does tom petty have any redeeming qualities?

I'd like to see a greatest hits 2 covering the era from 'wildflowers' to the present, I'm only really familiar with that album and a handful of cuts from 'she's the one' tbh.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, August 1, 2014 7:16 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo you're not missing much as far as singles since then, although i personally love his last two singles that scraped the top 20 of the rock charts, both from Echo in '99:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZwDBHhiYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4vJM4L2D2U

It’s true that the years I’ve designated as Peak Petty coincide with the time when I personally became a Tom Petty fan, so I can be fairly accused of being self-serving. But that doesn’t mean my assessment of Petty’s career is wrong. This is one of those rare moments when wanton solipsism and universal truth can peacefully coexist.

pretty sure those moments come to petty all the time, why shouldn't they come to petty fans

"Room at the Top" is a winner. I like The Last DJ's "Blue Sunday" too.

It’s true that the years I’ve designated as Peak Petty coincide with the time when I personally became a Tom Petty fan, so I can be fairly accused of being self-serving. But

cut

hey he states his biases up front

i wonder if petty would be proud of his Full Moon Fever 4ever fans for celebrating the music of their youth or pity them for having such a shitty, video-centric time to grow up in

i am a full moon fever 4ever fan, just to be clear

this is like saying Peak Aerosmith begins with Permanent Vacation. not false in a certain sense, but very wrong.

"Peak McCartney starts with the first Wings record..."

And then...bam..."Mama I'm Coming Home"

yeah but Permanent Vacation is (a) not the band's best seller (b) not considered a good album by anyone

ok pretend he said pump

it's not an indefensible position

Pump would def be in my top five Aerosmith

I was torn tbh but went w/permanent vacation for ushering in the Nu-Aerosmith era

my point is only, it's not unlike Hyden to stake out a dumb position and double down

hey I'm more offended he thought Petty's playing with GNR showed how hip he was

you gotta go to bat for some pairing of Aerosmith, Draw The Line, Done With Mirrors or Get A Grip for Pump NOT to be in your top 5

tbf I remember seeing petty on that tour with the Mats and the moment when Axl just strolled onstage unannounced was pretty lose-your-shit awesome

aaaaand here's another: http://www.stereogum.com/1696031/tom-petty-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/

like, this dude just kinda strolls onstage and starts singing along on free fallin' and... it kinda sounds like Axl... and it kinda shimmies like Axl does in the sweet child video... but what would axl be doing in Syracuse tonight? and now they're on to knockin on heaven's door and holy shit that is really axl fucking rose up there this is bonkers.

it was 1989 we didn't know yet that he was a monster

well, the Bogdanovich documentary wouldn't be made for another fifteen years.

solid zing

Apparently Hypnotic Eye is his first ever #1 album.

kinda lol but mostly sad: it's bc only olds by albums

well, and people who bought tickets had the option of buying the album.

and because 100 copies gets you a slot in the charts nowadays

you gotta go to bat for some pairing of Aerosmith, Draw The Line, Done With Mirrors or Get A Grip for Pump NOT to be in your top 5

― da croupier, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

draw the line fucking smokes, so much better than pump gtfo

Just seeing this sentence:

It’s true that the years I’ve designated as Peak Petty coincide with the time when I personally became a Tom Petty fan, so I can be fairly accused of being self-serving. But that doesn’t mean my assessment of Petty’s career is wrong.

I was able to guess who wrote it and where it appeared

Steve Hyden is really good at making me feel like I should hate something I like

just be thankful he didn't do the 'underrated, overrated, properly rated' thing again

I don't know what it means that my Petty deep cuts playlist only has 3 songs in common with Hyden's. probably just a testament to the strength of Petty's catalog.

hope you have Let Me Up tracks; he just chose the three tracks on the double-disc comp

everyone sleeps on runaway trains. I guess it was technically a single so maybe not deep enough?

that's a great song

for some reason, my five year old daughter is reallllly into tom petty all of a sudden. she drew this picture of him
https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11001682_10206058481601581_2667046924968240590_n.jpg?oh=b34b76efa393faecf0f861d30a60f8ef&oe=5587AA02

that mic stand is very stable

future engineer imo

petty plays a mean lute

Probably the Vox?

http://www.edroman.com/guitars/abstract/images/TomPettyVoxTeardrop.jpg

oh shit for sure!

tom should for real use that as his next album cover

totally.
someone pointed out it could also be sandy bull w/ his oud
https://oudmusic.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/sandy-bull-e-pluribus-unum.jpg

hahah!

I think every kid goes through their Sandy Bull phase

if they've got hair

lol yeah, an easy path from petty to bull. she'll be listening to nothing but deep oud jams from somalia in no time.

it is kind of interesting though... trying to figure out what it is exactly that makes kids respond to tom petty. i know i responded to him when i was eight or nine. it might specifically be the full moon fever album. i mean, obviously really catchy songs, but wondering if there's something about the production that gets right to a kid's brain.

i guess petty has some muppet like qualities

tom should for real use that as his next album cover

m@tt OTM, somebody get Mr. Petty on the phone

That picture is very good for a five year old!! Thanks for posting it!

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/0a/6a/2e/0a6a2e915a250b0feb3a8df0fe32e2ca.jpg