{"id":334684,"date":"2025-10-26T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334684\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:33:23","slug":"the-tom-petty-albums-that-even-tom-petty-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334684\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tom Petty albums that even Tom Petty hated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ \u0418\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u041b\u0435\u043f\u043d\u0451\u0432\u0430)<\/p>\n

Sun 26 October 2025 19:15, UK <\/p>\n

Not everything an artist puts out can be perfect, and even if fans disagree with this sentiment and believe that their favourite acts are incapable of putting out something below par, the artists themselves might be holding themselves to a higher standard, and Tom Petty<\/a> is a prime example of this.<\/p>\n

While his output, both with the Heartbreakers<\/a> and as a solo performer, is usually unanimously praised by fans and critics alike, Petty himself proved himself to be one of the most violent critics of his own work, regularly dismissing records of his as being unworthy of adoration. On multiple occasions, he\u2019s released records that he doesn\u2019t look back upon fondly, and has outright chosen to shun them in favour of focusing on the next project instead.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Rolling Stone, he once claimed that the band\u2019s fifth album, Long After Dark, was \u201cone that felt like treading water\u201d, and he was equally critical of Echo, released in 1999 during a tumultuous period in both his and his bandmates\u2019 lives. \u201cI had just gotten divorced,\u201d he explained. \u201cMy family was in complete upheaval. Howie [Epstein] had really bad problems. But there was a record due\u201d. <\/p>\n

While he may have been under obligation to finish the album, it\u2019s a period that Petty would undoubtedly want to forget about, but that doesn\u2019t come close to the record of his that he hates the most.<\/p>\n

When he was asked to contribute to the soundtrack of Edward Burns\u2019<\/a> 1996 film, She\u2019s The One, he seemingly accepted the job because he\u2019d been going through a period of inactivity and wanted to return to recording. He later explained in an interview with Men\u2019s Journal that this may have been one of the biggest mistakes he\u2019d made in his career to date, and if he were able to go back and rectify anything from his career, he\u2019d stop himself from ever choosing to work on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hated that record, the whole idea of it offended me,\u201d he argued in the interview. \u201cI only did it because I didn\u2019t have anything else to do. I liked Ed, and thought he was pretty sharp, so I wrote him a couple of songs, and then it kept mushrooming. I took some stuff I hadn\u2019t used on Wildflowers\u2019 really crummy versions, badly mixed, and put them on there. It was terrible, really. I\u2019m disappointed I did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this wasn\u2019t the worst received project that the Heartbreakers had ever put out, the fact that it mostly consisted of outtakes from his previous acclaimed album and didn\u2019t attempt to write any new material may be why he was always disappointed in his output for this project. However, despite the mixed reception that the film itself received, the song \u2018Walls\u2019 from the soundtrack was nominated for a Satellite Award for \u2018Best Original Song\u2019 in 1997, so this must have been a slight relief for Petty, considering how upset he seemingly was with the end result.<\/p>\n

Not everything can be perfect, and writing a soundtrack for a film may not have been Petty\u2019s best avenue for returning to work after the release of Wildflowers, but at least it didn\u2019t deter him from releasing more, even if the follow-up album Echo is among his least favourites as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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