Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You’re Gonna Get It! (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:29:13 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Rock
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Recorded: Shelter Studio, Hollywood 1977–78
You’re Gonna Get It! is the second album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1978. Originally, the album was to be titled Terminal Romance. Like its self-titled predecessor, this album includes tight melodic songs awash in ringing guitars and organ. It reached #23 on Billboard’s Top LP’s & Tapes chart in 1978. It also earned Petty and the Heartbreakers their first gold record.
Many reviewers rated You’re Gonna Get It! only a notch lower than their moderately well-received debut album. Some reviews such as in Rolling Stone at the time noted the “impressive stylistic cohesiveness” between the two. It did chart higher, however, than its predecessor.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers didn’t really knock out their second album — it was released two years after their debut — but it sure sounds as if they did. There are some wonderful moments on this record, but it often feels like leftovers from a strong debut, or an album written on the road, especially since the music is simply an extension of the first album. That said, when You’re Gonna Get It! works, it devastates. That’s not saying that “When the Time Comes” is a masterpiece, even if it’s a fine opener, but it does mean that “I Need to Know” and the scathing “Listen to Her Heart” are testaments to how good this band could be when it was focused. If the rest of the album doesn’t achieve this level of perfection, that’s a signal that they were still finding their footing, but overall it’s still a solid record, filled with good performances that are never quite as good as the songs. It’s pretty good as it spins, but once it finishes, you remember those two songs at the heart of the record, maybe the opener and closer, which are stronger than the rest of the competent, enjoyable, yet unremarkable roots-rockers that surround them. Not necessarily a transitional effort — after all, it pretty much mirrors its predecessor — but a holding pattern that may not suggest the peaks of what’s to come, but still delivers a good soundalike of the debut. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist:
1 When The Time Comes 2:48
2 You’re Gonna Get It 3:00
3 Hurt 3:19
4 Magnolia 3:01
5 Too Much Ain’t Enough 2:56
6 I Need To Know 2:26
7 Listen To Her Heart 3:04
8 No Second Thoughts 2:41
9 Restless 3:22
10 Baby’s A Rock ‘N’ Roller 2:53
Personnel:
Tom Petty – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve string guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, vocals
Mike Campbell – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve string guitar, lead guitar, accordion
Benmont Tench – piano, hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals
Ron Blair – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, sound effects, backing vocals
Stan Lynch – drums
Additional:
Noah Shark – percussion
Phil Seymour – backing vocals on “Magnolia”
Producer’s Note: Tom Petty Hi-Res Remastering :: The Hi-Res (24bit 96K) remastering of the Tom Petty catalog reveals a level of detail that was only previously heard by a select group of musicians, producers and engineers in the studio. It’s as close to the sound of original stereo master as you can get. We’re very happy with the way it came out, and believe it’s an important way to preserve the legacy of this great body of work.
If hearing the highest possible sound quality is important to you, then this is where you’ll get it.
The remastering was done in the fall of 2014 by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. I supervised it and Tom approved it. Great care was taken to find the original first-generation masters and transfer them with minimal eq and little or no dynamic range compression. In cases where the first-generation masters were unusable, we used the best sounding second-generation masters.*
To allow for full dynamic range, and to let the music “breathe” the Hi-Res versions have about 6-8db less digital level than a typical “loud” peak-limited CD or mp3. To enjoy these albums to their fullest extent, play them back though a good system and turn up the volume.
With this increased level of detail and sonic impact, we hope you’ll enjoy rediscovering these great albums as much as we did! —Ryan Ulyate, April 2014
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