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

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

EXPLAIN YOURSELVES

hell yes.

fun fact: "jammin' me" appears on more ballots than any other track to place so far

it's a fun song!

#19 on my ballot but I kinda wish I had voted it higher. It's better than I remember it, dated Joe Piscopo reference and all.

DAMN

In my top five. Was Petty so horrified by the Let Me Down era that he couldn't make room for "Jammin' Me" on the first comp? It outcharted several other included singles.

One thing I like about it is that it shows just how important every member of the Heartbreakers is to the sound of the band and the success of the tracks. Imagine this song without either Tench or Lynch, let alone both of them!

Guess that's it for Let Me Down which is a personal fave. The Damage You've Done is a great deep cut imo.

Is "Jammin' Me" the highest-charting Bob Dylan song of the 1980s? (Not counting Rod Stewart's "Forever Young," which was a retroactive writing credit.)

(I like it fine btw, just not enough to vote for.)

Guess that's it for Let Me Down which is a personal fave. The Damage You've Done is a great deep cut imo.

― campreverb

title song and "My Life/Your World" too

for years i thought it was odd that Let Me Up was the only album that didn't have a song on the Greatest Hits comp and wondered why they didn't include its biggest hit. then I heard "Jammin' Me" and went hmmm okay i see why they decided to just put another song from Damn The Torpedoes on there instead.

I think I had Think About Me on my ballot as well.

Jammin' Me >>>>> I Need to Know

title song and "My Life/Your World" too

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 16, 2015

"ain't love strange" too

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

13. Change of Heart – 219 points (9 votes)
http://youtu.be/H0Zxs5TspQA

Great sound on "Change of Heart" – Stan Lynch owns this – but I loathe Petty's vocal.

This was my #2 ;_;

I almost wish he had gotten Nicks to do backing vocals on this, because this one feels to me the most like a Petty song that could actually have been a Fleetwood Mac song, from the sound to the sentiments to the arrangement. The "you never needed me" pre-chorus part really makes the song, too.

^^ agreed on the pre-chorus. "you were the moon and sun/you're just a loaded gun now" is A+

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

12. Listen to Her Heart – 225 points (10 votes)
http://youtu.be/qZpBhi04IoI

I like the way "Buddyewdonevenoher" is all one word.

i didn't vote for "listen to her heart" would've been top three for me. an all-time fave byrds/gene clark homage.

not sure they needed all those parentheticals on the 45 sleeve.

xpost "ain't love strange" too

YES! Ain't Love Strange and the title cut are my two favorites on Let Me Up.

lol

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

I love the opening couplet of "Listen to Her Heart" (which I voted for) so much: "You think you're gonna take her away/With your money and your cocaine." It's a complete character sketch in two lines, and exactly the kind of thing I love about Petty as a lyricist.

that cocaine line is boss

yeah. it's a tremendous opener -- and also petty's first label fite! (execs wanted him to change "cocaine" to "champagne")

not sure they needed all those parentheticals on the 45 sleeve.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, December 16, 2015

kinda why i love that one. also, the jacket, which I assume Robin Zander will want back at some point.

Has there ever been a sleeve that looked more like The Modern Lovers but sounded nothing like The Modern Lovers?

wonder if he nicked that cha-yange from Lynyrd Skynyrd. I sure hope so.

i keep tripping on how much Tom Petty and Elvis Costello's careers parallel. obviously both started out around the same time and their commercial fortunes rose and fell in roughly the same years, but also, like, they both started hanging out with a Beatle in the late '80s, they both permanently fell out with a longtime sideman in the mid-'90s.

And yet I can't think of two more dissimilar contemporaries.

a shame Elvis C couldn't keep getting gold albums

yeah obviously EC is on a lower commercial rung. still, both guys on that punk/new wave/mainstream continuum who got compared to Dylan a lot, both "___ & the ___" solo acts w/ equally billed backing bands for most of their careers.

the brain reels at the idea of Elvis C hooking up with George instead.

Elvis: I got this tune, George, and it -

George: No.

Elvis: Yeah, but listen to these ascending chords! What if a Rickenbacker -

George: No.

I do not know how to get a post in the right place. I predicted Free Fallin' would make the top three. Big surprise.

there's a good Costello story in one of the recent Petty books. I'll see if I can dig it up once I'm off Zing.