My Top 1000 Songs #743: Free Fallin'

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

I wonder if this one has moved into the Guilty Pleasures column...

The track (off Tom Petty's first "solo" album (sort of?), 1989's Full Moon Fever) isn't exactly his most musically complex work, those same three chords gently (and endlessly) strumming through the verses and choruses. Some memorable lyrics in the verses, sure, but then that chorus, over and over and over. And it's so omnipresent and inescapable, I really ought to be sick of it.

But, somehow, magically, I'm not. Sends shivers down my spine every time.

Plus, one of the half dozen songs on this list you can throw onto any playlist, for any audience, and know it's gonna go over just fine.

Live:

Dream pop version for the Pains of Being Pure At Heart's Petty Full Moon Fever album: