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  • Alright! Tom Petty!

    Have you heard Cracker's cover of this song? It's awesome!

  • love this song the video really need too much...

  • A miilion poppies...What a wonderful thought. Damn, what bliss that would be.......

  • ahhhhh 90s music <3

  • its not tom petty its by the band with one of the best names ever CRACKER i remeber when this came out. the good ol days

  • A million poppies gonna make you sleep...

  • I feel like an idiot, all these years I thought it was Tom Petty, and it's Cracker! However you gotta admit, the guy sounds EERILY similar to Tom Petty. Definitely an influence on the song, and music. Either way, a badass song and band, and Tom Petty is definitely a badass in his own right! I mean seriously, the "Don't Come Around Here No More" video. GENIUS!

  • A bunch of us are about to do "The Man Dance", prolly more like "The Man Mosh", if we don't get some clarification soon. Please someone with some knowledge help us out. Is this song about a girl or is heroin the "girl"? We have googled and came up with only more arguments. Proof positive, although I don't know where you'd get it except from the horses mouth, might save a life. Seriously though, it might give new meaning to the term "saving face".

  • @PickStar81 It is about a girl. but as poetic license the songwriters are tipping their hat to The poet Baudelaire and the band The Gun Club, which both compare a girl to addiction to opiates. Also the wizard of oz.

  • Low and behold

    someone's messing with my groove control

  • I appreciate both your sharing the video and your mocking of stupid people.

  • Lol, why would you care what some youtube commenter has to say about this song being a Tom Petty song. Let em say it was made by Hitler and proof Elvis and Paul mcCartney never landed on the moon. Idiots will always just be idiots, arguing with them is a waste of time, and believe me ive wasted my share of time.

  • @gladtobeangry

    Well because we enjoy arguing with idiots. It's fun.

    And really we realize it's quite funny.

    About 4 years ago people kept coming to this channel insisting this song was a tom petty song.

  • so it's obviously not tom petty.. but nowhere is the actual artist listed. who is this????

  • @Spe3dFr3akz " classic cracker hit" the band is cracker

  • how do you get this confused with tom petty?! c'mon people!! ha

  • LOVE THIS.....and yeah im 13 so.........dont tell me i dont listen to good music

  • God I love Tom Petty!

  • @yxewas what?? is this just a random comment?? I like Tom Petty too... but he is nowhere in this video....

  • that's that annoying chick from roseanne

  • yup this is definitely tom petty.

  • @dranomilkshake

    and so are you..

  • WHO THE FUCK thought this was a tom petty song???? haha i was downloading some screaming trees years ago on limewire and apparently it's by them too....did they cover it? hahah

  • WHO THE FUCK thought this was a tom petty song???? haha i was downloading some screaming trees years ago on limewire and apparently it's by them too....

  • Cracker DOES rock...but Camper rocks in a more eclectic and timeless way. David Lowery is a brilliant musician and songwriter.

  • love this song brings me back to when i was like 7...lol good times i can not remember them for other reasons though

  • Is the late Rick Jaeger (Dave Mason & session ace) playing drums on this? I know he did half of the tracks on the first Cracker album.

  • I don't know anybody who ever thought this was Tom Petty...

  • Yeah, sure thing, Tom Petty and the Hearthovens...

  • I love this song, Tom Petty is so talented.

  • This is almost 20 years old? Holy shit I'm old.

  • This song can never get old..fucking 90's rulz!!

  • I like this riff but I have to disagree with the century you call the year's that rulz..The 90's were just a continuation of what the 80's produced.They had band's that made it big and they started in the late 60's,70's and in the late 70's, 80's music had video's so we could see all the great band's that we couldn't hear because we never knew of these band's.When the 1980's begun,I turned 14 and got into old classic band's,Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Iron Maiden, The Who,AC/DC,ect..80's ruled!!!

  • this is my fav tom petty song XD

  • I was so sure that the song was written by Frank Carson! Now there's REAL TALENT! Not some hippie desertbilly weirdos.

  • This is tom petty right?

    LOLS!

  • Who could possibly think this is Tom Petty? Sounds nothing like Petty...he's more Bob Dylan sounding in his vocals. Idiots today.

  • I looooooove this song... I'm just frustrated that I couldn't find another of their song as good as this one! . A classic from the Alternative 90's. I love showing of with this song in France... friends always ask for more after I give them a bit of "Low".

  • I looooooove this song... I'm just frustrated that I couldn't find another of their song as good as this one! "Low" rocks. A classic from the Alternative 90's

  • Hey, CrackerRocks........Thanks, guys!!!

  • heroin will kick ur ass every time...

  • saw this exactly once on mtv (great were those times...) and loved it immediately until today. same happened with "diminished clothes" by salad. just soo great!

  • Go johnny go. Steve & Buzz of Berdo

  • woot woot 17 may 2011, i will achieve something great in life...I will see cracker perform..FINALLY!!!!

  • what a good song.

  • Wow, I never though about it, but this song is VERY Tom Petty-ish! But you really would be a dumbass to think it actually WAS him lol

  • regarding the junkie/disgraced cosmonaut:

    "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

    We know Major Tom's a junkie

    Strung out in heaven's high

    Hitting an all-time low."

    HAH! quit discussing tom petty when this clearly has more to do with david bowie!

  • million poppies is so wizard of oz

  • Holy geez...Tom Petty? SERIOUSLY??? I mean, not knocking Tom, but REALLY??

  • I think Tom Petty wrote this?

  • I LOVE HEROIN

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  • For my sister April, I know just what you mean by feeling "low"

  • The video comments are definitive proof that YouTube has the lowest collective IQ of all social media sites.

  • @crackerrocks Well said mate, well said. Just wait for some pinhead to come back at you swearing his head off and claiming your wrong and that god will get you for that...

    It's a song, it's a music vid...enjoy and go away with your stupid comments.

    Low rocks..any thoughts on the counting Crows Dave Lowery live set on YT here?

  • @crackerrocks Yeah, mon! Some of these idiots R soooo freakin' stupid, it makes me want 2 micturate!!!!!!

  • @crackerrocks

    so far...never underestimate them...they're everywhere...

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  • Sounds like Dylan was sweating his nutsack off. Don't know how you do that, but yeah OK.

  • I saw Tom Petty with the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan in Buffalo, NY in 1986. It was July. Hot. Say, 98. Dylan was wearing full-body black leather. He must have been sweating his nutsack off. I was OK. I was on a mixture of acid, shrooms and some sort of homemade hash. But I bet Dylan was sweating like a champ. 

  • I saw Tom Petty with the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan in Buffalo, NY in 1986. It was July. Hot. Say, 98. Dylan was wearing full-body black leather. He must have been sweating his nutsack off.

  • I love this song and for the record I got here cuz I typed in Cracker not Tom Petty!! Love them both but damn!! There is a difference ppl

  • God I love Tom Petty... I remember listening to this and Living like a refugee and You dont know how it feels in '94!!

  • I love to get stoned !!!

  • Tanks K ROCK NY,awesome songs as all ways

  • hey is this tom polansky?

  • GOD, THIS BRINGS BACK SOME FOGGY, HAZY MEMORIES FROM THE 90'S!! gettin high, in my GF's bedroom.....

  • GOD, THIS BRINGS BACK SOME FOGGY, HAZY MEMORIES FROM THE 90'S!! gettin high, in my GF's bedroom.....

  • for the umpteenth time, its NOT Tom Petty! k.bye!

  • TOM PETTY?????

  • Holy Shit I feel really stupid...I always thought this was Tom Petty

  • one of my favorite on my playlist

  • So good

  • Hands down the 90's had the best music videos!!!

  • Absolutely love this song, it's an all-time fave... but the mv isn't exactly what I pictured to match it.

  • I can understand where people are coming from thinking it's a tom petty song, but no it's not. thats like saying james hetfield wrote the four horsemen.

  • 90s were the best times ever in the history of the world, proven by the S and P 500 and music like this.

  • @xxm1ndheadxx I'm so sure you discuss cracker and stock prices in the same sentence

  • Classic 90s

  • I'm so glad Tom Petty wrote this song!

  • @DallasisaLeo Tom Petty didn't write this song, David Lowery did- he's the lead singer of Cracker.

  • @MyJunior1975 TOM PETTY ALL THE WAY!

  • By the logic of some of you people, I guess The Beatles wrote Stairway To Heaven?

  • fuckin awesome guitar riff

     summers of '93 and 94....best of the fuckin 90s man.

  • this song was sooooooo underestimated!!!!!

  • THIS SONG FUCKING OWNS MAN!!!!!

  • Tom Petty my arse! I saw Cracker at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow last night and they played THIS! Fucking awesome man! And they played the song "about the whore". Sideways wink, David!

  • I saw Cracker last night at King Tuts in Glasgow! Fucking fantastic! They played this too!!!! Awesome!

  • @zansarra i remember seeing them at King Tuts. Must be about 15 years ago now! Dutch group called Daryll Ann were supporting

  • This definitely sounds like Tom Petty & the HB. 

  • This is an intrinsically good song. But I have to admit I first heard this song on the radio and thought it was Tom Petty which got me to express great interest in it. But hey, a good song is a good song no matter who sings it.

  • YES CRACKER ROCKS!

  • this song...

  • If you think this is Tom Petty, your a fucking moron!! Have a nice day, by the way, Tom Petty is the shit!!

  • A million poppies gonna make me sleep......

  • A million miles.

  • 83 people don't like Tom Petty.

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  • I like Tom Petty's version better

  • Getting stoned makes the long distances we drive so much quicker... best roadtrip song ever :D

  • now that i listen more closley it aint petty this guys voice is more crisp, toms cracks more often

  • One of best songs ever. Crazy 90-ties :D

    Let's all 1 200 000 get high at same time.

  • BEST Tom Petty song evahr

  • Yeah I remember when Tom Petty and I sat down to write this song together, but we were robbed of our sheet music and lyrics.

  • omg ty for posting! u rock!

  • this was sooo cool in the 90's i mean still cool. so rocks. this is what i call true alternative rock

  • I like how the add at the bottom of the video that popped up was for Tom Petty tickets.

    Besides, I dont know what everyone's getting so worked up about.

    That dude is totally Tom Petty. Cant you guys see? haha.

  • What's with all the deucelesses thinking this is a Tom Petty song?!?!? I mean, Tom Petty is good with what he does, but what the hell? Doesn't sound anything like Tom Petty. Cracker is CRACKER...DAMN YOU!!!

  • Best Tom Petty song EVER, except for Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)

  • Didn't camper van beethoven do a cover of this song... with Tom Petty? I think Tom Petty was just there as a fluffer for the roadies, though...

  • I love Tom Petty... and money... and whores... and turtles. I would love to have sex with a turtle whore that looked like Tom Petty... for free... yea...

  • LA River? Never knew...

  • no way this is not tom petty. cracker 100%, 1993 babyy! get chills every time i hear this shit, it's so fucking good.

  • Me too had the same idea...Covered by tom Petty!...news to me too!

  • Right on

  • what a great song...always liked it tho..thanks for the post CR

  • Sandra Bernhard would so get it from me!! Hot!!

  • I really dig this song and yeah it makes me think of sex and opiates, what a fine mixture! What does low mean not to seem stupid  RACHEL

    a million poppys gonnna make me sleep, like some junkie cosmonaut! :) makes me happy thinking of it what a great song!

  • I haven't done drugs in over 20 years but this song makes me wanna drive to the hood and cop some dope...

  • A million poppies gonna make me sleep.....

  • I get to see these guys tomorrow night!

  • i wish i could've seen you guys when you played in Iowa City last Fall. i got stuck delivering pizzas that night...at least i got to drive around listening to you.

  • Such an awesome group.

  • "low" is the first track on the cracker-album "keroseene hat".

    written by David Lowery, John Hickman; David Faragher from cracker.

    it sounds like tom petty, but its cracker.

  • great song

  • Yes, that is really Sandra Bernhart:)

  • Heroin addicts write all the best music. No contest.

  • I think it's funny that there's such a 'controversy' over this song - I hope someday someone swears up and down one of my songs was originally an Acid Bath tune or something. That's gotta be a pretty heavy compliment when you think about it - people simply won't believe it wasn't written by Petty? Awesome.

    However, really, this song has a certain grit to it, subtle, that just isn't there with Petty. He wrote this like Cash wrote 'Hurt' - come on now.

  • saludes desde costa rica

  • That guy needs to learn to keep his hands up. LOL

  • cracker rocks

  • love this song ... *flails arms widly*

  • I am well aware that this is not associated with Tom Petty in any way, but i think it would be amazing if he did a cover of it.

  • Covering this song with my band has gotten me laid multiple times

  • Timeless

  • this is the fucking shittttttttttt :)))

  • Tom Petty wrote this song on May 12th, 1978, in an S&M bar outside Laredo. It was first video played on VH1. Only song in 7/4 meter to top the R&B AND Euro Club charts. The song features prominently in the biopic "One Million Poppies", about Petty's heroin addiction. "Cracker" is a fictional side project, an idea that Garth Brooks later used for the Chris Gaines project. On his emotional Oprah appearance, Petty said "'Low' is the song I will always be remembered by."

  • @blueshifter This song has nothing to fucking do with Tom Petty. He didn't write this song, he didn't even sing the song. Hell, he probably doesn't even like this song. Regardless, wikipedia it - research in any which way, possible - Tom Petty didn't have any influence with the making of this song, whatsoever and no. "Cracker" isn't a motherfucking side-project.

  • @blueshifter Fucking liar fuck. Petty Never had a heroin addiction. Tom Petty's my life

  • @blueshifter Big Fucking Lie

  • Derogatory comment about people who voted this down.

  • I remember this song. It was Tom Petty and the HeartCrackers' first hit.

  • I love this song, but the original version by Tom Petty rocks WAY more sincerely.

    This cover of if it feels kind fake.

  • @martindishwater are you fucking retarded? tom petty didn't write this, nor ever play it.

  • @martindishwater It's not a cover. It was composed by David Lowery.

  • I'll be in front on Friday night Windjammer SC, swing with it.

  • This is a pretty silly argument. Anybody who knows david lowery lyrics would never confuse this with a tom petty song...

  • Definitely not a Tom Petty song. Tom Petty is cool and all, but this is not a Petty tune.

    And CrackerRocks, I think most people on here are just yanking your chain. Cracker fans don't give a shit anyway...

    Camper and Cracker forever...

  • It does not sound like a petty song...... Not even!!!!

  • who gives a shit about tom petty, this is good wether tom petty made this goddamn song or not so stfu and enjoy the music bitchasses

  • sounds like a tom petty song...I bet he wrote it...I bet if you checked bmi it would say that he wrote/performed it......yep definitely a petty song. I love that guy. He rocks. petty ftw

  • @abradenk Our offer still stands to all window lickers. 100 bucks if you can show us a video, cd, live performance, review, track listing anything that supports your claim. we know the heartbreakers they have never done this song. still 100 bucks if you can prove us wrong.

  • @crackerrocks

    DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

  • @crackerrocks Tom Petty Rules! I saw Tom Petty perform this song at the volvo large engine plant in sweden. It was the hoopta plant. They dont build hoopties there!

  • @devnulzzz Tom Petty covered a Cracker song? Really? Got any evidence?

  • hey what you guys arguing about?? i saw these guys as a support band at the cambridge corn exchange in the 90's and brought single on the strength of the performance, was a good night. i still have the single :)

  • @crackerrocks i think they're all just trolling

  • @crackerrocks LOL at people saying this is Petty. Offer them $100,000 to bring a TPHB cover of the song. It doesn't matter how much you offer because you'll never have to pay it.

  • @crackerrocks thumbs up for 'window lickers'. never heard that one before. and yeah its a cracker song not a tom petty song. wtf

  • @crackerrocks Update: after Tom realized you guys stole his song, he decided to be nice and let you guys have it. Bad decision on his part, I'd of sued you guys.

  • @abradenk No. This is the original version, performed and written by Cracker. Tom Petty never played this song. I love Petty too, but facts are facts.

  • @abradenk Before you bet, you should do some elementary research.

    [quote]Song writer/composer(s): John Hickman, David Lowery, David Faragher[/quote]

    Now wear that doctor prescribed helmet and stay safe out there.

  • @abradenk lol your a retard

  • @abradenk your face is a tom petty song, he covered it with his arse

  • I can see where someone might think it sort of sounds like a Petty tune, but he DEFINITELY didn't write/sing it...just sayin

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  • I didn't read the comments, but apparently someone confused TP and Cracker? So dumb it's kinda funny ...

  • this song is bad ass! they don't make them like this anymore and never will again!

  • Man, I love this Tom Petty song.

  • Of course Tom Petty never covered this song, it talks about hanging out with a junkie girlfriend.

  • Cracker does rock as did Camper Van Beethoven.

    Tom Petty Never recorded this song and doubt if they play it.

    Hope this settles the dispute.

    Now....where's my Euro Trash Girl???

    

  • wtf is this tom petty business?

  • Ive never heard of a Tom Petty version of this song, and I bought the albumn when it came out. Dont know what the hell all these potheads are talking about.

  • Well, If Tom Petty did write it, I really don't recall a single bit of credit ever going to him for it. So.... I do beli3ve someone's mistaken.

  • tom petty does not do this shit and if he does please send me a copy cause i have never heard it and i do belive i have heard every song under the sun