RIP Tom Petty

I'm sharing this from chart sleuth Chris Mol@nphy's FB wall:

Rank this week among all digital songs, Title, Sales this week (Release-to-date sales):]]

10. “Free Fallin',” 31,000 (RTD 1,892,000)
21. “I Won't Back Down,” 23,000 (RTD 1,026,000)
25. “Mary Jane's Last Dance,” 18,000 (RTD 1,228,000)
29. “Learning to Fly,” 17,000 (RTD 674,000)
36. “You Don't Know How It Feels,” 14,000 (RTD 641,000)
39. “American Girl,” 13,600 (RTD 1,096,000)
48. “Runnin' Down a Dream,” 11,000 (RTD 713,000)
58. “Wildflowers,” 9,400 (RTD 191,000)
61. “Don't Bring Me Down,” 8,500 (RTD 412,000)
62. “Don't Do Me Like That,” 8,300 (RTD 449,000)
71. “Don't Come Around Here No More,” 7,600 (RTD 337,000)
82. “Stop Draggin' My Heart Around” (Stevie Nicks w/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), 6,700 (RTD 455,000)
85. “Breakdown,” 6,600 (RTD 397,000)
93. “End of the Line” (Traveling Wilburys), 6,200 (RTD 378,000)
105. “Here Comes My Girl,” 5,400 (RTD 286,000)
106. “You Wreck Me,” 5,300 (RTD 201,000)
112. “Into the Great Wide Open,” 5,100 (RTD 198,000)
115. “You Got Lucky,” 5,000 (RTD 217,000)
135. “Handle with Care” (Traveling Wilburys), 4,100 (RTD 292,000)
170. “Yer So Bad,” 3,500 (RTD 140,000)
176. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, etc.), 3,400 (RTD 81,000)

Figure "You Don't Know How It Feels" did so well because post-Greatest Hits, a sales behemoth, it was the only huge hit not on it.

"don't bring me down"???

xpost also bc joint rolling

VG getting to the point

re "Don't Bring Me Down": it's on the '86 live album, and it wouldn't surprise me if people downloaded it by accident.

Pretty much every Tom Petty CD is now on back order on Amazon.

xpost also bc joint rolling

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 9, 2017 7:51 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember hearing two censored versions of this. MTV played one where "joint" was reversed (and it actually worked -- it sounded like "let's roll another nnaaawwwjjj"). But the one that didn't make sense to me, which I heard on the radio, was "let's hit another joint." Petty dug in his heels and refused to change "cocaine" to "champagne" on "Listen To Her Heart," so why change "roll" to "hit" 16 years later?

Listen to Her Heart doesn't glamorise cochineal? (Just gonna leave that there)

i bought myself the Zanes biography today - figured i’m so fkn deep in this rabbithole now, why not double down <3

scored a super nice LP copy of Hard Promises today thanks to my non-gouging local store, it was 7 bucks. digging the deep cuts on this one, "Deliver Me" is sounding particularly nice right now

sorry I meant the Long After Dark LP, not HP

deep in this rabbithole now

scored a super nice LP copy of Hard Promises today thanks to my non-gouging local store, it was 7 bucks. digging the deep cuts on this one, "Deliver Me" is sounding particularly nice right now

― sleeve, Monday, October 9, 2017 9:39 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry I meant the Long After Dark LP, not HP

― sleeve, Monday, October 9, 2017

"Finding Out"!

it's playing right now! very good, tense, acrobatic.

excellent Howie harmonies

a+ album

only early into Zanes but: Tom & Brooce venn diagram overlaps the most clearly with childhood/teens. Music isn’t a hobby, it’s the pieces of a ladder you build to get the FUCK out of your hell. you make it your job to be the best & surround yourself with the most talented people you can to ensure you stay out.

Pretty much every Tom Petty CD is now on back order on Amazon.

...and have been since about last Tuesday! Thanks to reductions in ready stock, this is becoming par for the course with them whenever a Classic Rock icon or such dies. I remember when Jack Bruce passed a few years ago, shortly after hearing the news I dropped in to pick up the Cream albums I was missing only to find them already on back order for a few days. I noticed a similar thing earlier this year with Gregg Allman.

It's kind of a shame MCA never really got a proper Petty reissue program going. They only ever remastered ...Torpedoes, Hard Promises, and Long After Dark*, all independent of each other and with the former getting a deluxe double disc treatment w/b-sides and live stuff as well. I don't know if there were ever plans for the other four, but I do know that Let Me Up had been in print for many years as a cheapie budget CD (I remember seeing it and not picking it up from the $5 bin at Best Buy in the early 2000s). An expanded Full Moon Fever would seem like a no-brainer, although it still sounds pretty good for a 25+ year old CD.

*Warner Bros. did the two Shelter albums (which Petty owned the rights to) in the early '00s as well.

Another interesting thing about Petty on CD is that almost everything he did up through Wildflowers is/was available as budget catalogue titles for about $4-$7 a throw. A few of the Warners albums are OOP, but generally can be found easily and cheaply. For instance, I think Echo was heavily overprinted upon release. I got my copy for about $5 at a record show in 2000 or so from a guy who had a stack of sealed copies that weren't promos, cut-outs, or from a CD club.

P4k has retrospective reviews of s/t, Damn the Torpedoes, Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers up today.

I just realized, no Petty songs have appeared in commercials, right? I don't recall him making a public point of not selling his songs to advertisers, but I also can't think of any instances of, say, "American Girl" being used to sell jeans.

"You Don't Know How It Feels" sells weed iirc

ha

Glad to see "You Got Lucky" on that digital chart, albeit toward the bottom. I haven't heard or seen much of that in the past week's flood of Petty. It's a great song and also the video was a pretty big deal at the time -- I remember friends who were lucky enough to have MTV talking about it a lot, its post-apocalyptic shtick was very Road Warrior/early '80s dystopian. The beginning of him as a real MTV guy.

I just realized, no Petty songs have appeared in commercials, right? I don't recall him making a public point of not selling his songs to advertisers, but I also can't think of any instances of, say, "American Girl" being used to sell jeans.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:59 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Runnin Down a Dream has to be in something

maybe it was in a bumper in a football game, or another sports-related thing

Runnin' Down a Dream was used incessantly in the NBA playoffs a few years ago.

Interesting how "The Waiting," which Petty felt was as sure a hit as he could write, still can't crack that list of best-selling songs.

It's the hardest part.

no "Refugee" either!

Glad to see "You Got Lucky" on that digital chart, albeit toward the bottom. I haven't heard or seen much of that in the past week's flood of Petty

They played it for the first time in 20-something years on this last tour.

Runnin' Down a Dream was used incessantly in the NBA playoffs a few years ago.

― Chris L, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 10:41 AM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

True, but that's not really the same thing as using a song in an ad. I think sports broadcasts are a different animal -- they don't need an artist's permission to use a song during a game, though they certainly have to pay out royalties for whatever songs they use.

It was the official song of the network's playoff coverage that year iirc, I would assume they had a fairly lucrative deal worked out for that.

Ah, yeah, that's definitely more than x song played going into a commercial break.

T.P. & Peter Gabriel checking in on their daughters' joint art show in 1999.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e4/43/f5/e443f5f33548e5a4b37d9a350533577c--peter-gabriel-tom-petty.jpg

Jason Isbell did “Refugee” @ the Ryman on Sunday night

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-jason-isbells-ripping-cover-of-tom-pettys-refugee-w507990

Petty was a big Lakers fan so in my eyes its not quite the same as say a Kia commercial.

yeah Petty wasn't a nerd who called stuff "sports ball" so he probably thought it was cool

Music isn’t a hobby, it’s the pieces of a ladder you build to get the FUCK out of your hell. you make it your job to be the best & surround yourself with the most talented people you can to ensure you stay out.

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 9, 2017

OTM. Still can't recall whether it was Petty or someone else who said that his greatest musical talent was his unique knack for convincing people not to go to college.

Jason Isbell did “Refugee” @ the Ryman on Sunday night

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-jason-isbells-ripping-cover-of-tom-pettys-refugee-w507990

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 10, 2017

I'm afraid to listen. Is it good? The Wilco and DBTs covers did my heart good but honestly kinda sucked.

i was trying to think of actually good Tom Petty covers and was having trouble coming up with any ... anyone have a favorite?

Sharon Van Etten, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

https://youtu.be/KiH6Dtwz-aU

isbell did a few covers this week it turns out... "even the losers" solo guitar pretty moving actually

https://youtu.be/5R0XnkPYw9g

and to my great relief his refugee is legit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsERVz6-xRw

With the Heartbreakers as backing band, no less.

oh yeah, the cash covers are good! forgot those ...

Sharon van Etten can do a mean Stevie Nicks, haha

i like Melissa Etheridge’s cover of Refugee
it’s quieter but her voice suits it

https://youtu.be/KONLrSI2_Y0

and I love this Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs cover of Here Comes My Girl

https://youtu.be/__q1sS5vSKc