Top 5 Tom Petty Songs

I thoroughly enjoy Tom Petty’s music, but just as a caveat…I really only know two albums plus his Greatest Hits. So I am not familiar with his whole catalogue.

5. Free Fallin’

Figured I’d start things off with an obscure one.

4. The Apartment Song

One of the short, fun songs at the end of Full Moon Fever. Not sure why I enjoy it so much, but…um…I do. Excellent commentary, I know.

3. Mary Jane’s Last Dance

That whole second verse is great. “You never slow down, you never grow old.”

2. The Waiting

SportsCenter did a Red Sox montage to this song after the 2004 World Series. Excellent stuff…it might still be on my TiVo.

1. American Girl

My favorite non-Springsteen song.

Top 5 “Non-Essential” Springsteen Songs

I wanted to make a list of my favorite “obscure” Springsteen songs, so I needed a definitive way to establish which to consider. So, if a song is on Springsteen’s “Essential” collection or his Greatest Hits album, then it is ineligible. Here goes the first Springsteen list.

5. I’m Goin’ Down

We listened to this all the time in college. And for good reason.

4. Backstreets

Inspiration for one of my first Fantasy team names: the “Duke Street Kings”. It is also one of the great running songs of all time. (Hmm…sounds like another good list.)

3. Candy’s Room

I always enjoy a song that “kicks in” at some point. And this one does it twice, in only three minutes.

2. No Surrender

Probably the most well-known of the five. Excellent in its conventional fast version, but also as a slower acoustic ditty (as on the “Live 75-85″ album).

1. Racing in the Street

There was an extended period of time when I would skip this one whenever I listened to the “Darkness” album. Well, not anymore.

(As it turns out, all five came from the “Big 3″ albums. I wasn’t expecting that. Maybe I should’ve restricted it to one song per album. Too late now. )