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Album · 1999

Echo

by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Echo is a 1999 rock album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. It runs 32 tracks across 137 minutes on Reprise Records.

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32
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137 min
Runtime
123 bpm
Tempo
G major
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Tracklist

32 tracks · 137 min

  1. 01Happy
  2. 01Room at the Top
  3. 02I Got You
  4. 02Counting on You
  5. 03Free Girl Now
  6. 03Can't Breathe
  7. 04Lonesome Sundown
  8. 04Brave
  9. 05Outta My Head
  10. 05Swingin'
  11. 06Accused of Love
  12. 06My Hands
  13. 07Echo
  14. 07Love Letter
  15. 08Won't Last Long
  16. 08Broken
  17. 09Naked
  18. 09Billy the Kid
  19. 10I Don't Wanna Fight
  20. 10Stop Crying Your Heart Out
  21. 11This One's for Me
  22. 11Don't Let Me Down
  23. 12Alive
  24. 12No More
  25. 13About to Give Out
  26. 13Lost Then Found (feat. OneRepublic) / Stone Hearts & Hand Grenades
  27. 14You Don't Care
  28. 14Rhino Skin
  29. 15Let It Rain
  30. 15One More Day, One More Night
  31. 16Fly Here Now
  32. 17Happy (Jason Nevins remix edit)

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Echo is the 10th studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. First released in April 1999, the album reached #10 on the Billboard 200 aided by the singles "Free Girl Now," "Swingin'" and "Room At The Top," which hit #5, #17 and #19 respectively on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1999. The album was the band's last collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, and was also the last to feature contributions from longtime bassist/vocalist Howie Epstein, who died of a heroin overdose in 2003. Echo was certified Gold (500,000 copies sold) by the RIAA in July 1999, only three months after it was released. Echo is the only Heartbreakers' album to contain a lead vocal from another member of the band: Mike Campbell on "I Don't Wanna Fight." An outtake entitled "Sweet William" appeared as the B-side (or second song) on the "Room at the Top" CD single.

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Only a handful of songs were played on the band's tour that year, and none have been played since 2001. The record was largely written during a period when Petty was going through a painful divorce (influencing the lyrics of songs such as "Lonesome Sundown" and the title track), and Petty has cited that as the reason for his preference not to play any songs from the album in concert. However, "Room at the Top", "Free Girl Now" and "I Don't Wanna Fight" all appear in the concert film "High Grass Dogs: Live at the Fillmore" and a version of "Billy the Kid" appears on "The Live Anthology". Out of all the songs on this album, "Billy the Kid" has been played the most in concert.

In brief

When was Echo released?
Echo was released in 1999 on Reprise Records.
How many tracks are on Echo?
Echo has 32 tracks, with a runtime of 137 minutes.
What genre is Echo?
Echo is catalogued under Rock, Heartland Rock, Pop Rock.
What BPM is Echo?
Echo runs at a median tempo of 123 BPM across its tracks, most often in G major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Echo?
Listeners of Echo also rate Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty.

Echo at a glance

Label
Warner Bros. Records
Produced by
Tom Petty, Rick Rubin, Mike Campbell

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