The Last DJ by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Pros: Nice variety of guitar-driven tunes by Master Petty. Great rants on the state of music.
Cons: Change of moods might turn some off.

I haven't been the most faithful Petty follower, but curiosity drove me to pick up The Last DJ, his latest offering.

The cover of the CD shows a black and white shot of Petty's nappy hair, so close up that all you can see is...

Pros: An Excellent Album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Cons: Not as Upbeat as Previous Albums.

The year 2002 has been a downer year for the music industry. With album sales declining, the industry has been looking for reasons why album sales haven’t been growing. While it’s very obvious to more intelligent music fans that the...

Pros: a brilliant condemnation of the music industry
Cons: not as uptempo as I would've probably liked

OK, so I admit it. Until my purchase this week of The Last DJ by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, I owned nothing more than their greatest hits disc. Of course, that greatest hits disc is one of only 3 or 4 records you can put on at a party...

Pros: Tom Petty’s heartbreaking lyrics, slower than the rest of the CDs
Cons: Tom Petty has definitely changed musically and lyrically; will his fans still love him?

I always kicked around the idea of writing a Tom Petty review but I couldn’t put into words how I fe ...

Pros: a few gems that might make a cool ep.
Cons: Uninspired complaining. Few enlightening moments. I expect so much more from Tom.

Twenty years ago, or so, when Tom Petty fought his record company over the sale price of his, then current album, "Hard Promises", it was a ballsy move, which still impresses me today ("Hard Promises" came out in 1981. I was born in 1981. I didn't really ...

Pros: Petty has a keen eye for the corruptiveness and innocence of rock and roll.
Cons: Some of his ambitions are too mean-spirited and translate to sludge.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers release THE LAST DJ, their first album ever since he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, on October 8, 2002. The Warner Bros.-distributed release is their first studio album since 1998’s...

Pros: Heartbreakers in good from some beautiful songs
Cons: Album cover of the back of Tom's head is a little creepy

Petty is back with his first album in a few years, The Last DJ. This is Petty's attempt to put in his 2 cents worth in on the state of of the music industry, which in his opinion has become an impersonal, money driven shadow of its former self....

Pros: "Money Becomes King", "Joe", "Man Who Loves Women"
Cons: dull, generic ballads, hypocrisy in message

The first third of Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers' new album is about how bad the music business has gotten. I suspected the title track was a tribute to Los Angeles-based DJ Jim Ladd. I used to listen to Ladd's "free-form radio" show on KLOS. He played...

Pros: Available with bonus DVD. Regular version has some computer video, too.
Cons: None

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Tom Petty had something he wanted to say about the music industry in this recording, and he's taken several songs to do it, so he has called this album a "loose concept" type of thing. With Tom becoming one of our...

Pros: An important message set to great music.
Cons: Repetitious just like all of Tom Petty's music.

"The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a very important album. Unfortunately, I don't think most people are going to realize that. With this album Tom is trying to send a message to the music business and to the general public. He expresses...

Pros: Some greats songs for all kinds of Tom Petty fans
Cons: Not too much, a few less then stellar sons, but that' ok

The songs on this album are a great release to people a little bitter about the new music scene. The first four songsare directly attacking the politics of pop/punk/rap whatever music.

#1 is "The Last DJ" which is the single and at first...

Pros: finally, an artist on our side
Cons: i've never really been a huge fan, but this one is worth a listen

I never thought the day would come when an artist would finally acknowledge the way the music industry has been exploiting us lately. Well it's here folks. With the release of his latest album, "The Last DJ", Tom Petty is vocalizing a lot of my gripes...

Pros: It's Tom Petty
Cons: BORING

I don't mind so much the lyrical content here. Hey, I'd much rather see things being done simply for the enjoyment or love of them, rather than for the money. Unfortunately, that's the way things have evolved, so to speak. Good for Mr. Petty for using...

Pros: Tom Petty & heartbreakers continue to evolve, and he's annoyed
Cons: Its like two great albums viaing for one

After years of writing deceptively intelligent great rock and roll tunes Tom Petty finally gets fed up enough to write a concept album. Its angry, it’s annoyed off, it looks to the past when things were better. It looks to the future, boldly...

Pros: Good tunes, great sounding record.
Cons: A few "cheesy" episodes.

I'm not really a huge Tom Petty fan, although I respect him as an artist and as a songwriter. I've enjoyed a few of his songs in the past, but now that I'm working in a record store I've got to know his stuff a little more.

I've probably...