What's your favorite Tom Petty song?
 

Just thought I'd ask. Poll will soon be free falling toward you.

Too many to pick just one. But probably Last Dance with Mary Jane.

That one....you know, the one that got the chicks all hot and bothered.....that's my favorite.

He's got a bunch of good ones. My favorite is probably Runnin' Down A Dream, which wins by nose over Free Fallin', Last Dance With Mary Jane, and Into the Great Wide Open.

Runnin' Down a Dream is a great pacing song for actual running, by the way.

So pissed I missed his concert in Des Moines this past summer.

Crap!

Tie between RDAD and End of the Line

Zombie Zoo.

I was just jamming on it today…and Learning To Fly

It's Good To Be King

Free Fallin is probably my favorite but there are a lot of his songs that I really enjoyed.

Breakdown. Live.

End of the Line is a great song, I agree. It's a strong honorable mention on my list.

Man, No 'It's Good To Be King'... no Take 5 candy bar... :harumph:

Im prety partial to Crawling back to you.


Something about that song.

Wildflowers is such a great album.

Jammin Me is another i really like.

Wiburys tune.

This is my favorite too. Great driving song.

So many good songs but I finally decided that a few of the greats are similar enough to songs by other artists that I would settle on the one that I felt was the most Tom Petty of the bunch. I had to pick one that personifies (to me) what I like about the artist. So I went with Free Fallin'.

Of course my favorite isn't on the list

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When I hear the words "American Girl" I think of the Tom Petty cadence. Upon review, the song is not that catchy. He says the words 3 times and it's hardly valid as a chorus.
Taylor Swift took a shot at the song and it still wasn't what I'd hope it would be despite all of her Hollywood machines' help and her saying it 4 times.
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I expected to hear a song structure more along these lines with a catchy chorus beaten to death 6 times:
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My memory continues to fail me. (damned high school football).

Too many great songs to pick just one.

When these songs come on the radio it is kinda magical. I never want them to end. Even the 5+ minute ones feel too short. I just want them go on forever. Night Moves is like that. So is Carry On My Wayward Son. Maybe Turn The Page by Bob Sieger. The Tom Petty songs that I like are like that. I don't want them to ever end. I'm always surprised when they end.

I saw him live twice this year. I can't pick just one.

Breakdown, followed closely by You Got Lucky. Saw him do a killer version of Gloria live in the late 90s.

Saw him do that in mid '00s too, for the encore

Wildflowers just edges out Breakdown.

My favorite from Wildflowers album was Time to move on. That whole album was a masterpiece. Definitely my favorite from the 90’s.

Mine as well. Obscure song, relatively, that I somehow always heard when grappling with large life decisions. Always got me off the pot when I already knew, but wasn't ready to act.

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I can't pick just one.

Even the Losers

Man, I can't pick just one. These are at the top of my list.


You Got Lucky
Refugee
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Learning to Fly
Here Comes My Girl
Breakdown

I went with You Got Lucky. So many great songs.

Yer so bad.

Too many to name really.

But 'Stop Dragging my Heart Around' is awesome

The combination of Nicks and Pettys voice with Campbell's guitar is pure magic.

I cannot pick a single song from that list. There are too many that are excellent.

Never realized how many hits Tom Petty has. My goodness at that list!

That said, I never was a huge fan of his voice...

Sorry can't vote either,way too many songs I'd consider favorites.This is one that gets cranked up when it comes on in the Jeep.

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As I wrote somewhere else he put the classic in classic rock,I could easily burn an 80 minute cd of songs not on RM's list that could be considered hits.

Yep. Rebels.

From wiki.....

The track was recorded in 1984. It was during the recording of this track that Petty broke his hand. Petty remembers being so high on drugs that he couldn't get an arrangement he liked. Petty went into the control room, and put the original demo tape on, which featured just him and a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. He believed that they had yet to record an arrangement better than this demo, which made him so furious that he stormed up the stairs into his house, and punched the wall, causing severe damage to his left hand. After a while, Tom Petty called Jimmy Iovine in to help him finish "Rebels" along with some other tracks on Southern Accents. Alan "Bugs" Weidel, Tom's roadie, considers "Rebels" a least favorite of his due to Petty's broken hand.

As an aside, the poll is comprised of the top half of Rolling Stone Magazine's list of Petty's 50 greatest songs (plus a Wilbury song that I had to add unilaterally). Check out this list if you want to take a stroll down Petty Lane.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-songs-w506653

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I picked Last Dance. Almost picked Breakdown, You Got Lucky, Into the Great Wide Open. I got sick of Free Fallin a long ass time ago.

I'm still a sucker for it.

Full Moon Fever is a better album than most band's greatest hits...

Damn the Torpedoes came out when I was a sophomore in high school. It was a massive hit and Petty was everywhere on the radio. I liked the songs well enough but never bought any of his albums. Over the years, I was familiar with his hits but still never bought any of his stuff.

Over the last couple of years, I have been accumulating a lot of 70s and 80s music and I now have all of his 70s and 80s albums, including the solo and Wilburys albums and really like all of them (except for the Wilburys songs that feature Bob Dylan).

After seeing this thread this morning, I have been listening to his latest albums on Spotify (Nobody's Children and Hypnotic Eye) and - wow! - they are really good. I've been missing out.

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Great live version. He must have had a bad cold, he kept checking his nose.

I voted for Learning To Fly. I was going to post that another song I really like is Zombie Zoo. :toast:

Free Fallin'.

No doubt. That song takes me back to Texas as a 5 year old, helping my dad lay tar on a roof under the hot sun.

Free Fallin' and Rush's Tom Sawyer.

Favorite Tom Petty song?

Yeah, that's not a thing I have. Waaaay too many great songs.

He did a song called King Of The Hill with Roger McGuinn I love that song.

Played the Traveling Wilburys albums over the weekend for he first time in maybe 10 years?

Awesome stuff! Although I think the second one suffered from losing Orbison after his death.

Rough one to pick... I went with Refugee

Just love the song.... kinda speaks to me about breaking away from what hold's you back and getting on with life.

The first one that came to mind was You Got Lucky, so I'll go with that.

The Best Of Everything

A really good song of his that wasn't mainstream so much is The Wild One, Forever. Really outstanding story within this song that I think alot of guys could relate to. Just never got the air play some of his others got, but it was really early in his career.

Breakdown

yup. and You Wreck Me are great highway tunes.

I have a huge file on my ipod..played it the whole time I was doing his painting.

...I teared up a little for the first time ever when the painting was completed. Kind of surprised me a bit.

Totally somber mood, realizing what a huge impact he had on my life. Very few artists have the capability to make you relate and think of you, instead of them.

That's a pure and true connection.

I was a DJ at Mizzou when the first TP album came out, and I was there through "Southern Accents." American Girl, Breakdown, the whole "Damn the Torpedos" album, all great stuff. And TP was just a real good guy. The anti-rock star. Southern Gentleman, family man, cool guy with a really great sense of humor. He'll be sorely missed.

Sure it was probably a cold.

To many songs to choose from but American girl is always one of my favorites to listen to.

I've got several. He did a slowed down acoustic version of Even the Losers that was out of this world. Breakdown, Honeybee, Jammin' Me, Don't Scare Easy, I Forgive it All, Wildflowers, and You Wreck me were all really good songs that don't get as much attention as some of his more well-known hits.

You Got Lucky was my pick but he just had so many great songs. I always appreciate it when a Petty song comes on even if I don't always seek out his music to listen to.

I voted for You Got Lucky, but Crawling Back to You is pretty high on my list.

I never cared for him - but I'm a decent American. Just not my flavor.

I chose Breakdown because it was on the list but I loved Refugee, You Got Lucky, and Crawling Back to you on Wildflowers.

I used to listen to the Wildflower CD all the time back in the late 90's when it came out, hadn't given it a listen in awhile so I popped it in. Forgot how great those arrangements were.

The Heartbreakers were a great band that accentuated Tom's songs perfectly.

Going to miss not hearing more great songs by one of the great songwriters of our time.

You go to HELL!

Exactly,I haven't been this sad since the death of John Bonham because then as now it's the end of an incredible era of music.

I cant pick a favorite. Too hard.

You dont seem nice.

It's now 7 years old but have you checked out MOJO and this tune

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The honest truth is everyone likes Tom Petty.

Everyone thinks "great song but I don't want the album."

Then, as time goes by, you realize that you like about 32 songs by him.

Perhaps nothing changed your life but EVERYTHING HE DID was good.

Then you find that, then buy his albums, and...

I almost forgot about this... and Something Good Comin'... great tunes... thanks for the memory refresher.

Runnin Down A Dream.

Because it's the perfect driving song when you're heading out for a vacation road trip and I really like the solo.

Hit the one-hitter before you get in the car and turn that on and jump on I70 heading to the mountains. I miss college.

Top 40 radio wore out some of Toms songs in the mid to late 70s. Tom could cross over am top 40, country and progressive rock fm stations. Those songs you thought you couldn't stand to hear again now you hear and a toe subconsciously starts tapping. Like so many others hard to pick one all are good. I remember when I first heard Honeybee I thought wtf but listened more and it grew on me.

Not even a toe tap?

Any duets with Stevie Nicks. They were made each other IMO

This should be a tournament Rainman!

I was actually listening to Mojo when I posted that. It has some really good songs on it (like the one you linked) but overall, I didn't like it as well as the ones I mentioned. It has a much bluesier feel to it and I'm not a big blues fan.

TRUFF!

Yer So Bad

My sister got lucky
Married a Yuppy
Took him for all he was worth

Now she's a swinger
Dating a singer
I'm not sure which one is worse

Chorus

My sisters ex husband can't get no lovin
Walks around dog faced and hurt
Now he's got nothin, head in the oven
I can't decide which is worse.....

Love it

Could I still do it, or have I already muted the thunder with this poll?

voted, but after reading the thread, i can't pick a favorite.
too many great songs.
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Hmm, but why?

Why not?

Maybe that much. I'd have to be really wasted though.