He would be on the American Songwriter Mt. Rushmore with Dylan (who’s greatly overrated) Bruce, Townes and John Prine (then for purists switch out Zimmerman for Steve Earle)
The thing about Tom Petty is, unlike pretty much EVERYONE else who hangs onto their musical career for more than a decade, his music never lost it's raw, authentic quality. It never became formulaic, flat, safe, or lifeless. For the most part, the music from every stage of his career is as enjoyable as any other stage. Seriously, who else can you say that about?
Amen dude. Not only is it that, Tom Petty has influenced or had some kind of noted influence on nearly every rock and roll, hard rock, metal, heavy/thrash metal, and grunge band that formed from the 80's-Present. He's even influenced a massive amount of Country artists/bands as well.
Tom Petty was indeed great. You will get no argument from me there. However there are several others who have left behind( and who are still alive as well) a large body of work which did change with the times. I have broadened my taste in music quite a bit over the past few years and I have discovered many artists that I wish I had not been so close minded as to not discover them years ago! I like rock, I like country, I like some pop music Etc... But most of all I like any music where the poet / songwriter puts his / her heart and soul into their music and has a message in it. Or a Feeling in it that almost anyone can relate to in some way.
I wrote an article about this particular video which I thought was a masterpiece :). May get it recognized... not important. What pissed me off the most in the episode where the heroines lover is falling to his death is the utter, criminal spectator sport it was for the people around the pool below. Cheers, loved your post!
This particular video fascinated me for a vr long time, not because it was more moving emotionally than his other work but for its complexity. As a video it packs a big punch. I read something from a thoughtful poster who thought Jackson Browne was more cerebral -- watch this and that argument falls apart, as much as I respected the writer. I thought about it for days and days -- he could do anything, and yes, still wish he were still here with his love on his arm. The way of the world.
I’m basically paraphrasing all of the other comments here when I say his music was the soundtrack for a generation. Folks my age have a Tom Petty song for every stage of our lives. RIP
I thought at first she couldn't have survived the crash and must have been a ghost. But this time I saw her using her arms to keep her head away from the top of the car as it fell, and saw that the other people in the diner reacted to her and the cat (aside from Tom Petty, who is privileged because it's his song). So I guess it's supposed to be real.
I always thought Tom Petty was the coolest guy on earth..on top of being one of the best songwriters and musicians of all time. Now he is the coolest guy in heaven
My little brother Nino died from a heroin overdose on Aug 14th 2019 .. He was an accompliced musican ... he sent me a cover of this song on the day he passed away ...still cry every I hear this song😎
He’s been with me and in me and beside me for a long long long time..in theses 74 yrs of mine! So much joy and so much connected emotions……..made life a joy, in many ways! 🐐
I grew up moving between Georgia and Florida, born in 1971, my first cassette was Long After Dark, bought it with my own money, earned mowing lawns, brother drove me the record store in 1981 in his Dodge van. Thanks, Mr. Petty, for writing the soundtrack to my life. I feel like I owe you some money but we both know I ain't gonna pay.
What's amazing is the number of interpretations of this song. Actually that is a sign of great art - That it can mean so many different things to different people.
No it doesn't. He's sorely missed by this individual but he'll always live on cause music never dies. It's set in stone after that. R.I.P. Tom Petty. You were in a class all by yourself. 😥🙏
Tom Petty always was always there. 70’ radio when I was a kid in my dad’s truck with “Breakdown” and “Refugee”. And early MTV with “Stop Draggin My Heart Around” and “Don’t Come Around Here.” Then MTV was huge and there was Petty as the cat in the hat, the Wilbury’s or on tour as Dylan’s band. Damn. And it just kept going into the 90’s with the one two punch of “Full Moon Fever” and “Into the Great Wide Open” followed by the single “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” He was always there. Great music. So good live. That Souther drawl and easy smile. And the beautiful music: tight hooks and every song it’s own story. I liked that he was there. I liked the world with Tom Petty in it; the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame sublime “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” This song with its melancholy shuffle and the video’s angles guts me. The hat is in a closet somewhere, his scarfs stashed away. I feel a knot in my stomach. Tom Petty is not in the world any more. And I won’t ever see him live again or read about he’s newest album coming out. I miss him. The world is a beautiful place. Truly beautiful. But it was a better place when he was here too.
I've listened to Tom Petty's music since I was 16 and I'm now 64 years old. I won't repeat all the things that we love about the man and his music. They've all been said. What I will say is something I don't see people mention very often. In his very long career and despite the many songs he's written and performed, his music always remained fresh. His creativity was brilliant and constant. He never allowed himself to get stuck with the same old formula's. So many of us were privy to watch his music career begin and watched as it caught the attention of millions and then gained a solid foot hold. As we grew older, we watched him mature right along with us and that maturity is so clearly reflected in his music. There are times I think he was watching all of us mature and wrote about our lives as his words were so relatable to us. He was in tune with us. He got (understood) us. And we got him. He was there during the good times as well as the bad. He was there when I got married and he was there when my husband died and every time I got knocked down and got back up. He was like the cousin who would reach out to talk to me and we knew each other very well even though we had never met. Rumor has it he had 10's of millions of other cousins besides me. He was certainly our favorite one. RIP Mr. Petty. Tell my husband I love him and I'm doing much better now.
A boss I had back in the late 70's looked enough like Tom Petty that they could have been brothers. R.I.P. Mr. Petty we could really use some music from you now.
So good, love his voice, those guitars , the lyrics . He absolutely accomplished what he came to earth to do, and we all benefited because he was here. ❤
I'm 60 now and fell in love with his music when I bought his first two albums back in 77. He was with me growing, through college, career, wife, family. I miss him terribly. I have a tear running down my cheek as I write this. His music touched my soul.
The man who was the soundtrack of my life. Breakdown started our life together. When people said he was a sellout I defended him. He is a national treasure for sure. The only one that I cried over when he passed. Two days later I was a grandma for the first time.🎉Love you Tom. Everything was great when you were here.
Okay....when Joe Cocker died, it felt like a friend died. Sad, sad, sad. But when Tom died it felt like a part of my life had died. I adore his lyrics. He made them for and about us. This is my favourite song and it comes woth my favourite video. No day without a Petty song 😍😍😍🎶🎶🎶
My mom and business partners went to HS with Tom at Gainesville high- crazy fact: 3 members of the rock n roll hOF in 1 HS graduating class(tom/ david Crosby(CrosbyStillsNash) and Don Felder (Eagles). Crazy
Tom has that unique combo of artistic integrity without being pretentious. He seems like a genuinely good guy that makes music for all the right reasons. I love how organic and pure all his music sounds.
Like millions of others, no one has had more fans of his music than Tom Petty, we all grieve for the loss of such and amazing talent and human being, Rest In Peace old friend.
One of my all time favorite songs by Tom. Overlooked but just one of a ton of great songs written by an American Master. A lot of people don't realize what a prolific songwriter he was. He is a true Icon of American Rock n Roll. Rest easy my friend........You will be missed by many.
Several critics underrated it and in Conversations with Tom Petty, Paul Zollo I was so happy his 2nd wife Dana sat him down in his car and made him listen to his music when he was at a nadir of self-criticism -- way to go Dana no words so won't waste them.
@@eddieupchurch6724 I was writing away and did lots of research natch and I've never read a bio (Warren Zane) that left me feeling more helpless sad admiring you name it. His daughter thought Wildflowers was the real divorce album - i saw Echo as a breakdown he survived and turned a corner in his life like Dante standing at the gates of hell in a forest looking for the trees uncanny.
That is a fact: he was going through a rough divorce at the time, (check out "Room at the Top of the World")and his label was pressing him for an album. He reluctantly went in the studio and came out with this album... What he considered the worst offering of his career. I would actually tend to agree. But still awesome.
It's so sad he won't be making anymore music. His music has followed me from school, college to uni, from marriage to children. He has been with me all through my life and I'm 45 on Monday. Such talent is timeless and has an emotional quality. I can put times, people and places to all of his work. God bless you man x
I have listened to Tom since I was 5! I am 45 today. And you are right! My whole life was about Tom! It is hard to live without him today! RIP to the Greatest Legend of All Time!!! I love you Tom!!
If there is an afterlife, Tom Petty would smile & thank you for your expression of pure gratitude. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, their music & songs influenced you, me & a lot of people. Best wishes...
I can't stop listening to this, "SWINGIN". The guitars are literally resonating with each other. It's beautiful. It's beyond cool. The resonating sound penetrates mind and soul. And of course the words give anybody who listens a sense of inner strength---it powers your spirit.
Your comment about this song Swinging nailed it. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were the best. Back in the day they toured with Bob Dylan. That says it all...
I can't go a day without my Tom Petty fix. When shit isn't right I turn to this song. Echo is a great record and something in this song gets right to my soul and the healing begins. Then sadness sets in because Tom is no longer with us and that hurts a lot. He/ They left us with so much great music that we know it was real and honest. There's a comfort in that and there will never be another Tom Petty in my life time. I'm just glad I got to know his music and story. The word ICON is used way to much these days for undeserving people but Tom was a true ICON. RIP TOM... TIL WE CROSS PATHS ON THE OTHER SIDE, I'LL KEEP SWINGIN'
Tom petty has been a force to be reckoned with by the music establishment. he's one of my all-time favorite artists. I view him as talented as Bob Dylan and Neil Young, but with a southern flavor
tom and dylan were great friends, Traveling Wilburys is some of the best supergroup music there is between Roy Orbison Jeff Lynne Bob Dylan George Harrison and Tom Petty and no one really shined more than the other they just had fun and wrote great music.
After the mass shooting in Las Vegas last night and Tom Petty's death, the line "after that night in Vegas... and the hell that we went through" is as chilling as it could be. Rest in Peace.
This music video was in August 1999, and now its October 2017. The entire song and video for Tom Petty's Swinging is a strange prophecy of what would happen to the poor victims of Las Vegas and to poor Tom Petty :( . Its very similar to the song and video of Chris Cornells nearly forget about my broken heart. These artists always write songs and make videos that might describe how they are feeling about life, about the world in general, oh well god bless everyone
I know its strange right? :( Tom Petty singing about some poor girls troubles and this video was so beautifully done, its about Las Vegas, fate and circumstance, some guy she hooks up with gets into a fight with the FBI or police over money and hes tossed out a hotel window and she later survives a car crash on the highway and the angels are looking down from heaven at a cafe where Tom Petty is singing, SWINGING is exactly how Tom Pettys musical legacy will be and SHOULD BE remembered: he went out swinging like a real American pop culture icon and musical hero to millions :) god bless Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers .
This is my favorite Tom song. That’s the thing about him he wasn’t a couple of hits and that’s all. He had many gigantic hits but some of his best stuff was not the big hits.
I cannot express how much I love Tom Petty. He is one of those soundtrack artists of my life AND a founding father of music videos. Hell, he was making videos before there was MTV.
Don't Come Around Here No More was the best video (to me anyway) and it was made before MTV in the late-70's. He had the trademark hippie-style shades with the lavender top hat and coat-and-tails. He showed his contempt for women (and it works both ways) in relationships trying to manipulate their way back into it (the relationship) and he used the woman in the video to look like Alice In Wonderland because she represented someone living in a fantasy world who thinks that way. Him and the great Scottish singer-songwriter Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics wrote that one. He will be greatly missed after passing from this world at 66.
It's crazy - TP later said in some interviews that he couldn't listen to the record this song comes from because he never thought it wasn't any good. But that album and this song are so very great. This song is quintessentially Tom Petty.
This song should be broadcast over public PA systems in all towns every 6 months so people never forget the so simple but powerful songwriting of Tom Petty and the tight playing of The Heartbreakers.
Hurts tonight, man! So glad I lived during this time, and Tom's a big part of the reason why. The emotion that his songs rose in me ... and still does ...
Tatiana - Even w/o Howie & Stan, the Heartbreakers & TP put on the best of live shows. Professional & on-point every time I've seen them over the last 30 years. I promise that you won't be disappointed.
So many songs the mainstream aren't familiar with. He gave us a huge body of work. & every song is amazing. His songwriting was narrative, which made his music more personal. Petty was a great musical story teller. He is missed.
Saw Tom at Red Rocks this past summer. I had a feeling leading up to the show that they would play Swingin, but I knew it was wishful thinking because it's such a rarity.. Ironically, a freak rain storm came out of nowhere and interrupted the show mid-set. Tom came back on stage after a 30 minute delay and immediately rewarded us with a Swingin. I've been to hundreds of concerts and it was one of the best moments I'll ever remember. Thank you Tom! RIP ua-cam.com/video/uN_z3_ZuiBU/v-deo.html
Absolutely awesome song!, I've always liked Tom Petty, for decades. For some reason these last few months I've been completely intrigued by his life and career. He was a fighter that grabbed life by the balls and took his greatness. He wasn't gonna wait for someone to "give it to him" he took it!
The best musician to ever live in my opinion. This is real music that actually means something, and fans can relate to Tom Petty because he was so down to earth. RIP Tom
Outstanding song and a truly captivating video. Today's world is in free fall and yet this legend keeps hitting the mark. Thank you Tom Petty for keeping real music alive...
I feel that Tom is one of the top artists of the 20th century, up the with Dylan and Lennon-McCartney. But his sound that we're familiar with depends mightily upon Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. He may not have been as prolific without their contributions. Think of early Who with only Pete Townsend, as the sole contributor. That is, John Entwistle and Keith Moon's influences were necessary for the Who's development as an entity.
I think everyone needs to hear this song today. Chins up. This just made me feel. If he appeared and had a message to share with us I’d like to think that it’s right here. Rock and roll will never die and a song never forgets.
![Tom Petty - It's Good To Be King [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2SF1iLXSQto/mqdefault.jpg)
Every time I hear a Tom Petty song, I smile. His music was the soundtrack to my most formative years. Thanks Tom. You are missed.
Well said 👍
Yes.
Rest in Peace Tom.
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Totally agree..
Missing your voice in the world today, Tom.
Indeed..
Truth.
This gentleman is one of the most important figures in all of American music, enough said.
Tom Petty and the heartbreaker's are like American wallpaper. The have always been there.
@@Noblesavage77I didn't realize how deep he was in my head until he died.
Amen
Absolute american treasure
the first A.I. comment on a Petty vid
Tom doesn’t get mentioned enough as one of the all-time great lyricists. Just so clever, witty, and poignant.
Agree he fought the music industry and won good for him
He would be on the American Songwriter Mt. Rushmore with Dylan (who’s greatly overrated) Bruce, Townes and John Prine (then for purists switch out Zimmerman for Steve Earle)
Where do you live . Everyone who likes Tom petty knows that
The man was just absolute class
are you high lol
I'm fortunate to have seen him and the Heartbreakers live in Reno . Gone way too soon.....
😊😢❤
This is one of Petty's most beautiful songs ever made.
+Michael Bartholomew Agree!
MOVIE STAR CARS Gaming ya m still listening now
he has so many
MOVIE STAR CARS Gaming And he has a boatload!
MOVIE STAR CARS Gaming I love all his songs.. He's the man.. Been listening to Tom , since,I've been a,teenager lol
The thing about Tom Petty is, unlike pretty much EVERYONE else who hangs onto their musical career for more than a decade, his music never lost it's raw, authentic quality. It never became formulaic, flat, safe, or lifeless. For the most part, the music from every stage of his career is as enjoyable as any other stage. Seriously, who else can you say that about?
SC Beatty - You hit the nail on the head. So true.
Amen dude. Not only is it that, Tom Petty has influenced or had some kind of noted influence on nearly every rock and roll, hard rock, metal, heavy/thrash metal, and grunge band that formed from the 80's-Present. He's even influenced a massive amount of Country artists/bands as well.
Tom Petty was indeed great. You will get no argument from me there. However there are several others who have left behind( and who are still alive as well) a large body of work which did change with the times. I have broadened my taste in music quite a bit over the past few years and I have discovered many artists that I wish I had not been so close minded as to not discover them years ago! I like rock, I like country, I like some pop music Etc... But most of all I like any music where the poet / songwriter puts his / her heart and soul into their music and has a message in it. Or a Feeling in it that almost anyone can relate to in some way.
I wrote an article about this particular video which I thought was a masterpiece :). May get it recognized... not important. What pissed me off the most in the episode where the heroines lover is falling to his death is the utter, criminal spectator sport it was for the people around the pool below. Cheers, loved your post!
This particular video fascinated me for a vr long time, not because it was more moving emotionally than his other work but for its complexity. As a video it packs a big punch. I read something from a thoughtful poster who thought Jackson Browne was more cerebral -- watch this and that argument falls apart, as much as I respected the writer. I thought about it for days and days -- he could do anything, and yes, still wish he were still here with his love on his arm. The way of the world.
I’m basically paraphrasing all of the other comments here when I say his music was the soundtrack for a generation. Folks my age have a Tom Petty song for every stage of our lives. RIP
One of the most beautiful songs I never heard
The Whole album is grossly underrated and overlooked
I have watched this video hundreds of times. I truly never noticed some of the details until today. RIP Tom, you went out swingin'
Yes, he did. My favorite song
I thought at first she couldn't have survived the crash and must have been a ghost. But this time I saw her using her arms to keep her head away from the top of the car as it fell, and saw that the other people in the diner reacted to her and the cat (aside from Tom Petty, who is privileged because it's his song). So I guess it's supposed to be real.
Love this song, love this video. Maybe because I'm a cat guy...
Plus one, friend.
@@JudithShakespeare-se7kiBUT WHO ARE THE GHOSTS????
I like to think Tom Petty went down swingin. He was a legend in his own time and through his music he will be a legend forever.
I always thought Tom Petty was the coolest guy on earth..on top of being one of the best songwriters and musicians of all time. Now he is the coolest guy in heaven
Love!
My little brother Nino died from a heroin overdose on Aug 14th 2019 .. He was an accompliced musican ... he sent me a cover of this song on the day he passed away ...still cry every I hear this song😎
Well stated. I agree.
GREATLY missed AND gone too soon! Kept performing after a sustained injury???? WHY???? why didn't his agent say "NO more shows til you heal up"...gah!
There will never be another Tom Petty
One of the greatest musicians of all time. Tom is sorely missed but his music will live forever.
Omg seriously. LOVE THIS SONG
A Florida Boy becomes a national treasure. And he went down swinging.
Several of um has brother. 😢😢😢😢
National treasure and his legend will grow. What a writer
Amen and God bless !
So sayeth the PETE!
Yes, he did!
Yes he did
He’s been with me and in me and beside me for a long long long time..in theses 74 yrs of mine! So much joy and so much connected emotions……..made life a joy, in many ways! 🐐
I grew up moving between Georgia and Florida, born in 1971, my first cassette was Long After Dark, bought it with my own money, earned mowing lawns, brother drove me the record store in 1981 in his Dodge van. Thanks, Mr. Petty, for writing the soundtrack to my life. I feel like I owe you some money but we both know I ain't gonna pay.
Tom Petty was a class act...
I completely agree.
This song is a masterpiece. Great story, awesome playing. This guy was a legend. Still is!!
Why do so many legendary artist die early and of their own demise?
What's amazing is the number of interpretations of this song. Actually that is a sign of great art - That it can mean so many different things to different people.
@Chieflywaze brilliant artists and song writers go hand in hand with struggles with mental illness.
@@Chieflywazebecause life is hard to tolerate
TOM PETTY'S DAD BEAT HIM AND PUT HIM DOWN ON A DAILY BASIS...🖤
Can we get a 4K upgrade on this? Tom's entire catalog on UA-cam deserves that.
Songwriting doesn't get any better than this. Period.
period!
Tells a complex, nuanced story in a few minutes. You’re right. It doesn’t get better. He is sorely missed, but oh, what gifts he left us.
🤟
You are so correct! One of rock n rolls best songwriters ever!
No it doesn't. He's sorely missed by this individual but he'll always live on cause music never dies. It's set in stone after that. R.I.P. Tom Petty. You were in a class all by yourself. 😥🙏
This was the song that came to my mind when I read he had died today. Goodbye, Tom; you will never be replaced.
Timothy P after that night in Vegas and the hell we went through
me too damn he was a badass
I thought of the line "the world got still" I noticed his family thought of that line too in their press release. :( what a loss.
it was the first song I thought of, seems to me he liked this song more than most of his fans
He went down SINGIN'
Tom Petty always was always there. 70’ radio when I was a kid in my dad’s truck with “Breakdown” and “Refugee”. And early MTV with “Stop Draggin My Heart Around” and “Don’t Come Around Here.”
Then MTV was huge and there was Petty as the cat in the hat, the Wilbury’s or on tour as Dylan’s band. Damn.
And it just kept going into the 90’s with the one two punch of “Full Moon Fever” and “Into the Great Wide Open” followed by the single “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.”
He was always there. Great music. So good live. That Souther drawl and easy smile. And the beautiful music: tight hooks and every song it’s own story.
I liked that he was there. I liked the world with Tom Petty in it; the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame sublime “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
This song with its melancholy shuffle and the video’s angles guts me. The hat is in a closet somewhere, his scarfs stashed away. I feel a knot in my stomach.
Tom Petty is not in the world any more. And I won’t ever see him live again or read about he’s newest album coming out.
I miss him. The world is a beautiful place. Truly beautiful. But it was a better place when he was here too.
I've listened to Tom Petty's music since I was 16 and I'm now 64 years old. I won't repeat all the things that we love about the man and his music. They've all been said. What I will say is something I don't see people mention very often. In his very long career and despite the many songs he's written and performed, his music always remained fresh. His creativity was brilliant and constant. He never allowed himself to get stuck with the same old formula's. So many of us were privy to watch his music career begin and watched as it caught the attention of millions and then gained a solid foot hold. As we grew older, we watched him mature right along with us and that maturity is so clearly reflected in his music. There are times I think he was watching all of us mature and wrote about our lives as his words were so relatable to us. He was in tune with us. He got (understood) us. And we got him. He was there during the good times as well as the bad. He was there when I got married and he was there when my husband died and every time I got knocked down and got back up. He was like the cousin who would reach out to talk to me and we knew each other very well even though we had never met. Rumor has it he had 10's of millions of other cousins besides me. He was certainly our favorite one. RIP Mr. Petty. Tell my husband I love him and I'm doing much better now.
Sounds like you went down and then got back up ........ Swingin ..
A boss I had back in the late 70's looked enough like Tom Petty that they could have been brothers. R.I.P. Mr. Petty we could really use some music from you now.
Their most underrated song, its just badass music man.
His music is/was timeless. R.I.P.
agree
And the most underrated album. Good for us.
From the most underrated musician ever!
Right you are!
Tom Petty is absolutely timeless
Love You Tommy and Howie 😢❤😅
RIP🙏🌹💝💐☮️🌍
So good, love his voice, those guitars , the lyrics . He absolutely accomplished what he came to earth to do, and we all benefited because he was here. ❤
RIP TP and Howie. The Legendary Heartbreakers
Couldn't agree more.
Amen!!
I listen to this song everyday and sometimes more than once. Just saying I love this song and I love and miss Tom so much.
I watch this video several times a week. Great song and video.
Yeah I know what you mean cause I can relate
Amen.
Right with you, my friend.
I'm 60 now and fell in love with his music when I bought his first two albums back in 77. He was with me growing, through college, career, wife, family. I miss him terribly. I have a tear running down my cheek as I write this. His music touched my soul.
The man who was the soundtrack of my life. Breakdown started our life together. When people said he was a sellout I defended him. He is a national treasure for sure. The only one that I cried over when he passed. Two days later I was a grandma for the first time.🎉Love you Tom. Everything was great when you were here.
Okay....when Joe Cocker died, it felt like a friend died. Sad, sad, sad. But when Tom died it felt like a part of my life had died. I adore his lyrics. He made them for and about us. This is my favourite song and it comes woth my favourite video. No day without a Petty song 😍😍😍🎶🎶🎶
TP wrote this at a very difficult, painful time in his life, which makes this song even more amazing to me. You went down rocking, sir.
Tom Petty went down swinging and we all still miss him! (RIP)
One for the ages - just can't touch Petty on a song like this. Just golden.
⚘🌹
You are so right my brother
My mom and business partners went to HS with Tom at Gainesville high- crazy fact: 3 members of the rock n roll hOF in 1 HS graduating class(tom/ david Crosby(CrosbyStillsNash) and Don Felder (Eagles). Crazy
my nephew posted it on FB last week....SUCH a great old song....
@@Gatorbeaux Felder was Tom’s guitar teacher for a bit there too
Love how he just sits there with his legs on the table. Love all his music
Tom has that unique combo of artistic integrity without being pretentious. He seems like a genuinely good guy that makes music for all the right reasons. I love how organic and pure all his music sounds.
nicely said. A true gem
T.P. , a true American treasure.
I can never get enough of Tom Petty. A national treasure. He was just an authentic, good guy with an out of sight gift. RIP Dear Thomas Earl Petty
Tom was one of a kind. Can't see anybody filling his shoes.
Like millions of others, no one has had more fans of his music than Tom Petty, we all grieve for the loss of such and amazing talent and human being, Rest In Peace old friend.
One of my all time favorite songs by Tom. Overlooked but just one of a ton of great songs written by an American Master. A lot of people don't realize what a prolific songwriter he was. He is a true Icon of American Rock n Roll. Rest easy my friend........You will be missed by many.
tom you rock stevo
Damn, Tom Petty's music just hits the spot.
RIP Tommy 😭 We all Still Miss You and Howie 💝
We love you and miss you Tom. We all know you went down swinging. RIP old friend.
I my opinion Tom was the coolest guy ever. Going to be missed tremendously
Amen
Echo is one of Tom Petty's most underrated album ever ....it's one of my personal favorites .
Yes. Petty was going through a divorce when Echo was made.
Patricia Hammond me too ✌️✌️✌️
Echo is great, but i have to be in a sad mood to listen to it. She’s The One is another great underrated album.
Several critics underrated it and in Conversations with Tom Petty, Paul Zollo I was so happy his 2nd wife Dana sat him down in his car and made him listen to his music when he was at a nadir of self-criticism -- way to go Dana no words so won't waste them.
@@eddieupchurch6724 I was writing away and did lots of research natch and I've never read a bio (Warren Zane) that left me feeling more helpless sad admiring you name it. His daughter thought Wildflowers was the real divorce album - i saw Echo as a breakdown he survived and turned a corner in his life like Dante standing at the gates of hell in a forest looking for the trees uncanny.
Dude was at a very rough time of his life during the making of this album…and just like every other Petty lp, it’s flippn great!
That is a fact: he was going through a rough divorce at the time, (check out "Room at the Top of the World")and his label was pressing him for an album. He reluctantly went in the studio and came out with this album... What he considered the worst offering of his career. I would actually tend to agree. But still awesome.
It's so sad he won't be making anymore music. His music has followed me from school, college to uni, from marriage to children. He has been with me all through my life and I'm 45 on Monday. Such talent is timeless and has an emotional quality. I can put times, people and places to all of his work. God bless you man x
I have listened to Tom since I was 5! I am 45 today. And you are right! My whole life was about Tom! It is hard to live without him today! RIP to the Greatest Legend of All Time!!! I love you Tom!!
If there is an afterlife, Tom Petty would smile & thank you for your expression of pure gratitude. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, their music & songs influenced you, me & a lot of people. Best wishes...
I feel the same way. He's been there during every stage of my life.
He's been in my life, always, I was there in the beginning, first Vynil and 8track, I'm almost his age!😢
Mr. Petty...singin' it from the heart again..
Went down swinging,just as you finished your 40th anniversary tour.How ironic yet poetic. RIP Tom Petty
Something about his music is pure magic. Always been a masterpiece...
I can't stop listening to this, "SWINGIN". The guitars are literally resonating with each other. It's beautiful. It's beyond cool. The resonating sound penetrates mind and soul. And of course the words give anybody who listens a sense of inner strength---it powers your spirit.
Your comment about this song Swinging nailed it. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were the best. Back in the day they toured with Bob Dylan. That says it all...
It’s hard to pull away from
One of my very favorite Petty songs! (and there are soooo many)
I can't go a day without my Tom Petty fix.
When shit isn't right I turn to this song. Echo is a great record and something in this song gets right to my soul and the healing begins.
Then sadness sets in because Tom is no longer with us and that hurts a lot. He/ They left us with so much great music that we know it was real and honest. There's a comfort in that and there will never be another Tom Petty in my life time. I'm just glad I got to know his music and story.
The word ICON is used way to much these days for undeserving people but Tom was a true ICON.
RIP TOM... TIL WE CROSS PATHS ON THE OTHER SIDE, I'LL KEEP SWINGIN'
yay for daily fixes and healing. where's the tribute band?!?
I keep sirius on Tom Petty. Obsessed with this one at the moment
R.I.P. Tom Petty, what a sad day in America.
Tom petty has been a force to be reckoned with by the music establishment. he's one of my all-time favorite artists. I view him as talented as Bob Dylan and Neil Young, but with a southern flavor
well said
...but with better melodies.
Perhaps, but Dylan was probably a better poet.
Hapax007 - yeah maybe but TP could sing.
tom and dylan were great friends, Traveling Wilburys is some of the best supergroup music there is between Roy Orbison Jeff Lynne Bob Dylan George Harrison and Tom Petty and no one really shined more than the other they just had fun and wrote great music.
Miss Tom something rotten. He was a musical genius. Brilliant writer and beautiful soul.
Absolutely, positively, no doubt about it, favorite Tom Petty song. Or at least neck and neck with Southern Accent! Miss you Tom.
I agree they're both great. I relate to Southern Accent and it's been my favorite for a long time but Swingin is right up there too.
Southern Accents is one of the most beautiful songs ever written in the history of the world. I'm not even from the south and it gets me every time.
One of the last true songwriter/rockers. RIP Tom.
"Swingin'....like Benny Goodman...." wish I could write lines like that. Great song by one of the best damn rock bands evahhh!
After the mass shooting in Las Vegas last night and Tom Petty's death, the line "after that night in Vegas... and the hell that we went through" is as chilling as it could be.
Rest in Peace.
holy crap.... I guess...crazy.
This music video was in August 1999, and now its October 2017. The entire song and video for Tom Petty's Swinging is a strange prophecy of what would happen to the poor victims of Las Vegas and to poor Tom Petty :( . Its very similar to the song and video of Chris Cornells nearly forget about my broken heart. These artists always write songs and make videos that might describe how they are feeling about life, about the world in general, oh well god bless everyone
That's literally the first thing that popped into my head when I heard the news.
I know its strange right? :( Tom Petty singing about some poor girls troubles and this video was so beautifully done, its about Las Vegas, fate and circumstance, some guy she hooks up with gets into a fight with the FBI or police over money and hes tossed out a hotel window and she later survives a car crash on the highway and the angels are looking down from heaven at a cafe where Tom Petty is singing, SWINGING is exactly how Tom Pettys musical legacy will be and SHOULD BE remembered: he went out swinging like a real American pop culture icon and musical hero to millions :) god bless Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers .
I thought about the concept that Las Vegas tragedy and Tom's cardiac arrest came within hours of each other....coincidence????Tom is in a better place
This is my favorite Tom song. That’s the thing about him he wasn’t a couple of hits and that’s all. He had many gigantic hits but some of his best stuff was not the big hits.
Swinging,Southern Accents, Wildflowers, Crawling Back to You
I say the same thing. People who only hear Tom's radio material are missing out on his BEST stuff.
Tom Petty always had a song that applied to what was happening in my life. Many memories with this song. Thanks and RIP.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at their finest. I will always have you in my heart Tom forever
RIP. One of the greatest song writers. Always got me through tough times.
I cannot express how much I love Tom Petty. He is one of those soundtrack artists of my life AND a founding father of music videos. Hell, he was making videos before there was MTV.
Amy Leach to be honest alot of artists made videos before mtv not just TP & the heartbreakers
Don't Come Around Here No More was the best video (to me anyway) and it was made before MTV in the late-70's. He had the trademark hippie-style shades with the lavender top hat and coat-and-tails. He showed his contempt for women (and it works both ways) in relationships trying to manipulate their way back into it (the relationship) and he used the woman in the video to look like Alice In Wonderland because she represented someone living in a fantasy world who thinks that way. Him and the great Scottish singer-songwriter Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics wrote that one. He will be greatly missed after passing from this world at 66.
hear hear! Me too
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@@ben-ladenbernanke5374 late 70s? It was late 80s
Tom Petty is THE quintessential American bard, singer, songwriter, showman. He is us in song.
It's crazy - TP later said in some interviews that he couldn't listen to the record this song comes from because he never thought it wasn't any good. But that album and this song are so very great. This song is quintessentially Tom Petty.
Echo is a criminally underrated album. I love and miss this man.
This song should be broadcast over public PA systems in all towns every 6 months so people never forget the so simple but powerful songwriting of Tom Petty and the tight playing of The Heartbreakers.
When considering the 582 people who said thumbs down, makes you wonder where their minds are at! This song is beautiful!
Hurts tonight, man! So glad I lived during this time, and Tom's a big part of the reason why. The emotion that his songs rose in me ... and still does ...
Ya. Still can't believe it. Lots of people getting into his music now as a result. Will be sorely missed. One of the best.
Amen brother
Loved him from the jump, he's never looked better than in this video, rip sweet man...
A perfect video to end my evening at 2 am.RIP buddy you will forever be in my ❤
My favorite Petty song of all time :) My life wont feel complete without seeing him play live just once
My fav live show :)
he rocked at lockn last year!
Tatiana - Even w/o Howie & Stan, the Heartbreakers & TP put on the best of live shows. Professional & on-point every time I've seen them over the last 30 years. I promise that you won't be disappointed.
tommorow nite in the Burgh
seen him with JACKSON BROWNE IN 2005. NASHVILLE
You wrote some damn good Songs, Mr. Petty. Very thankful for all of it. RIP, Sir.
Tom playing that harmonica is sweet music to my ears....
For Me, Tom was the greatest Singer-Songwriter ever! RiP
Tom Petty FUCKIN WENT DOWN SWINGIN like TOM PETTY! FUCK I MISS HIS SOUL!!!
My biggest regret in life will be never seeing him live in concert. Probably my first MTV exposure. In love ever since. Badass to the max. RIP Tommy
So many songs the mainstream aren't familiar with. He gave us a huge body of work. & every song is amazing. His songwriting was narrative, which made his music more personal. Petty was a great musical story teller. He is missed.
Tom Petty was a genius song writer. To take three simple chords and write a song like this, and so many others. He will forever be missed.
Profound song. Lyrics & video = outstanding!
Am I the only one who gets chills watching this video? Especially at the end?
Awesome video!
I get Goosebumps too!
NO PAUL, NO SOS EL UNICO
I get goosebumps every time i hear this song!
I get the chills through the entire video.
Saw Tom at Red Rocks this past summer. I had a feeling leading up to the show that they would play Swingin, but I knew it was wishful thinking because it's such a rarity.. Ironically, a freak rain storm came out of nowhere and interrupted the show mid-set. Tom came back on stage after a 30 minute delay and immediately rewarded us with a Swingin. I've been to hundreds of concerts and it was one of the best moments I'll ever remember. Thank you Tom! RIP ua-cam.com/video/uN_z3_ZuiBU/v-deo.html
Great story
That video is on UA-cam! Classic.
Scott Valent wow great live recording!!
One of the great regrets of my life is that I didn't go to that show.
@@sabrinafree I hate that feeling, definitely missed some last chance shows over the years. Gotta love the live recordings on UA-cam though!
Belongs among the best songs TP wrote. I've been listening to it daily for weeks.
“Swinging” !!! My man Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers !!! TopJimmy
Superb singer songwriter!! When Dylan and George Harrison count you as a friend and colleague you must be great, miss him so much
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This song really tugs my heartstrings !!! Omg !! It makes my cry every time I hear it !!
Absolutely awesome song!, I've always liked Tom Petty, for decades. For some reason these last few months I've been completely intrigued by his life and career. He was a fighter that grabbed life by the balls and took his greatness. He wasn't gonna wait for someone to "give it to him" he took it!
So true. I listen to Tom every chance I get. His story is amazing.
This is one of my favorite songs by him. Everyone needs to listen to running down a dream. That one is my favorite.
Jeez! What a great track!! How did I miss that all these years? Damn!
The image of Tom just leanin' back, boots on the table, playin' the harp is so cool. And Swingin' is among my favorite songs of his.
The best musician to ever live in my opinion. This is real music that actually means something, and fans can relate to Tom Petty because he was so down to earth. RIP Tom
Here's to you Mr. Petty. Gone but never forgot. One of the very best in the music business.
Outstanding song and a truly captivating video. Today's world is in free fall and yet this legend keeps hitting the mark. Thank you Tom Petty for keeping real music alive...
Very well said. I do believe the man is to down to earth and humble to realize how respected, admired as well as how amazing he truly is.
I feel that Tom is one of the top artists of the 20th century, up the with Dylan and Lennon-McCartney. But his sound that we're familiar with depends mightily upon Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. He may not have been as prolific without their contributions. Think of early Who with only Pete Townsend, as the sole contributor. That is, John Entwistle and Keith Moon's influences were necessary for the Who's development as an entity.
Jim Lahey I agree music today is free falling Tom is helping it learn to fly so proper music can go out swingin
Terry Fitzgerald mm
Jim Lahey ❤
One year has past since you left us Tom. We miss you but your music will play on forever.
One Of The Coolest Guys To Entertain Us In Classic Rock !!! Is Sadly Missed By Millions 4 Sure RIP My Friend
I think everyone needs to hear this song today. Chins up. This just made me feel. If he appeared and had a message to share with us I’d like to think that it’s right here. Rock and roll will never die and a song never forgets.