- rock, heartland rock, rock & roll
- 40 min
- 10 tracks
- Geffen
Hard Promises is the fourth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released on May 5, 1981, on Backstreet Records.
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Character
Classical in form, spare, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune2.5/4 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- The Essential Rock Discography6/10
- MusicHound Rock5/5 ★
- Music Story4.5/5 ★
- Rolling Stone(favorable)
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The Waiting3:58
- 2A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)4:22
- 3Nightwatchman4:01
- 4Something Big4:44
- 5Kings Road3:24
- 6Letting You Go3:23
- 7A Thing About You3:31
- 8Insider4:23
- 9The Criminal Kind3:59
- 10You Can Still Change Your Mind4:17
10 tracks, 40 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Geffen
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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