Damn the Torpedoes [Original recording remastered]

Tom Petty, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B00005ABK8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  Blu-ray Audio
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,588 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Refugee

2. Here Comes My Girl

3. Even The Losers

4. Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)

5. Century City

6. Don't Do Me Like That

7. You Tell Me

8. What Are You Doin' In My Life?

9. Louisiana Rain

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Though easily as consistent as their first two releases, it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' third release, Damn the Torpedoes, that catapulted Petty and company into the first rank of American rock acts. It's not hard to understand why. With a slate of driving songs destined to become FM staples ("Refugee," "Here Comes My Girl," "Even the Losers," "Don't Do Me Like That"), it's an album that plays much like half a greatest-hits collection. Fusing a rootsy sensibility heavy with Dylan and Byrds affectations with his own pop instincts (honed by early stints with Mudcrutch and Dwight Twilley) and coupling them with one of rock's most consistently underrated powerhouses, the Heartbreakers, Petty's throwback traditionalism oddly found him riding the crest of the new wave in the late '70s. All tracks on this new edition have been sonically upgraded via state-of-the-art digital remastering. --Jerry McCulley

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Prime Petty November 11, 2003

By A Customer

Format:Audio CD

Once upon a time, long before middle age and Traveling Wilburys and Full Moon Fever, decades before the annoying David Spade caricature, a youthful Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rocked with breathtaking passion and talent. They came fully into their prime with this recording, bursting into the public eye in November of 1979 with a performance of "Refugee" on Saturday Night Live. Blown away, I was at the record store the next day to buy this amazing album.

This is the finest recording made by the band, and the obvious choice for anyone who wants to buy their first Tom Petty CD. Some may prefer a greatest-hits package, but these songs were meant to be heard together, to flow as an album. Some may prefer the older mellower acoustic-guitar-strumming Petty, and that Petty has continued to make excellent music. But to buy Full Moon Fever first would be a bit like buying Springsteen doing The Rising instead of Born to Run, or Dylan doing Love and Theft instead of Blonde on Blonde. There are graceful comebacks, and then there is youthful creativity with passion and sometimes genius - Damn the Torpedoes is the latter.

This album contains everything you need to know about the band at its best. The stripped-down sound (more polished than garage rock, but just as vital), Petty's voice going from whines to raspy growls to scathing Dylanesque bitterness, evocative lyrics that take the listener through every possible emotion in 3 minutes, that 12-string Rickenbacker on the cover photo with the singer as skinny as I was back then, Mike Campbell's Chuck Berry-esque guitar solos, a driving rhythm section. Tom Petty would never come back to rock like this again. He's done music that's arguably as good, but rarely as consistent, and never with such blazing energy and gutsiness.

It would be easy to praise song after song in detail, but the bottom line is that this is indeed the quintessential Tom Petty album, every song a gem, the singer and his band at their youthful peak.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic album recieves an astounding BD makeover! November 19, 2010

By BornInNorway81

Format:Blu-ray Audio|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'll be short, since this is a 31 year old album many people know. This review will comment the BD release, and its importance for future music releases on BD.

This is the complete album with nine bonus tracks, 18 tracks in total. All songs have been remastered and have recieved the same treatment. This is a very unique product among all the products following today's trend of over compressed and bad sounding CD's and downloads. This BD have incredible dynamics, and is a joy to listen to. (If only more artists cared about how their art sounded...)

BD can be the new SACD, and lets hope so. There have been sold more BD players in the last three years than all the SACD players sold since its start about ten years ago. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers with their producer/engineer Ryan Ulyate are pioneers in paving the way for music on BD, they have already created music history, and I hope this turns out to be a musical revolution!

To sum up, if you like Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers just a little bit, buy this! You will love it and play it often! And it will certainly get you excited for more high resolution music in both stereo and surround!

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers & Ryan Ulyate, if you or someone in your staff should read this, I tell you: Please keep this up! Your work is on this BD and the Mojo BD is so important for the whole damaged music industry! If I could thank you in person, I wouldn't have a vocabulary strong enough to express my joy. But know that there are many of us out here that will gladly pay to enjoy your music the way you intended in the studio!

Audio options on all 18 tracks and two music videos:
5.1 96kHz/24bit DTS-HD Master Audio
5.1 96kHz/24bit PCM
2.0 96kHz/24bit PCM

Region: All

Note: The DTS-HD High Resolution Audio 48/24 logo on the back shouldn't have been there, the audio is in fact as listed above.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Damn !!! This album is great!!! November 11, 2010

By David Miles

Format:Blu-ray Audio

Having been a huge fan of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers for all of their career and owning pretty much everything they've done, this is the seminal album. I've heard this album in every format and re-issue. If you are a big fan, and own a Blu-Ray player/Audio System capable of playing the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio 96kHz/24bit, Buy It!!! I applaud Tom & Company for caring enough to give us such a great album, handled with care, and served up in the highest quality consumers can currently play. This is hearing what the masters sounded like and probably better after mastering with today's technology. After the mp3 generation,there are is still people that want to savor their music like fine wine. Cheers, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, now please could you give us Wildflowers next, just asking. Thank you.