes the two best Heartbreakers tunes never to grace one of their studio albums--"Mary Jane's Last Dance" and the Petty/Stevie Nicks duet, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around."
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (vocals, guitars, keyboards); Benmobt Tench (vocals, keyboards); Howie Epstein (vocals, bass); Stan Lynch (vocals, drums); Mike Campbell (guitar, keyboards, bass).
Producers include: Rick Rubin, Jimmy Iovine, David A. Stewart, Mike Campbell, Jeff Lynne.
Digitally remastered by Joe Gastwirt (Oceanview, Los Angeles, California).
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
- Remastered, 180 Gram
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Tracklist
| A1 | American Girl |
| A2 | Breakdown |
| A3 | Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll |
| A4 | Listen To Her Heart |
| A5 | I Need To Know |
| A6 | Refugee |
| B1 | Don't Do Me Like That |
| B2 | Even The Losers |
| B3 | Here Comes My Girl |
| B4 | The Waiting |
| B5 | You Got Lucky |
| C1 | Don't Come Around Here No More |
| C2 |
I Won't Back Down |
| C3 | Runnin' Down A Dream |
| C4 | Free Fallin' |
| D1 | Learning To Fly |
| D2 | Into The Great Wide Open |
| D3 | Mary Jane's Last Dance |
| D4 | Something In The Air |
