Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance - Non-Album Tracks (1992-1993)

Tom P. has put out a lot of great albums, but he could have put out even more. One "lost album" that few people seem to talk about is his 1993 album that never was. 

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

In 1992, Tom P. and the Heartbreakers returned to the studio to start recording a follow up to 1991's "Into the Great Wide Open." However, P. was having personal and musical problems with the drummer Stan Lynch, even though he's generally considered a talented drummer. (Already, the 1989 "Full Moon Fever" album was supposedly a P. solo album, but it was a de facto Heartbreakers album except for Lynch.) P. did some sessions with Lynch as the Heartbreakers and some without him technically not called the Heartbreakers, though the difference was essentially academic.

There were lots of good songs written, and the ones that have become public sound fine, but for whatever reason, P. wasn't satisfied. Instead of putting out an album, two of the songs went to a new greatest hits album (including what would become an all-time classic, "Mary Jane's Last Dance"). P. and his band continued recording, though without Lynch, who officially quit the band in 1994. Apparently, P. wrote tons of songs, and all that new material caused him to lose interest in most of the songs that started in 1992. His "Wildflowers" album came out in 1994, and it was a very solid album despite being 63 minutes long.

A bunch of the 1992 and 1993 songs came out on the 1995 retrospective "Playback," so the songs on "All the Rest," if it ever comes out, represent another lost album with little to no overlap with this album here.

In compiling this album, I focused almost entirely on studio tracks, most of which were originals. But two original songs from this time period are currently only available as live versions, so I added those in as well, with the audience noise minimized.

Note also that "Peace in L.A." is well known in its "Peace Mix" version, because that was included in "Playback." But that actually was the B-side. I've included the more straightforward A-side version of the song instead, which I think is similar but better.

This album is 43 minutes long.

UPDATE: In 2025, I added a newly available song, "What's the Matter with Louise." It is only available through the Amazon website, in relation to a new documentary about the band. Most information about this song states it's a "Wildflowers" outtake, but it actually was recorded in 1992.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/p7K61bAD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/AS5tf0mHQwWorZX/file

For the cover art, I used the cover of the single for "Mary Jane's Last Dance."