Tom Petty: A Retrospective, Vol. 1: All The Hits

Like many rock music enthusiasts, I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Tom Petty. I've been a fan for easily over twenty years now. In memory of Tom and his legendary musical career, here's a chronological retrospective of all his biggest hits, both with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist...as well as a few big tunes from his side projects. Volume 2 (coming soon to a music blog near you!) will cover "the best of the rest" of Petty's lesser-known songs, including more of his side-project output. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  “Don’t Do Me Like That”  (And The Heartbreakers)

2)  “Refugee”  (And The Heartbreakers)

3)  “The Waiting”  (And The Heartbreakers)

4)  “A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)”  (And The Heartbreakers)

5)  “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”  (Duet with Stevie Nicks)

6)  “You Got Lucky”  (And The Heartbreakers)

7)  “Change Of Heart”  (And The Heartbreakers)

8)  “Don’t Come Around Here No More”  (And The Heartbreakers)

9)  “Make It Better (Forget About Me)”  (And The Heartbreakers)

10)  “Rebels”  (And The Heartbreakers)

11)  “Jammin’ Me”  (And The Heartbreakers)

12)  “Handle With Care”  (with The Traveling Wilburys)

13)  “End Of The Line”  (with The Traveling Wilburys)

14)  “I Won’t Back Down”  (And The Heartbreakers)

15)  “Runnin’ Down A Dream”  (And The Heartbreakers)

16)  “Free Fallin’”

17)  “A Face In The Crowd”

18)  “Yer So Bad”

19)  “Learning To Fly”

20)  “Into The Great Wide Open”  (And The Heartbreakers)

21)  “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”  (And The Heartbreakers)

22)  “You Don’t Know How It Feels”

23)  “You Wreck Me”

24)  “It’s Good To Be King”

25)  “Walls (Circus)”  (And The Heartbreakers)

Songs About "What Happened"

A certain recent presidential candidate just released an entire book on why she didn't get elected. It's called "What Happened." She could have saved herself a lot of time and effort, though, if she'd posted these songs like I just did. Here's actually "What Happened"...according to these tunes, at least. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jessica Mauboy ft. Jay Sean  ~  “What Happened To Us”

2)  Lukas Graham ft. Live Strings & The Rusty Trombones  ~  “What Happened To Perfect”  (True story: I am seriously jealous of this dude's voice. It's uh-MAZING!)

3)  Lena Meyer-Landrut  ~  “What Happened To Me”

4)  The Strokes  ~  “What Ever Happened”

5)  Amanda Ruzza Group  ~  “This Is What Happened"

6)  Forever The Sickest Kids  ~  “What Happened To Emotion?”

7)  Jessi Colter  ~  “What’s Happened To Blue Eyes”

8)  Ezra Henderson  ~  “What Happened”

9)  Emilie & Ogden  ~  “What Happened”

10)  Hoobastank  ~  “What Happened To Us”

11)  Melanie Edwards  ~  “What Happened”

12)  Wyclef Jean ft. Lunch Money Lewis & The Knocks  ~  “What Happened To Love”

13)  Louise Fraser  ~  “What Happened”

14)  Deftones  ~  “What Happened To You”

15)  Algebra Blessett  ~  “What Happened”

16)  The Kolors  ~  “What Happened Last Night”

17)  Brenna Stilwell  ~  “What Happened”

18)  Animal Collective  ~  “What Happened?”

19)  Muddy Magnolias  ~  “Brother, What Happened?"

20)  The Offspring  ~  “What Happened To You?”

21)  Lynsay Ryan  ~  “What Happened To Us”

22)  The Heavy  ~  “What Happened To The Love?”

23)  Erin McKeown  ~  “That’s Just What Happened"

24)  Corey Smith  ~  “What Happened”

25)  Nikki Lickstein  ~  “What Happened Next”

"Naive" Songs

This one goes out to the "Naive" among us, of which I am one in many ways about many things. If you can relate, take a listen. (Even if you can't relate, still listen, you can sympathize.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Grace Wood  ~  “Young Naive & Reckless”

2)  The Kooks  ~  “Naive”

3)  Vonda Shepard  ~  “Naiveté”

4)  Jónsi  ~  “Saint Naive”

5)  Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox ft. Sara Niemietz  ~  “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”

6) Anberlin  ~  “Naive Orleans”

7)  Mutya Buena  ~  “Naive”

8)  Villagers  ~  “So Naive”

9)  Sequin  ~  “Naive”

10)  Sleeping At Last  ~  “Naive”

11)  Axelle Red  ~  “Naive”

12)  Chris Rice  ~  “Naive”

13)  Izzy Bizu  ~  “Naive Soul”

14)  Micky & The Motorcars  ~  “Naive”

15)  Jamie O’Neal  ~  “Naive”

16)  BYRØN  ~  “So Naive”

17)  Plumb  ~  “Nice, Naive, And Beautiful”

18)  The Mary Onettes  ~  “Naive Dream”

19)  Iman  ~  “Naive”

20)  A Day To Remember  ~  “Naivety”

21)  The xx  ~  “Naive”

22)  Speak Low If You Speak Love  ~  “Naive”

23)  Laura Welsh  ~  “Naive”

24)  Cinemon  ~  “So Naive”

25)  Des’ree  ~  “Innocent & Naive”

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)