You’re Gonna Get It! by Tom Petty

You're Gonna Get It!, the second album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, hit the racks on Shelter on May 2, 1978, and it's a hungry young band from Gainesville, Florida, cutting straight to the point. Petty co-produced with Denny Cordell, and the record was nearly called Terminal Romance before the snottier title won out.

The lineup is the classic first one: Petty singing and slashing rhythm guitar, Mike Campbell's lead lines stinging, Benmont Tench's keyboards rolling underneath, Ron Blair on bass and Stan Lynch pounding the drums. It's lean, no-frills rock and roll with a jangle and a snarl, the sound that would get filed under heartland rock. It climbed to 23 on the Billboard album chart, higher than their debut had managed. Josh Kosh handled the design and art direction.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.