Tom Petty Fans Gets A Long After Dark Delux Edition Treatment
Tom Petty Fans prepare for the ‘Long After Dark’ Deluxe Edition, out October 18 on Geffen. This will also include seven extra lost songs from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers…
Tom Petty at Pine Knob on 6-21-1985 (photo courtesy of Ken Settle)
(photo courtesy of Ken Settle)Tom Petty Fans prepare for the ‘Long After Dark’ Deluxe Edition, out October 18 on Geffen. This will also include seven extra lost songs from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers that didn't make the album.
Long After Dark
Coming off a musical high on the back-to-back Top Five, platinum hits Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises, Tom Petty returned to the studio to record the Heartbreakers' fifth album, Long After Dark.
A reissue of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1982 album, Long After Dark, is set for release on October 18. The remastered LP has 12 bonus tracks, including seven not yet released. Also, a pleasant surprise from the Petty Legacy archives will share a series of unearthed songs and videos from 1982-83 in the coming weeks. Below, check out the first, a 1982 version of “Straight Into Darkness,”
Was There A Lot Of Material Left Over From The Recording Sessions?
The bonus tracks that Petty wanted on the original album were press release notes. “There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album,” Petty is quoted saying. “I left off… four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door.” Check out the tracklist below.
The new deluxe edition addresses that and features the songs lost in the debate over the album’s original direction. Highlights include Petty’s version of ‘Never Be You’ (a country hit for Rosanne Cash), ‘Don’t Make Me Walk the Line’ and an up-tempo version of ‘Ways To Be Wicked’ (previously covered by Lone Justice), recorded at Applewood Studios in Denver, Colorado. Some additional tracks are taken from French TV sessions, including ‘Turning Point’ and the Everly Brothers influenced ‘Keeping Me Alive’.
- CD 1 /LP 1
- 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
- CD 2 / LP 2
- Stories We Could Tell (French TV)
- Never Be You*
- Turning Point (Original Drums Version)
- Don’t Make Me Walk The Line*
- I’m Finding Out (French TV)*
- Heartbreakers Beach Party (Extended Version)
- Keeping Me Alive (French TV)
- Straight Into Darkness (French TV)
- To Be Wicked (Denver Sessions)*
- Between Two Worlds (French TV)*
- One On One*
- Wild Thing*
Is There Still Time To Pre-Order?
Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition)' - Out October 18 Pre-order/pre-save the newly remastered Deluxe Edition of 'Long After Dark,’ featuring 12 rediscovered tracks, 7 of which are previously unreleased.
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