Long After Dark Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

• 1A One Story Town03:06
• 2You Got Lucky03:36
• 3Deliver Me03:28
• 4Change Of Heart03:18
• 5Finding Out03:36
• 6We Stand A Chance03:38
• 7Straight Into Darkness03:48
• 8The Same Old You03:30
• 9Between Two Worlds05:11
• 10A Wasted Life04:34
• Total Runtime37:45

Info for Long After Dark

On his first four albums, Petty pulled off the impressive feat of starting out great and improving with each record. „Long After Dark“ may not have extended that streak to five, but it came pretty damn close, and it's a solid, above-average offering that has more in common with the hard-rocking „Damn The Torpedos“ than the more introspective, folk-tinged „Hard Promises“.

Sonically, „Long After Dark“ DARK is flawless, it's the hardest Petty and company have ever rocked; Petty and Campbell's guitars would never sound this raw again (Petty had been listening to some AC/DC at the time, which obviously helped). Lyrically, the album is almost unrelentingly bleak, as Petty weaves tale after tale of hard luck and working men doomed to lives of tribulation. He's popmeister enough to keep it catchy, so you don't get bogged down by the weighty topics, and wise enough to disavow any Beautiful Loser claims ('I don't think pain is so romantic').

Tom Petty, vocals, 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, Prophet 5 synthesizer
Mike Campbell, guitar, 12-string guitar, organ
Benmont Tench, acoustic and electric pianos, Hammond and Vox organs, synthesizer, backing vocals
Stan Lynch, drums, backing vocals
Howie Epstein, bass, backing vocals
Phil Jones, percussion
Additional musician:
Ron Blair, bass guitar (on 'Between Two Worlds“)

Recorded from 1981–82 at Record Plant, Wally Heider's and Crystal, Hollywood, CA; Rumbo Studios, Canoga Park, CA
Engineered by Shelly Yakus, Don Smith
Produced by Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty

Digitally remastered

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