Tom Petty & Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
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Free Music Notes for Long After Dark
Free Music Review: 2001 HDCD Remaster Version Of A Forgotten 1982 Classic!
Hit: 5 Stars
Released in November 1982 "Long After Dark" seemed to slip through the cracks - no-one seemed to notice it - especially here in the UK - when it's actually a brilliant rock album with all the great Petty trademark hooks and catchy choruses. Tune after tune smacks you in the gob with their economy and brilliance - all of it is just great.
But the reason for this review - and it's pricey value on the open market of the CD hard copy - is that this issue is not the crap 80's CD initially issued, but the 2001 HDCD version (High Definition Compact Disc) - and the difference in sound couldn't be more pronounced.
Remastered by Joe Gastwirt at Oceanview Digital from the original analogue master tapes - the sound on this issue is just stupendous - clear, rockin' and so loud, you may have to turn the stereo down! A truly fantastic remaster job.
The booklet is ok - reproducing the lyrics the original inner sleeve had - and the back inlay picture is different to the 80's issue, but that's about it. Doesn't really matter that because the sound is just so gobsmacking.
An absolute blinder of an album - and not nearly as dated as so much Eighties cack is. Thoroughly recommended - even at a price.
Free Music Review: Unfairly overlooked
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: More Riveting Music From A Righteous Rocker
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: Underrated? You bet!
Hit: 5 Stars
Like so many other reviewers - without an agenda - who have actually taken the time to LISTEN to this album ... I think it's just great! It's the very first Tom Petty album I ever bought, or even listened to in its entirety, and I still think it's his overall best - the songs are so very listenable, from beginning to end. I knew Petty songs before I got this album, and I liked them well enough, to be sure - but for years I've felt that almost every single song on this album ranks right up there with his acknowledged classics.Free Music Review: Straight Into Darkness
Hit: 5 Stars
This often overlooked TP and the Heartbreakers album is one of thier best. There are some new elements (the often mentioned synth that Benmont Tench plays like a pro, and a new bass player, the late Howie Epstein) but the essentials, good songs and strong guitar work by Mike Campbell, are all here. I've always loved this album and now I have the remasted CD.