Product Details

• Actors: Tom Petty, Gabrielle Anwar, Kim Basinger, Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway
• Directors: Cameron Crowe, David Leland, Doug Dowdle, Jeff Stein, Jesse Dylan
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: German
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mca
• VHS Release Date: November 20, 1995
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630386340X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,334 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great DVD, Great Videos, December 28, 2000

By 

Andy Saunders (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Playback (DVD)

This is a compiliation of Tom Petty's music videos, I have rated it at 4 stars instead of 5 because I thought they could have included 5.1 mix instead of only stereo. The Menu's weren't much just a black and white screen that said "Playback". The Songs on the DVD are "Here Comes My Girl" "Refugee" "The Waiting" "A Woman In Love(It's Not Me)" "Insider" "You Got Lucky" "Change Of Heart" "Don't Come Around Here No More" "Jammin' Me" "I Won't Back Down" "Runnin' Down A Dream" "Free Fallin'" "A Face In The Crowd" "Yer So Bad" "Learning To Fly" "Into The Great Wide Open" "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

If you have seen Any of Tom's Videos then you know his weird, artistic way of doing music videos. After I was done watching thid DVD I said out Loud "Wow, that was great!"

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', December 28, 2001

By 

Brooser Bear (City of New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playback [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If there is any artist who should be nominated the poet laureate of California, Tom Petty would be it... I didn't know until I picked up this video that MTV had made a Video Vanguard Award just for him, because he invented the music video and the MTV! Perhaps in a successful attempt to promote his band (as any fans of Heartbreakers would know he did relentlessely), he took what was then a promotional format for musicians to advertise their music and turned it into an new art form. It was on the strength of his vison and talent as an artist that he was able to attract the best and the brightest, film directors, supermodels and artists to participate in his videos. Whether its' Johnny Depp or Kim Basinger in a dedidedly non-traditional role, or whether its film directors and video animation special effects people, they all worked together to create this incredible collection of videos.

The tape covers a variety of styles, from stage perfomances to animation, to mini films, which was how he conceptualized his videos. What unites most of his work, however, is that it was inspird by the California experience. You can see it in many incarnations. Whether it's the sixties in Learning to fly, and he gets it right, going back all the way to the engineers that flocked to California to work on militray aircraft design and their children, who turned to hippies or whther its the vagaries of being a present day celebrity or the malls, or the politics and power of the ranchers of old in his Insider song, Tom Petty celebrates much and misses little of what is California, while sidestepping the usual cliches of surfers and new age glitter that one usually associates with California.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A dream for all Petty fans, January 14, 2006

By 

Stephanie Taylor "fan4petty" (NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Playback (DVD)

This DVD is a wonderful collection of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at there best. I love watching the videos as they evolve. A fare warning though, this an incredible collection of videos from Tom Petty but it only covers their work up until Mary Janes last dance. There is nothing from any releases after greatest hits. Still worth owning and enjoying.