does tom petty have any redeeming qualities?

I'm fond of Into the Great Wide Open.

http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/unspooled-a-rebel-with-too-many-clues/

the Tory hires his idea of a Liberal to form a coalition government, ignorant of the fact that hanging out with George Harrison and Bob Dylan tends to contaminate one’s ideas of progress

it's like you knew

"Change Of Heart" is a deeper cut that I think is pretty great.

"Change Of Heart" is a deeper cut that I think is pretty great.

OTM. Riff is one of the first things I learned to play when I was discovering the magic of power chords.

yeah there's something that hits my heart about the weird way the chorus resolves after the "there's been a cha-ye-ay-ye-aynge" to the "there's been a change of heart"

Another great obscure Tom Petty song, No Second Thoughts from You're Gonna Get It. That could be a hit today.

I was really into the dylan/heartbreakers song "band of the hand" when I was a kid, kind of afraid to listen to it now, it won't live up

stop draggin my heart around > don't come around here

band of the hand is def. one of the best 80s Dylan tracks! is it even available on CD?

no idea - just remember a big ragged chorus and something about Hell

"it's hellllltime, man," i think is what they're singing.

Anyway speaking of synths

http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2010_201005-essay-melancholy-synth.html

band of the hand is def. one of the best 80s Dylan tracks! is it even available on CD?

Nope. A one-off, produced by Petty, recorded in Australia.

Band Of The Hand...the Dylanettes sure go to town on that one. So many killer lyrics too. I love the line "so erotic, so unpatriotic, so wrapped up in the American flag."

yeah, it's a cool song ... weird that Dylan and the Heartbreakers never really made a proper album together, even though they toured all over the world for a year or two.

Fwiw, it also leads off 1986's Band Of The Hand soundtrack -- worth picking up if you see it cheap, since it also has five songs by eternally underrated '80s Pennsylvania new wave metal band the Reds.

and there's a CD of that soundtrack? i always thought it was just on tape/LP ...

No idea. I just have it on cassette myself.

from wiki: The song was released on the soundtrack album, Band of the Hand (MCA-6167, 1986) and also as both a 45 rpm 7” single (MCA-52811, 1986) and as 12” single (MCA-23633, 1986)
also, apparently stevie nicks is singing backup on it! you learn something every day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JLoO1S3-QE

I like this a log: drunken caterwauling!

I like this log.

Yes.

totally lives up! I like this a log too.

"Listen to me Mr. Pussyman
This might be your last night in a bed so soft"

as far as his collaborations go, i like this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fnyjLyqNc

Do you ever wake up @ 3 AM and you're like "I'm freeeeeeefaaaaaaalliiiinn"? O_O

thoughts on mudcrutch? i thought it sounded pretty good on one listen; nice production.

sorta forgot about that one, but i should probably check it out. the original mudcrutch recordings on petty's box set are pretty sweet.

REFUGEE YALL

Don't do me like that, don't do me like that.

great use of petty music: "the waiting" in the simpsons episode where homer buys a gun

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiting is the haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaardeeeeeeessssssst paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrt

don't think i realized how rapey "breakdown" really is until i threw on Greatest Hits for the first time in years last week

the version of "breakdown" from the live box is f'in sweeeeeet

REFUGEE YALL

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refugee is the best song ever for intentionally bad singing along

basically i just have to give Mudcrutch some mad rock band naming props...it's like...damn what a 70s rock band from the south name...it's almost too much

wishbone ash is kinda like that for me, like that name couldn't be more 70s longhair british dudes

what is a mudcrutch anyway?

If we need a calendar date when the melancholy synth begins, it's March 13, 2001, the day Discovery, by Paris's Daft Punk, was released.

god fucking dammit people

who said that? kanye?

who else besides petty and dylan rocked the long slender earring in the late 80s? billy idol? i vaguely recall a recurring character on diff'rent strokes

"American Girl" is a great song.

BBC4 has been showing that documentary.

4 HOURS!! blimey.

Saw about 20 mins of it, nothing wrong with the bit I saw, but still..

The documentary's good -- a perfect antidote for a hungover Sunday.

Was always interested in that, but never saw it. He was pretty dull on Saturday Night Live this past weekend though.

The documentary is worth sitting through just to get that hack Bill Flanagan looking very serious when he calls "The Last DJ" one of the most important albums of the decade or some such bullshit.

Actually, the doc is fascinating as unlikely proof that even an A-list b-lister like Petty can sustain a compelling four-hour narrative.

Ha, I've seen former Musician magazine editor Flanagan on CBS Sunday Morning talk pompously about the brilliance of solo releases of boomer artists.

bill flanagan is not a hack, his feelings about "the last dj" notwithstanding.

his U2 book cast such a spell on me that I gave the band the benefit of the doubt for many years; it's still a great read.

I think he's a great writer and a good critic - I love the U2 book, for example - but for the past x years he's been sucking on the VH1 teat so hard it hurts, which puts him more or less on par with Dave Marsh and leads him to such lame proclamations as his take on Petty (who I would not to be surprised to learn was IRL a close family friend).

If we need a calendar date when the melancholy synth begins, it's March 13, 2001, the day Discovery, by Paris's Daft Punk, was released.

wtf!

I mean, Flanagan's all but contractually obligated to say nice things about Petty (as Marsh is re: Bruce, with whom Marsh does have close family ties; see also: Marsh's "Album of the Year" sticker affixed to the last Alejandro Escovedo album - no conflict there!).

That said, I like Petty well enough. His band is great, esp. the Blue Stingrays surf disc Mike Campbell put out a few years back.

Also, per the original thread title, I hear Petty travels only with the highest quality pot, so I'm sure some will view that as redeeming.

only if he's willing to share