- rock, pop, heartland rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- BMG Direct
Long After Dark is the fifth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on November 2, 1982, on Backstreet Records. Notable for the MTV hit "You Got Lucky", the album was also the band's first to feature Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are prevalent throughout the album and from that point on, became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Blender1/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune2.5/4 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC+
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Essential Rock Discography5/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1A One Story Town3:03
- 2You Got Lucky3:32
- 3Deliver Me3:25
- 4Change of Heart3:17
- 5Finding Out3:33
- 6We Stand a Chance3:36
- 7Straight Into Darkness3:46
- 8The Same Old You3:30
- 9Between Two Worlds5:13
- 10A Wasted Life4:32
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- BMG Direct
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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