Mudcrutch...

...is pretty much the worst name ever for a band. It's also what Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were called before they were, you know...Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

With that in mind, here's a smattering of titles that were considered for the work we now know as Bigger Than Jesus. Some were serious contenders, and some were just retarded, but at least I figured out why so many magazine articles are titled after rock songs (a personal pet peeve of mine.) It's just so goddamn easy. The things practically name themselves.

In any event, with a nudge or two in the right direction, the piece could have been called:

-Heavy Metal Memories

-Teenage Dirtbag

-Nothin' but a Good Time

-Dear Music

-Great Expectations

-Teenage Wasteland

-Rock and Roll Salvation


Lucky we happened onto Bigger than Jesus, no? At this rate, how long before I came up with Are You There, Rick? It's Me, Music or some such gibberish?