Blogcritics Comments on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Comment by Dtgbgbn on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

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Comment by Vern Halen on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:53:26 EDT

I think the best stuff on this album is the stuff that sounds like it was produced by...Rick Rubin. Jeff Lynne? No thanks, usually. Yeah, all those old blues licks sound the same nowadays. it's TP's drumming of all things that saves the day on this recording - 60's garage thrash at its finest. I think this album will be remembered as one the better TP efforts from his later years.

Comment by Timmy on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:17:43 EDT

There are two, maybe three keepers on the album. The rest are makeovers of old Lynne-produced Petty tunes. And not to turn this into a Lynne praise or criticism thread, but if I'm paying Jeff Lynne to produce my record, I want it to sound like Jeff Lynne produced my album. Even most of Lynne's signature harmonizing is absent here. Petty peaked when Rick Rubin gave him "Wildflowers" (top 5 rock album of all time). It's been downhill ever since.

Comment by Tom Johnson on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:16:20 EDT

As they say, great minds think alike . . . Say, anyone think maybe TP heard all four of these songs in close succession and suddenly realized he himself undermined the case against the Chili Peppers' "Dani California" lifting from "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (which, from what I remember, borrows pretty heavily from a Jayhawks song, too)?

Comment by DJRadiohead on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:09:02 EDT

I had been saying "On the Road Again" myself, Tom. It's a great opener.

Comment by El Bicho on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:04:15 EDT

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Comment by Tom on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:28 EDT

It's funny that you mention "Saving Grace" sounding like another song. You say Isaacs' "Baby Did a Bad Thing," my wife says George Thorogood's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," and I swear it's an homage to Canned Heat's "On The Road Again." I just went and gave all four a listen and sure enough, all of them (roughly) fit!

Comment by DJRadiohead on The Friday Morning Listen - Tom Petty - Highway Companion

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:01:19 EDT

A marvelous record it is (my review is still in draft mode) and some wonderful observations about it. Enjoy that vacation.