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I don't know though... maybe "happy, focused, pumped-up" isn't quite the right description, but there's something haunting and grim but also epic and inspiring about the song. Doesn't sound like anything Petty did before or since. And I think those are good qualities for an anthem. (Lyrics aside.)
Posted by Edith]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:39:00 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by Michael Joshua]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:38:00 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by Mark]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:37:00 -0400 The L Magazine
Mark--I like Tom Petty as much as the next guy, and don't sneeze at that hook. I didn't mean to suggest "American Girl" was vapid, only that it could be treated that way...like "Born in the USA"?
Posted by Henry]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:36:00 -0400 The L Magazine
and I dedicate "Free Falling" to US $?
Posted by gjk]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:35:00 -0400 The L Magazine
Obviously many people hate the Superbowl and many people hate Tom Petty, but I don't think his music is at all aligned red or blue, politically. (And he's a shaggy hippie surfer dude. Or at one point that was his image, before he became a living skeleton. A genius skeleton.)

What would you propose, Henry, as a national unifier?

My next one will be Galileo, by the Indigo Girls.
Posted by Edith]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:34:00 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by Mark]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:33:00 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by Henry]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:32:00 -0400 The L Magazine Posted by Anonymous]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:31:00 -0400 The L Magazine