What you get over the rest of the album is a selection of some of Tom Petty’s best ever material.
TOM PETTY WILDFLOWERS AND ALL THE REST FULL
Where Full Moon Fever opened with the chiming, glassy chords of Free Falling, Wildflowers opens with much more sedate, much more homely acoustic thrum of the title track. Like his first ‘solo’ album, the record actually features many of his Heartbreakers – but this time the producer’s chair was occupied by Rick Rubin rather than Jeff Lynne, and the difference in their approach to production is apparent from the first chord. The first CD in the set is the remastered Wildflowers album itself, first released in 1994. The best edition – especially in these rather tricky times – would be the 4CD edition, because it’s got all of the goodies and none of the padding. Wildflowers & All The Rest is a super deluxe package that bundles up his second-best solo album (anybody who doesn’t think Full Moon Fever is his best needs to take a long look at themselves) with oodles of contemporaneous ephemera. The music he made by himself and with his Heartbreakers has touched the hearts and minds of millions of fans across the world, and his Florida drawl – and his Rickenbacker – will be heard and loved for decades to come. Like those titans, Petty dedicated his whole career to the pursuance of both musical and lyrical excellence – and, thankfully, he succeeded. Like most of his output, or that output of his peers and contemporaries from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young to Stevie Nicks, the music of the dearly departed Tom Petty is best judged when viewed both in retrospect, and with utter subjectivity.
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