“American Girl” never even charted, and it’s one of his most ubiquitous “hits.” He truly had an unparalleled space in music, where even the definition of a hit was fungible. And, yeah, right up to the end, he was still consistently great. That’s the kind of career that’s not even once a generation. There’s just him,…

When Johnny Cash covered “Southern Accent,” in liner notes he called it “better anthem for South than ‘Dixie’”. Considering source, that have to be highest possible praise in history of music, right?

I saw him three times, starting my senior year of high school in 2008. I’m devestated today that I had to give away tickets to see him this past July because I couldn’t get out of work. I just assumed I’d see him the next time he came around. Every show of his I saw, I grinned from ear to ear like an idiot from…

Tom Petty was always one of those effortlessly cool guys. He didn’t really have a persona or a gimmick, he was just himself and was awesome and didn’t even try.

I’m 35 and first saw him in 1999. I’ll tell you this, I’ve seen him 5 times and every one of those were the best show I’ve ever seen. He had the most exhilarating way of bringing people together and he loved us all as fans

Tom Petty is remarkable for two things, among others.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits is one of the best rock albums in existence. Not just as a collection of songs—somehow, the album (or at least the late-90s version that began with “American Girl” and ended with a cover of “Something in the Air”) works as a coherent artistic statement in its own right.…

Fivethirtyeight published a chart recently that has him as the fifth most-played artist on radio, responsible for roughly one out of every 40 songs. That he has that honor without being divisive among music fans, and also somehow never had a #1 album on Billboard until 2014 says so much about how we accepted his…

This is the saddest I’ve been about a celebrity death since Carrie Fisher. I wish I could have seen him live.

I’m 54 year old. Tom Petty and his music have been a constant in my life since I’m 13. I’ve worn out his records and seen him perform more times than I can count. He never quit. He has a new album and just finished a tour — he never became a “play the greatest hits at the county fair” guy.

RIP. Mr. Petty. I think your portrayal of Lucky on King of the Hill was under appreciated.

Tom Petty is one of the all time greats.

Gonna be one heck of a jam session in the afterlife tonight:

Man, fuck today.

I am not ready for this. 66 is entirely too young. I just saw him play at Wrigley and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. RIP Tom, you will be dearly missed.

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This review sounds like my Grandmother talking about Rick and Morty.

Saw it last night, hard to believe we saw the same movie. It takes the best motifs of Moore’s Bond films and presents them in the modern world. Sure it’s hackey at times, but I’m not here for a treatsie on the drug war.

I saw this last night - it was a profoundly silly movie and I enjoyed most of it.

I saw Jackson’s character in the first one as a pretty solid send up of wannabe technocrats like Peter Thiel or Mark Zuckerberg whose plans to save the world never seem to account for poor people. This, combined with the gleeful proto-WBC killing spree, makes me think it’s politics are more leftist than most of…