LETTERS
“That’s what’s depressing about all this ‘new music’; it’s kind of hype... some of that stuff isn’t any fuckin’ good...I mean, like Husker Du doin’ The Mary Tyler Moore Theme.’ Why don’t they play ‘No Reply,’ y’know? Maybe I’m just old, but I’d rather hear a real song.”
LETTERS
Mail Dept., CREEM Magazine, P.O. Box 931869, Los Angeles, CA 90093
PETTY ACCUSATION
“That’s what’s depressing about all this ‘new music’; it’s kind of hype... some of that stuff isn’t any fuckin’ good...I mean, like Husker Du doin’ The Mary Tyler Moore Theme.’ Why don’t they play ‘No Reply,’ y’know? Maybe I’m just old, but I’d rather hear a real song.” (Tom Petty, August 1987 CREEM)
Or, as Peter Buck said, maybe you’re just stupid. Not only is about 90 percent of Tom’s “music” unlistenable, not only is Tom extremely displeasing to look at, not only is Tom the worst singer in the history of rock ’n’ roll, but he also seems very ignorant of “new music.”
Husker Du has done both an excellent version of “Ticket To Ride” (hard to find, I know, but it exists), a real song by most standards, and a version of Tom’s beloved Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” that’s one of the truly cathartic rampages of our time. It easily surpasses anything Petty had ever done.
So Tom, shut your mouth. I, for one, has ever done.
Steven Crawford Rector, AZ