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Certain Songs #1025: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – “Built To Last”

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Album: Into The Great Wide Open
Year: 1991

Into The Great Wide Open was probably Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers most stylistically cohesive album since Long After Dark nearly a decade before, and there were a lot of worthy songs: the swampy-rocker “Out in The Cold,” the widescreen cautionary tale “Into The Great Wide Open,” the lovely “All The Wrong Reasons” (or as I’ve always called it, “Re-Falling”) (and yes, I only wrote this paragraph in order to work that joke in) are all worthy entries into the upper middle reaches of Petty’s canon.

But my favorite song on the entire record was the the one songs that didn’t really sound like the rest of the record, the near doo-wop closer “Built to Last.”

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Certain Songs #1024: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – “Learning To Fly”

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The sixth time I saw Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers was with Holly and Craig at Selland Arena in Fresno on November 26, 1991. They totally rocked it for over two hours.

Naturally, this date isn’t listed on any of the online sites that list such things — and man does the UI for setlist.fm suck! — but I seem to remember that it all seemed to be last-minute, which was pretty much par for the course for me back then, especially for a show at Selland, a place I don’t think I’d been to since Simple Minds (also a last-second decision) back in the summer of 1986.

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