Playback (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album)
1995 box set by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Released | November 20, 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1973–93 (plus 1995 overdubs) | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 5:14:39 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | Mike Campbell, Denny Cordell, George Drakoulias, Jimmy Iovine, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Robbie Robertson, Rick Rubin, Noah Shark, David A. Stewart | |||
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[2] |
MusicHound | [3] |
Q | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
Spin | 8/10[4] |
The first three discs of this collection are Petty's singles with and without the Heartbreakers, arranged in rough chronological order. Disc One covers the years 1976-81, Disc Two covers 1982-87 and Disc Three covers 1989-93.
Disc four brings together 15 B-sides that were never officially released on Tom Petty or Heartbreakers albums. Some of these seem like throwaways, while others are miscellaneous live tracks usually found on singles' flipsides.
Discs five and six offer 27 recordings that include tracks previously unreleased or unavailable on CD, dating back to Petty's early days with his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch.
A companion VHS home video, later released on DVD, featured the band's most popular music videos.