YOU RANK ME BABY, YEAH YOU RATE ME 1-2 - ILM Artist Poll #71 - Tom Petty (results)

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39 (TIE). A One Story Town - 63 points (3 votes)
http://youtu.be/T9dZSFX5Z8M

yeah!

love the hooky lead guitar wail on the chorus

nice! love em both

re: that wailing guitar, I really really wonder what petty's career might have looked like if he'd gone solo (as the label wanted) rather than stick with the gainesville guys who became the Heartbreakers. impossible to say, but i suspect it would have been much smaller. campbell's leads really function as a second vocal, to the extent that most of the tracks are nearly impossible to hum without including his fills.

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39 (TIE). Kings Highway - 63 points (4 votes)
http://youtu.be/OdqDeBzqlP0

back from rio > into the great wide open

zuh i don't know why i thought jeff lynne was involved in the former

well tom and the heartbreakers are on it, anyways

great ending on "Kings Highway," those guys know how to end a song

kings highway's a good'un. couldn't quite make my ballot but i'm really happy to see it place. seems like it would have a lot of potential if anyone still made mixtapes lol

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38. A Thing About You - 70 points (4 votes)
http://youtu.be/hDRQ1glcEcs

another one i really like that didn't quite fit onto my ballot

fucking love "Kings Highway." Got lots of airplay fall '91. I'm sorry ITGWO didn't make the album shortlist.

i don't recall ever hearing it on the radio in NYC or LA. just "learning to fly" and "into the great wide open" over and over. if they'd played "kings highway" i might have bought that one!

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37. A Face in the Crowd - 71 points (3 votes)
http://youtu.be/z_umeMtV4QU

"Kings Highway" and (especially) "Out in the Cold" were in constant AOR rotation in late '91 and early '92.

Love that 12-string arpeggiated hook!

I used to think "Out In The Cold" was one of their early songs--our Classic Rock Station at the time used to add new songs by "Classic" artists to the rotation, and that one got alot of play.

...and Petty hates it, according to the Zollo book.

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36. Something Big - 79 points (3 votes)
http://youtu.be/5wIOhq1J89c

(last one for the evening. we'll cover more ground tomorrow)

TOO LOW!

"A Face In The Crowd" way too low -- it was in my top 10!! People really don't rate this song? I think it's the best track on FMF.

i noticed while putting my ballot together how many "A _____" song titles Petty has, funny that they make up 3 of the 6 songs unveiled so far.

"Face" is one of those songs that was a rock radio staple in the '90s that has faded away since then, i used to dig it but it never got near my ballot

I didn't vote for any Full Moon Fever songs. It was the first cd I ever sold off (to one of my teachers who was a Jimmy Buffett fanatic).

FMF was my #2 album (my #1 was the Through the Years anthology).

I was really surprised when Wildflowers came out and was excellent because I'd found the Jeff Lynne era so boring.

had two post-Lynne albums in my top five.

Everything about Jeff Lynne production is indeed super boring, but many of the songs on FMF are among Petty's best and succeed despite being LYNNE'D!

Can't say the same for ItGWO.

GTFO

I only put one Lynne-era track on my ballot (but King's Highway would have made my top 30).

Of the roll-out so far only voted for "A Thing About You," which is one of my favorite TP rave-ups. But much love "One Story Town" and "Something Big."

i think the 80s Lynne production works better on some songs than others (and more often w/ Wilburys than w/ Petty solo) but there are some undeniable songs from that era (3 on my ballot). the new ELO album is really good and manages to fuse the '80s Lynne sound with the classic ELO sound and somehow not come off totally dated.

I don't find the Lynne production obtrusive, and to my ears it wasn't like Petty traveled a great distance from 'Runaway Trains' to 'Love Is A Long Road'.

"Something Big" was one of the toughest cuts on my ballot. Great song, great phrasing on the vocal... I get why Dylan liked it so much...

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35. Time to Move On - 84 points (3 votes)
http://youtu.be/u5o582N3wOQ

in middle school, the year Wildflowers was released, i took an elective music class that was partly about movie musicals and we had a group project where we'd basically take songs we liked and 'wrote' a 'musical' picking songs that tied into the plot. i barely remember what songs i picked, but i remember one of the kids in our group, James, picked "Time To Move On" and that was part of the denouement at the end of the story.

here are the Cougartown episodes named after "Something Big" and "Time To Move On":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl2IrXKqfvE
http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-5/episode-7/time-to-move-on.html

lol someone was going to go there eventually

and "A One Story Town":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCccRdsKCU

[b]Petty[/]: [i]there's a really funny line in it: "nauseous adrenaline/Like breaking up a dogfight." [Laughs] I was really pleased with that. To get those lines into a song that's pretty was really hard. [Laughs] But it worked out really nice.

holy hell bbcode

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34. The Wild One, Forever - 85 points (5 votes)
http://youtu.be/UbdlHgyIZfM

the first song i voted for to make the big list!

Cougar Town!
http://www.tbs.com/videos/cougar-town/season-6/episode-7/the-wild-one-forever.html

Time To Move On was real high on my ballot. One Story Town and A Thing About You as well. One Story Town should have been the single, if not for the "shit" in the chorus.

Excellent rollout

Will any post-Wildflowers tracks make it in?

i voted for 2!

so did I!

Same.