My thoughts exactly, Walls gets lifted to a higher level thanks to Lindsey´s superb backing vocals on this song. It´s my favourite Tom Petty song apart from his 3 duets with Stevie and his song The Waiting (which in fact was also superbly covered by Linda Ronstadt in 1995). Walls has such a sunny feel and catchy chorus, you really hear a lot of the Beach Boys influence in this song. Of course Lindsey is a huge fan of them since he covered The Farmer´s Daughter with Mac back in 1980, a lovely song which in my opinion was inexplicably left out of The Very Best Of cd (same goes for Fireflies, a sadly missed opportunity!).
Marcel.
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