Yeah, I know it's not on the list, even the updated one, but what the hey? This is my journal, so I'm just gonna review this.
Title: Damn the torpedoes
Artiste: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Year: 1979
Chronological position: Third album
Previous experience of this artiste?: "Into the great wide open", "Full moon fever", "Southern accents", "Highway companion". Oh, and the Travelling Wilburys. Yeah.
Why is this considered a classic? Again I'm really not sure, but I think it may have had something to do with his stand against MCA and the input of producer Jimmy Iovine.
My thoughts
One minute (or thereabouts in) ---- Good, great, bad, meh, still waiting or other? Great
One track in --- Great
Halfway through --- Great
Finished --- Great, again only because I have no higher choice. But Great x 100 to the power of infinity. At least. Maybe double that. Or triple.
Comments: My earliest memories of Tom Petty, before I even heard his music, was of one of my boss's raving about this very album, and later I saw the videos for
You got lucky and a live video that really stayed with me, with Petty wrapped in the Southern flag playing
Refugees. I bought "Southern accents" and was really upset when it wasn't on it (what? No, I didn't look at the track listing! "Southern accents"? It
had to be on it! Well dagnab it!) It's the track that kicks this album off and it sounds as good to me now as it did thirty-odd years ago. As The Batlord would say, a bitchin' track! The next one is nearly as good, and I'm getting a good feeling about this album.
Yeah, this just keeps getting better. Surprisingly, though the guitar work is great as I would expect from Petty and Campbell, I find myself being more drawn to the exceptional organ work of that man, Benmont Tench. Just superb. Ah hell, stop talking Trollheart! This is flawless. I love this so much it's getting a full review on the Playlist some time soon. I'm in love. Not in a gay way, you understand. Just platonically and musically. This guy is a god. Eric who?
Favourite track(s): Refugee, Here comes my girl, Even the... Ah, hell! Just everything! I love this album!
Least favourite track(s): We don' need no steenking least fah-vor-eet trax!
Final impression --- This is
fucking amazing!
Do I feel, at the end, A) I wish I had listened to this sooner
B) I'm sorry I bothered
C) I might end up liking this
D) Have to wait and see
E) Bit underwhelmed; was ok but a classic?
F) Definitely enjoyed it, but again would I consider it a classic?
A. A! Oh God, A!