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

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

http://i.imgur.com/2jpWE38.jpg

29. You Don't Know How It Feels - 123 points (5 votes)
http://youtu.be/9TlBTPITo1I

huh this is lower than I thought it would be

the absolute last time in human history that a guy playing harmonica and acoustic guitar at the same time was a top 40 hit that was relatively popular with teens

the Cougar Town episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarHWH9oRZI

lol I'm not going to check but I believe that

i mean maybe John Mayer did something i'm forgetting

one thing I'm really noticing is how hard it is to find candid images of petty or the Heartbreakers. Lots of promo and live shots but very few unguarded moments.

https://i.imgur.com/IgcGNUk.jpg

28. Insider - 129 points (6 votes)
http://youtu.be/x7bjXWzms5I

Wow!

this should've been the Petty-Nicks single, not goddamn "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

Nah, "Stop Draggin'" is the hit. But "Insider" goes a lot deeper, obv.

My #2 and my first TOO LOW

great story about those two tracks tho. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" was a near-finished Heartbreakers track when they dubbed Stevie's vocal on top and put it on Bella Donna. iirc Stan still holds a grudge that Tom gave it away. On the flip side, Tom wrote "Insider" for Stevie and just couldn't let it go.

never got the love for "Stop Draggin' -- drag is precisely what this generic blooze does.

Petty
...so I finally wrote her this song called "Insider" and I brought it down and Jimmy [Iovine] just flipped over the song... He asked for a song. He was going to produce [Bella Donna]. He wanted one desperately. I remember bringing it to him, and he said, "God, when I asked for a song I didn't expect this!" And I was really attached to it. And it really hurt me when I did the track and the vocals. And I said, [softly], "Stevie, I can't give you this." And she said, "Well, I can relate to that. I completely understand. I'll take something else..."

xp

Now now, this doesn't have to be the big get even.

why does it have to be one? Stevie & Tom together are just amazing; Stop Draggin' My Heart Around & Insider make me wish they had a whole album.
plus the chorus on Stop Draggin is unreal.

hear hear. I'd love for them to cut a record together ~now~

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

27. Runaway Trains - 135 points (7 votes)
http://youtu.be/TOTkw5om5QY

last year Stevie released an album of decades-old unreleased material, and it included a Petty co-write:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg0K9uH-zpc

and another written w/ Mike Campbell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57tHMuK7Bw

she and Campbell co-wrote this fine late period tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNLQpeXfXww

well I see my vote stuffing efforts (#5) didn't go so far. My favorite Petty deep cut.
It seems like this is the song that Adam Granduciel hears in his head.

i'm a huge stan for runaway trains. very much a campbell track (ben and stan were both not thrilled with how little room campbell's demo gave them to breathe) and very much petty not missing out on another "boys of summer" but even so...

the little Very Mike Campbell licks at 3:45-3:55 are just crushingly good. great vocal performance too.

http://i.imgur.com/A8J9Qku.jpg

26 (TIE). Southern Accents - 138 points (6 votes)
http://youtu.be/qTi6x_ADjqs