YOU RANK ME BABY, YEAH YOU RATE ME 1-2 - ILM Artist Poll #71 - Tom Petty (results)

and "A One Story Town":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCccRdsKCU

[b]Petty[/]: [i]there's a really funny line in it: "nauseous adrenaline/Like breaking up a dogfight." [Laughs] I was really pleased with that. To get those lines into a song that's pretty was really hard. [Laughs] But it worked out really nice.

holy hell bbcode

http://i.imgur.com/tfqMH3d.jpg

34. The Wild One, Forever - 85 points (5 votes)
http://youtu.be/UbdlHgyIZfM

the first song i voted for to make the big list!

Cougar Town!
http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-6/episode-7/the-wild-one-forever.html

Time To Move On was real high on my ballot. One Story Town and A Thing About You as well. One Story Town should have been the single, if not for the "shit" in the chorus.

Excellent rollout

Will any post-Wildflowers tracks make it in?

i voted for 2!

so did I!

Same.

the first song i voted for to make the big list!

― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Sunday, December 13, 2015

me too. I think we said all there is to say [heh] on the nominations thread but i love "the wild one, forever" in spite of its unfinished quality (and i take tipsy mothra's point that in this case the form reflects the content, if not intentionally.)

Per Petty, he was going for "a chorus like The Rascals would have done," which I find charming.

http://i.imgur.com/mUVcB0f.jpg

33. Nightwatchman - 88 points (4 votes)
http://youtu.be/k4zL5vPs7Ho

We sure love Hard Promises!

so, anybody else like Roger McGuinn's 1991 album Back to Rio? Solid collection of songs, tom and the heartbreakers are all over it, iirc

gah back FROM rio

http://i.imgur.com/rls8MbP.jpg

32. Love is a Long Road - 93 points (4 votes)
http://youtu.be/ZfS6Nl962Qg

I didn't know if this was gonna make it, love this song.

I suspect the opening synth figure is what anti-Lynneists have in mind.

nah, I'm anti-Lynne and I dig it. the change make this one. like, when it finally gets to the G as it rounds into the chorus.

also the way he changes up the melody on "maybe one more chance"

That was my #11. I really rate those deeper FMF cuts a lot higher than some people, clearly.

Driving home through rural Texas after a rainstorm, listening to Wildflowers, which is sounding soooo great in such a context.

it is a great-sounding record. two years of long hours in the studio for tom, rick, mike and a few others.

in the zollo book petty says "I think it's maybe my favorite LP that I've ever done... that's the one that really gets me when I hear it. I can kind of go, 'Wow, I'm really proud of that. That came out exactly like I wanted it to."

http://i.imgur.com/1CYAnHn.jpg

31. Walls - 104 points (5 votes - 1 shoutout for Circus, 1 shoutout for No. 3)
http://youtu.be/ZfS6Nl962Qg

great song

Love Is a Long Road was my #3, and I'm largely anti-Lynne, but it's one of Tom's best songs and I can't imagine it sounding any different than it does.

i let my hatred of edward burns blind me to "Walls" when it came out but I'm glad I got to hear it again for this poll. just a straight-up great song, with or without lindsey buckingham

Petty:
I wrote that for the movie at the Chicken Shack [Ed - his post-divorce bachelor pad in Pacific Palisades, more or less a log cabin with actual chickens]... I think what kicked it off was Johny Cash said to me one day, "Some days are diamonds and some days are rocks." And I took that line, and wrote the song...

[Lindsey came up with the harmonies]. Yeah, it was all him. He came down and did it in one session. I kind of just sat back and watched him go. Just going, "Yep - that's what I would've done!" [Laughs]

wrong link for "Love Is A Long Road."

Casa Dega is so good

wrong link for "Love Is A Long Road."

― welltris (crüt), Sunday, December 13, 2015

balls! thanks for the heads-up.

"LOVE IS A LONG ROAD," CORRECT LINK: http://youtu.be/qOpuB5aSVF4

just checked my master sheet and it's correct there so I don't even know how that snuck in!

I was the shoutout for "Walls #3": It was the version I fell in love with on the radio. One night the DJ talked about how there was another version of the song; he played the openings of both, before deciding on-air that #3 was the 'correct' version and would be the one they'd continue to play.

'Circus' was the version in the video so i think of that as the main version and the other as the remix or whatever. not really sure which i prefer, but i'm kind of indifferent to the song overall. "Hope You Never" was the She's The One track that stuck with me.

Bucky is also on "Climb That Hill" and "Asshole", because nothing quite says "1996" like Lindsey Buckingham harmonizing on a Beck obscurity in a Edward Burns movie.

She's The One the album is quality goods.

Remembering how much I like "Walls" was my favorite thing about this poll.

http://i.imgur.com/76JHFgz.jpg

30. Dogs on the Run - 113 points (5 votes)
Original recording: http://youtu.be/x19fW4yC324
Live, 2014: http://youtu.be/bTBTBNx4NZU

lovely song, i'm sitting here listening to it like "maybe i should've voted for this"

Good lord.

Love the photo.

This is one of my faves, a compact epic with some of his best Dylanisms. "She would laugh and light my cigar-ETTE..."

Great Stan Lynch work on this one, too.

Why wasn't Dogs On The Run a single with a cool video? Anything would have been better than Forget About Me.

I'm going to have to listen to some Tom Petty tomorrow, I think.

Can I say how much I love his satellite radio show?

Super worried I'm going to buy a Rickenbacker, tbh.

worse things could happen to a person. what's your amp situation?

tipsy OTM re: dogs on the run dylanisms and percussion. campbell's only writing credit on Southern Accents and maybe only the fourth or fifth best track on the record, but the one I'm fondest of. his lead line on the chorus makes the track, and the variation he works on that melody is gorgeous when it comes.

maybe only the fourth or fifth best track on the record,

man you are overselling it

xpost Nothing to do the Rick justice. Just a 1980 Princeton.

great amp imo! i had a '79 for a while. cleanest 12 watts ever :)

man you are overselling it

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 14, 2015

lol i have no idea how to read this