Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (LP)

 
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Tom Petty
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (LP)

[ Geffen Records / LP ]

Release Date: Friday 16 June 2017

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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers spent much of 1986 on the road as Bob Dylan's backing band. Dylan's presence proved to be a huge influence on the Heartbreakers, turning them away from the well-intentioned but slick pretensions of Southern Accents and toward a loose, charmingly ramshackle roots rock that harked back to their roots yet exhibited the professional eclecticism they developed during the mid-'80s.

All of this was on full display on Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), their simplest and best album since Hard Promises. Not to say that Let Me Up is a perfect album -- far from it, actually. Filled with loose ends, song fragments, and unvarnished productions, it's a defiantly messy album, and it's all the better for it, especially arriving on the heels of the well-groomed Accents.

Apart from the (slightly dated) rant "Jammin' Me'" (co-written by Dylan, but you can't tell), there aren't any standouts on the record, but there's no filler either -- it's just simply a good collection of ballads ("Runaway Trains"), country-rockers ("The Damage You've Done"), pop/rock ("All Mixed Up," "Think About Me"), and hard rockers ("Let Me Up [I've Had Enough]"). While that might not be enough to qualify Let Me Up as one of Petty & the Heartbreakers' masterpieces, it is enough to qualify it as the most underrated record in their catalog. [Let Me Up was re-released on LP in 2017.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Tracks:

A1 Jammin' Me
A2 Runaway Trains
A3 The Damage You've Done
A4 It'll All Work Out
A5 My Life / Your World
B1 Think About Me
B2 All Mixed Up
B3 A Self - Made Man
B4 Ain't Love Strange
B5 How Many More Days
B6 Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)