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The 50 Best Tom Petty Songs

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First time I've tried one of these in a while - no promises that I can actually keep up. But in memory of the late, great Tom Petty, feel free to list your favorite songs of his.
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Interesting that you didn't post your own list of your favorites... here's mine:

1. Free Fallin'
2. American Girl
3. Refugee
4. Learning to Fly
5. I Won't Back Down
6. Mary Jane's Last Dance
7. Breakdown
8. Runnin' Down a Dream
9. Don't Come Around Here No More
10. You Don't Know How It Feels

edit: Hard to leave this song out
11. Don't Do Me Like That
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1) Refugee (my 309th favorite of all-time)
2) Don't Do Me Like That (491)
3) I Won't Back Down (729)
4) Free Fallin' (973)
5) Breakdown (1845)
6) Into the Great Wide Open (2405)
7) Runnin' Down a Dream (2615)
8) Here Comes My Girl (2717)
9) American Girl (3314)
10) Mary Jane's Last Dance (3524)

11) Even the Losers (3656)
12) A Face in the Crowd (4111)
13) Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (5182)
14) The Waiting (5587)
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1. Breakdown
2. You Got Lucky
3. Refugee
4. Tweeter and the Monkey Man (with the Traveling Wilburys)
5. Out in the Cold
6. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Stevie Nicks)
7. Don't Do Me Like That
8. I Won't Back Down
9. Runnin' Down a Dream
10. Don't Come Around Here No More

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I was on the fence about including songs with someone other than Petty on vocals from the Traveling Wiburys...I decided to include them.

1- Free Fallin'
2- Louisiana Rain
3- Mary Jane's Last Dance
4- Refugee
5- Tweeter and the Monkey Man
6- Don't Do Me Like That
7- Last Night
8- I Won't Back Down
9- American Girl
10- Here Comes My Girl
11- Rattled
12- Learning To Fly
13- Even the Losers
14- Don't Come Around Here No More
15- Not Alone Anymore
16- Wildflowers
17-Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
18- Learning To Fly
19- End of the Line
20- Breakdown
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1 | American Girl
2 | Free Fallin'
3 | Mary Jane's Last Dance
4 | Breakdown
5 | I Won't Back Down
6 | Learning to Fly
7 | Runnin' Down a Dream
8 | Don't Do Me Like That
9 | The Waiting
10 | Fault Lines
11 | Into the Great Wide Open
12 | Walls (Circus)
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1 - Louisiana Rain
2 - You Got Lucky
3 - The Waiting
4 - A Woman In Love
5 - Here Comes My Girl
6 - Walls (No. 3)
7 - Runnin' Down A Dream
8 - All Or Nothin'
9 - You And Me
10 - You Wreck Me
11 - Something Big
12 - Two Gunslingers
13 - Casa Dega
14 - A One Story Town
15 - Rebels
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How long do we have? By the way, if anyone (like me) is stumped past 10 songs, Rolling Stone has a list of songs.
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Live in Phoenix wrote:How long do we have? By the way, if anyone (like me) is stumped past 10 songs, Rolling Stone has a list of songs.
I guess three weeks? Honestly, I have no idea when I'd have time to tabulate the results, so this could just be a place to list/discover favorites.
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1. American Girl
2. Refugee
3. Even the Losers
4. Don't Come Around Here No More
5. Mary Jane's Last Dance
6. I Need to Know
7. Here Comes My Girl
8. Runnin' Down a Dream
9. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
10. Love is a Long Road
11. Don't Do Me Like That
12. Free Fallin'
13. You Don't Know How It Feels
14. Listen to Her Heart
15. The Waiting
16. The Wild One, Forever
17. I Won't Back Down
18. Breakdown
19. Louisiana Rain
20. Into the Great Wide Open
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So I take back my statement that you never hear Tom Petty on French classic rock radio, I didn't know Learning to Fly was his and you can sometimes hear it.
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1. Wildflowers
2. American Girl
3. Mary Jane's Last Dance
4. Breakdown
5. Refugee
6. Learning to Fly
7. I Won't Back Down
8. You Don't Know How It Feels
9. The Waiting
10. Runnin' Down A Dream
11. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
12. You Wreck Me
13. Don't Do Me Like That
14. Here Comes My Girl
15. Listen to Her Heart
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1. Learning To Fly
2. Free Fallin'
3. I Won't Back Down
4. Don't Come Around Here No More
5. Refugee
6. American Woman
7. End Of The Line
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Re: The 50 Best Tom Petty Songs

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Here's 20


01 Learning To Fly
02 Don't Come Around Here No More
03 All The Wrong Reasons
04 Crawling Back To You
05 Time To Move On
06 Wildflowers
07 Mary Jane's Last Dance
08 I Won't Back Down
09 You Don't Know How It Feels
10 You Wreck Me
11 To Find a Friend
12 A Higher Place
13 Runnin' Down A Dream
14 House in the Woods
15 The Apartment Song
16 The Waiting
17 Only a Broken Heart
18 Wake Up Time
19 One More Day, One More Night
20 Into The Great Wide Open
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