Into The Great Wide Open (studio album) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Jeff lynne brings pop sensibilities and great guitar production, tones and intricate melodies. Some say he ruined Tom petty but that's nonsense. Three good to excellent albums including this resulted. This next only to full moon fever. Highlights learning to fly, two gunslingers and title track. I don't think petty wrote stronger tunes alone. Lynne collaborations were superior in my view.

Jeff Lynne produces this Heartbreakers album after working on Tom Petty's solo album Full Moon Fever. I wouldn't say Into the Great Wide Open is as good as Full Moon Fever, but it definitely has some strong moments. Learning to Fly is one of Petty's all time greatest tunes. The early 90s were a pretty good time for Petty.

Key tracks: Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open, King's Highway and Makin' Some Noise

Beautiful album, very clear and balanced overall sound, wonderful 6- and 12-string guitar sounds, as well as that wonderful organic drum sound that we can also notice on "Traveling Wilburys" recordings. Marcus Rampazzo, a guitar collector from Sao Paulo owned the 9th Rickenbacker 360/12 1964, he said that Tom Petty even made an offer to buy him this instrument, unfortunately both of them died.

From Sandrof1969 02/18/2018 21:49

E' il Tom Petty diventato alla fine un nuovo classico, quello di "Into the great wide open", un musicista che, passato dall'esperienza con i Traveling Wilburys e dal successo di "Full moon fever", incomincia a raccogliere più che continuare a seminare.

A companion album to, Full moon fever, and up there with that record in terms of overall quality. Learning to fly and the title track are standouts but there is plenty of good stuff here. It is a bit samey and predictable but the quality is never in doubt. Good album.

to me this is an improvement over the also excellent full moon fever. in a very good catalog i feel this is the best album. A great collection of well crafted songs. The, title track and learning to fly are the best along with kings highway.

From Eastwood 04/09/2015 20:16

Very good album. Best 10 songs average is 89,7/100 and the album can get very good 90/100. Best song is title track "Into the great wide open" - maximum rating. Followed by "Learning to fly" 95/100 and next "Kings highway" 90/100. All other songs good 80-85/100. Favourite!
Genre: Pop Rock, Heartland Rock

From junodog4 03/15/2015 16:50

I see the FMF2 descriptions... they're pretty apt. It is a slower vibe, and the songcraft is still there, but it's not as memorable... just decent.

It's pretty much like Full Moon Fever...which is a good thing since FMF is a fantastic album. More of the same isn't a bad thing at all in this case. Doesn't reach FMF quality, but it's still a great album with solid tracks overall

Best tracks: Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open, Two Gunslingers

Super duper album