Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You’re Gonna Get It (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:17 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
You’re Gonna Get It! is the second album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1978. Originally, the album was to be titled Terminal Romance. Like its self-titled predecessor, this album includes tight melodic songs awash in ringing guitars and organ. It reached #23 on Billboard’s Top LP’s & Tapes chart in 1978. It also earned Petty and the Heartbreakers their first gold record.
Many reviewers rated You’re Gonna Get It! only a notch lower than their moderately well-received debut album. Some reviews such as in Rolling Stone at the time noted the “impressive stylistic cohesiveness” between the two. It did chart higher, however, than its predecessor.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers didn’t really knock out their second album — it was released two years after their debut — but it sure sounds as if they did. There are some wonderful moments on this record, but it often feels like leftovers from a strong debut, or an album written on the road, especially since the music is simply an extension of the first album. That said, when You’re Gonna Get It! works, it devastates. That’s not saying that “When the Time Comes” is a masterpiece, even if it’s a fine opener, but it does mean that “I Need to Know” and the scathing “Listen to Her Heart” are testaments to how good this band could be when it was focused. If the rest of the album doesn’t achieve this level of perfection, that’s a signal that they were still finding their footing, but overall it’s still a solid record, filled with good performances that are never quite as good as the songs. It’s pretty good as it spins, but once it finishes, you remember those two songs at the heart of the record, maybe the opener and closer, which are stronger than the rest of the competent, enjoyable, yet unremarkable roots-rockers that surround them. Not necessarily a transitional effort — after all, it pretty much mirrors its predecessor — but a holding pattern that may not suggest the peaks of what’s to come, but still delivers a good soundalike of the debut. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist:
01. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – When The Time Comes (02:45)
02. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – You’re Gonna Get It (02:59)
03. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hurt (03:16)
04. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Magnolia (03:01)
05. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Too Much Ain’t Enough (02:56)
06. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – I Need To Know (02:23)
07. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Listen To Her Heart (03:01)
08. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – No Second Thoughts (02:38)
09. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Restless (03:21)
10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Baby’s A Rock ‘N’ Roller (02:53)
