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

precision, no; power, yes. That's what Petty loved about Lynch.

Different kind of power, though. Lynch is more locomotive than explosive.

http://i.imgur.com/fRllr8U.jpg

17. Runnin' Down a Dream - 188 points (8 votes, one #1)
http://youtu.be/Y1D3a5eDJIs

Petty
The most incredible thing about that one to me, which to this day amazes me, was the solo at the end... There was no one there but me, Mike, and Jeff… Mike was just sitting there with his head down, and that bit came, and he started to play. And he played that incredible solo. But he looked like a stone statue. He didn't ever blink or move. And he had his back to us. I remember Jeff looking back at me, making this face, like, "Is he really doing this?"

It was one take. One take.

wooooow. that's an awesome story. my one FMF vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QutOcNIQBg

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

16. Free Fallin' – 199 points (9 votes)
http://youtu.be/1lWJXDG2i0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYCHnDUQki0

WOW! That is legitimately surprising. I figured Free Fallin was a mortal lock for the top ten.

Didn't vote for it

free ballin'

My one FMF vote. Overplayed and all, but the only thing on that album that resonates for me. Personal connection: The day I told my terrible boss that I would be leaving my first post-college professional job to move out of state -- with no job lined up to go to and no place even to live -- I went out to the parking lot, started the car, and this was on the radio.

xp me neither

Like, I don't hate it, but at this point I like the memory of when the song was new and fresh more than I like the actual song, I guess?

Love Is A Long Road was my lone FMF track.

one of the great LA songs imo.

Lynne's polish fits, and even though looking at the lyric sheet its sense of place shouldn't add up to more than a little name-checking, Petty somehow works Mulholland Drive and Ventura Boulevard into myth like he did for U.S. Route 441.

I take Phil D's point a lot but somehow when I hear this one it doesn't fail to remind me of when it was new and fresh.

http://i.imgur.com/Y8CDJgL.jpg

15. Rebels – 200 points (9 votes)
Original: https://screen.yahoo.com/rebels-103736884.html
Live Aid: http://youtu.be/6RN7lv9Xn2I

Love the rhythm guitar sound on 'Rebels.'

Responsible for Petty's pulverized hand too.

yeah, the first 30 seconds is a hell of an album opener. if the third verse were just a little less on the nose this could have been top 5 for me. no big solo but campbell's fills on the verses are sweet and the horns work for me

to this day, petty's not so sure about those horns...

Zollo: You wanted horns on it?
Petty: Well, I wound up with horns on it...

Zollo: Were you ever happy with how "Rebels" turned out?
Petty: No.
Zollo: It became a hit.
Petty: Yeah. I still think it could have been better. I don't think the vocal's that good on it. I could have sang it better.

http://i.imgur.com/0h6J034.jpg

14. Jammin' Me – 201 points (11 votes)
http://youtu.be/TCFAzPl1QmE