Long After Dark Music Cd

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark

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Long After Dark      Artist : Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers      List Price : $9.98 USD        Your Price : $7.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2001-03-20      Studio : Mca      Label : Mca      Avg. Customer Rating : (20 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Long After Dark       Change of heart, WHERE IS IT ON TOM's HITS CD ?      Rating:       Great song, but not on tom's GREATEST HIT CD. WHY?? This song is very good . Better than the other songs on his HITS. Deliver me, another song, is as well. This may be tom's secret album......the one everybody forgets about...THEN....listens to and loves. Dirty trick tom petty. But we love, the album. SO it worked !!!!!!     Customer Reviews for Long After Dark Cd      Tom Petty's Underated 5th.      Rating:      Four terrific albums and non-stop touring had done two things to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It had made them a first-class rock band with a distinct sound, and it had pushed them close to burnout. After the breakthrough of both Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises, the backslide was inevitable, and "Long After Dark" was it. In the old days of LP's with a side one and two, I remember wearing the A-side of this album to the groove. The first five songs are vintage Petty, with "Deliver Me" and "Change Of Heart" both songs that should have been hits. "One Story Town" is a classic rocker that would have fir on any previous Heartbreakers album, and "You Got Lucky" was probably the last gasp of Petty's 'new-wave' connection to the 80's. It would have made a full five star EP. However, the second half of the album shows its wear and tear. Only the sardonic "The Same Old You" and the glorious "A Wasted Life" hold up with earlier material. The other three songs are a tad generic, with "Between Two Worlds" and "Straight Into Darkness" sounding like leftovers from better work. Still, Petty's off-line songs can still whup a mediocre band with a guitar string tied behind its back. Even a tossed of lyric (from "The Same Old You") can merit a smile: "I remember you back in '72 with your David Bowie haircut and your platform shoes." It is one of the reasons why I feel that "Long After Dark" is unjustly under-rated. Petty had been on a hot streak for so long, that less than stellar material felt like a gigantic let down. To me, this was the final moment in Petty and the Heartbreaker's early chapter. The prolonged break between this album and the slick and more Southern Rockish Southern Accents marked a distinct and sharp divide in style. (Well, with Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) being a coda to that era.) It's still a superb album, and marks a transitional point in Petty's career. Editorial Reviews for Long After Dark Audio Cd      Amazon.com      By the time of this 1982 album, Tom Petty was a bona fide American rock star, if not exactly a pop icon. Perhaps bowing to that status, Petty essentially commercialized a sound that had heretofore worn its Dylan/Byrds influences proudly on its sleeve. Perhaps he and the Heartbreakers had become status conscious--or mistakenly took their oft-misapplied new wave label too close to heart. Or, more likely, Petty's muse was simply strained to the limit after four exceptionally strong albums in a row and the interminable touring that went with them. "Change of Heart" recalls earlier peaks while "You Got Lucky" remains a classic, but there's a sense the album's larger production (including synths and a thicker overall sound) was filling something of a void in Petty's songwriting. All tracks on this edition have been sonically upgraded via digital remastering. --Jerry McCulley