You Don't Know How It Feels Explained

You Don't Know How It Feels
Cover:Tom Petty - You Don't Know How it Feels Single2.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Tom Petty
Album:Wildflowers
B-Side:Girl on LSD
Released:[1]
Genre:
Length:4:49
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:
Prev Title:American Girl (re-release)
Prev Year:1994
Next Title:You Wreck Me
Next Year:1995

"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from American musician Tom Petty's 1994 album, Wildflowers. The track features candid lyrics describing the songwriter's desire for personal and professional autonomy.[6] The single reached 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's last top-40 hit in the US. An alternate version was posthumously released on June 26, 2020.[7] This version peaked at No. 54 on the iTunes chart.[8]

MTV, VH1, and many radio stations aired a censored version of "You Don't Know How It Feels," taking the word "roll" out of "let's roll another joint", as well as a version that played the word "joint" backwards. A version replacing the word "roll" with "hit" was also made.[9] The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The actress in the video is Raven Snow; she also appeared in several episodes of Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries and the film Delta of Venus as lounge singer Leila.

"Girl on LSD"

Petty originally intended the B-side of the single, "Girl on LSD", to appear on Wildflowers, but Warner Bros. refused because it was too controversial.[6] In the song Petty sings about being in love with multiple girls on different drugs: marijuana, cocaine, LSD, beer, crystal meth, china white (a slang term for heroin) and coffee and being a drug dealer. In the chorus Petty states: "Through ecstasy, crystal meth and glue / I found no drug compares to you / All these pills, all this weed / I dunno just what I need."

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1995)Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[12] 23
US Billboard Hot 100[13] 61

Notes and References

  1. Single Releases. Music Week. 23. November 5, 1994.
  2. Web site: You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty | Songs, Reviews, Credits . . February 11, 2022.
  3. Web site: Matthew . Greenwald . You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Song Info . AllMusic . February 11, 2022.
  4. Web site: Matthew . Greenwald . You Wreck Me - Tom Petty, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Song Info . AllMusic . February 11, 2022.
  5. Le Petty Prince Edition. Hit Parade Music History and Music Trivia. Slate. Molanphy. Chris. October 30, 2017. July 9, 2023.
  6. Greenwald, Matthew. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r209049|pure_url=yes}} You Don't Know How It Feels]. AllMusic. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
  7. Hear a Newly Unearthed Home Recording of Tom Petty's 'You Don't Know How It Feels' . Rowley . Glenn . . June 29, 2020 . August 5, 2021.
  8. Web site: 'You Don't Know How It Feels (Home Recording)' by Tom Petty (American Songs iTunes Chart) . iTunesCharts.net . August 5, 2021.
  9. Web site: MTV.com Video: "You Don't Know How It Feels" . . March 25, 2009 . February 1, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100201012856/http://www.mtv.com/videos/tom-petty/47566/you-dont-know-how-it-feels.jhtml#artist=1147 . dead .
  10. Web site: The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles – Week Ending 29 Jan 1995. ARIA. Imgur. December 10, 2016.
  11. RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1994. RPM. Library and Archives Canada. September 7, 2020.
  12. RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1995. RPM. Library and Archives Canada. September 7, 2020.
  13. Web site: Billboard Top 100 – 1995. Billboardtop100of.com. September 7, 2020.

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