Anyone who doesn't love this song, or who doesn't at least acknowlege the talent, should check out some bland FM station, because you won't hear this song anywhere else.  Holy cow. What a great song... Short, sweet, hard-hitting, and to the point.  I just love this.

This song makes me want to floor the gas every time I hear it.  I think I might have hit 120MPH at one point on my commute yesterday

I apologize. I didn't mean to say that anyone who doesn't love Tom Petty's music is deficient.  I must've been feeling particularly feisty when I wrote that comment, and I deserved the snark. Sometimes, my opinion is my evil twin.  

I'm going to check out some FM.  I feel better and more self-aware now that I know about my deficiencies.

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Anyone who doesn't love this song, or who doesn't at least acknowlege the talent, should check out some bland FM station, because you won't hear this song anywhere else.  Holy cow. What a great song... Short, sweet, hard-hitting, and to the point.  I just love this.

Anyone who doesn't love this song, or who doesn't at least acknowlege the talent, should check out some bland FM station, because you won't hear this song anywhere else.  Holy cow. What a great song... Short, sweet, hard-hitting, and to the point.  I just love this.

What's up with all the Petty lately?? Let's slow our roll a little bit on this now. This song is actually tolerable though, better than most of his dreck.

What's up with all the Petty lately?? Let's slow our roll a little bit on this now. This song is actually tolerable though, better than most of his dreck.

ZZ Top influence is pretty obvious.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Any Tom is Godlike in my book....

Petty is using a very old chord progression.  Same with Top.

From the five minutes of research I've done, it looks like it appeared on record for the first time in the 20s, recorded by a delta bluesman named Tommy Johnson.

 The beauty of having a mind, and an opinion, is that they can (and most probably will) be changed, sooner or later.

Love the drumsticks on the cymbal stand!  I had to watch the video to figure out what that sound was.

...and so I went out to buy the album. Only one other track was any good, the rest were dire IMO. Great track still worth an 8, crap album barely worth 3, sadly.

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

ZZ Top influence is pretty obvious.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.

...and so I went out to buy the album. Only one other track was any good, the rest were dire IMO. Great track still worth an 8, crap album barely worth 3, sadly.

Yeah! I really love the guitars on this one - it's amazing the noise the band gets out of them. Great driving (and for driving) blues rock.

I'd say Tom Petty is most definitely UNDER-rated, if anything. If the likes of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison saw fit to invite him into their little side-project band, we need to ask ourselves why. He needs to be recognised as one of the very few who have become pretty iconic in their own right. Great, solid, consistently enjoyable rock of a high calibre is the domain of a very few... Springsteen is now enjoying that status, after years of being thought of as a has-been. Perhaps Tom Petty never gave us anything as enormous as "Born To Run/ in the USA", but he's never tried to be a massive stadium-filler, or felt the need to be as 'big' as some artists IMHO, but nevertheless finds himself slowly being accepted into that pantheon, by a growing legion of fans, and doing it the old-fashioned way; through consistency, hard work, passion, and craftsmanship. That gets the old two-thumbs-up as far as I'm concerned! Check out last year's Bogdanovich film "Running Down a Dream" if you need convincing. But "over-played, over-rated"? I've been an avid music fan since seeing the video to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall", aged 8, and every day I'm ASTOUNDED by music I'd written off in my foolish youth as "boring" or "over-rated" or "old hat" or,(heaven help me!) "uncool"! Bands like the Cars, Steely Dan, Elvis Costello, the Go-Betweens... Yet the true beauty of art lies in the attempt itself, the fact that someone's actually CREATED something, and in trying to understand that artistic statement on its own grounds. Not all music is art, of course, but there is always, to be found within the song, a measure of artistry somewhere, be it the songwriter's, the singer's, the musicians', the producer's... (But if it still sounds like Backstreet Boys, then that's not a good sign!). The beauty of having a mind, and an opinion, is that they can (and most probably will) be changed, sooner or later. The only real thing I've ever learned is that everything changes, and to go with it when it does. (This from someone who's not particularly fanatic about Tom Petty...) You cannot see with closed eyes, nor can you hear with closed ears. That's the reason that "Old Fogey" music is perennially popular, because people change. You can bet there won't be that many Death Metal purists in the old age homes in 40 or 50 years! Vey few that won't bop along to an old Dean Martin song, at any rate... Enjoy the ride!

I'd say Tom Petty is most definitely UNDER-rated, if anything. If the likes of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison saw fit to invite him into their little side-project band, we need to ask ourselves why. He needs to be recognised as one of the very few who have become pretty iconic in their own right. Great, solid, consistently enjoyable rock of a high calibre is the domain of a very few... Springsteen is now enjoying that status, after years of being thought of as a has-been. Perhaps Tom Petty never gave us anything as enormous as "Born To Run/ in the USA", but he's never tried to be a massive stadium-filler, or felt the need to be as 'big' as some artists IMHO, but nevertheless finds himself slowly being accepted into that pantheon, by a growing legion of fans, and doing it the old-fashioned way; through consistency, hard work, passion, and craftsmanship. That gets the old two-thumbs-up as far as I'm concerned! Check out last year's Bogdanovich film "Running Down a Dream" if you need convincing. But "over-played, over-rated"? I've been an avid music fan since seeing the video to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall", aged 8, and every day I'm ASTOUNDED by music I'd written off in my foolish youth as "boring" or "over-rated" or "old hat" or,(heaven help me!) "uncool"! Bands like the Cars, Steely Dan, Elvis Costello, the Go-Betweens... Yet the true beauty of art lies in the attempt itself, the fact that someone's actually CREATED something, and in trying to understand that artistic statement on its own grounds. Not all music is art, of course, but there is always, to be found within the song, a measure of artistry somewhere, be it the songwriter's, the singer's, the musicians', the producer's... (But if it still sounds like Backstreet Boys, then that's not a good sign!). The beauty of having a mind, and an opinion, is that they can (and most probably will) be changed, sooner or later. The only real thing I've ever learned is that everything changes, and to go with it when it does. (This from someone who's not particularly fanatic about Tom Petty...) You cannot see with closed eyes, nor can you hear with closed ears. That's the reason that "Old Fogey" music is perennially popular, because people change. You can bet there won't be that many Death Metal purists in the old age homes in 40 or 50 years! Vey few that won't bop along to an old Dean Martin song, at any rate... Enjoy the ride!

One of the most over rated and over played songs of the past year. Enough already!