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The Extras Make It Great

Brian J. Greene | Durham, NC | 10/10/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sincerely, the Dwight Twilley Band'd debut album from the late 70s, is simply a masterpiece, easily one of the best Power Pop records ever made. Twilley Don't Mind, the follow-up, maybe came up a little short when compared to Sincerely, but is still a great album. Both of these records stand up to anything made in that era or style, including Big Star, Badfinger, Cheap Trick, et al. Having those two albums on one CD is reason enough to get this release, but the real clincher is the bonus material: four extra tracks recorded in the same area. All four stand up to the best material on the two albums, and a couple of them, "You Never Listen to My Music," and "Didn't You Say" are actually better than many of the tracks on Twilley Don't Mind. Get this, then go and find that 2-CD collection of demos by the Shoes that came out this year, and you will have the best of this year's reissued Power Pop in your possession."

Tom Petty heavily influenced by Dwight Twilley's sound

R. Baxendale II | 10/01/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I've mentioned elsewhere that Tom Petty was heavily influenced by Dwight Twilley's band, and you can hear a bit of the Petty sound in Twilley's "I'm on Fire" and the influence it may have had on the Heartbreakers, whose first LP came out in 1976. The Dwight Twilley Band was Dwight Twilley, of course, and Phil Seymour, who had a substantial solo hit in 1981 with "Precious to Me.""