Song Encyclopedia Index

Monday, February 4, 2019

Yer So Bad (Tom Petty cover)




RELEASED
Full Moon Fever, 2018 (Turntable Kitchen)

PLAYED LIVE
2017?, 2018

FACTS
A Tom Petty cover, part of the full-album version of Full Moon Fever recorded by Pains in 2017 and 2018. Unlike many of the songs on the record, this one was covered live as well as in the studio, with Stereogum's Scott Lapatine posting video footage of Pains playing the song at the website's annual party in early 2018. Another reference to the song on Twitter indicates Pains also played it live in late 2017.

 QUOTES
"My favorite song in the record is probably "Yer So Bad", which has wonderfully concise storytelling. "My sister got lucky, married a yuppie / Took him for all he was worth / Now she's a swinger dating a singer / I can't decide which is worse," it's such a classic Tom Petty lyric. He's singing about this but going "I'm not any better than that." He could be as bad as the characters he's describing. I love the wit. You get a sense that Tom Petty was the rare rock star you could hang out with." - Kip to Popmatters

MEDIA
Live at Stereogum party
https://twitter.com/scottgum/status/989705954500497408
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