Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Playback [6 CD, 1995/FLAC]

 

Playback is a box set compilation by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1995. It contains popular album tracks, B-sides, previously unreleased outtakes, and early songs by Petty's previous band Mudcrutch.

 







Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

  • Tom Petty (all tracks, except disc 2 track 14) – lead vocals, backing vocals, spoken word vocals, whistling, rhythm guitar, lead guitar ("Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "Peace in L.A."), bass guitar, piano, electric piano, harmonica, percussion
  • Mike Campbell (all tracks) – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, accordion, Dobro, mandolin, koto, percussion, backing vocals ("Heartbreakers Beach Party" and "It's Rainin' Again")
  • Benmont Tench (most tracks) – piano, keyboards, backing vocals, crash cymbal ("It's Rainin' Again")
  • Stan Lynch (most tracks) – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocal ("Psychotic Reaction")
  • Ron Blair (most tracks 1976-81) – bass guitar, acoustic guitar ("Baby's a Rock 'n' Roller"), backing vocals ("Heartbreakers Beach Party" and "It's Rainin' Again")
  • Howie Epstein (most tracks 1982-93) – bass guitar, backing vocals, acoustic lead guitar ("Big Boss Man"), spoken word vocal (via telephone) ("Peace in L.A.")
  • Scott Thurston – bass guitar (disc 3 track 13), guitar (disc 4 tracks 5, 7 and 15), slide guitar (disc 4 track 6)
  • Steve Ferrone – drums on "Ways to Be Wicked"
Additional personnel

  • Phil Jones – percussion (disc 1 tracks 16-21, disc 2 tracks 1-4 and 8, disc 3 tracks 1-2, 4-5 and 13, disc 4 tracks 2 and 8 and disc 5 tracks 8 and 10), drums (disc 3 tracks 1-2 and 4-5, disc 4 track 10), backing vocal (disc 4 track 2)
  • Jeff Lynne – bass guitar, guitar, guitar synthesizer, piano, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals (disc 3 tracks 1-5, 7-11 and 13, disc 4 track 10)
  • George Drakoulias – percussion (disc 5 tracks 8-9 and disc 6 tracks 1-5, 9 and 11), drums (disc 5 track 11)
  • Phil Seymour – backing vocals on "Breakdown" and "American Girl"
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar on "Hometown Blues", "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" and "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
  • Jim Keltner – percussion on "Refugee", "The Best of Everything" and "Love is a Long Road", drums on "Love Is a Long Road" and "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Stevie Nicks – backing vocals on "Insider", "You Can Still Change Your Mind" and "The Apartment Song"
  • Molly Duncan – saxophone on "Rebels"
  • Bobbye Hall – tambourine on "Rebels"
  • Dean Garcia – intro bass guitar on "Don't Come Around Here No More"
  • Marilyn Martin – backing vocal on "Don't Come Around Here No More"
  • Dave Stewart – electric sitar, synthesizer and backing vocal on "Don't Come Around Here No More", guitar on "Make It Better (Forget About Me)"
  • Jack Nitzsche – string arrangement on "Southern Accents"
  • Gary Chang – synthesizer on "The Best of Everything"
  • Garth Hudson – organ on "The Best of Everything"
  • Richard Manuel – backing vocal on "The Best of Everything"
  • Jerry Hey – horn arrangement on "The Best of Everything"
  • Lee Thornburg – trumpet on "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"
  • George Harrison – acoustic guitar and backing vocal on "I Won't Back Down"
  • Robbie Blunt, Kevin Dukes and Jimmy Rip – acoustic guitars on "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Tim Pierce – electric guitar on "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Scott Humphrey – synthesizer on "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Mitchell Froom – harpsichord on "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Efrain Toro – marimba on "Christmas All Over Again"
  • Shelly Yakus – backing vocals on "Heartbreakers Beach Party" and "It's Rainin' Again"
  • Jimmy Iovine – backing vocals on "Heartbreakers Beach Party" and "It's Rainin' Again", telephone ring (sound effect) on "Cracking Up"
  • Carlene Carter – spoken word vocal (via telephone) on "Peace in L.A."
  • John Sebastian – baritone guitar on "I Don't Know What to Say to You"
  • Al Kooper – organ and piano on "Since You Said You Loved Me" and "Louisiana Rain"
  • Emory Gordy – bass guitar on "Since You Said You Loved Me" and "Louisiana Rain"
  • Jim Gordon – drums on "Since You Said You Loved Me" and "Louisiana Rain"
  • The Bangles (1988 lineup) – backing vocals on "Waiting for Tonight"
  • Lenny Kravitz – drums, bass guitar, lead guitar, backing vocal and spoken word vocal on "You Come Through"
  • Tom Leadon – lead guitar and backing vocal on "Up in Mississippi Tonight"


Disc one: The Big Jangle
  1. "Breakdown" (Tom Petty) – 2:42
  2. "American Girl" (Petty) – 3:33
  3. "Hometown Blues" (Petty) – 2:12
  4. "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" (Petty) – 2:24
  5. "I Need to Know" (Petty) – 2:24
  6. "Listen to Her Heart" (Petty) – 3:03
  7. "When the Time Comes" (Petty) – 2:45
  8. "Too Much Ain't Enough" (Petty) – 2:57
  9. "No Second Thoughts" (Petty) – 2:39
  10. "Baby's a Rock 'n' Roller" (Petty, Mike Campbell) – 2:52
  11. "Refugee" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:22
  12. "Here Comes My Girl" (Petty, Campbell) – 4:25
  13. "Even the Losers" (Petty) – 3:59
  14. "Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)" (Petty) – 4:25
  15. "Don't Do Me Like That" (Petty) – 2:42
  16. "The Waiting" (Petty) – 3:59
  17. "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" (Petty, Campbell) – 4:23
  18. "Something Big" (Petty) – 4:44
  19. "A Thing About You" (Petty) – 3:32
  20. "Insider" (Petty) – 4:23
  21. "You Can Still Change Your Mind" (Petty, Campbell) – 4:16

Disc two: Spoiled & Mistreated

  1. "You Got Lucky" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:36
  2. "Change of Heart" (Petty) – 3:19
  3. "Straight into Darkness" (Petty) – 3:47
  4. "Same Old You" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:30
  5. "Rebels" (Petty) – 5:19
  6. "Don't Come Around Here No More" (Petty, Dave Stewart) – 5:05
  7. "Southern Accents" (Petty) – 4:44
  8. "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" (Petty, Stewart) – 4:23
  9. "The Best of Everything" (Petty) – 4:03
  10. "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (live) (Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman) – 3:30
  11. "Don't Bring Me Down" (live) (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:52
  12. "Jammin' Me" (Petty, Campbell, Bob Dylan) – 4:08
  13. "It'll All Work Out" (Petty) – 3:11
  14. "Mike's Life/Mike's World" (Campbell) – 0:40
  15. "Think About Me" (Petty) – 3:45
  16. "A Self-Made Man" (Petty) – 3:00

Disc three: Good Booty

  1. "Free Fallin'" (Petty, Jeff Lynne) – 4:16
  2. "I Won't Back Down" (Petty, Lynne) – 2:57
  3. "Love is a Long Road" (Petty, Campbell) – 4:08
  4. "Runnin' Down a Dream" (Petty, Lynne, Campbell) – 4:23
  5. "Yer So Bad" (Petty, Lynne) – 3:06
  6. "Alright for Now" (Petty) – 2:02
  7. "Learning to Fly" (Petty, Lynne) – 4:03
  8. "Into the Great Wide Open" (Petty, Lynne) – 3:43
  9. "All or Nothin'" (Petty, Lynne, Campbell) – 4:07
  10. "Out in the Cold" (Petty, Lynne) – 3:40
  11. "Built to Last" (Petty, Lynne) – 3:58
  12. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (Petty) – 4:33
  13. "Christmas All Over Again" (Petty) – 4:15

Disc four: The Other Sides

  1. "Casa Dega" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:37
  2. "Heartbreakers Beach Party" (Petty) – 1:57
  3. "Trailer" (Petty) – 3:15
  4. "Cracking Up" (Nick Lowe) – 3:34
  5. "Psychotic Reaction" (live) (Ken Ellner, Roy Chaney, Craig Atkinson, John Byrne, John Michalski) – 4:49
  6. "I'm Tired Joey Boy" (live) (Van Morrison) – 3:42
  7. "Lonely Weekends" (live) (Charlie Rich) – 2:47
  8. "Gator on the Lawn" (Petty) – 1:35
  9. "Make That Connection" (Petty, Campbell) – 5:04
  10. "Down the Line" (Petty, Lynne, Campbell) – 2:53
  11. "Peace in L.A." (Peace Mix) (Petty) – 4:43
  12. "It's Rainin' Again" (Petty) – 1:32
  13. "Somethin' Else" (live) (Sharon Sheeley, Eddie Cochran) – 2:05
  14. "I Don't Know What to Say to You" (Petty) – 2:28
  15. "Kings Highway" (live) (Petty) – 3:30

Disc five: Through the Cracks

  1. "On the Street" (Benmont Tench) – 2:10
  2. "Depot Street" (Petty) – 3:26
  3. "Cry to Me" (Bert Russell) – 3:06
  4. "Don't Do Me Like That" (Mudcrutch version) (Petty) – 2:47
  5. "I Can't Fight It" (Petty) – 3:00
  6. "Since You Said You Loved Me" (Petty) – 4:40
  7. "Louisiana Rain" (original version) (Petty) – 4:22
  8. "Keeping Me Alive" (Petty) – 2:59
  9. "Turning Point" (Petty) – 2:52
  10. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (demo) (Petty, Campbell) – 4:11
  11. "The Apartment Song" (demo) (Petty) – 2:37
  12. "Big Boss Man" (Al Smith, Luther Dixon) – 2:41
  13. "The Image of Me" (Wayne Kemp) – 2:33
  14. "Moon Pie" (Petty) – 1:05
  15. "The Damage You've Done" (country version) (Petty) – 3:16

Disc six: Nobody's Children

  1. "Got My Mind Made Up" (original version) (Petty) – 2:51
  2. "Ways to Be Wicked" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:27
  3. "Can't Get Her Out" (Petty) – 3:11
  4. "Waiting for Tonight" (Petty) – 3:30
  5. "Travelin'" (Petty) – 3:15
  6. "Baby, Let's Play House" (Arthur Gunter) – 2:33
  7. "Wooden Heart" (Bert Kaempfert, Kay Twomey, Fred Wise, Ben Weisman) – 2:09
  8. "God's Gift to Man" (Petty) – 4:18
  9. "You Get Me High" (Petty) – 2:48
  10. "Come on Down to My House" (Petty) – 3:05
  11. "You Come Through" (Petty, Campbell) – 5:15
  12. "Up in Mississippi Tonight" (Petty) – 3:28