Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-You're Gonna Get It! (1978)


 

Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Title: You're Gonna Get It!

Label: Shelter Records/ABC Records

Format: LP

Cat #: DA-52029

Year of Release: 1978

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1978 Keel Mfg. Corp. Press

Listed Condition: VG/VG

Sell Date: 1/12/21

Sell Price: $9.99

Discogs Last Sold: 1/5/21 $11.00 NM/VG+

Low: $2.00 VG/G+

Median: $10.50

High:  $15.00 VG+/VG+

Current low price: $8.00 VG+/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 330/90

Where Sold:  Philadelphia, PA

Time it took to sell:  5 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA That's Entertainment $1.99 used

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

Although You're Gonna Get It! features my personal favorite Petty hit "Listen To Her Heart," I've always thought of this album as two hits plus a ton of filler.

But that song!  A Byrds chime and modern day heartache.  Taken away by "money and cocaine."  She's gonna listen to her heart and give the subject more misery.  If this isn't love for the modern age, I don't know what is.  The side open that precedes it, "I Need To Know" was also inescapable in my yoof.

When this record was ordered last month, it came in a pretty heavy order week and I didn't have any time to spin it before it went out the door.  Last night I woke up at 2:30 in the morning wide awake and decided to listen to something on my hard drive in headphones. Why not play close attention to You're Gonna Get It!?  Were there some missed gems I ignored in the early 80's when I bought this?

There are 8 songs to ponder and the opener and closers are probably the best of those.  That's why they are opener and closer!  "Baby's A Rock 'n Roller" has the head turning line "she don't care about the United Nations."  What does THAT mean?  The only other song that cracked 100 plays live over Petty's career is the side 1 closer "Too Much Ain't Enough" which I still can't hum or mime.

One noticeable thing about this album are Petty's distinctive vocal mannerisms are the same as they would be in the future.  Groans and grunts of rock 'n roll.  The next record, Damn The Torpedoes, he perfected a start to finish song cycle and kept that up through the mid-80's before dropping off a tad.  He had his moments after the Jeff Lynne filter,  especially with Wildflowers, but his first decade is his best decade.

Often they are.


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