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

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

Pretty tune, but so hokey. I liked it more before I actually moved to the South.

"You don't know how it feels".. Love it, voted for it. It's strengthened in the album context. Thought petty was a badass (I was 12) for explicitly mentioning pot. It's a great "walking into a crowded bar feeling cool" song, ime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJqe1h8qAQ

the hokeyness of southern accents works better for me than the last verse of rebels. and i really dig the trick he plays with the bridge and final verse, going in medias res for the middle eight, then backing out to set the scene after the fact.

also i kinda love that pic. byrds fetish in full effect even in mudcrutch days!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/NotoriousByrdBrothers.jpg/440px-NotoriousByrdBrothers.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vc80GQq.jpg

26 (TIE). Mary Jane's Last Dance - 138 points (7 votes)
http://youtu.be/aowSGxim_O8

Oh my my, oh hell yes

I wonder how much of his longevity can be attributed to Petty's enthusiastic embrace of videos as a format, his career fortunes track pretty closely to the rise and fall of video culture

Like it more now than I did then.

I wonder how much of his longevity can be attributed to Petty's enthusiastic embrace of videos as a format, his career fortunes track pretty closely to the rise and fall of video culture

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:15 (4 minutes ago) Permalink

Also his willingness to be a low-key, amused weirdo in his videos instead of an aging guy doing rock star moves.

yeah they're all very narrative-driven, with him as the narrator but not necessarily the "star"

for a tossed-off track thrown onto a greatest hits collection, "last dance" has proven to be astonishingly durable. a lot of guitar players have driven themselves nuts chasing that tone (probably AC30 but not documented afaik)

does anyone else hear it as an older, wearier "american girl"?

Re: music videos, it's really amazing how petty navigated multiple decades, managing to be both "classic rock" and "new wave" (as confusing as that term was in the late 70s), kinda fusing it almost

I assumed that everyone loved it, and that it would cruise into the top ten.

i loved "Mary Jane's Last Dance" at the time, it definitely helped motivate me to by the Greatest Hits CD, but it just barely made it onto the tail end of my ballot. it amused me that another Rick Rubin-produced hit (RHCP's "Dani California") was widely thought to be distractingly similar to "Last Dance" but Rubin is so famously hands-off about the actual songwriting that nobody even bothered to fault him for it.

http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-6/episode-13/mary-janes-last-dance.html

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

25. Learning to Fly - 143 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/s5BJXwNeKsQ

xpost Looks like consensus is Tele/Nocaster (Campbell's guitar) played by Petty through an AC30.

happy that "Learning To Fly" showed up, i was starting to worry it wouldn't after several other '90s singles already placed. i swear that like 30 different country hits in the past decade have the same chords as "Learning," so many Petty vibes on country radio.

http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-5/episode-6/learning-to-fly.html

those into the great wide open singles are so slow