Something old, something new....
#14 and #13 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes and Tom Petty Wildflowers
Tom Petty's final stop on the top 25 countdown. Damn the Torpedoes is Petty in his prime. It is full of classic tunes like Refugee, Don't Do Me Like That, and Even the Losers.... My favorite tune on the album (and second favorite Petty tune of all-time behind Kings Highway) is Here Comes My Girl...
Wildflowers, released in my prime of high school rock-and-rolling is a Petty-solo effort. His tunes address the topics of love and loneliness, among other things. My favorite tunes are Wildflowers, Don't Fade on Me, and To Find a Friend.
3 comments:
That's a bona fide double shot of Petty. My favorite Wildflowers track has always been: You Don't Know How It Feels. I remember thinking it was so cool that Petty sang about rolling a joint while listening to the album and driving to youth group having never smoked anything in my life. Such was the complexity and contradiction of my teenage years.
I remember how MTV scrambled the lyric "joint," so that it sounded like "let's roll another noizd." Nice.
an excellent comment brandon- i believe tom petty youth group effect has probably somehow affected us all... i had forgotten about the "noizd" blankout! pretty tricky i must say...
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