![]() It's followed by the intimate "House In The Woods" and by the heart-pounding ballad "Crawling Back To You," which shows a more passionate alternative to the retrospective character of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ songs, both moments highlighting a conceptual density given by the evocative arrangements. ![]() ![]() So, from "It’s Good To Be A King" to "Don’t Fade On Me," it loses the initial vitality, "A Higher Place", providing a coming to life. So, as upbeat songs such as "You Wreck Me Babe" contrast with retrospective and melancholic ballads like "It’s Good To Be A King," the climate changes all over the album’s course and culminates with the pessimism of "Hard On Me." After a suite of transitional songs, the album returns to its expressive rhythmic beauty with "A Higher Place". Here stands a youthful maturity that has faced both hard and good times, and it has decided to take another step forward, toward the achievement of a true individual image.Īnother element that makes "Wildflowers" highly distinctive is its ever-contrasting character. There the lyrics concerned girls, smoking cigarettes, and playing cool. Such thoughts were unthinkable during The Heartbreakers' period. Even if the future remains unknown, he feels that he needs to depart from what was collective or unpersonal and desperately has to find his own direction. drought atmosphere, Tom Petty questions his existence and his future and paints the dessert with musical splendor and sheer beauty. Johnson once stood) and contemplates the wide-open road that lies ahead. If "Wildflowers" is a vaporous love song, "Time To Move On" paints a rhetorical meditation: "It's time to move on, it's time to get going/ What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing/ But under my feet, baby, grass is growing/ It's time to move on, time to get going". Tom Petty brilliantly refined his sound and released this album under the solo title (not as Heartbreakers), because everything was so nostalgic and personal that only could be the work of a single artistic entity, of a musician who could fully account for the quality of all the songs.įurthermore, all the lyrics follow a more intimate direction. Once I grew attached to "Wildflowers" (both lyrically and musically), the other Tom Petty albums seemed unperfect in comparison because this one was the complete expression of his musical maturity. As the years went by, I finally come to appreciate the entire record and give it the proper consideration. I cannot say that I straight-away fell in love with "Wildflowers." I was initially drawn in by the first three songs and the last two (if I recall correctly), but the middle of the album felt overly pessimistic and musically dull to me. Also, it balances sad songs and pretty ballads, love hymns and visions of the past, and, above all, it keeps intact what we all love about Tom Petty: those crystal-clear harmonies, those Beatles-esque passages, and the celebration of life and love that was his creation. Although not everybody can say that "Wildflowers" is his favorite Tom Petty's record, listeners can feel that the album is the supreme expression of musical accomplishment, a summary of a truly wonderful career, and a gate through a range of emotions that was practically unique in American décor. ![]() "Wildflowers" represents Tom Petty and everything he chose to be-every breath of musicality and every note that decorated his musical approach. Review Summary: The meditative peak of Tom Petty's career, "Wildflowers" finds an artist questioning life's essence and searching for the future road.Īn album can sum up every aspect of a singer’s creation. ![]()
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