Album · 1982
Long After Dark
by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Long After Dark is a 1982 rock album by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. It runs 10 tracks across 37 minutes on Reprise Records.
Rock · Pop · Heartland Rock
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- 57 /100
- 8 critics
- 10
- Tracks
- 37 min
- Runtime
- 119 bpm
- Tempo
- D major
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8 publications
- Rolling Stone4/5
- Christgaus Record GuideC+
- Chicago Tribune2.5/4
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5
- AllMusic3/5
- The Essential Rock Discography5/10
- Blender1/5
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10 tracks · 37 min
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Long After Dark is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 1982 on Backstreet Records. Notable for the major MTV hit "You Got Lucky", the album was also the first to feature the late Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are evident throughout the album, most notably on "Change of Heart". From this point on Epstein's vocals became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound. In addition, it was the first Heartbreakers album to feature a real synthesizer on record. There was a song recorded for this album called "Keeping Me Alive", which Petty himself is very fond of but the producer, Jimmy Iovine, disliked. Petty has expressed that he feels the album would have turned out better if the song had been included on the album.
In brief
- When was Long After Dark released?
- Long After Dark was released in 1982 on Reprise Records.
- How many tracks are on Long After Dark?
- Long After Dark has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 37 minutes.
- What genre is Long After Dark?
- Long After Dark is catalogued under Rock, Pop, Heartland Rock.
- What BPM is Long After Dark?
- Long After Dark runs at a median tempo of 119 BPM across its tracks, most often in D major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Long After Dark?
- Listeners of Long After Dark also rate Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones.
Long After Dark at a glance
- Label
- Backstreet Records
- Produced by
- Jimmy Iovine
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