Tom Petty & Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
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Music CD Cover Artist: Tom Petty & Heartbreakers Brand: PETTY,TOM Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-03-20 Music Label: Mca Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Long After Dark Album
Free Music Review: Respectable Meat & Potatoes Rock - I'm no fan, but . . .
Hit: 3 Stars
. . . I think this forum is pretty useless if it's only used by fans to pay tribute to the music they love. We all could definitely use some more objective opinions around here.
Petty and co. are good musicians, specializing in solid, unchallenging/run-of-the-mill rock n' roll, which is fine if that's what you're into. If you aren't bored to tears with what they play over and over and over on classic rock radio, then this album will likely appeal to you. These guys hit the right notes and Petty has an agreeable rock n' roll whine.
LONG AFTER DARK consists entirely of standard Petty mid-tempo rockers save for the mellow, bongo-laden final cut. Frankly, I find the album a bit boring. Yes, there are keyboards, but only "You Got Lucky" bears a passing resemblance to New Wave. There's certainly nothing angry or edgy enough here to appeal to punk rockers, unlike what was dubiously suggested by one of the paid "professional" writers on this forum (a useless profession if there ever was one, but it must be nice to make money that way).
With really outstanding artists, it's always fun to plumb their back catalogue, but with Petty, I'm perfectly happy to hear just his GREATEST HITS collection, whereas these collections are often frustrating affairs for artists with a lot more to offer. "You Got Lucky," an ancient song from my early grade school years (which used to annoy me back in the day but it kinda grew on me), is clearly the stand-out track, so it's appropriate that it's the only one culled for GREATEST HITS. I really do like Tom Petty, but this album doesn't do much for me. He has made better albums, but I stand by my view that his GREATEST HITS covers the essentials.