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“Yer So Bad” by Tom Petty

Released 1991

“Yer So Bad” by Tom Petty appears on 21 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1997 and 2024. It was first released in 1991. Its best result is #266 on the 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022).

21countdowns

11stations

#266best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1997–2024years charted

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Tom Petty - Yer So Bad (Official Music Video)

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"Yer So Bad" went out in 1990 as the fifth single from Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty's first solo album, and it's where his songwriting partnership with Jeff Lynne, his bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys, got going: the first song the two ever wrote together. Petty had every word finished but spent days stuck, unable to get from the verse to the chorus, until Lynne showed him an E minor to C change. Petty was so elated he asked him to produce it, and Lynne ended up producing the whole album.

The tune is breezy folk rock, but the story has a mean streak. The narrator's greedy sister lucks into marrying a yuppie, divorces him and takes him for everything he's got, and now she's out swinging while the ex sits alone, maybe broke and thinking about ending it all.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Indie & Adult Alternative

#1,263 of the '80s

Classic Rock

#965 of all time

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1997	628	102.3 WBAB	WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997)	1023
2002	451	100.7 WZLX	WZLX Memorial 500 (2002)	500
2011	417	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011)	1100
2012	423	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012)	1200
2013	760	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013)	1000
2014	393	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014)	1000
2015	766	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015)	1007
2016	872	100.7 WZLX	100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016	1007
2019	408	Big 100	BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2019)	500
2020	702	102.5 KZOK	KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020)	1025
2020	432	102.5 WDVE	DVE Memorial Day 500 (2020)	500
2021	793	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s	909
2021	435	102.5 WDVE	DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021)	500
2022	433	Q104.3	Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022)	1043
2022	572	102.5 KZOK	KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022)	1025
2022	266	99.1 PLR	99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022)	500
2023	356	102.5 WDVE	DVE Memorial Day 500 (2023)	500
2023	635	101.5 WPDH	WPDH Top 1015 (2023)	1015
2024	372	102.5 WDVE	DVE Memorial Day 500 (2024)	500
2024	483	97 Rock	97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024)	499
2024	451	KQRS	KQRS KQ 500 (2024)	499

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