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

spotify list goes up when we hit 21 :-)

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

23. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid) - 156 points (6 votes, one #1)
http://youtu.be/1pdscKJp_58

Apparently he wrote and recorded it in one sitting.

it sounds like it. it seems unlikely that a line like "who compaaaaaaaaaaares with you" would've survived a second sitting. fucking love this song. the wild flowers, forever.

Surprised "Shadow of a Doubt" is so high, but I guess that one #1 vote gave it a kick. I didn't vote for it, but it's pretty great. (If I was gonna vote for a non-hit from Torpedoes, I would've gone with "Louisiana Rain," which is the Dirty South song Southern Accents never matched.)

"shadow of a doubt" snuck up higher on my ballot than I expected, but I wasn't the #1. great representative of the "don't bore us, get to the chorus!" ethos and a nice little rocker.

http://i.imgur.com/IIm4aTb.jpg

22. Yer So Bad - 157 points (7 votes, one #1)
http://youtu.be/WdRViFCvvUo

http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-6/episode-10/yer-so-bad.html

had no idea there was so much love for "yer so bad." i don't think i ever even realized it was a single with a video and everything...

http://i.imgur.com/RCwIst2.jpg

21. Crawling Back to You - 170 points (7 votes, one #1)
http://youtu.be/gxsKi9MD6Bs

god I love this song

is the highest charting song recorded in 1994?

man you guys really like this post-FMF stuff

lotta Wildflowers, still holding out hope that "You Wreck Me" made the cut

man you guys really like this post-FMF stuff

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Lots of it is better than stuff on FMF though (and better than some eighties stuff).

iirc Wildflowers is generally considered to be a pretty good record?

oh yeah

right. what Alfred said. like "yer so bad" at 22 is a lot more baffling to me personally.

I didn't vote so I can't complain but "Shadow of a Doubt" TOO LOW

"Yer So Bad" was #16 on my ballot. Would much rather hear it then most of the other FMF singles!

it also pulled a #1 and a #2, so you're in good company!

placing ahead of Insider though... all the proof you'll ever need that your poll-runner has not tampered with the results

did not vote but I'm pretty sure crawling back to you would've been my #1

http://i.imgur.com/e1xlJQy.jpg

20. I Need To Know - 171 points (9 votes)
http://youtu.be/lBuIM-ekVjA

that was the one i felt most conflicted about cutting from my ballot, so i'm glad it did well without my help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7brDWa7xCg

Like how Campbell appears to be looking at Lynch like, "Uh, I think you have gum in your hair" on that sleeve.

This is the closest so far to matching my own ballot choice -- #18.

I looooove "I Need to Know." Lookit the ROCK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBuIM-ekVjA

Stan Lynch looks like your lesbian big sis in so many of the early pictures.

RECAP

40. Casa Dega
39. A One Story Town (tied)
39. Kings Highway (tied)
38. A Thing About You
37. A Face in the Crowd
36. Something Big
35. Time to Move On

34. The Wild One, Forever
33. Nightwatchman
32. Love is a Long Road
31. Walls (1 shoutout for Circus, 1 shoutout for No. 3)
30. Dogs on the Run

29. You Don’t Know How It Feels
28. Insider
27. Runaway Trains
26. Southern Accents (tied)
26. Mary Jane’s Last Dance (tied)

25. Learning To Fly (1 shoutout for Live w/Stevie Nicks)
24. Wildflowers
23. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
22. Yer So Bad
21. Crawling Back to You
20. I Need To Know

SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: http://open.spotify.com/user/dustradio/playlist/2VZLJQ5wrhbDspcOy9Y0mR

man you guys really like this post-FMF stuff

Full Moon Fever, Into The Great Wide Open, Wildflowers and maybe She's The One all feel like the same era - sort of the commercial renaissance.

Not sure if anything post-1996 is going to place at this point.

LIKE BENNY GOODMAN!

HE'S...THE LAST...DJ

But seriously...I found my copy of Echo after sending in my ballot. "Accused oF Love" and "This One's For Me" are among his best fake Byrds tracks.

http://i.imgur.com/83bSUX5.png

19. I Won't Back Down - 177 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/nvlTJrNJ5lA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGmEcmR7X0k

yeah I don't have anything to say about "I won't back down" either

here's one: George Harrison's awfully good at harmonies, isn't he?

According to Wikipedia: "A message of defiance against unnamed forces of difficulty and possibly oppression, the lyric is set against a mid-tempo beat:"

im not a big fan of the johnny cash arrangement, but the song does seem tailor-made for him.

some arrangements are diamonds, some arrangements are rocks

here's one: George Harrison's awfully good at harmonies, isn't he?

yeah and petty's big on them. there's a reason Campbell doesn't get a mic, and Howie Epstein got the gig with his voice not his bass.

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

18. You Wreck Me - 181 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/B8m5p6V_NPQ

Yay. It's like he and Mike said, hey let's write a rocker like we usedta do.

pretty much!

Petty
That was one that I really felt like it paid off. When you're writing a fast rock'n'roll song, that's one of the most difficult things to do... It's not where you're drawn to when you're gonna write. You tend to find yourself going to the minor chords, and going to the slower tempos. But to write an uptempo rock'n'roll song, and have it work, God, that's such a huge payoff...

[Mike] had completely mapped out the chords and the arrangement. I just had to find a tune and lyrics for it... [and] Ferrone's playing on it blows my mind. I mean, I've heard drum machines that can't do that! ... I still marvel when I hear it on the radio: "Damn, is that us? Did we do that?"

i'm as big a campbell stan as we have around here but I also gotta say Tom's phrasing in the vocal on this one (and really all over Wildflowers) is really exceptional. the sessions were 180 degrees from Lynne, a ton of meticulous takes, but Rubin got him on some deep shit. wherever those performances came from, I want some of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgl1VER_Pz4

i always have to go back and listen to "Yer So Bad" trying to remember what it sounds like and then i hear it and go, oh yeah, it's not very good, nevermind. "Michelle" is the Beatles song i always have that relationship with.

Didn't Stan sing harmony, at least early on?

"You Wreck Me" is good, but it's basically his cleaned up AC/DC. A la:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP6aVG6L1w

Yes, he did. He sang them all until Howie came, after which Howie dealt with the high end.

The drumming on You Wreck Me is what makes it NOT sound like early Heartbreakers, for sure. I'm a Stan stan, but he didn't have that precision or power.