3/27/2023 0 Comments Tom petty angel dreamHis version of Beck’s (with Lindsey Buckingham chipping in on backing vocals) gives the spare, acoustic strummer a Beatles-esque finish while maintaining the song’s pensive malaise. However, in addition to “Thirteen Days,” Petty covered two of his (at the time) contemporaries on Angel Dream. The underground 60s rock feel continues on the next (and third new) song, “105 Degrees.” This Petty original carries a surfer-ish guitar riff, a boatland of organ from Tench, and an overheated Petty asking, “What do you want…perfection?”Īlthough he was known to tear up some classics in concert (“So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” and “Oh Well” were two of his crowd favorite covers), he didn’t record a whole lot of them in studio. This version finds Petty at his Dylan-esque vocal best and wraps with an outro featuring both Campbell and Tench. Cale’s “Thirteen Days,” recalling the shaggy adventures of a barnstorming band in the South. The next new track on Angel Dream is a cover of J.J. “One of Life’s Little Mysteries” is a Heartbreakers jaunt through bummers both big and small – “You get a little sun/You get a little rain/Get a man and a woman/You get a little pain.” Written in 1992, it presages Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic,” but, you know, better. The decision was made to swap out those songs (including “California” and “Hope You Never”) for four previously unreleased tracks, so we’ll look at three of these first. Several of the soundtrack’s original songs were included on the All the Rest release (Petty wrote a number of these tunes during the Wildflowers process, and, really, has any rock artist ever had such a beautifully productive period?). The Heartbreakers themselves (Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Howie Epstein and Stan Lynch, splitting time on drums with session player Curt Bisquera) provide the bulk of the music. As far as this new album goes, the project was intended to be much more “spontaneous,” according to Petty, and simpler than the lengthy recording process for most of Wildflowers. Having not watched She’s the One, at least not in full, 25 years ago, I took it upon myself to check it out in the process of writing this review. Angel Dream (Songs and Music from the Motion Picture She’s The One) is billed as a “reimagined version” of the Ed Burns film that Petty scored in 1996, but the end product is a more cogent Petty album, instead of a loose collection of songs supporting a movie.īefore diving into the music, a word on the movie: don’t. This week, the final (?) drop from the best era of Petty’s musical life hits stores. Earlier this year, we got Finding Wildflowers, a collection of alternate takes that would’ve been an amazing, complete album in its own right. Last fall gave us Wildflowers & All the Rest, a multi-volume set of bonus tracks, demos and live cuts. His family, producers and fellow Heartbreakers have culled through virtually everything from the Wildflowers era to release an embarrassing amount of amazing music. The past nine months have been a musical gift for Tom Petty fans.
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