You Don't Know How It Feels
| "You Don't Know How It Feels" | ||||
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| Single by Tom Petty | ||||
| from the album Wildflowers | ||||
| A-side | You Don't Know How It Feels | |||
| B-side | Girl on LSD | |||
| Released | October 1994 | |||
| Format | CD, Cassette Tape, Vinyl | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:49 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Writer(s) | Tom Petty | |||
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"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from Tom Petty's 1994 album Wildflowers. It reached number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1]
MTV and many radio stations aired a censored version of "You Don't Know How It Feels," reversing the word "joint" in "let's roll another joint"[2] — although a version replacing the word "roll" with "hit" was also made.[3] Nevertheless, the music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The song is sometimes mistakenly called "Roll Another Joint" on P2P search engines because of the aforementioned line.
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[edit] 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.[4] 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. 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."
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1994–1995) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 13 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 3 |
| UK Singles Chart | 119 |
[edit] End-of-year charts
| End of year chart (1995) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] | 61 |
[edit] References
- ^ Billboard.com
- ^ Considine, J. D. (July 5, 1995). "Some lyrics are revised when listeners read between the lines Changing Their Tunes". The Baltimore Sun. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-07-05/features/1995186124_1_lyrics-friends-are-jewish-album/5. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
- ^ MTV.com |Video: "You Don't Know How It Feels"
- ^ You Don't Know How It Feels. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2009-04-09.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1995". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1995. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
| Preceded by "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single December 31, 1994 - January 6, 1995 |
Succeeded by "Better Man" by Pearl Jam |
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