Some vinyl lovers don't like coloured vinyl. They believe the audio is impaired (for the lack of a better term). But my eyes say, Meh. Because i doubt my ears can tell the difference.
Some vinyl lovers don't like coloured vinyl. They believe the audio is impaired (for the lack of a better term). But my eyes say, Meh. Because i doubt my ears can tell the difference.
Edit: I did a quick youtube browse and all I can find are live versions. Is this album all live?
I'm with you. Would love to have it on CD. It's an unofficial release and as far as I know it's only available on vinyl. All the songs are live, which surprises me that it was never put together for an official release.
It was odd that he was termed "new wave" back then, but I guess it was because he wasn't "hard rock", he wasn't like Springsteen or Cougar/Mellencamp, and he wasn't like those quasi-prog rock acts like Kansas, Foreigner, Boston, etc. that were prevalent in the late '70s, so I guess it was the closest genre label they could attach to him. But he got a lot of airplay, at least where I lived (usually on the WNEW-FM station mentioned in the article). I heard "American Girl" and/or "Breakdown" on the radio pretty much every day, and those tunes were just from his first album; subsequent albums got even more airplay.
Well, I'll start with this. Back in the late 80s (or early 90s, I forget now) I was desperate to get a job to support my growing family (I had 1 or two kids by then) How desperate was I? I took a job as a Life Insurance Salesman. That lasted about a few months. I was really bad at it. Made only one sale and I'm convinced the person bought from me out of pity.
All this preamble to say I doubt i can sell you on them. Lol I was a late bloomer with Tom Petty. I was familiar with the radio hits but it wasn't until I got a hold of the live Anthology on CD (which I currently have on vinyl) that I started to really like the band. By then, Mojo was available on CD and I bought it. I loved every song on it. Not a single filler in my opinion. And it's Blues Rock, which I like a lot. Every song on it got my attention.
Hypnotic Eye follows in the same Blues Rock vein. And again, loved every song on it. So I'm most familiar with those two albums of theirs. I listened to them a lot.
New Wave? Now that's funny. In the link you provided, this got my attention : "Judging by the music, Tom Petty sounds like he's sincere". That's another aspect that got my attention in those two albums: sincerity and conviction in the vocals. (Those two things also made me a fan of the band Shinedown) And nothing presumptuous in the music. And the more I get acquainted with their previous albums, I could probably say the same for most if not all of them. All just my opinion, of course.
