★★★★★
Tom Petty has said of Wildflowers, the 1994 solo album he cut with Rick Rubin that is arguably the high water mark of his 34 years of record making, that he spent two years trying to make it sound like the album was done in a weekend. No such shell game with Mojo, Petty's latest album with the Heartbreakers and first since 2002?s The Last DJ...
- www.magnetmagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
I honestly donâ??t understand record company logic. The execs bitch about having to make sure that albums and DVDs will be financially viable, but then they go ahead and release â??story behind the albumâ? DVDs, which are only interesting to the students of music or the real hardcore fans...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Eagle Rock's VH1 Classic Albums series tackles Tom Petty's career-defining album Damn the Torpedoes. Petty, the band and producer Jimmy Iovine explain the album track by track (including the songs Refugee and Here Comes My Girl) in a 56-minute doc. This DVD also includes an additional 40-plus minutes of extras not in the original VH1 broadcast.
- www.hour.ca
2011-03-14
★★★★★
Bless your heart, I know you hated it when Tom Petty started singing like Bob Dylan in the Traveling Wilbury days. You missed the secret bad boy Tom, his pretty blue-eyed Southern charm dripping young America into your ears, rocking your Levi's 501s off. I did, too.You all know I'd lick black-eyed peas off of Tom's little Florida-boy chest, but I'm even more tempted now that he's gotten the band back together ("we're getting the BAND back together!") and returned to his roots...
- www.ink19.com
2011-02-07
★★★★★
Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker's Damn the Torpedoes was the band's breakthrough album, launching an ascent to rock icon status via a painstaking (and often painful) creative process. The combination of the band's third album in an expanded package with a simultaneously released DVD would've made for a truly deluxe edition. The audio remastering illustrates how Damn the Torpedoes marked a greater progression in production for TP & co than in songwriting or in performing...
- glidemagazine.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
Tom Petty has been making solid albums with and without the Heartbreakers for nearly 35 years. It's the sort of legacy that brings in loyal fans by the thousands to see the band playing its greatest hits on the road, but those same fans aren't necessarily clamoring for new material. (In fact, at least part of the album's impressive debut at No. 2 of The Billboard 200 can be attributed to a promotion that had a download of album bundled with ticket purchases...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Grade: A (original album); B (bonus disc) Damn The Torpedoes, the third album by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, is often called a quantum leap in the band's development. More accurately, the disc nudged up Petty a notch, from a promising songwriter to one of the best. When the album came out in 1979, he'd already cemented his Dylan-leaning, Byrds-loving sound. But label troubles, a resulting lawsuit, and a thirst to rise above the fray spurred Petty to sharpen his focus...
- www.avclub.com
2010-11-29
★★★★★
Although Tom Petty has retained a dedicated core audience since his heyday in the late 70s, as evidenced by the generally positive reception of the Heartbreakers' latest LP , the Floridian rock legend's lustre seems to have been eroded somewhat by the march of time and shifting tastes. Unlike fellow US immortals and , Petty has struggled to win over a new generation of young fans willing to kick-start a new chapter in his career...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
You've gotta like a guy who doesn't sound (or look, for that matter) significantly different than he did 25 years ago. Or do you? Some people might consider that to be one hell of a rut. For Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers, however, major deviations from the path have invariably met with disaster. On this latest, The Last DJ, Petty & Co. stay the course for the most part (though he has these random Billy Joel moments which are certainly not appreciated, as on Dreamville and Joe)...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09