Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open
Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in July 1991.
The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of 1989's Full Moon Fever.
The music video for the title song starred Johnny Depp, who had moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, and Matt LeBlanc.
For the most part, Into the Great Wide Open was warmly received by critics.
Dave DiMartino, reviewing the album for Entertainment Weekly said that the album was the closest "classic" album Tom and the band have made in fifteen years, saying that the album was a return to their first two albums. He feels that this is due largely to Jeff Lynne and that the songs are better than the ones on Full Moon Fever.
Rolling Stone critic, Parke Puterbaugh, called the album a cross between Full Moon Fever and Damn the Torpedoes, said that it features Petty's best lyrics and that it is much better than Let Me Up (I've Had Enough).
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic felt less of the album, saying that it sounds too much like Full Moon Fever, which he thinks should not have been as successful as it was. He said that the album was "pleasant" but was not his best.
In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a one-star honorable mention, calling it "a worthy effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well like.
The lyrics:
Eddie waited 'til he finished high school
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open
They moved into a place they both could afford
He found a nightclub he could work at the door
She had a guitar and she taught him some chords
The sky was the limit
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
A rebel without a clue
The papers said Ed always played from the heart
He got an agent and a roadie named Bart
They made a record and it went in the chart
The sky was the limit
His leather jacket had chains that would jingle
They both met movie stars, partied and mingled
Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single"
The future was wide open
Into the great wide open
Under them skies of blue
Out in the great wide open
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