Long After Dark [Original recording remastered]

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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

Tracks:

A One Story Town
You Got Lucky
Deliver Me
Change Of Heart
Finding Out
We Stand A Chance
Straight Into Darkness
The Same Old You
Between Two Worlds
A Wasted Life

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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

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Looks like we've finally reached the turning point.......2006-11-05

In 1982, TPATHB had reached the turning point, from their youthful exuberance and rocking spirit to their maturation as rock artists finding a balance with their music and their vision.

This album marks the transition as good as any after "Hard Promises" visited commercial pop/rock territory perhaps in response to the overwhelming success of their masterwork, the essential rock album, "Damn The Torpedoes".

It kicks of with the midtempo rock of "One Story Town" sung in Petty's familiar drawl. "You Got Lucky" was the albums hit and features a good dose of 80's synthesizer, it is a track people either hate or love, despite its relative success, I think people do not appreciate this song as much as they should. "Deliver Me" is romantic rock and roll and features an outstanding bridge and outro.

"Change Of Heart" starts of with some crunching guitars and is a spirited love song, incidentally released around Valentines Day as the albums 2nd single. It was a live staple of the time and recently dusted off as a suprise on the Last DJ Live at The Olympic show. "Finding Out" recalls earlier spirited rock and is a fast paced rocker with some great backup vocals from new bassist, Howie.

"We Stand A Chance" is perhaps my favourite songs off this album. With its crunching guitar and dark vibe It could have been on "Your Gonna Get It", Petty delivering a menacing vocal. Back to midtempo with "Straight Into Darkness" which is a popular track that is Bruce Springsteen even loved. "The Same Old You" may have attitude but misfires in my opinion, some of the singing sounds sloppy and it doesnt hold up.

"Between Two Worlds" is the albums other nadir, I just never got into this song. It is not terrible but the album could have done without it for sure. The closer sounds Ferry/Bowie inspired and is one of the most unique songs Tom sung. "A Wasted Life" will draw you in and will not let you go.

In the end we have an overlooked rock album, one of the best from 1982 that has at least 8 fantastic songs and 2 weaker tracks which seperates this work from say, "Damn The Torpedoes". For new Petty fans make this purchase as your 4th or 5th Petty album. You won't be dissapointed.

What's wrong with this album?.......2006-07-09

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.

Long After Dark.......2006-07-05

If you had been a Tom Petty fan for 30 years .Like I have . Then you should up date your cass. Buy this great cd from Amazon.com It will sure to get you ROCKING!!!! Thank in getting my order to me fastter then you said you would!! Thank you Amazon.com. Debbie

Long after dark is 80's Petty.......2005-12-22

Oh ya know when are we going except albums from the time period it was in.The Eighties was just that,keyboards,synthesizers,snare drums and commercialism.LONG AFTER DARK is simply a follow up to Damn The Torpedos with a more poppy zing.I grew up through that period this album released 1982.Tom took two years in between in making albums and not like today its get it out quick.The songs like Change of Heart and Deliver Me are great and You Got Lucky which MTV played it to death{cool video though} are just a reminder that this station boosted alot of stars.Although this is a forgotten album us 40 year ols out there remember this time period quite well.Right Guys and Girls you know who you are!!! The Eighties had alot of good stuff out there and bad too.There isn't too many classics left people whether they're too old or dead,Tom Petty doesn't have to make a name for himself he already did that on Damn the Torpedos in 79, thats 26 years ago.Just one last note I agree with one of the writers Wildflower was a boring album but to many its gold.I love Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen in fact thats all I play where Born in the USA is a great frizbie.The point is and Sly from the group Family stone sang it best Different strokes for different folks.

Straight Into Darkness.......2005-11-19

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.

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The beginning of the end
Great singles, but.......
The "Long" and the short of it -- another good album
This is probably the best Tom Petty made
Petty was never better

Long After Dark
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

A One Story Town
You Got Lucky
Deliver Me
Change Of Heart
Finding Out
We Stand A Chance
Straight Into Darkness
The Same Old You
Between Two Worlds
A Wasted Life

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The beginning of the end.......2003-11-14

"Long After Dark" is the sound of a band in transition and perhaps just past its youthful peak. Not far past it - if you like the band's early sound, already have "Damn The Torpedoes" and "Hard Promises", and perhaps the first two albums, you may want this one in your collection for variety if not for quality. It's a definite step down from earlier work. Not way down, and it's aged better than the first album to my ears. But this would not make my list of Tom Petty's 5 best CD's. I'd buy it only for the sake of completion - it's the last recording (except for bits of Echo) that featured the band's original sound. If you're primarily a fan of the "Full Moon Fever"-and-later Petty, this one may not be for you at all.

The sound here is occasionally a bit harder here than on earlier albums, and as such may have some appeal to those who (unlike me) are fans of "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)". Jangling guitars give way here and there to power chords. Sometimes, as in "Change of Heart", this makes for a great sound. But something is missing. The lyrics are lighter than on "Hard Promises", the level of emotion reduced. The band tries to sound tough, but the passion sounds artificial, the songs overly crafted with perfect hooks, and there are often catchy choruses with nothing very interesting between them. This was the first of their CD's I didn't think was consistently good all the way through.

Most of the songs sound like "Damn the Torpedoes" material to some extent. "One Story Town", "Deliver Me", "Finding Out", "Straight Into Darkness", and "The Same Old You" could have fit into that album musically, though the lyrics are less inspired. "Change of Heart" is probably the best song here, but even good lyrics don't sound as heartfelt as on "Damn The Torpedoes" or "Hard Promises". "You Got Lucky" is the synthesizer-laced song (there's only the one - not sure why some reviewers here go on about synthesizers) that just doesn't fit in. It ruins the flow of the CD for me and I didn't like the 80's pop sound, but it was a hit and odds are that you like it and won't find it as annoying as I do. That new guitar style comes out a bit on "We Stand A Chance" and "Between Two Worlds", and the album closes nicely with "A Wasted Life", a lovely gentle song with a catchy chorus and maybe even some earnest feeling.

I see "Long After Dark" as the first sign of a really great band starting to slip toward mediocrity. Some consider the following two albums, "Southern Accents" and "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)" to be a brilliant concept album and a return to a great hard rock sound, respectively. For those of us who consider "Southern Accents" a largely-failed effort with a few great moments, and "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)" a dismal and misguided attempt to recapture the band's youth, "Long After Dark" is the first sign of the band's gradual decline before a a delightful comeback and a new grown-up sound on "Full Moon Fever".

Great singles, but..............2002-06-23

the wrong ones!!!! Straight Into Darkness and Deliver Me could have been huge as well!!! However, nothing bad, all good tunes all around, and a truly enjoyable experience. Mike Campbell's guitar rings out all over the place and new bassist Howie Epstein contributes some fine work in tandem with the always superb Stan Lynch. Petty gives more views of a less than perfect world, where pain and hurt cry out for attention, and wounded hearts are slow to heal. Maybe that appealed to me in my teenage years, but nah, it STILL sounds great years later. I'd love to see Tom make records like this again......

The "Long" and the short of it -- another good album.......2000-05-17

This was Petty's third solid album in a row after "Damn the Torpedoes" and "Long After Dark." It was a disappointment only in that it wasn't the breakthrough to the rock's top echelon that fans were hoping for. "You Got Lucky" and "Change of Heart" are the most well known (and best) songs from the record. But like all Petty albums from this period, there are no truly bad songs. He delivers here what he delivers best -- consistency.

This is probably the best Tom Petty made.......2000-05-16

While Damn the Torpedoes might have been Petty's breakthru, this was definitely his most hard driving and riveting Cd. One story Town & You Got Lucky might make you think this is going to be a slower Cd, but it takes off after this and barely lets up with rockers like Deliver Me,Change of Heart, Finding Out, and one of my favorite classic rock 80's tunes Same Old You. It's a departure from the typical Petty sound, and who can't like lyrics like "I remeber you back in 72, with your david Bowie hair and your platform shoes, your part time job selling fast food, but out on the street you were nobody's fool?" So cool!This was sadly one of his last great rock Cds before he went a little more adult oriented w/Southern Accents and Into the Great Wide Open, nevermind those agonizingly slow solo projects!Let's remember him by this CD!

Petty was never better.......2000-01-21

Hardcore TP fans know that he was embroiled in a contract dispute at the time he made this album -- the dollars involved were laughable compared to what's being made today -- and of all the Petty albums I own (which is all of them) this one gets the most speaker time. The album starts slowly ("One Story Town" educates the uninitiated to Tom's personal history, while "You Got Lucky" is the obvious radio hit), but then TP goes deep. The guitar riffs on "Deliver Me" and "Change of Heart" (punctuated with Tom's trademark "A-W-W-W-O-A-H") are pure audio adrenaline, and the song cycle on side 2 is Tom seeing his marriage and career fall apart...and having only the music to hang onto. So, after the the last valentine of "We Stand a Chance," he whips out the 12-string electric and beats on it for 3 straight glorious songs. "Straight Into Darkness" might be the most complex song Tom's ever done, and the Heartbreakers have never sounded better. "The Same Old You" is the bitter bridge that leads to Tom's most honest vocal, the crushing "Between Two Worlds." In my mind, this was Petty's most difficult album to make -- and he separates himself from the pretenders by ending it on a weirdly upbeat note (the almost lullaby-ish "Wasted Life"). This album was Petty at a pivotal moment in his life -- there may not be blood on the tracks, but there are more than a few beads of sweat and tears.

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Delicado

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"early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith".......2005-02-15

Living Era presents "Delicado", fifty original mono recordings from 1944 to 1955 featuring Maestro Percy Faith who was churning out some of the best releases with top notch arrangements...each song had an upbeat and faraway tone to it...beautiful ballads from composers Harold Arlen, Waldir Azevedo, Irving Berlin, Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Zez Confrey, Peter De Rose, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Rafael Hernandez, Johnny Green, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz ...beautifully recorded representing Faith's limitless talent at crafting musical arrangements to fit an evolving music scene.

Now for the real treat...songs composed by Percy Faith with his unmistakable arranging "NOCHE CARIBE " (Caribbean Night), recorded in New York 1947..."DA DU", with Ray Charles Singers recorded 3/04/1952..."FIDDLE DERBY", recorded in New York 1951..."FLIGHT 33 1/3", after Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble-Bee, recorded New York 5/11/1950..."NERVOUS GAVOTTE", with Lou Stein on piano recorded New York 5/22/1951..."PERPETUAL NOTION", recorded New York 6/02/1949...Percy's arrangements comes from the heart and weaving a magic spell over the listener...compilation goodies on two compact discs for all the Faith Fans!

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