Wait... THAT song charted on the Modern Rock charts??

Haha. After all that.

Wikipedia lists Divynils as an Australian rock band.

Genres: pop rock, new wave, hard rock.

You chose wrong ILM.

However, it managed to reach the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 4 and at No. 2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, after receiving extensive play on modern rock radio, which was more accepting of the song's subject matter.

Told you it was considered "rockist" because it's about jilling off.

did steve earle, lyle lovette, and maybe dwight yoakam make twang cool enough for petty to be considered modern rock? did the wilburys belatedly incite modern rock into reclaiming petty as kind of a new wave pioneer in light of his canonization as part of the guthrie tradition or did that make him hipper? "won't back down "is just ok and even boilerplate petty idg why this is on the modern rock radio at this point.

Yea

he just seems so sardonic and laid-back and too

dammit.

he just seems so sardonic and laid-back and too tired to live up to the courage of his convictions in this song. maybe that's what's modern rock about it.

Chart was figuring itself out in "89. It has nothing to do with Petty's promotion as New Wave, although he was promoted as such in the seventies.

i phrased it awkwardly but that's what i'm saying. once upon a time petty fit right into the kroq playlist, and then he didn't for a long time, unlike the pretenders for example. why, for one desperate moment there, did he creep back into modern rock's memory?

also i figure petty originally being pegged "new wave" was more than "we don't know what to do with this guy, we'll put him with these other people" or even aor-dinosaurs-with-skinny-ties syndrome; he really owned that bleak, weird, dark, hollow late-70s vibe that hung poisonously over everything without having to borrow anything sonically from the spiky-haired brigade. he fit in without having to make any formal overtures. then eventually he got shelved with the earnest heartland farm-aid dadrock mellencamp, which i assumed you don't come back from but there he is, even if just for a second.

tbh i think i's the way he dressed. lookit the suit jacket and polka dot shirt! lookit benmont tench, he thinks he's in the tubes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nbHpF7-qk

Idk I feel like Don't Come Around Here No More is p modern rock. Music video absolutely sets a precedent for where MTV would go during the grunge years

Petty was an MTV staple prior to Southern Accents. I remember the mournful, Mad Max-style "You Got Lucky" video being in almost constant rotation in the fall of 1982 and well into 1983. His music seemed to slot in just as comfortably with the ostensibly authentic retro-Americana of Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp as the cheerfully ephemeral pop modernism of The Cars and 80s-era ZZ Top, this adaptability a product of styling as much as substance.