SONG OF THE DAY

“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Tom Petty (South­ern Accents, MCA Records, 1985). Writ­ten by Tom Petty & David A. Stewart.

INTERESTING FACTS ( a la wikipedia)

- The song was a col­lab­o­ra­tion with David A. Stew­art of Eurythmics.

- The orig­i­nal inspi­ra­tion was a roman­tic encounter that Stew­art had with Ste­vie Nicks of Fleet­wood Mac. On The Howard Stern Show, Stew­art explained that the title’s phrase was actu­ally uttered by Ste­vie. She had bro­ken up with Joe Walsh the night before, and invited Dave Stew­art to her place for a party after an early Eury­th­mics show in L.A. Dave didn’t know who she was at the time, but went any­way. When the party goers all dis­ap­peared to a bath­room for a cou­ple of hours to snort cocaine, he decided to go upstairs to bed. He woke up at 5am to find Ste­vie Nicks in his room try­ing on Vic­to­rian cloth­ing and described the entire sce­nario as very much rem­i­nis­cent of Alice in Won­der­land. Later that morn­ing, she told Joe Walsh, “Don’t come around here no more”.

- The music video is themed around Alice in Won­der­land and directed by Jeff Stein. Dave Stew­art appears at the begin­ning, sit­ting on a mush­room with a hookah water pipe. Tom Petty per­formed in the video dressed as The Mad Hat­ter, and actress Wish Foley played Alice. He eats Alice in the end.

My Tom Petty Top 10 List (in no order)

1. Break­down
2. Don’t Do Me Like That
3. Refugee
4. The Wait­ing
5. Don’t Come Around Here No More
6. Run­nin’ Down A Dream
7. Mary Jane’s Last Dance
8. You Don’t Know How It Feels
9. Christ­mas All Over Again
10. Amer­i­can Girl

VIDEO OF THE DAY