iPod on Shuffle:
It Must Be Hell- The Rolling Stones
The Kids Are Alright- The Who
You Are Mine- Bob & Marcia
Vanishing Girl- The Dukes of Stratosphear
Sonic Reducer- Dead Boys
Runnin' Down A Dream- Tom Petty
She's Not There- The Zombies
All Down The Line- The Rolling Stones
Who'll Be The One- The Easybeats
Lucky Seven- The Skatalites
Don't Stand So Close To Me- The Police
I'm Still Waiting- The Wailers
Trench Town Rock- U-Roy
Julia- A Girl Called Eddy
The Bob (Medley)- Roxy Music
I'm Only Dozing- World Party
Corn Liquor- Southern Culture On The Skids
One Good Reason- The Tubes
Pictures On A Postcard- Pugwash
Van Duren- Are You Serious? (1978) - ***1/2
The Beatles- Help! (1965 Stereo Remaster)- ****
The Byrds- Fifth Dimension (1966) - ****
Elvis Presley- Back In Memphis (1970) - ****
Bill Nelson- Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam (1981)- ***1/2
The Soft Boys- Invisible Hits (1983) - ***1/2
Aerosmith- Get Your Wings: Quad Mix (1975)- ****
(Sorry, there are no notes, videos or extras. I had a stupid day. I will say this. I love "Full Moon Fever," but "Runnin' Down A Dream" is one of the worst songs to ever become a huge hit. And I am a Tom Petty fan through and through.)
8 comments:
You are so right about Running Down A Dream. I never got it.
Ha! I've always been a tad bored by "Runnin' Down A Dream" too.
Fan of Petty's "Runnin' Down A Dream" and the University of Florida Gators football here. It's a great tune speeding down the highway with the windows down on the way to the game. The song paralllels Petty's own dreams to become a musician as well as the Gator's dreams to become National champions. The incessant drum beat seems to reflect the need to keep hammering and pounding away to achieve that dream. On a side note the Gators have a tradition of playing Petty's "I Won't Back Down" at the end of the third quarter of home games to remind the opposing team that they won't back down in the pursuit to run down their dream.
RIP Tom and GO GATORS!
The backstory is great. And I could see how in that context, the song might work emotionally. But as song, without Gators football, it's awful.
The chorus is :"DA DA deh. Deh deh DA. DA DA deh. De de DA." And that riff? "Do DA do DEE do da do DEE do" is a nerve shredder, to this big time Petty fan.
UF grad. Always proud the Gators could cheat better than most anybody! :) Plus, as I've bitched before, as soon as I came to UF Petty stopped swinging by for years and I never got to see him in Gainesville. Bitter! ORANGE!
Oh I didn't mean to lie. I WENT to UF for seven lovely years but I did not graduate. Oops! Talk about cheating!
Go Dawgs!
There's a lifeless quality to Runnin' Down a Dream, like the soul was sucked out and replaced by a drum machine and sickness. The who-hoos sound automated. It's almost good/great, but instead it comes off as bland and monotonous (to me at least) Always better live.
Runnin' Down A Dream is the song I always point to when I'm asked to come up with an example of a song that has excellent verses and a terrible, terrible chorus.
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