I would have liked zombie Roy Orbison
― remy bean, Monday, 4 February 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
weird bit: I bought Through the Years last Monday, having no idea that he was doing this shit.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
He's very . . . meh (these days at least). WHY NOT GHOSTFACE KILLA FOR THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW?
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
next year: Glass Tiger!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Tom Petty has so many great songs, this thread is ridiculous.
― filthy dylan, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm thinking so. I can't honestly say I know a single thing he's put out in 10+ years but come on
― will, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
He has a few good songs (e.g., a few singles from Damn The Torpedos, You Got Lucky). But beyond that, he has lots of merely workmanlike, serviceable stuff.
Next Year: Glass Tiger and GhostFace. Good combo.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
he does have loads of great songs -- after listening to this two-disc thing -- but I wish he didn't them. A buddy has always wished that George Harrison had sung "Don't Come Around Here No More." At least his voice wouldn't try to sing over the sitars and drum machines.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
4 hour peter bogdanovich doc about TP coming soon!
― s1ocki, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
not kidding!
* I wish he didn't SING them
(xxpos)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Petty fine, but god that was dull. A twenty-minute "Rockin' Lunch" block from classic rock radio.
― milo z, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish to hell you were.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
remy otm. They should have borrowed the Big Screen Elvis technology from the TCB band and reanimated Roy.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if Bogdanovich can imitate classic rockers like he can old film directors?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Frankly, I could do without the elaborate Super Bowl halftime show. I prefer it more as a game and less as an event. Of course, I'm not even watching it this year (as I hate the Patriots so).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the easter egg on the DVD version of the Bogdano Petty doc is going to be PB's masterful imos of all the departed Wilburys.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
the Bogdanovich doc is already out, I watched it on cable the other night. i liked it, but then i wish all episodes of Classic Albums or Behind The Music were 4 hours long.
this thread is probably the most RONG that Jess has ever been.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i am not a tom petty fan at all, some of the early hits are decent enough, but he is x1000 better than unlikely ilm hero john cougar mellencamp
― gershy, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
save it for chuck eddy
― gershy, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
TS: Tom Petty vs. Adam Ant
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the Coug's biggest hits aren't as bland (or maybe just overplayed) as Petty's, but there are more Petty songs I'd rather hear (half of Wildflowers, etc.)
I call it a draw.
― milo z, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The best comment on the performance, by the inimitable K-Jean Lopez:
"God bless" you too, dude. That was a nice, subtle Super Bowl moment. This American Girl is grateful.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
He should have played "American Girl" last.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i <3 tp AND his heartbreakers and at least the tv mix was better than it usually is for these things, but it was funny how it was "american girl" + 3 from "full moon fever." i guess "full moon fever" is the tom petty lowest common denominator. i don't hate it or anything, but most of the albums before it are better. (and so is wildflowers.) anyway, he looked old and kinda tired but wtf. he's 57, i guess he's allowed to look old.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"i am not a tom petty fan at all, some of the early hits are decent enough, but he is x1000 better than unlikely ilm hero john cougar mellencamp
-- gershy"
ILM is some white ass motherfuckers. TP actually wrote a few good songs, that's way better than i can say about mr cougar.
― pipecock, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
retract
― gershy, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Those crowd shots during the halftime show: Good Lord, was even half of that audience even born when Full Moon Fever came out?
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, "WOOT! IT'S A FIFTY YEAR OLD MAN PLAYING SONGS ABOUT ELVIS AND DEL SHANNON!"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
he's had some great moments, but it's been all downhill after stan lynch was fired.
― Lawrence the Looter, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i miss stan lynch a lot.
wonder which sports columnist will use "even the losers get lucky sometimes" tomorrow.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
good lord i don't even know where to begin
― winston, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
his halftime show sucked.
Not so much cuz of the music, but it isn't the right type of music for a halftime show. that and it was boring.
Prince was the halftime show to end all halftime shows last year.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
he's a rock musician, he writes rock songs
― winston, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
but ilx never tires of picking on aging rockers...
― winston, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
he was way better than the stones were, that's for fucking sure
i mean, in terms of halftime show performances
― winston, Monday, 4 February 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
not saying much, I've never liked the Stones.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 February 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
then again it wasn't as bad as the debacle of Aerosmith w/Britney Spears
"but ilx never tires of picking on aging rockers...
-- winston"
there has to be a way to age better than most seem to have been doing it.
― pipecock, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Prince rocked the fuck out last year.
― milo z, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
And he's old, too.
I've always been fond of a lot (though not all) of Tom Petty's music -- mostly the earlier stuff, but "Wildflowers" is pretty nice too.
That said, his show tonight was awful. Guy needs to retire.
― novaheat, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Interesting quote I just read on wikipedia: * "I want to give the radio back to the kids. That's one thing I'd like to see. I remember a time when you could turn on the AM radio and just set there all day and listen. Now I keep punching the button and hope something will come on that's worth listening to. There's nothing. They don't play the young bands. Boston is just MOR as far as I'm concerned. There's no threat there. And disco just ain't right." - Los Angeles Times 1977
The disco remark doesn't startle me, but I was surprised that he slagged Boston.
― dell, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Also I read through this entire thread and found only the slightest mention of "Here Comes My Girl". Am I the only one that thinks that song is brilliant?
― dell, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah obviously. no comparison.
Guy needs to retire.
i think that sort of already happened.
Am I the only one that thinks that song is brilliant?
hell no. it came up on my ipod last week and i played it three times in a row.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
A quote where the rocker slams disco is the ILM equivalent of finding racist newsletters from political candidates "back in the day."
― Cunga, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
At least one of the other quotes in the wikipedia entry is so outrageously rockist that if I were to paste it here I think it would make people's eyes bleed.
― dell, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link
x-p:
so then what is a rocker touring with a giant rebel flag the ilm equivalent of?
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link