Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Something In The Air Lyrics

Good cover and they put their own spin on it. 😚😚

Funny I knew I heard this but thought it was a Beatle song is how good Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are

Tom Petty covered this, listen to the original I think it's got more feeling to it.

will never forget seeing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Aragon in Chicago Nov 1979, they were awesome. Man, I miss him! I hope he is in a place where the spirit of this song takes us

is it bad that i prefer this version

As good if not better...luv it.... ty for all the music

On this song Tom sings lead vocals in unison with Howie Epstein!

R.I.P. Tom Petty. This was a great song.

Man I wish I was born in those good old days the 60's. I've always felt I was born in the wrong timeline.

Great cover. Because there is something in the air. And you know that it's right.

What an incredible classy cover of the Great Thunderclap Newman. It was done right. Mostly due to the part of production, engineering in the advancement of the ladder

Ya except he didn't even do the 3rd verse.

R.I.P. Tom Petty. I loved this song and many others.

Great drumming.Reminds of a Beatle tune.

Love the pic of the 5 fab. Just listened to Thunder Clap and ya Jesse Akaike ....Tom blue the lid off. Been listening to Tom and The Band for years.....can't hold a candle to their music.

In this song, Tom Petty sounds like The Beatles.

great cover rest easy tom

Well tom will half to get together later now your gone hope your still writing good toons r.i.p brother

I've always loved Tom Petty's music and his voice!

Howie Epstein 2003 and Tom Petty 2017 together again in God's heavenly band rest in peace you guys were the best

this is not a good cover of the song. Thumbs down.

Are you for real?

Its ok, but he left out the 3rd verse and it just doesnt have the same feeling to me when compared to the orignal.

Not as good as Thunderclap, but still a very good cover.

I do like this and we all know how great TP was, BUT the original Newman track was such a fabulous sound, possibly never to be bettered in my mind. Was there when it came out, got the "single" and still absolutely love it!

This version is better than the thunderclap version.

a zero version

I had the privilege of seeing Tom Petty way back in the day when he began his first ever tour with Damn The Torpedo's. He was phenomenal then and kept that pace going his entire musical career. What a brilliant career. So heartbreaking he's gone. Tom Petty left us way to quickly.

Yes...fantastic

May You Tom Rest In Peace my friend... I have always loved your originality but when I heard this cover .... I was in love all over again with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers I LOVE YOU GUYS and Will MISS YOU TOM FOREVER "+"

Agreed.......!!!

R.I.P. Tom

Actually this is a song off of a greatist hits playlist that I'm referring to. You Rock,thanks

Damn Nicole,just wanted to thank you for this wonderful playlist😁. Its bonkers especially for me because it's as if you cherry picked ALL my favorite Petty songs and made a perfect playlist start to finish! Tom was beautiful simplicity at it's best,he never had to overdo shit. Right in the pocket,spot on with his musical approach. RIP to a timeless legend! He's in 1 huge jam session with other greats that have passed on playing some of the best music THIS world will Never hear😁,least that's how i prefer to picture it in my mind. Thanks again,you kick major ass!!!

it sucks hes gone

RIP Tom Petty

One of my fave recordings by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Saw them in 2006 and they were amazing especially when they did a cover of Van Morrison's song "Mystic Eyes" which was on the live antholgy cd. Worth checking out. You won't be disappointed.

R>I>P sir tom

Rest in peace Tom

OCT. 2 2017

REST IN PEACE TOM!

RIP Tom Petty, I knew you were always in the air..

Please
Let the new be fake my favorite singer and musician

RIP Tom Petty and the victims of Las Vegas. Sad day. We have got to get it together!

TOM! Say it ain't so!

Hopefully he get's it together, if not, rest in peace, old friend. Love this cover.

RIP TOM

RIP Tom Petty who died aged 66. You will be missed in music.

You will be missed.

RIP Tom Petty

born in the sixties!

Love Petty, but this loses something in the translation.

I love your music, Tom Petty!

Eventually, when the agitated nerves and anxiety had calmed to a reasonable enough level I grabbed a quick mug of something and switched over to the holo-tube… “Random channel Alice.” I thought of Rosa immediately, automatically, a flame receding… unavailable… I struggled with the conflictions while freshening up with a steam shower, washing away none of the angst and dressed in the same old jump suit… In a phase of perplexing approaches, the scattered thoughts were indiscriminate and sweeping with an impending love horror, everywhere, all-consuming, amid these dark backgrounds… and that untouchable something just didn’t feel steady, not one bit.

I think this is part of The Howard Stern Show cover of the whole album, isn't it? It was AWESOME!

Shitty politically correct version.

This is a great song!

Love Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers they know how to released a cover.

Equal to thunder clap

this song is fitting for the times now

Yeah, Trump is the instigator....for good...not evil.

nothing like some Tom vitamines

thunder clap newman  1968

RIP Thunder clap Newman !

Sounds just like Thunderclap's version.

Sorta but no English accent .

And no 3rd verse. Not as good

Found this at the announcement of Thunderclap Newman's death. Awesome cover!!

The original song has 3 verses. After the bridge Tom reprises the first verse and leaves out the 3rd. I wonder why? The 3rd verse that Speedy Keen wrote and Thunderclap Newman performed was:

Hand out the arms and ammo

We're going to blast our way through here

We've got to get together sooner or later

Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right

And you know that it's right.

Terry Sautter Perhaps Tom Petty's not into guns and killing..??

The Madcap then find a song that fits you. Disgrace to change the lyrics. Politically correct? Sad.

@tim baldwin Ya this cover is ok but it doesn't have the feeling like the original had.

@Scott Wilson Yeah, I like Petty but I'll take the original.
Any day.

Because this is a PC generation!!! Fools, all fools. We had it right back then, thru LOVE, PEACE NOT WAR! AOC, today should take a lesson in what we young 60 n 70's generations did!! Today there's hate like none other. Truly sad display of our country and love of our flag and God. One nation.

When Tom Petty does a cover, he always makes sure it blow the lid off.

+Jesse Akaike Word

Reminds me of #Bernie#Sanders campaign. With the instigator being Trump of course.

Why don't you take your political crap and stick it where the sun don't shine.

YA TAKE YER FUCKIN POLITICAL GARBAGE AND SHOVE IT

Great remake, Great band. Thanks Nicole J

This is a little different from most of Petty's songs, but i always liked it alot!

Yes, I know it's a cover. And I like it better than Thunderclap Newman's version...

+Claudette Preisinger I can't say I like it better, but it is good. The mix on the original is a bit more appealing to me. :-)

I guess it's a matter of taste...Petty's version has more up to date technology in it. Maybe that's what appeals to me :)

@Claudette Preisinger The original has more feeling to it plus Petty didn't even sing the original 3rd verse.

Love this song!

i like it...

Eternally there's something in the air...Thanks

I A.M. maybe open a window

One of my all time favorite songs!! Yeah!!

I'm in love with the drum tone in this recording. Anyone know if this was made at sound city?

It's an "oversized" snare. (12 inch snares ) . The snare itself is 14 x 12 and a half inches deep.

This seems like Stan Lynch, the guy who drummed all the Heartbreakers hits. It was recorded about the same time as Mary Jane's Last Dance for the Greatest Hits album. There is lots of room echo. I agree the drums make this recording.

Yup. It's Stan Lynch. One of his last projects with the Heartbreakers. Recorded for the 1993 greatest hits comp. There is a live footage video of this song on Youtube.

one of his best songs easily in my opinion!! I remember hearing it for the first time in the movie kingpin which was also great!

+ArcTheLad Braves Uh, this is the cover version. The original version (by Thunderclap Newman) was in Kingpin.

+Mr. Magoo He also changed the lyrics in the second verse and left out the last verse by repeating the first verse instead. Still a great song by a great artist.

If you do the homework you will that Thunderclap Newman was the first cover of the song by Speedy Keen...

Had I done my homework, I wouldnt have posted anything. Keen wrote & sang the song on Thunderclap's version...

@Bud Weiser Thunderclap Newman was a project band put together by Pete Townsend. The song was produced and recorded in Pete Townsend's basement. It was the first time the members of "Thunderclap Newman" had ever met! Speedy Keen was the ex-chauffer of the Who.

+Bud Weiser (WTIT) Tom Petty is so talented but I definitely prefer Thunderclap's version of "Something in the Air"..

+Donn Russell Interesting info!

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"We have get together sooner or later, because the revolution is here, and you know that its right." We do have to get it together we have to come together and take the next step in human evolution and evolve into a higher state of consciousness or face extinction as a species. Either way the time of Mankind is ending soon, The ultimate truth of life has been revealed and it will set us free and turn this world right side up. Google Truth Contest and check the truth out for yourselves.

Appreciated man.

Uh huh, how? Isn't this song proof that people have said this for years, and there still is no resistance or revelation, and your peudo hippie rambling has no evidence

+Anthony Cheek, The revolution has begun. Search: #BernieSanders

Yea I kno, I did grassroots work for em right before he announced

@Anthony Cheek agreed....what the F did john lennon do for humanity?....sold a bunch of records...

A great version of the Thunderclap Newman song of 1969. In the photo shown here both Tom Petty and Mike Campbell are holding Rickenbacker guitars. Both are vintage instruments. That which Mike Campbell has is a twelve string model he managed to get for an incredible price. It wasn't the model he was hoping for but he's not disappointed with the purchase.

Luv ya. Since Damned the Torpedoes.

bacana esse cover...

We are getting it together

Yes we are

love tom petty. been listening to him since 79.

Now I've always thought of Tom Petty as being a real "screw you, this is the music like or leave it", type of guy. Given that, how disappointing that he chose to bowdlerise the lyrics of the song because it might offend someone. One thing that makes this song so unique in the annals of pop is that, it's probably the only number record in Britain to advocate revolution.... so ,changing the second verse... "Lock up the streets and houses" and the third verse..... "Hand  out the arms and ammo we're gonna blast our way through here" being left out altogether...  seems very at odds with Tom and band's persona.....

It would be totally ironic if they did so cos of 9/11 as, there have long been rumours that the BBC quietly dropped this song form any shows featuring past number ones for over a decade because the IRA had unofficially adopted it as "theirs" and where did a huge amount of the cash come from, to blow up places in Grt Britain come from? 

This was released around 93. If I remember correctly thats around the time all that shit about the Brady Handgun violence thing was big in the news. Which his publicist probably told him to do that to the song due to it.

I agree it should have been left alone because it would have been a nice big fuck you about those Brady laws.

But personally I think that may have been why it was removed. It would be kind of like releasing a cover of the Dead Kennedy's "I Kill Children" right after the whole Sandy Hook thing.

I believe Tom is nonviolent, Gandhi-like,
and probably left it out for his own reasons.
Tom seems more of a *'fight-with-tools' kind of man.
*{See Flobots
Tom's subtext is always instigating,
but never calling for violence.
The Revolution is happening peacefully.

Is this not an artist's right? if he wanted to do the song this way he didn't do it to be PC. I don;t think he ever gave a fuck about that. It is probably what he felt was good

Tom was a California resident and an anti nuclear weapons guy. He was not in favor of weapons.

"Something in the air" sounds somewhat like "in the morning when the day is new" in "Wouldn't it be nice"...

Tom Petty was def feeling some Beatles influence on this. Revolver type music

don't forget The Traveling Wilburys

It sounds Pete Townsend to me

Composer Speedy Keen sang the original, on Thunderclap Newman's Hollywood Dream LP, but Pete produced that record and (using the alias "Bijou Drains") also played bass on it. Pete sang another Speedy Keen tune, Armenia City in the Sky, on The Who Sell Out. Keen and Townshend had similar vocal registers.

That Armenia City in the Sky is a good song. Amazing genius is Mr Townshend

Reminds me of a Beatles song even tho it’s a cover

I like this version as much as the original from Thunderclap Newman, excellent remake.

Good album in 1993!! I can't believe it! Last dance with Mary Jane was a big one and good video too. I always pictured an INSPECTOR to this song using my Quaderels. Huh?.

Better in some respects than the original, eg rockier, although it lacks the quirky 60's off beat feel of that one. having said that I liked The Beatles/ELO style
riffs in the middle!

better then the original.

Yes as much as your grammar is so good.

A perfect way to wrap up the greatest compilation ever by the wonderful Heartbreakers.

I love the floaty feel to this song....

Kingpin has such an awesome soundtrack! Got me into both Tom Petty and Electric Light Orchestra when I first saw it years a go!

awsome tune!

The Tom Petty version is the best version of this song.

I enjoy Tom Petty lots but Thunder clap Newman's is always the Best !

@Sandy Sandy Ya how can you call Petty's the best when he left out the 3rd verse.

ihatethiswebsitesdif No, the original was better but, Tom Petty tipped his hat to the original. Good stuff anyway.

Cecil- note the tambo!

Movie: Kingpin brought me here. I love Tom Petty's version best!

two people accidentally clicked the dislike button by mistake.

I feel the same way.

Actually, if you have heard one of John Lennon's old out-takes of his song '#9 Dream', you'll find that Lennon played a part of this song in it at the end somewhere. Also, the completed version of Lennon's song '#9 Dream' has the same guitar part around midway, if you haven't picked up on it already. Just putting my observations there. Perhaps you can show me that I'm wrong.

i have no soul.... checkmate....

yo folks i still belive in the dream

Great song...

how high were they?

Ugh, a huge part of me wants the whole song just to be played slower but no one sings it like that.
Sigh.

Oh well, still dig the tune. :)