does tom petty get the soulstrut pass
edith head
5,106 Posts
do you guys like him? because i do. i put him under the list of artists that i like to belt out to when drunk, so i think i could kill The Waiting at karaokethat alice in wonderland cake shit f**ked me up as a kidi wont back down = 
Comments
agreed
Agreed. Truly timeless pop/rock music. Deceptively simple, as well; Petty effortlessly pulls off a phrasing and sound a million bands would botch by trying too hard.
+1 tom petty.
i ride
haha! me too.
that whole video was like whoa.
His first few albums are solid. Tom Petty is okay with me even though he does not like sampling.
I agree.
You got lucky, babe, when I found you.
Tell her how it be, Tommy boy!
"Anything That's Rock and Roll" is one of the all-time GREAT power pop tracks, period, and that whole first LP kicks ass. Tom Petty is all right in my book.
xtra cool points for providing one of Axl Rose's last relevant public moments, his duet with Petty on "Freefallin'", I think it was on an MTV or American Music Awards show at the time. Just great.
this album is stil badass by me:
tweeter and the monkey man???
but this was my shit when I was younger:
I gotta agree.
When I was about 18, I saw him open for Nils Lofgren in Liverpool. This was in between his first two albums. Lofgren was very highly-regarded over here in those days, and was a smoking live act in his own right (Wornell Jones was his bassist at the time, moder fans), but Petty blew him into the Mersey.
I still have a VHS copy of the Chicago Bulls' first championship run, called "Learning to Fly." Brings tears to my eyes.
What's your guys take on Wildflowers?
Yes! Great songwriter and great arrangements. 'Refugee' and this too:
Baby you come knocking on my front door
Same old line you used to use before
I said, "yeah, well what am I supposed to do? "
I didn???t know what I was getting into
So you???ve had a little trouble in town
Now you???re keeping some demon down
Stop draggin??? my, stop draggin??? my
Stop draggin??? my heart around
It???s hard to think about what you???ve wanted
It???s hard to think about what you???ve lost
This doesn???t have to be the big get even
This doesn???t have to be anything at all
I know you really want to tell me good-bye
I know you really want to be your own girl
Baby, you could never look me in the eye
Yeah, you buckle with the weight of the words
Stop draggin??? my, stop draggin??? my
Stop draggin??? my heart around
There???s people running ???round loose in the world
Ain???t got nothin??? better to do
Than make a meal of some bright-eyed kid
You need someone looking after you
I know you really want to tell me good-bye
I know you really want to be your own girl
Baby, you could never look me in the eye
Yeah, you buckle with the weight of the words
Stop draggin??? my, stop draggin??? my
Stop draggin??? my heart around
Stop draggin??? my heart around
Stop Draggin??? My Heart Around
Damn beat me to the punch on that one. While I have always liked TP, I think he is an artist who can be appreciated almost entirely by purchasing his greatest hits cd.
Dam the Torpedos is a great album title.
Yes! Put to good use in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Ultimate in guilty pleasures for me.
(I'd like to see Cosmo put on 20 pounds and go as Wilbury Dylan from this photo next Halloween)
The drummer of .22 had some really funny things to say about Petty's ugliness:
Having never appeared on the cover of GQ or strut upon a runway, I am usually reluctant to call another person "ugly".
But I have no problem saying that Tom Petty is an ugly man. Dear God, is that man ugly. As physically unattractive as the other Wilburys might be, Tom Petty completely transcends their pedestrian or comic unattractiveness. He reaches a level of unholy ugliness that must be the result of Mother Nature's cruel and purposeful manipulation of the zygote.
He looks to be fresh from the grave, but newly dentured. He is "avert-your-eyes-children!" ugly, assuming that there is a child in all of us. He is a desperately malnourished human coyote.
Here's the thing, though -- it's not a fascinating or freakish ugly. It's just swamp ugly, but a whole lot of it.
Tom Petty, the joke's on you if you believe in a good and righteous God, you ugly man.
I will go on the record and against the grain of this thread and say I don't like Tom Petty's music. I liked his "collabo" with De La Soul though on Judgment Night (I'm assuming they just sampled him), and Last Dance with Mary Jane is ok.