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Tom Petty — Here Comes My Girl
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 12:51
 
As comfortable as an old woolen sweater on a chilly afternoon, and a simple — but strong — love song.

philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Nov 20, 2012 - 14:22
 
Damn good songwriter, especially for a good ole Florida cracker boy!

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)
Posted: Aug 06, 2012 - 16:11
 
 Cynaera wrote:
I love Tom Petty - with or without the Homewreckers.  He doesn't have to prove himself, and even if he DID, he'd just do whatever he wanted anyway.  He's earned his stripes.
 
Yes he has, several times over.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 05:59
 
damn, i just love this from beginning to end.

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Jun 16, 2012 - 04:51
 
Stands up well after all these years.

That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once)
Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 17:02
 
Thanks Tom,  for years of excellence. Campbell also deserves kudos. You are a purest and a large part of the history of R&R. 

HevvyDee
Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 16:57
 
Did someone say Fear of Music!!

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:19
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!
 
Forbert's 1979 album was Jackrabbit Slim, but yeah.

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:18
 
Cool Hand Tom


bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:17
 
I love you Tom!

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:16
 
Watch her walk...

ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:16
 
Got our tickets in the mail on Friday for Tom Petty.....{#Dancingbanana}

nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 11:15
 
Denmark and Sweden this summer, YES! (and Norway of course, sorry my friends in Norway)



MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Oct 06, 2011 - 11:56
 
 miahfost wrote:
Back when Tom Petty was good.
 

like now...

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Jul 04, 2011 - 06:51
 
 miahfost wrote:
Back when Tom Petty was good.
 
Have you listened to Mojo? Tom's new album is as good as any stuff he has done in the past. Well worth checking out.


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 15:38
 
I love Tom Petty - with or without the Homewreckers.  He doesn't have to prove himself, and even if he DID, he'd just do whatever he wanted anyway.  He's earned his stripes.

miahfost
(Gothenburg, Sweden)
Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 15:34
 
Back when Tom Petty was good.

araja
(Oz)
Posted: Dec 03, 2010 - 13:25
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!

 
All right! I love playing this game.

You can add: Elvis Costello - Armed Forces, Joe Jackson - Look Sharp AND I'm The Man, Dire Staits - Communique, The B52s - The B52s, Cheap Trick - At Budokan, Police - Regatta de Blanc, and all three acts of Zappa's Joe's Garage.



dstehle
Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 05:30
 
I like Tom Petty...but...based on the amount of TP I hear on Radio Paradise, Tom must be a blood relation. Although the new album is very good.

thaidirect
Posted: Jun 27, 2010 - 09:01
 
You can't go wrong with a Tom Petty classic.

h8rhater
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 13:01
 
 woozurbuddy wrote:

I've seen TP & the HB's many times over the past 20+ years and they are always incredible.  The last time was about 2 years ago with Pearl Jam as the opening act - dynomite!

The best  I ever saw was in the mid-80's when they toured with Bob Dylan.  The Hearbreakers were the opening act and played for about an hour and a half.  Then they came back out as Bob Dylan's touring band and did over 2 hours with him.  Unforgetable!
 
They took that tour up another notch by teaming up with the Grateful Dead for stadiums in the Summer of '86.  Petty-> Petty/Dylan->The Dead->Dylan and the Dead. Fantastic.


tipper
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 13:00
 
Just gets it right 90% of the time.

nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 12:57
 

Love it, yes ! RT?



Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 12:55
 
YESSSSS!

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Mar 12, 2010 - 03:36
 
 superflyLD wrote:
such a classic album.  I wore this vinyl out as an early teenager.
 
Yah, this and a few others that came out in '79: Pink Floyd's The Wall, Cars Candy-O, Steve Forbert's Alive on Arrival, Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Talking Heads Fear of Music, and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. Not a bad year!


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 11:07
 
 Grammarcop wrote:
I have never understood Tom Petty's popularity. 

Flame away! 
 

No, no you will get no argument from me, he has some good songs, but not in over 30 years!

Grammarcop
(Hey, I can see Canada from here!)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 14:45
 
I have never understood Tom Petty's popularity. 

Flame away! 

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 14:40
 
One of the last great songs he put out.{#Yes}

superflyLD
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 09:58
 
such a classic album.  I wore this vinyl out as an early teenager.

buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 09:49
 
watch her walk! yeah my kinda boy. .. {#Hug}

h8rhater
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 09:49
 
This thing needs some dancing bananas:  {#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananapiano}{#Bananasplit}

WayUpNorth
(Down on the Farm)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 09:48
 
poof        suddenly I'm a teenager again ... kewl! {#Dancingbanana_2}

evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Sep 04, 2009 - 08:22
 
Turn it UP!!!!!! {#Guitarist}

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 19:48
 
 woozurbuddy wrote:
The best  I ever saw was in the mid-80's when they toured with Bob Dylan.  The Hearbreakers were the opening act and played for about an hour and a half.  Then they came back out as Bob Dylan's touring band and did over 2 hours with him.  Unforgetable!
 
I saw that tour too. Paso Robles California isn't the venue for solo acoustic Dylan but get the Heartbreakers on with him and you got yourself a Rock & Roll Show.

Tom Petty &TH are well worth overplaying. Always an outsider even when he's selling out stadiums, always intense onstage.


cochlear
(Kauai, Hawaii)
Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 19:42
 
 junebaby65 wrote:
I dig me some TP, but I was hoping for something a little different....
 
Some Stevie Ray Vaughn, perhaps?  {#Clap}


junebaby65
(Cleveland, OH)
Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 19:41
 
I dig me some TP, but I was hoping for something a little different....

Mr_Wilson
(Long Island, NY)
Posted: Jun 01, 2009 - 06:25
 
One of my favorite TP songs, and even though it's not one I need to hear on the radio anymore, it's still great.

Overplayed doesn't necessarily make a song bad. And maybe there are people a lot younger than me for whom it's not so familiar.

Mandible
Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 13:59
 
 ick wrote:
Uh huh... I can name this tune in 2 notes.  I must've worn out two copies of this LP growing up.
 
That's so awesome. Have you ever seen him live? I'd love to see a live show!


ick
(San Diego, CA)
Posted: Feb 26, 2009 - 12:29
 
Uh huh... I can name this tune in 2 notes.  I must've worn out two copies of this LP growing up.

Welly
(Vangroovy)
Posted: Feb 26, 2009 - 12:28
 
 kysmet wrote:
I've always been a Tom Petty fan and it's songs like this that instantly take me back in time and bring a smile to my face
 

Me too. First year of college, I think.


nitehawk
Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 22:46
 
A good song, however not the unique, more obscure songs that I love being introduced on RP.  Gotta love Tom P., but I can put on the local "mix" radio station and hear this any time. 

kysmet
(Hurricane Alley)
Posted: Dec 25, 2008 - 08:10
 
I've always been a Tom Petty fan and it's songs like this that instantly take me back in time and bring a smile to my face

jbtidwell
(Atlanta, GA)
Posted: Jul 20, 2008 - 08:49
 
Some Roy Orbison would be great to follow this.
chrisinwilson
(base o' th' tetons)
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 21:43
 
So few comments for such a great song... Perhaps it needs a little more rotation.

"And then she looks me in the aye-ay-ay-ay..."
secretsauce
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 - 21:42
 
Watch 'er walk.
SoundChaser
(Iowa)
Posted: Mar 16, 2008 - 09:47
 
Leslie wrote:
I guess I have heard this song too many times. It's weary and tiresome.


I second that comment.
ghcollins86
(Santa Monica, CA (469.84 miles SSW of Paradise))
Posted: Mar 16, 2008 - 09:45
 
My favorite Petty track . . . AWESOME!!
Cellocaster_Paul
(Milwaukee)
Posted: Mar 19, 2004 - 22:54
 
Dinsdale wrote:
How ordinary.

NOT!! This is an amazing song in so many ways.
Dinsdale
(San Diego, CA)
Posted: Feb 06, 2002 - 19:14
 
How ordinary.
Leslie
(Antioch, CA)
Posted: Jan 11, 2002 - 18:34
 
I guess I have heard this song too many times. It's weary and tiresome.