Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tickets – Petty's Greatest Videos
Tom Petty has always been about simple, pure rock 'n' roll. His album covers aren't known for being off the wall wild or colorful. His lyrics are all about conveying heartbreak or elation with as few words as possible. And his music'well, if you're a fan, you don't need to be told that he knows how to rock.
That meat-and-potatoes approach in Tom Petty's music didn't always cross over to his music videos. While some of them were still pretty straight and to the point'just showing the band performing, for example'a few videos seemed to let Petty run wild, with concepts that could get as creative or colorful as anything else out there.
Here's a quick rundown of Tom Petty's three best-known music videos.
"Free Fallin'": By far his best-known song, "Free Fallin'" continues to resonate with people who saw it for the first time when it came out in 1988. Besides being a definitive Tom Petty track about a girl in Los Angeles, it's got a video that manages to hit people full-on with nostalgia. Seeing the girl in question'or the actress that plays her, at any rate'dressed in O'Neill skate gear as she rides up and down a half-pipe really puts people in the place of L.A. at the end of the '80s. She was a kind of fantasy girl, and L.A. itself was a kind of fantasy city in the song, a place where there are beautiful women and broken hearts. The reality of the city isn't exactly that far off, but the video presents it as a glossy, laidback place where it's eternally summertime. The image it projects is the only real special effect in place, but ask anyone who saw it when it first aired, and you can bet they'll tell you the video is still very memorable.
"Don't Come Around Here No More": This video from 1985 actually featured a far more colorful display of imagination. To this day, it's still well remembered due to some of the disturbing imagery that the video contained. Playing off the story of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the video sees Petty as a mad hatter, his eyes hidden behind dark shades that make him slightly ominous when he approaches Alice. The key scene here? When Alice realizes she's been turned into a cake, and everyone slices up her body, which has a strawberry filling. It was certainly strange, and doesn't really jibe with the image many people have of Petty, but it was awesome, too.
"Last Dance with Mary Jane": Yet another memorable Petty video, but more because of its concept than its execution. In this, Petty plays a morgue worker who falls in love with a beautiful, if deceased, young woman (plays by Nicole Kidman). He brings her back to his massive home where they dance and he attempts to set up a romantic dinner date for them. It's rather creepy, and no one ever forgets the video after seeing it.
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