You're Gonna Get It! Explained

You're Gonna Get It!
Type:	Album
Artist:	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Cover:	TomPettyYou'reGonnaGetIt!.jpg
Recorded:	1977–78
Studio:	Shelter (Hollywood)
Genre:	Pop rock
Length:	29:38
Label:	Shelter
Prev Title:	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Damn the Torpedoes
Next Year:	1979

You're Gonna Get It! is the second studio album by the American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on May 2, 1978, by Shelter Records. Originally, the album was to be titled Terminal Romance. Its design and art direction was handled by Josh Kosh. The album peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart in its release year, a higher position than its predecessor, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976).

Critical reception

Many reviewers rated You're Gonna Get It! a notch lower than the band's moderately well-received debut album. Rolling Stone noted the "impressive stylistic cohesiveness" between the two.^[1] The Globe and Mail wrote that Petty "is a pop stylist and makes no bones about rephrasing the musical and lyrical themes which constituted pop (as opposed to rock, rhythm and blues or any of the other) before it got lost in the mires of country-rock and disco."^[2]

Personnel

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

• Tom Petty – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, vocals
• Mike Campbell – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve string guitar, lead guitar, accordion
• Benmont Tench – piano, Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals
• Ron Blair – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, sound effects, backing vocals
• Stan Lynch – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Phil Seymour – backing vocals on "Magnolia"
• Noah Shark – percussion

Production

• Denny Cordell – producer
• Tom Petty – producer
• Max Reese – engineer
• Noah Shark – producer, engineer

Charts

Chart (1978)!scope="col"

Peak Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	60
US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)^[4]	23

Notes and References

1. News: . 273 . September 7, 1978 . Tom . Carson . You're Gonna Get It!. 14 September 2011.
2. News: McGrath . Paul . Tom Petty . The Globe and Mail . 12 July 1978 . F2.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 232/233.
4. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Chart History: Billboard 200 . Billboard. 2019-03-29.