365 project:"if you think you're gonna leave then you'd better say so"

57.

artist:tom petty
album:greatest hits

i like tom petty. i always have, from the time i was little. i don't know where that came from, because my dad doesn't like tom petty at all, and my mom isn't a huge fan, though she does like him more than dad does. its quite possible that this is one of the musical habits i inherited from my big brother. i know that i used to steal his full moon fever cassette quite frequently.

there is a gaslight anthem line that goes "i still like tom petty songs and driving old men crazy" which has been stuck in my head for days and days and days, so i figured since i had to go pick my dad up from my poppop's house, now was as good a time as any to listen to tom petty, because i was at least driving an old man, if not driving him crazy.

i only own his greatest hits album because I'm poor and that CD gets the job done. there aren't any songs that i can think of really that i am missing by not having them, though I'm sure there are more out there that id be in love with. the only song i wish i had was the one that he does with stevie nix, because i have liked that song for years, but not enough to really go out and do anything about it. its not like i sit at home at night and cry myself to sleep pining away for it. as a matter of fact, i cant honestly think of the name of it, and had totally forgotten about it until a few summers ago when i saw tom petty at bonnaroo. towards the end of the set, nix joined him on stage for a few duets, that song being one of them.

I'm trying to decide if i have a favorite tom petty song. i do know that as a child i was OBSESSED with the music video (remember, I'm 31...we had music videos on MTV when i was a child) for "don't come around here no more." as a 13-year-old, figuring out what the song "Mary Jane's last dance" was really about was kind of liberating. i was getting to be the age where i understood adult references and things were bigger than cartoons and math homework. "even the losers" should be my anthem, but i don't even get lucky sometimes, so it just kind of depresses me. "learning to fly" is a pretty incredible song, i think. i like the message behind it, and i think the music itself is pretty nice.

i was thinking it might be easier to pick a least favorite song, but i don't have one of those, either. this is a CD that doesn't get the rotation that it should, and i really need to work on changing that.