Use The Tubes
From The Campbell's Brand To Mike Campbell's Band.
Lithgow goes commercial -- So. I always wonder how someone like John Lithgow feels when his agent brings in the proposal to do big musical production numbers for Campbell's Soup commercials, and what his reasons are when he accepts. I just hope he didn't hate it, and that his finances aren't in a shambles, because otherwise a talented actor could feel absolutely miserable, trying to project enthusiasm to the camera while holding a cardboard box of soup and rhyming "butternut squash" with "panache."
Reading Is Fundamental -- As you know, there is a distinct difference between "first known to have disclosed" and "known to be the first to have disclosed." Yet, the former is interpreted as the latter every day in news reports about this Woodward thing as it pertains to Libby, largely because certain people willfully misinterpret it to mean that Fitzgerald's indictment wording is now inaccurate. Talking quickly and expecting us to think slowly ... kinda the hallmark of the last few years, huh?
The Tom Petty Dozen
(Half of these are late-era, from Echo or Wildflowers or She's The One. I've generally liked the post-Lynne production, and the band hasn't lost a step. As usual, a tendency away from the rockers and more toward atmosphere.)
A Room At The Top - An unconventional but great opener from Echo.
A Woman In Love - Ah, the radio of my youth.
Angel Dream
Crawling Back To You - Overlooked quality from Wildflowers
Don’t Do Me Like That - Ah, the radio of my slightly earlier youth.
It’s Good To Be King - Guess you're getting the hang of it when you write something that just wouldn't have gotten written by anybody else.
Runaway Trains - The only criminal omission from Playback.
Shadow Of A Doubt (Complex Kid) - Probably the most obscure here, but catchy, and with an endearing detail or two ("Sometimes she dreams in French ..."). It was a good opener now and then, back in my setlist-making days.
Southern Accents - This and "Angel Dream" raise the point ... Petty might be the king of the from-a-different-perspective, melancholy bridge.
Waiting For Tonight - The fine outtake rescued by Playback.
Walls ("No. 3" or "Circus") - As uptempo as you can get while remaining laid-back, it'd make my half-dozen.
You Wreck Me - This one was in our old repertoire, too.
In no particular order, but especially designed to exclude "Jammin Me,"
"Learning To Fly" and "Into The Great Wide Open"
Except for an old copy of Damn The Torpedoes, I owned nothing until
Wildflowers, which made me the absolutely perfect target for the box set.
TP was like the Cars ... you got to hear the songs so much on the radio,
actually owning them never occurred to me.
Actually... I meant to say "Whiskey" without regional affiliation.