Long After Dark [Original recording remastered]

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1982
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B00005ABKB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,832 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAR-2001

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unfairly overlooked, March 12, 2005

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Ethan Straffin (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long After Dark (Audio CD)

Seems like this is the closest that Tom Petty ever came to releasing a Lost Album. For whatever reason, even as they stuck around to pick up the comparatively dull _Wildflowers_ and the aptly-named _Echo_ so many years later, not a lot of his fans picked this one up.

I'm not quite sure why this is, because as many times as I've listened to _Long After Dark_, I fail to hear what's so wrong with it. There are some wonderful melodies and powerful lyrics here. Maybe it's that the pseudo-dissonance in the verse of "You Got Lucky" (or all those synthesizers) turned a few too many people off, or that "Change of Heart" was a little too obvious. After all, it's the singles that make or break an album commercially. Still, to leave it at that is to miss wonderful songs like "A One Story Town," "Finding Out," "We Stand a Chance," "Straight Into Darkness," and "Between Two Worlds."

Oops. Looks like I just mentioned half the album there. What can I say? It deserves it.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What's wrong with this album?, July 8, 2006

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G. C. Aase (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long After Dark (Audio CD)

I'm with most everybody else in the reviews section - what's wrong with this disc? I recall it was panned when it came out, and it's been lumped with the "lower-tier" of Petty's work (Echo, Let Me Up, She's The One). My ears hear something else. This has got a lot more spunk and energy than nearly all the tracks on Hard Promises. The Mike Campbell riffs are solid throughout, and Petty didn't lose any of his ability to write a good melody. You Got Lucky (anybody get tired of watching that video on MTV? - I did), One Story Town, Change of Heart, Deliver Me, and Straight Into Darkness all hold up pretty well after 20 plus years. Sure, Long After Dark isn't Wildflowers or Full Moon Fever or Damn The Torpedos, but if you have a hankering of for a straight slice of American rock, this should meet your needs.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Riveting Music From A Righteous Rocker, June 17, 2005

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The Footpath Cowboy "rockerusa2002" (Kingston, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long After Dark (Audio CD)

Some people say that DAMN THE TORPEDOES is Tom Petty's masterpiece, but LONG AFTER DARK is just as good. Several songs have inspired me when I was trying to recover from an illness or injury ("Deliver Me", "We Stand A Chance", "Straight Into Darkness"), others are about deceit and disillusionment ("A One Story Town", "You Got Lucky", "Change Of Heart", "Finding Out"), still others have a cautionary message ("Between Two Worlds", "A Wasted Life"), and there's also a pledge of personal loyalty ("The Same Old You"). The fact that Petty advocates sanctions against Indonesia in retaliation for that country's recent trumped-up drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist seems to add weight to many of the songs on this album. Some people gave LONG AFTER DARK a bum rap, but it's really yet another masterpiece from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.