INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in 1991. The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of Full Moon Fever. The first single, "Learning to Fly", became the band's joint longest-running No. 1 single (along with "The Waiting" from 1981's Hard Promises) on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending six weeks at the top spot. The second single, "Out in the Cold", also made No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, albeit for two weeks. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
These songs are rendered for the most part in the calm voice of someone who has emerged from a soulful bout of contemplation with a new perspective.
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ALL MUSIC
The Heartbreakers' sound has remained similar throughout their career, but they had never quite repeated themselves until here.
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musicko.com
Some albums can have a very limited tonal palette and still manage to convey emotions with such vividness and diversity that you can but be amazed at the level of craftsmanship displayed by their composers. “Into The Great Wide Open” is an album that certainly brings that to mind.
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Entertainment
I always thought that guys like this start out hot, get famous, get lazy, and then disappear. They’re not supposed to actually get better.
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Ear of Newt
The guy really knows how to communicate.
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Prindle Record Reviews
it's far more polished and slick than any previous Heartbreakers production.
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Medium
The album as a whole is fine. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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