Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

[ragman27858]

I saw them at the Exit/In in Nashville about this time. I was a young stupid GI from Fort Campbell and I held up my dog tags and Maria came to the edge of the stage and I hung them around her neck. She played the rest of the night with my dog tags. I'll never forget that. She is one of the great voices like Emmy Lou.....

[chunter5100]

She is just so powerful...unreal

[jezkn]

SUPERRRRRB !!! ('course she knew what she was singing !)

[MisterHoneydog]

WOW  !!!!!!!!!!

[kjhanz]

Maria was so young she did not even know what she was singing. Later on she stated that once she figured it out she never sang the song again. Ive seen her on every album tour over last 20 plus years. Anyone know what she is up to now?

[balticred1892]

Leadmill 86 - unbelievable gig,

[TheLonesomeEchoesite]

Dream on Jack White.

[mickbrian1231]

Maria is indeed special. I love what she does with her shoulders. A true shame talent like this does not play commercially.

[tompetty1976]

This is pretty good, but Tom Petty's recording is just a real rocker. Just kick ass Rock and Roll. Tom's Heartbreakers did a lot of studio work for Lone Justice. I think mostly Stan and Benmont

[philnumberone]

@vauzz66

Tom Petty is wrong. 3 min perfect pop song.

[wolfgangzrx]

I always thought she was hot as hell! Loved her then and still do now!

[ajay999999]

Shame I only like this song of thiers.

I love it when she says "Stick it in".

[showusyertube]

God I fancied her after this performance...  I was red blooded then!

[Heartwing7]

Saw Lone Justice open for Tom Petty once and they were INCREDIBLE! Maria McKee is amazing!

[8hellcat]

Thanks so much, love it!

[skippertthomas]

Too good.. ROCK CHICKS RULE.. Now Roller Derby Girls don't mean so much to me! (Ha!)...

[earinsound]

her brother was bryan maclean from 60s group Love...

[alfatango1]

One of my favorite bands of all time, wish they would have made it as big as I thought they should have.

[kjoelancaster]

tempo. obviously on cocaine.

[earinsound]

@kjoelancaster

or nerves...this is live on tv

[dkolb65]

@kjoelancaster I was thinking the same thing. I saw them on this tour opening for Tom and eople didn't like this version at all.

[SuperDrJeckyl]

@dkolb65 I don't like this version, either. She just ruined it, almost like she couldn't care less.

[gruntnick]

is this about anal sex?

[GeddyBre]

Anal is not wicked, it is mainstream, and was when this song was written, or that could just be me.

Wow, a Lone Justice song that does not sound great live... never thought I'd hear that. this version sucks!

[ebethcole]

no, it is about heartbreak, a knife sticking in your heart

[schnegus]

Wer hat "I Found Love" von Lone Justice?

[vauzz66]

she is a queen - with a voice like no other... Tom Petty said that song was missing one verse

[AnthonyJohnT]

This was a great find. What a great Tom Petty song! Maria really rocked this out.

[rcknbkr403]

Gives "stick it in" a new meaning from Petty's intended lyric.

[tgear77]

I found this song and went out and bought the cassette (oh, the '80s). Took it over to a friend of mine's who was a huge Petty fan and played him the song. He listened to it and then had this dour look on his face. I asked what was wrong and he said "Why does Petty have to give away the kick ass songs?".

[gamera666]

i first heard this song when i was 9 on MTV (my dad was obsessed), and it has bothered me for 25 years, trying to remember who sang it. so weird to final discover it thanks to the 'net. and a pretty decent track, actually.

[Maucool67]

A lovely track indeed!!! I fell in love with it the first moment I saw it on MTV. I must have been 18 years old. I am 41 now.

[TheDonnyj]

Saw them open for U2 when they were first breaking it big then again when they were huge. Not just another band.

[rcknbkr403]

Goddam, the girl always could belt it out!

[povethestud]

some 18 yrs since i last listened to this track...takes me back !

[SharkSport]

LJ was so refreshingly original, no one like them before, or since.

[robertfyke]

I saw LJ several times in the 80's and they were just fantastic! I miss them.

[stearnsybears]

still great!

[busybeeta21]

I probably listened to this ten thousand times in the 80s when I was a single girl, living on dreams, coffee, cigarettes and music. This and the Pretenders, oh thank you Maria!

[paigep63]

OMG me too! precious by chrissy and this song. i love this!!

[86lenny]

You sound hot ! Are you near NYC ?

[richintalent]

This and 'After The Flood' was really good- I still have the cassette of them. 'After The Flood' was particularly poignant to me, because in 2006 there was a flood of Biblical proportions here in NY- whole roads were wiped out, people lost everything, entire towns were underwater, I felt guilty because all we got in the cellar was a puddle.

[ACERAMGAD]

She is to damn cute for words!!!!!!! Wonderful!!!!!!!!

Great song! Peace and my heart is on fire for her great soul!

[DeceasedDeath]

This song was actually banned in England by the BBC, it wasn't allowed to be broadcast on the radio, because they thought the lyrics had something to do with kinky sex ("you ain't afraid to let me have it, you ain't afraid to stick it in"..etc). I don't know what Tom Petty was thinking when he wrote this, but when Maria McKee sings the lyrics, she makes it sound like... I dunno, maybe the BBC were right, at least she tickles my funny parts lol :)

[richintalent]

Stick it in probably refers to the allegorical 'knife in the back'.

[Sweetpea1517]

yeah! that woman can wail! haven't heard this band in years. brings back great memories. puff puff pass

[mikeclaw]

What a great performance. Their first album was just mind-blowingly good.

[dylanthetiger]

I reckon it's more about taking a dick in the ass.... ha ha !!

[wharfrat89]

I think this song is about taking a dick in her pussy...."You ain't afraid to stick it in"..."Yeah I can take a little pain"

[jackspicerisland]

Coarsely put, but your point seems undeniable.

[rcknbkr403]

Except that Tom Petty wrote this song. It's about sticking the "proverbial knife" in from his point of view. O course, Maria McKee singing it gives it new meaning.

[RosalitaBU8]

Oh, Maria, I just love you S-O-O much!!

[southofcali]

Tom Petty wrote this. Wonder if he ever got on stage with them to do it. Thanks for a great post!

[rcknbkr403]

He's on the album version, I think.

[xxxfiretear]

no he isn't. the heartbreakers are but not him.

[rcknbkr403]

Bet he does some backing vox. Sure sounds like it.

[xxxfiretear]

it sounds like but it isn't.

i am sure.

but it is a damn good album though.

[barnevy]

in the philippines, we don't get chances to hear bands like lone justice, but i found this cassette on sale somewhere and i could say i was glad i did. i still have it and i still plays it.

[deborahwa]

Great song that I enjoyed as a teenager. Couldn't connect the song with Christianity though. The band had Christian nuances in many of their songs.

[teotorro]

I like this mail conversation - I'm of course European. This gives al little bt of hope on American intellect ....

[YZippy]

There are plenty of really smart Americans. You guys just don't get us. We have only 2 neighbors on our borders, a historically peaceful continent, and have had the luxury of focusing on how to make things, sell things and count the money. Makes for a simple yet sometimes ignorant existance. We aren't stupid...just distracted.

[YZippy]

Hell. We are anti intellectual. Very workmanlike though. This is why we do war so well. We bring a number crunching mentality too it.

[stevo4es]

what a mess

[YZippy]

Oh. You are spot on about Phil Collins. Dreadful.

[colujomes]

Excellent. I always knew that if one thing could finally unite people of all political persuasions, it would be a shared hatred for Phil Collins.

[Hardenghor]

The more I watch it, the better I like it......

[emangevine]

Yep, I ran out and bought this on cassette(!) as soon as I heard it. I had such a crush on her.

[PlayerNumber9]

The stuff of Legends!

[ChgoChef]

Pure talent!

LadyDemocrat

[Hardenghor]

It´s not bad, but I like the Tom-Petty-version better.

[vonhorn29]

Yeah it was really fun until we all realized that everyone was getting AIDS in the eighties....

[dkobra]

damn the 80's were so fun -- no terror threat levels, aids was minimal, and we all seemed a bit less cynical -- although a bit self centered but hey it was never perfect -- just a lot of fun

[colujomes]

I think perhaps you were just paying less attention than you do now, maybe because now there's more news channels to be alarmed by. The cold war was still threatening to erupt into nuclear war thanks largely to Reagan; AIDS was far from minimal (and there were no drug treatments then); and, worst of all, Duran Duran and Phil Collins were always on the radio. The horror.

[BooJeeBooJee]

You make me gafa.

[YZippy]

Actually in hindsight, Reagan minimized the threat of a nuclear war. I thought he was a duence, but declassified Russian documents have shown how shrewd he was...and how much a threat the Soviets really were

[colujomes]

Perhaps, but I still recall instances of provocation and unnecessary silliness: his 'we begin bombing Russia in 5 minutes' joke was a) not the work of a great statesman, and b) the scariest thing heard on radio in the 1980s (besides Duran Duran and Phil Collins, of course). And what's a 'duence'?

[YZippy]

a Dunce. An obvious typo. I thought the Soviet flaming of a KAL airliner as a little more provocative than anything the US did. The scariest thing I heard was Walter Mondale guaranteeing he would raise the taxes on the middle class. I always felt the Soviets and the States could always do business and there would never be an eruption into Nuclear Holocaust. All the willy nilly fears of the left and Sabre rattling of the right never convinced me otherwise.

[colujomes]

You conservatives and your fear of taxes! Share the wealth, dude. Or, even better, how about you rally your middle-class compadres and come join the lower classes as we attempt to smash the ruling class (which can't survive unless all the lower levels stay in their places). Come on, you know you secretly want to.

[YZippy]

Conservative? I'm a Libertarian. The others hate us as we value liberty and freedom over their desire to squash our individuality, property rights and civil liberties.

[YZippy]

This Class war rubbish is the province of Europeans. Giving money to the US government is equalvalent to flushing it down the toliet. Here in the USA the best and brightest go into the private sector and the incompetents work for the government. I'm middle class and have no desire to crush anyone. Just to be left alone. Of course I always loved Paul Weller so there maybe a latent Socialist in me somewhere!

[kzf1]

One of my all time favorites. Great song.

[jeanhoel]

Yes , from that ... very good album !