good morning everyone and welcome to part two of your special edition Track of the Day. We love Tom Petty here at Hoddle Headquarters, and every year we recognise the anniversary of his death with a special track of the day. Today we have part two:
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One of my favourite compilation albums that I own is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, the Live Anthology. The huge collection features The Heartbreakers from theri beginnings up until around the early-2000s.
For those who haven’t seen the accompanying documentary, it is worth the four hours you spend watching it.
There are lots of tremendous live versions to discover in this collection. The songs themselves aren’t necessarily in chronological order, but it’s the shows (lets say American Girl features far later than you’d expect).
For today’s special Track of the Day, we’re going with a song that never appeared on a studio album: Lost Without You.
According to Petty, the band completely improvised this song during their European tour, and this song eventually came out of it. This particular version, from a 1993 show in Florida, had an effect on Petty when he was putting together this collection.
Here is what he had to say about it in the booklet:
“There’s one point where you can hear that there’s somebody out there that it’s hitting so hard, there’s some girl who just starts to scream. It’s almost like church or something. She starts to lose it, and it’s contagious. The audience picks up on it. It’s the kind of thing you just can’t plan.”
It’s a great song. A pretty fun, unexpected one placed just before the greatest version of Refugee I’ve ever heard. And it’s easy to let Refugee overshadow it (because it’s incredible), but this is pretty damn great too.
For those of you who’ve never listened to this one, I suggest giving it a shot. And if you enjoy it, maybe stick around for the rest of the album and documentary.
Rest in peace, king.
Fitzie’s track of the day: Lost Without You, by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
And now for your links:
Jay Harris ($$) on how that win vs Man United was a ‘statement’
Ange Postecoglou’s former club loses 1-7 to Dortmund
Mini EFL Champ roundup:Sunderland top of table after WBA and Blackburn falter