Tom Petty - The Best Of Everything Available Now

Geffen Records/UMe have released The Best Of Everything, the first career-spanning collection of all of Tom Petty’s hits with The Heartbreakers, his solo work and Mudcrutch. The 38-track set also features two previously unreleased tracks: the poignant and autobiographical “For Real” and the collection’s lead single—an alternate version of the title track, which restores a never-heard second verse to the song that was originally recorded for the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ 1985 album, Southern Accents.

All 38 recordings on The Best of Everything have been re-mastered for this collection from pristine transfers of the original studio multi-track masters.

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING TRACK LIST
 

Disc 1

1.    Free Fallin’

2.    Mary Jane’s Last Dance

3.    You Wreck Me

4.    I Won’t Back Down

5.    Saving Grace

6.    You Don’t Know How It Feels

7.    Don’t Do Me Like That

8.    Listen To Her Heart

9.    Breakdown

10.  Walls (Circus)

11.  The Waiting

12.  Don’t Come Around Here No More

13.  Southern Accents

14.  Angel Dream (No 2)

15.  Dreamville

16.  I Should Have Known It

17.  Refugee

18.  American Girl

19.  The Best Of Everything (Alt. Version)

Disc 2
1.  Wildflowers
2.  Learning To Fly
3.  Here Comes My Girl
4.  The Last DJ
5.  I Need To Know
6.  Scare Easy
7.  You Got Lucky
8.  Runnin’ Down A Dream
9.  American Dream Plan B
10.  Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (feat. Stevie Nicks)
11.  Trailer
12.  Into The Great Wide Open
13.  Room At The Top
14.  Square One
15.  Jammin’ Me
16.  Even The Losers
17.  Hungry No More
18.  I Forgive It All
19.  For Real

Cold War Kids To Release Double Disc Anthology

This is definitely something that I will want to listen to. However, the fact that Cold War Kids are releasing an anthology and not including “Bitter Poem” mystifies me! It’s my favorite song by them and I thought it was one of their most well known tunes, but maybe not. The anthology will be available on December 7^th.

In their impressive, steadily rising career, soulful, blues-tinted rockers Cold War Kids have proven to be one of the most prolific commercially successful bands around. Never ones to rest, from the beginning they’ve utilized all manners of getting their music out to their fans, releasing a steady stream of EPs and digital singles between their full-length studio albums. As they peer over the horizon at their 15-year anniversary next year and reflect on how far they’ve come since forming in Southern California’s burgeoning indie rock scene in 2004, the band, now signed to Capitol Records, has collected together all of their radio singles spanning their tenure on Downtown Records from 2005 to 2015 along with some of their best unreleased and rare tracks for a double disc collection titled This Will All Blow Over In Time. The anthology will be released December 7 via Downtown Records/UMe on 2CD and digital with a double LP on translucent yellow vinyl to follow in February. The pre-order kicked off today with an instant grat download of the unreleased track “Vacation In Chicago,” a live version of fan favorite “We Used To Vacation,” appropriately recorded in Chicago. Pre-order This Will All Blow Over In Time now: https://UMe.lnk.to/ColdWarKids

Led by rousing frontman Nathan Willett (vocals/piano/guitar), Cold War Kids exploded onto the national spotlight in 2006 with their first single, “Hang Me Up To Dry,” which led to appearances on “Letterman” and “Conan” and prompted Rolling Stone to dub it one of “The 100 Best Songs Of The Year,” enthusing: “Indie rock with a little sex: Nathan Willett howls like a country bluesman as the other three Kids elbow their way through a mess of art-damaged funk.” Originally released on their third independently released EP Up In Rags, the song was included on the band’s breakout debut full-length Robbers & Cowards along with fellow radio hits “We Used To Vacation” and “Hospital Beds.” This Will All Blow Over In Time includes these songs as well as all their radio singles from their first five records.

Sequenced in chronological order from year of full-length album release, the first half of the retrospective, aptly titled Singles Worked At Radio, ranges from the soulful urgency of tracks “I’ve Seen Enough” and “Something Is Not Right With Me,” from Loyalty to Loyalty, the band’s first album to reach the top 50 on the Billboard 200, to “Louder Than Ever” and “Royal Blue” from 2011’s bigger and bolder Jacquire King-produced Mine Is Yours, to the funky, anthemic “Audience Of One” from their 2009 EP Behave Yourself, to the driving piano stomper “Miracle Mile,” their fifth top 40 hot in Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, and the electro-tinged “Lost That Easy” from 2013’s Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. Their final record for Downtown, 2014’s Hold My Home, is represented with the infectious, dramatic rocker “All This Could Be Yours” and the clap-along anthem “First,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart earning the band their highest charting single which has since been certified Gold.

Titled Songs From All Over The Place, the second half brings together an exciting mix of 11 unreleased songs and rarities to give a fuller picture of the band’s eclectic and prolific output over the last decade and a half. Kicking off with the aforementioned “Vacation In Chicago,” it includes the demo for “First,” a cover of Nick Cave’s “Opium Tea,” previously only available to stream online only, and “Goodnight Tennessee,” originally released as an iTunes bonus track for Mine Is Yours. Some of the many other highlights include the dubby remake of “Minimum Day” titled “Minimum Mistake,” produced by the late Richard Swift and originally only available as a download, “Coffee Spoon,” a standout from their seventh EP Behave Yourself, and “In Harmony In Silver” and “Quiet Please” from their long-out-of-print debut EP Mulberry Street released in 2005 on Monarchy Music. The set closes with “Fashionable,” a sprawling track released on the deluxe edition of Mine Is Yours.

This Will All Blow Over Time serves as both the first collection of the band’s many hits and a gift to longtime fans who will revel in the unreleased songs and rare tracks from their hard to find early releases. It also chronicles the band’s trajectory and showcases their continued artistic evolution as they get ready to celebrate a milestone anniversary.

This Will All Blow Over In Time Track Listing

Disc 1 – Singles Worked At Radio

1. Hang Me Up To Dry

2. We Used To Vacation

3. Hospital Beds

4. I’ve Seen Enough

5. Something Is Not Right With Me

6. Louder Than Ever

7. Royal Blue

8. Audience of One

9. Miracle Mile

10. Lost That Easy

11. All This Could Be Yours

12. First

Disc 2 – Songs From All Over The Place

1. Vacation In Chicago

2. First (Demo)

3. Opium Tea

4. Goodnight Tennessee

5. Coffee Spoon

6. Minimum Mistake

7. In Harmony In Silver

8. Quiet, Please

9. Expensive Tastes

10. Romance Languages #1

11. Fashionable

TRAIN Announces Greatest Hits Set For November 9th Release

You know, it’s about time these guys put out a greatest hits disc. They have enough great music to do just that. And on November 9^th, we get to hear their picks for the first ever Train Greatest Hits Album. Here’s the full press release for this highly anticipated album:

Following their co-headlining summer tour with Daryl Hall & John Oates, Columbia Records multi-platinum selling band Train has announced a Greatest Hits album set for release on November 9, 2018 via Columbia Records, pre-order the album here.

Train’s Greatest Hits album celebrates 20 years of their music, pulling together 16 fan-favorites like “Drops of Jupiter,” “Calling All Angels,” and “Hey Soul Sister” plus a special cover of one of front man Pat Monahan’s favorite songs, George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” - Train’s version features world renowned saxophonist Kenny G. Fans can also be on the lookout for Train hitting the road again in 2019 with some familiar faces - more information to come in the next month.

Train front man Pat Monahan reflects on making the Greatest Hits album, “I have avoided a ‘greatest hits’ record for a long time. I’ve always thought of those records as a way of saying, ‘Welp, it was fun while it lasted’ and that stressed me out. We live in a new music world now and having people be able to find songs they love faster and easier seems like a great idea. We’re proud and excited that this is the list of songs that built the band for 25 years. Hope they take you to as many great memories as they take us.”

Train’s self-titled debut album, released by Columbia in 1998 was the start of their now accomplished career - the tumbling wordplay of "Meet Virginia" gave them their first unlikely radio hit and 2001’s Drops Of Jupiter broke them to multi-platinum status thanks to the double GRAMMY award-winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40, and earned the Best Rock Song GRAMMY Award. The group won another GRAMMY award in 2011 for their global hit “Hey Soul Sister,” the #1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco. Next was 2012's California 37, which launched the double-platinum hit "Drive By" reaching the Top 10 in over a dozen countries. They've sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, more than 30 million tracks, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including 3 GRAMMY awards, 2 Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors.  Train has gone on to receive eight Grammy nominations and has had 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their 2014 Bulletproof Picasso reaching No. 4 in 2012 and 2017’s a girl a bottle a boat debuting at No. 8.
 

Tracklisting

1. Meet Virginia
2. Drops of Jupiter
3. Calling All Angels
4. Get to Me
5. Look to the Sky
6. Cab
7. Hey Soul Sister
8. If It's Love
9. Marry Me
10. Save Me San Francisco
11. Drive By
12. 50 Ways
13. Bruises
14. Angel in Blue Jeans
15. Play That Song
16. Call Me Sir
17. Careless Whisper Feat. Kenny G

Elton John Ultimate Greatest Hits Compilation Diamonds Available Now

Elton John has released the ultimate greatest hits compilation. If you don’t own any Elton John music in your collection---A: What the hell is wrong with you? B: This is the collection to get. If you do own some Elton John, this is still the collection to get!

Diamonds is available in four physical formats: 1 CD, 2CD, 3CD and 2LP. I highly recommend the 3CD set as you get all the hits and some deeper tracks as well. It is definitely worth the investment! 

Kicking off with the ever-stunning 'Your Song,' this definitive collection brings together all the landmark hits of one of the greatest song books of all time, including 'Tiny Dancer,' 'Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time),' 'Candle In The Wind,' 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart,' 'Sacrifice,' 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight.'

'Diamonds' coincides with the 50th anniversary of Elton's phenomenal song writing partnership with Bernie Taupin. Meeting in 1967 through a music magazine advert seeking songwriters, Elton and Bernie went on to become one of the most enduring song writing duos of all time, achieving a sustained level of success that puts them head and shoulders above the competition. Catapulted into the limelight as a song writing force in 1971 with 'Your Song,' the duo never stood still creatively, defining an era with their run of back-to-back classic 1970's albums. While 'Candle In The Wind' topped the charts in three different decades and 2016's critically acclaimed 'Wonderful, Crazy, Night' was a top ten hit in the US, their legacy is one that is unrivalled in terms of longevity, creativity and commercial success.

Speaking about their relationship, Elton says: 'We are at 50 years, and our relationship is healthier than it's ever been. There have been times in our relationship when we've written with other people, but it still didn't stop the love. I love Bernie more than I've ever done and I think he probably feels the same way about me, because we've both led separate lives; we both write in separate rooms. We have an amazing respect and love for each other that's only grown.'

Bernie Taupin says: 'We still get a kick out of what we do; it's what we do - when we come together and write something, it still has that magical quality to it - it doesn't get any better than that. That feeling hasn't aged.'

Here is the tracklist for each version:

1CD STANDARD (U.S. Only)

1.         Your Song

2.         Tiny Dancer

3.         Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

4.         Crocodile Rock

5.         Daniel

6.         Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

7.         Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

8.         Candle In The Wind

9.         Bennie And The Jets

10.       Philadelphia Freedom

11.       Island Girl

12.       Don't Go Breaking My Heart [Elton John and Kiki Dee]

13.       Mama Can't Buy You Love

14.       I'm Still Standing

15.       I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

16.       Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me [George Michael and Elton John]

17.       Can You Feel The Love Tonight

STANDARD (2CD, DIGITAL)

CD1    

1.         Your Song

2.         Tiny Dancer

3.         Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

4.         Honky Cat

5.         Crocodile Rock

6.         Daniel

7.         Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

8.         Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

9.         Candle In The Wind

10.       Bennie And The Jets

11.       The Bitch Is Back

12.       Philadelphia Freedom

13.       Island Girl

14.       Someone Saved My Life Tonight

15.       Don't Go Breaking My Heart [Elton John and Kiki Dee]

16.       Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

17.       Little Jeannie

CD2    

1.         Song For Guy

2.         Blue Eyes

3.         I'm Still Standing

4.         I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

5.         Sad Songs (Say So Much)

6.         Nikita

7.         I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

8.         Sacrifice

9.         Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me [George Michael and Elton John]

10.       Something About The Way You Look Tonight

11.       I Want Love

12.       Can You Feel The Love Tonight

13.       Are You Ready For Love?

14.       Electricity

15.       Home Again

16.       Looking Up

17.       Circle Of Life

DELUXE (3CD, DIGITAL)

CD1    

1.         Your Song

2.         Tiny Dancer

3.         Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

4.         Honky Cat

5.         Crocodile Rock

6.         Daniel

7.         Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

8.         Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

9.         Candle In The Wind

10.       Bennie And The Jets

11.       The Bitch Is Back

12.       Philadelphia Freedom

13.       Island Girl

14.       Someone Saved My Life Tonight

15.       Don't Go Breaking My Heart [Elton John and Kiki Dee]

16.       Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

17.       Little Jeannie

CD2    

1.         Song For Guy

2.         Blue Eyes

3.         I'm Still Standing

4.         I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

5.         Sad Songs (Say So Much)

6.         Nikita

7.         I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

8.         Sacrifice

9.         Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me [George Michael and Elton John]

10.       Something About The Way You Look Tonight

11.       I Want Love

12.       Can You Feel The Love Tonight

13.       Are You Ready For Love?

14.       Electricity

15.       Home Again

16.       Looking Up

17.       Circle Of Life

CD3    

1.         Skyline Pigeon

2.         Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

3.         Pinball Wizard

4.         Mama Can't Buy You Love

5.         Part-Time Love

6.         Victim of Love

7.         Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

8.         Kiss The Bride

9.         That's What Friends Are For [Dionne Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie   

             Wonder]

10.       The One

11.       True Love [Elton John and Kiki Dee]

12.       Believe

13.       Live Like Horses [Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti]

14.       Written In The Stars [Elton John and LeAnn Rimes]

15.       This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

16.       Good Morning To The Night [Elton vs PNAU]

17.       Step Into Christmas

2LP

Side A 

1.         Your Song

2.         Tiny Dancer

3.         Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

4.         Crocodile Rock

5.         Daniel

Side B 

1.         Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)

2.         Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

3.         Candle In The Wind

4.         Bennie And The Jets

5.         Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Side C 

1.         Don't Go Breaking My Heart [Elton John and Kiki Dee]

2.         Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

3.         Song For Guy

4.         Blue Eyes

5.         I'm Still Standing

6.         I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

Side D 

1.         Nikita

2.         Sacrifice

3.         Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me [George Michael and Elton John]

4.         Can You Feel The Love Tonight

5.         Are You Ready For Love?