![]() ![]() It’s confessional – “I’m not easy to know/My mind can change/My moods come and go” – and it balances Mike Campbell’s guitar with Benmont Tench’s moody piano work. “Something Could Happen” leads off All the Rest, and it’s an unsparing look at Petty’s pre-divorce state of mind (he and his first wife divorced in 1994, two years after Wildflowers was released). All of the originals tracks – the hits “You Don’t Know How It Feels” and “You Wreck Me,” the bar-closer “Time to Move On” and the subtly raunchy “Honey Bee” are as good as you remember, so let’s spend our time on the music you haven’t yet heard, but need to (some of the tracks on All the Rest exist, in alternate takes, on the She’s the One soundtrack). All versions include the original album plus 10 songs left off the original release, which Petty had conceived as a double album (a rather hefty one, at 25 tracks), Our version also included 15 solo demos and 14 live cuts, plus extensive liner notes and photos. The fine folks at Warner Music Group sent us the Deluxe Edition (7 LPs or 4 CDs). The Wildflowers set comes in seven different versions (4 vinyl, 3 compact disc). Honestly, it’s the most fun I’ve had listening to music all year. Dubbed Wildflowers & All the Rest, the set is a mix of amazing new (to you) Petty songs, hauntingly beautiful demos, and a mix of live cuts from the album culled from a wide range of Heartbreakers shows. In the case of this week’s expanded re-release of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, however, the small investment is more than worth it. It’s a whole lot of money for what could conceivably be inferior material. Fancy box sets, with their unreleased tracks, alternate takes and live versions of songs we already know, are a dicey proposition for all but the most hardcore fans. ![]()
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