- rock, heartland rock, pop rock
- 44 min
- 12 tracks
- Tom Petty Estate
Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers but ninth overall for Tom Petty. Released in July 1991, it was the band's last with MCA Records and the last with drummer Stan Lynch who left in 1994. The album was the second that Petty produced with Jeff Lynne, following the successful Full Moon Fever (1989).
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Classical in form, spare, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Blender3/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- Los Angeles Times3/5 ★
- Music Story3/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock2.5/5 ★
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- People(favorable)
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Learning to Fly4:02
- 2Kings Highway3:08
- 3Into the Great Wide Open3:43
- 4Two Gunslingers3:09
- 5The Dark of the Sun3:23
- 6All or Nothin’4:05
- 7All the Wrong Reasons3:45
- 8Too Good to Be True4:00
- 9Out in the Cold3:40
- 10You and I Will Meet Again3:41
- 11Makin’ Some Noise3:26
- 12Built to Last3:59
12 tracks, 44 minutes.
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- Tom Petty Estate
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- Digital Media
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- XW
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