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"Jammin' Me" - the song

posted 4 hours ago by agentalbert (3104)
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This has always been my favorite Petty tune. Never fails to perk me up. I'm curious about the part in the second verse that goes:

Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Giv'em all some place to go

I've always found the lyrics to this one intriguing. Reading at wikipedia, it seems maybe the lyrics are mostly Bob Dylan who is credited as writing it with Tom and Mike Campbell. I wonder if there was something in particular the above celebs did to get called out, or if maybe they just happened to be in the news a lot at the time and Bob was was sick of hearing about them.

[–] ShitakiMushroom (216) 3 hours ago

Interesting, I didn't know Bob Dylan had anything to do with that song. Tom Petty is probably my favorite musician of all time.

I wonder why they chose those people as well? No idea. Great tune, for sure!

EDIT: Probably just telling pop culture to go fuck itself, just my guess though.

[–] Indiscipline (745) 3 hours ago

Yes, the randomness always perplexed me. I remembered that Piscopo and Murphy were on SNL, which even though they were good in their years there, that era is not remembered as one of the best.

Vanessa Redgrave? lol