Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More - [1985]

I was always a big Tom Petty fan in high school, but never really got into the song "Don't Come Around Here No More" [video | lyrics] despite it doing so well on the charts.  It seemed odd to me that it was so electronic and different from the rest of his catalog and just wasn't my style at the time.

Incidentally, the pic below is from the scene my mom happen to see me watching one day and banned me from watching MTV for the rest of my childhood :)

I have recently started to love the song, so when I did a bit of digging about its history I found out why this song has such a different sound. It was co-written with the non-Annie Lennox half of the Eurythmics, and the lyrics are about his failed love affair with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. She got tired of him and actually said the words :

"Don't come around here no more"

...before kicking him out of her house.

Even the Alice in Wonderland theme for the video was inspired by Stevie's infatuation with Victorian attire at the time. This wikipedia page has some more details if you want some more background.