Tom Petty Albums Poll

For me, anyway. V accurate.

yep

any album during peak CD era with his name was gonna be huge in 1994-1995 but it happened to be Wildflowers, which was career-best for him.

same here -- i mean i was born in '74 and my first exposure to Tom Petty was via hearing some songs from Full Moon Fever and maybe seeing him on SNL, but as classic as that period was those songs felt a bit more "adult" (not contemporary, but just not for the kids.) I think when you consider the late '80s music scene and what teenagers were listening to, you can see how Petty wouldn't fit in. But he really easily fit in alongside the bands who were breaking through in the grunge era, not just with the music but with his entire image and persona.

omar v otm in my case. I'd dismissed Petty as a radio staple I didn't really need, but Greatest Hits came out when I was 17 and turned me around.

When Wildflowers came out, it was one of the very few albums that was universally liked (well, at least tolerated without vocal opposition) by all of us in my sophoomore year architecture studio, so it was the very frequent soundtrack to our all night sessions.

i played Damn the Torpedoes today, what a fantastic album!

I was born in 1974 too and "Don't Come Around Here No More" is my first memory of Petty. I loved that song, but I never bought Southern Accents until way later. Wilburys -> Full Moon is when I became a more than casual fan.

I wonder if the picks for this poll will correlate with the person's age. Anyone under 40 picking Torpedoes? I read the ILMers over 50 thread...

Definite correlation. I was born in 1965 and knew of "American Girl" on the radio, but it was the New Wave Tom era of the early 80s that I connected with. I'll probably vote for Hard Promises but could just as easily go Long After Dark. I never paid much attention after Jeff Lynne showed up - had no idea Wildflowers was so huge.

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I had to go with Wildflowers after all

Hard Promises

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For the record, I voted for Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) cuz someone had to

Damn no votes for the debut, even tho it has breakdown on it

This poll DEFINITELY needed to be more than a week long.

the olds ftw