- rock, pop rock, heartland rock, classic rock
- 37 min
- 9 tracks
- MCA Records
Damn the Torpedoes is the third studio album by the American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on October 19, 1979. It was the first of three Tom Petty albums originally released by the Backstreet Records label, distributed by MCA 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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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB+
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- The Essential Rock Discography8/10
- MusicHound Rock5/5 ★
- Music Story5/5 ★
- Pitchfork9.2/10
- Rolling Stone5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Refugee3:23
- 2Here Comes My Girl4:29
- 3Even the Losers4:01
- 4Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)4:27
- 5Century City3:46
- 6Don’t Do Me Like That2:46
- 7You Tell Me4:36
- 8What Are You Doin’ in My Life?3:27
- 9Louisiana Rain5:56
9 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- MCA Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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