― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Stan Lynch's playing on "The Waiting" is one of my favorite drum recordings ever.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
His major flaw, for me, is his association with Jeff Lynne.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dark Horse, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
while nothing he's done even approaches the greatness that is Leave Home, I agree with Dark Horse about the 'wtf???' head-scratching thread title.
A consistent and often great songwriter, expressive vocalist (really!) and the Heartbreakers were (are) the perfect band for Petty - classic u fules
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, and I know this is asking for trouble, but he's a really good guitarist.
doesn't mike campbell play all the recognizable guitar parts on petty's songs? does petty do anything more than strum three or four chords? (not that there's anything wrong with that.)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
the last 10 or so tracks on wildflowers, for example. most of you're gonna get it, for another example. i can't give you song titles 'cause i find his album tracks so generic that i can hardly remember a thing about them, music, words or titles. i hear all of his albums as maybe three good songs surrounded by color-by-numbers twangy new wavey rootsy southerny ditties.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/215000/images/_218447_heidi_fleiss_150.jpg
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
The Last DJ?
― southern lights (southern lights), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― southern lights (southern lights), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Greatest Hits [MCA, 1993]Sometimes it's hard to remember what a breath of fresh air the gap-spanning MTV figurehead was in 1976. So revisit this automatic multiplatinum, a treasury of power pop that doesn't know its name--snappy songs! Southern beats! gee! Like Billy Joel, say, or the Police, his secret isn't that he's a natural singles artist--it's that he's too shallow to merit full concentration except when he gets it all right, and maybe not then. Petty is the formalist of the ordinary guy, taking his musical pleasure in roots, branches, commerce, art, whatever gets him going without demanding anything too fancy of his brain or his rear end. Footloose by habit and not what you'd call a ladies' man, he often feels confused or put upon, and though he wishes the world were a better place, try to take what he thinks is his and he won't back down. He has one great virtue--his total immersion in rock and roll. A-
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
"American Girl" = Best non-Byrds Byrds song EVAH
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I stand by what I wrote about Full Moon Fever on my blog about a year ago.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Tom Petty is awesome.--Travis Keller
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
The man who told the world "I Won't Back Down," "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Don't Come Around Here No More" doesn't need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty's determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest.
That same spirit is alive and well on Petty's latest album, The Last DJ, which takes a hard look at the lack of moral grounding in the music business. The title track has kicked up considerable controversy, with some radio stations seeing the song as a slap in the face and banning it. But Petty is not just biting the hand that feeds him. Music is only the beginning of what's pissing him off these days. "The Last DJ is a story about morals more than the music business," he says. "It's really about vanishing personal freedoms."
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Which makes McGuinn's cover of it that much better than Petty's original
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 11 September 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
That picture is very good for a five year old!! Thanks for posting it!
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/0a/6a/2e/0a6a2e915a250b0feb3a8df0fe32e2ca.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Finally got around to listening to Howard Stern interview Jimmy Iovine and Iovine is still dissing Stan Lynch for being behind the beat. Once you hear the shaker in Refugee, you can't unhear it.
Warren Zanes' book far more interesting than I expected.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link
What I came up with when we polled'em.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
I just came across this post of the new Petty-produced Hillman album, with some other Byrds, Heartbreakers among participants---haven't had time to listen yet, but might be redeeming: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7968856/chris-hillman-bidin-my-time-album
― dow, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
Oh man, slightly unfair to OP to dredge up this thread today.
― enochroot, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
i saw chris hillman at the opry while i was in nashville, played "turn turn turn" and a righteous bros. cover from the new record, both sounded wonderful, looking forward to checking it out
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Tom Petty had plenty of redeeming qualities, not to mention he had the respect of a lot of prominent musicians. On the other hand, he had no classic albums and was pretty much an American phenomenon.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
Eh, I'll stand up for OP.
I'm going to keep quiet for the next couple of days though. My opinions would only sound ... *ahem* ... contemptuously trivial.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
― enochroot, Tuesday, October 3, 2017
My post answered the thread question!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
threadstarter earlier noted on twitter that he's listening to the heartbreakers today to lift his otherwise shitty mood, so alfred's post was evidently persuasive
rip tom
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link