3 Favorite Tom Petty songs

[TAC]

Tough one for me.

You got lucky was the first video I ever saw.

American is for sure the fav.

Running down a dream.

I'll stick with these for now.

[rjs4470]

The Waiting

Don't Do Me Like That

Running Down a Dream

 

Honorable Mention--Waiting for Tonight

[neilman1234]

You Got Lucky

Crawling Back To You

Running Down a Dream

[lawildcat]

American Girl

Stop Dragging My Heart Around

You Wreck Me

[Jim Schue]

I might change my mind later, since I hate trying to narrow down lists, but in some order:

Learning To Fly

Jammin' Me

American Girl

[LCDAWGS19]

1. End of the Line (with the Traveling Wilbury's)

2. Cabin Down Below

3. Runnin Down a Dream

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

1) American Girl

2) American Girl

3) American Girl

4) Running Down A Dream

5) Love Is A Long Road

6) You Don't Know How It Feels

7) Waiting Is The Hardest Part

8) Here Comes My Girl

9) Refugee

10) Won't Back Down

[AverageJoesGym]

1. I Won't Back Down

2. The Waiting

3. American Girl

[Science Friction]

Always loved this song and video.

 

[Science Friction]

Another favorite video from my MTV days:

 

[Pura Vida]

Always loved this song and video.

 

 

“Good love is hard to find”….. one of the most meaningful lyrics of all time.

[Science Friction]

“Good love is hard to find”….. one of the most meaningful lyrics of all time.

 

So true, PV.

[swamprat]

This was pretty neat. It makes sense given he was born in Gainesville.

 

[The Professor]

Running Down A Dream

American Girl

Cabin Down Below

 

On a side note, I watched the four hour documentary on Tom Petty’s life and career on Netflix and he said in their early days the band went to L.A. with some demo tapes they had made. One of the first places they visited was called Playboy Recordings. They got an interview with the head honcho and told him they had demos. Petty said the guy listen to one song for 30 seconds and turned it off with a remark that he had heard all he needed to hear, that it wasn’t what their company was looking for.

 

My thoughts while watching the documentary was, ‘I wonder whatever happened to that honcho dude and what he thought years later about all the success the group that he turned away ended up achieving.’

At his death Petty was worth 95 million dollars!