As previously mentioned in the Tom Petty/Heartbreakers 2018 Thread, there was some "early-birding" occurring a few weeks back regarding this collection, but courtesy of Pitchfork I am pleased to announce the imminent release of Tom Petty/Heartbreakers: The Best of Everything - The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016. The compilation is the first Tom Petty/Heartbreakers career spanning greatest hits compilation and will be inclusive of Petty's solo career and his work with Mudcrutch. The collection will bring together thirty-six of Tom Petty/Heartbreakers greatest hits alongside two archival cuts, the previously unreleased "For Real" and an alternate version of "The Best of Everything" that will restore a long-lost second verse to the track. (hi windfall!) The press release can be found here: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Career-spanning Hits Collection 'The Best Of Everything' To Be Released November 16 On Geffen Records/UMe Pitchfork article: New Tom Petty Compilation The Best of Everything Announced | Pitchfork The collection will be issued as a 2-compact disc set on November 16, 2018 with a 4-LP vinyl edition to follow on December 7, 2018. The track listing is as follows: Disc One Free Fallin’ Mary Jane’s Last Dance You Wreck Me I Won’t Back Down Saving Grace You Don’t Know How It Feels Don’t Do Me Like That Listen To Her Heart Breakdown Walls (Circus) The Waiting Don’t Come Around Here No More Southern Accents Angel Dream (No. 2) Dreamville I Should Have Known It Refugee American Girl The Best Of Everything (Alt. Version) Disc Two Wildflowers Learning To Fly Here Comes My Girl The Last DJ I Need To Know Scare Easy You Got Lucky Runnin’ Down A Dream American Dream Plan B Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (feat. Stevie Nicks) Trailer Into The Great Wide Open Room At The Top Square One Jammin’ Me Even The Losers Hungry No More I Forgive It All For Real
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS THE BEST OF EVERYTHING 4LP - LIMITED CLEAR VINYL - $89.98 Limited to 1000 The Best of Everything 4LP - Limited Clear Vinyl - Music Black vinyl 4LP is $79.98
Looks ideal for me as someone who appreciates the greatest hits disc and would like a little more but isn't really interested enough for a full dive. I already have it elsewhere but I think this would be a one-stop shop for Petty beginners if it had "Handle with Care" (and maybe "End of the Line").
Maybe someone already knows this, but why does it say the following at this link: The Best of Everything 2CD 11. The Waiting – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (dropout @ 2:17)
Nice collection but I just purchased the American Treasure set to get the unreleased songs and now this includes For Real and the alternate version of Best of Everything? If this is how the hand is going to be played I have to fold.
done. Early Christmas present to myself. This last purchase blows my budget for new records well into 2019
I wasn't going to buy this either way, but it amuses me that "Runaway Trains" isn't on here--just like it wasn't on Playback (where God knows there was tons of room). Maybe I'm just imagining that "Runaway Trains" was a decent-sized hit all over the radio in '87. And, '80s sound and all, to me still one of the best things they ever did.
Here is a link to the first single (and title track!) from the forthcoming collection: Tom Petty/Heartbreakers: The Best of Everything - The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016, an alternate version of "The Best of Everything" complete with it's original second verse intact:
I was a bit shocked when this press released popped up in my inbox this morning. I get that they're trying to capitalize on momentum, but I don't know if Tom would approve of this so close to the release of American Treasure. Holding back an unreleased tune for a separate "greatest hits" set -- which, I'm guessing no hardcore Petty fan would buy without this track -- reeks of record label wrenching.
I wonder what's the story on "For Real"? Where it comes from? Why do I think it's a Hypnotic Eye leftover? Benmont's said that it could've been a double-album there was so much material for it. EDIT: Apparently it comes from 2000. Originally recorded for Anthology Through The Years, perhaps?
I think it was originally written for "Echo" but don't quote me on that because my memory is all fogged. I do remember being told around the time that "Anthology: Through The Years" was released, that Tom Petty/Heartbreakers recorded a number of songs for that compilation that ultimately went unused including some Echo outtakes. Anyhow needless to say, it's certainly a worthy addition to the canon.
Will be interesting to find out if the set will be brickwalled or nice sounding... I'm in if it sounds good.
I've often referred to the version of "Surrender" on that compilation as "Surrender (2000)" in a similar vein to George Harrison's rerecording of "My Sweet Lord" as "My Sweet Lord (2000)"
He liked the song, didn't particularly care for the mix. In 2016, he mentioned that he approved a new mix of the track that dispersed with a lot of the heavy-handed eighties production techniques and that mix was the one that was ultimately issued on the vinyl remaster of "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)" when it was released as part of "The Complete Studio Albums Collection Volume 1" towards the end of 2016.
Knowing the trend: CD/mp3/iTunes will be bricked, vinyl/hi-res (if it exists) will sound nice and smooth.
I may be completely off here but this sounds to me like they have taken the released Southern Accents take and spliced in the second verse from an earlier (Hard Promises era) recording... that's what it sounds like to me after 2-3 listens, and focussing on the vocal and Mike's guitar. It would be interesting to know this version's history.
Not a big fan of hearing about this to be honest. I thought American Treasure was going to serve as both a "greatest hits" and a rarities collection which I had no problem with. But to release this 2 months later with 2 more unreleased tracks feels a bit like a cash-grab to me.
Nope, that's what I find frustrating. These were obviously held back specifically for this set to move more units and for us to purchase material we already own, something I no longer do.