You Don't Know How It Feels

"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from Tom Petty's 1994 album, Wildflowers. The track features candid lyrics describing the songwriter's desire for personal and professional autonomy.[1]

"You Don't Know How It Feels"
Single by Tom Petty
from the album Wildflowers
B-side"Girl on LSD"
ReleasedDecember 3, 1994 (1994-12-03)
Genre
Length4:49
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Tom Petty
Producer(s)
Tom Petty singles chronology
"American Girl (re-release)"
(1994)		 "You Don't Know How It Feels"
(1994)		 "You Wreck Me"
(1995)
Tom Petty singles chronology
"For Real"
(2019)		 "You Don't Know How It Feels (Home Recording)"
(2020)		 "Wildflowers"
(2020)

The single reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles 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.[2] This version peaked at No. 54 on the iTunes chart.[3]

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.[4] The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The girl 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.

Track listing

"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.[1] 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."

Charts

References
  1. Greenwald, Matthew. You Don't Know How It Feels. Allmusic. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
  2. https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/rock/9410976/tom-petty-you-dont-know-how-it-feels-new-recording
  3. http://www.itunescharts.net/us/artists/music/tom-petty/songs/you-dont-know-how-it-feels-home-recording/
  4. MTV.com |Video: "You Don't Know How It Feels"
  5. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles – Week Ending 29 Jan 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  6. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 2715." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  7. "Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > Rodney P. – The Pussycat Dolls". zobbel.de. Retrieved December 10, 2016. N.B. This site displays 'uncompressed' (no exclusion rules applied) UK singles chart peaks between November 1994 and May 2001. "You Don't Know How It Feels" peaked at No. 91 on the 'compressed' chart, with exclusion rules applied.
  8. "Tom Petty Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  9. "Mainstream Rock Songs – The week of December 31, 1994". Billboard. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  10. "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  11. "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1995". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  12. "Billboard Top 100 – 1995". Billboardtop100of.com. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
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