![]() “You Don’t Know How It Feels” ( Wildflowers, 1994) “ I’ve got a few of my own fault lines running under my life” as a chorus hook is obviously peak Petty: hard-lived and tough-lucked, but still grinning through it.ġ6. Tom Petty’s rock relevance had inevitably waned by the 21st century, but the songs never really dried up - 2014’s Hypnotic Eye, now to stand as his final LP, was one of the best of his later years, with the alternately smoky and swampy “Fault Lines” an obvious highlight. ![]() ![]() “I Won’t Back Down” ( Full Moon Fever, 1989)Ī melody so fundamental one of the biggest pop hits of this decade could rip it off without even realizing it, and a similarly straight-laced message that Petty’s fanbase could take to heart: “You can stand me up at the gates of hell/ But I won’t back down.” He sings it with a shrug rather than a sneer Tom Petty never needed to be bossy to be the boss. The harmonies and ringing guitars that lead the chorus back into the verse are also pure Fab Four apparently Petty passed the audition because within a year he’d be in a band with one of ’em.ġ8. “Ain’t Love Strange” ( Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough), 1987)Ī buried gem on Petty’s only pre-’94 LP not to notch at least one song on his Greatest Hits, rollicking and twangy and red-blooded enough to have featured on a late-’80s Steve Earle album. “Good love is hard to find/ You got lucky, babe, when I found you,” Petty taunts on the chorus, with the keys chiming in like backing singers to provide further shoulder-dusting.ġ9. “You Got Lucky” ( Long After Dark, 1982)Ī delectable moment of synth-pop swagger from the rarely malevolent Petty. Tom Petty, Rock 'n' Roll Legend, Dies at 66Ģ0.
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