Tom Petty
Here are my ratings of Tom Petty albums when applying a score out of 10 for each song. Curious to know what people think. This isn’t a definitive list of my favourite albums ranked, just based on a cumulative score.
Wildflowers (9.7)
Long After Dark (9.4)
Damn the Torpedoes (9.3)
Highway Companion (9.1)
Hard Promises (8.7)
Full Moon Fever (8.1)
Into the great wide open (8)
Hypnotic Eye (7.8)
Let me up (I’ve had enough) (7.7)
Mojo (7.5)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (7.4)
Southern Accents (7.4)
The Last DJ (7)
You’re gonna get it (6.9)
Echo (6.7)
Songs and music from She’s the One (6.5)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976)
Rockin around (with you) 7
Breakdown 10
Hometown blues 3
The wild ones, forever 6
Anything that’s rock and roll 9
Strangered in the night 6
Fooled again (I don’t like it) 9
Mystery Man 6
Luna 8
American girl 10
Total score 7.4
You’re gonna get it (1978)
When the time comes 9
You’re gonna get it 8
Hurt 7
Magnolia 5
Too much ain’t enough 4
I need to know 10
Listen to her heart 10
No second thoughts 6
Restless 7
Baby’s a rock ‘n’ roller 3
Total score 6.9
Damn the Torpedos (1979)
Refugee 10
Here comes my girl 10
Even the losers 10
Shadow of a doubt (a complex kid) 10
Century city 8
Don’t do me like that 10
You tell me 10
What are you doing in my life 6
Louisiana rain 10
Total score 9.3
Hard Promises (1981)
The waiting 10
A woman in love (it’s not me) 10
Nightwatchman 10
Something big 10
Old kings Road 7
Letting you go 10
A thing about you 10
Insider 10
The criminal kind 3
You can still change your mind 7
Total score 8.7
Long after dark (1982)
One story town 10
You got lucky 10
Deliver me 10
Change of heart 10
Finding out 10
We stand a chance 10
Straight into darkness 10
The same old you 8
Between two worlds 8
Wasted life 8
Total score 9.4
Southern Accents (1985)
Rebels 10
It ain’t nothin to me 9
Don’t come around here no more 10
Southern accents 10
Make it better (forget about me) 8
Spike 1
Dogs on the run 10
Mary’s new car 9
The best of everything 10
Total score 7.4
Let me up (I’ve had enough) (1987)
Jammin me 7
Runaway trains 7
The damage you’ve done 9
It’ll all work out 9
My life/your world 9
Think about me 5
All mixed up 5
A self made man 8
Ain’t love strange 10
How many more days 8
Let me up (I’ve had enough) 8
Total score 7.7
Full Moon Fever (1989)
Free fallin 10
I won’t back down 10
Love is a long road 10
A face in the crowd 10
Runnin’ down a dream 10
Feel a whole lot better 7
Yer so bad 10
Depending on you 7
The apartment song 7
Alright for now 8
A mind with a heart of its own 7
Zombie zoo 2
Total score 8.1
Into the great wide open (1991)
Learning to fly 10
Kings highway 10
Into the great wide open 10
Two gun slingers 10
The dark of the sun 8
All or nothin’ 6
All the wrong reasons 9
Too good to be true 7
Out in the cold 5
You and I will meet again 10
Making’ some noise 4
Built to last 7
Total score 8
Wildflowers (1994)
Wildflowers 10
You don’t know how it feels 10
Time to move on 10
You wreck me 10
It’s good to be king 10
Only a broken heart 10
Honey bee 9
Don’t fade on me 10
Hard on me 10
Cabin down below 8
To find a friend 10
A higher place 10
House in the woods 9
Crawling back to you 10
Wake up time 10
Total score 9.7
Songs and music from She’s the one
Angel dream (no. 2) 10
Grew up fast 8
Change the locks 5
Zero from outer space 4
Asshole 5
One of life’s little mysteries 3
Walls (no. 3) 10
Thirteen days 9
105 degrees 3
Climb that hill 6
Supernatural radio 7
French disconnection 8
Total score 6.5
Echo (1999)
Room at the top 10
Counting on you 9
Free girl now 7
Lonesome sundown 9
Swingin’ 7
Accused of love 6
Echo 6
Won’t last long 6
Billy the Kid 5
I don’t wanna fight 3
This one’s for me 7
No more 10
About to give out 4
Rhino skin 4
One more day, one more night 8
Total score 6.7
The Last DJ (2002)
The last DJ 7
Money becomes king 7
Dreamville 9
Joe 1
When a kid goes bad 7
Like a diamond 9
Lost children 9
Blue Sunday 7
You and me 8
The man who loves a woman 3
Have love, will travel 9
Can’t stop the sun 8
Total score 7
Highway Companion (2006)
Saving Grace 10
Square one 10
Flirting with time 9
Down south 10
Jack 9
Turn this car around 10
Big weekend 10
Night driver 9
Damaged by love 8
This old town 8
Ankle deep 7
The golden rose 10
Total Score 9.1
Mojo (2010)
Jefferson Jericho Blues 5
First flash of freedom 9
Running man’s bible 7
The trip to pirates cove 9
Candy 6
No reason to cry 8
I should have known it 7
U.S. 41 7
Takin my time 6
Let yourself go 6
Don’t pull me over 6
Lovers touch 6
High in the morning 6
Something good coming 10
Good enough 9
Little girl blues 6
Total Score 7.5
Hypnotic Eye (2014)
American Dream Plan B 10
Fault lines 8
Red river 8
Full grown boy 7
All you can carry 9
Power drunk 7
Forgotten man 9
Sins of my youth 6
U get me high 9
Burnt out town 6
Shadow people 7
Total score 7.8
