Mastodawn

One more thing from my Tom Petty listening adventure (I did After Dark from 82, Let Me Up from 87 and Hypnotic Eye from '14) - in another life, I was a producer. Let Me Up is a fantastic record, and Tom had help with Bob writing one of the three singles, 'Jammin Me', but the 3 they chose for the singles, NONE of them are as good as the record's 9th track, 'Ain't Love Strange', which I (or anyone else who hadn't heard this record) would've missed - but it's gotta be one of Tom's best songs. Fuckin unreal.

Here. Listen to THIS shit. And then listen to all of 'Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)': https://youtu.be/NXysGNwC0w4

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Ain't Love Strange

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Jake in the desert Mar 12

Just listened to Tom Petty's 'After Dark' (from 1982) fully for the first time, (I of course knew the song 'You Got Lucky') - but I get to the end, and the last song, 'A Wasted Life' had this melody that I couldn't place.. until I did. It's like, the EXACT same melody (and even NOTES, I just listened to them one after the other) as Vanity Faire's single 'Hitchin' a Ride' from 1969.

Through the years, Tom had different issues here and there with suing others for similar songs (Sam Smith) or not (the Chili Peppers) - and I loved the guy and his music (RIP), but man, Tom, 'A Wasted Life' is like, a DIRECT rip from 'Hitchin' a Ride'. 😂

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