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The original review in Rolling Stone raved that it was the "album we've all been waiting for – that is, if we were all Tom Petty fans, which we would be if there were any justice in the world." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said, "This is a breakthrough for Petty because for the first time the Heartbreakers. Ĭritical reception generally reflected the commercial success of the album. Thanks to the new co-producer Jimmy Iovine, Damn the Torpedoes proved to be a major leap forward in production. It yielded two songs that made the top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Don't Do Me Like That" (#10) and "Refugee" (#15).

Tom Petty's response to Westwood One about being anchored at #2 was "I love Pink Floyd but I hated them that year". It was their first top 10 album, rising to #2 for seven weeks and kept from #1 by Pink Floyd's The Wall on the Billboard albums chart. The album was a breakthrough for Petty and the Heartbreakers.

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The title is a reference to a famous quote by Admiral David Farragut: " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!". The album, co-produced by Jimmy Iovine, was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys and Cherokee Studios in Hollywood. The matter was settled with Petty signing a new recording contract with Backstreet Records, an MCA subsidiary label. MCA responded by suing Petty for breach of contract which prompted him to declare bankruptcy as a tactic to void his contract with MCA. Petty contended that his contract could not be assigned to another record company without his permission and was therefore voided. Petty's recording contract was assigned to MCA when his distributor ABC Records was sold to MCA in 1979. In 2003, the album was ranked number 313 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 231 in a 2020 revised list. The album went on to become certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It built on the commercial success and critical acclaim of his two previous albums and reached #2 on the Billboard album chart. This was the first of three Petty albums originally released by the Backstreet Records label, distributed by MCA Records. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 by Pink Floyd’s colossal, multi-million-selling double LP The Wall.Damn the Torpedoes is the third studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on October 19, 1979. The critics quickly championed the band’s cause, with Rolling Stone’s influential five-star review even declaring the record to be the Tom Petty album “we’ve all been waiting for.” Supported by an extensive US tour with The Fabulous Poodles during the winter of ’79, Damn The Torpedoes eventually went triple-platinum in North America and was only denied the prestigious No. The entire album was, however, strewn with potential hits, and Petty’s versatile charges proved they were always on the money, whether they were tackling chiming, 60s-style pop (“Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)”) swaggering bar-room rockers (“What Are You Doin’ In My Life?”) and even the redemptive, Dylan-esque ballad “Louisiana Rain.”

hits for The Heartbreakers, with the infectious, soul-tinged “Don’t Do Me Like That” and the tough, gutsy rocker “Refugee” both penetrating the Top 20 of the US Billboard Hot 100. Protracted legal wrangling ensued, but Petty eventually negotiated a deal that allowed him to retain his publishing rights and form his own Backstreet label while MCA agreed to manufacture and distribute his band’s future recordings.Ĭonsistent and unerringly melodic, Damn The Torpedoes yielded two major U.S. Business-related difficulties, however, threatened to derail their progress when Shelter and its distributor, ABC Records, were both sold to MCA in 1979. Listen to Damn The Torpedoes on Apple Music and Spotify.Īt home, however, success remained elusive, and The Heartbreakers only scored a major commercial breakthrough when their sophomore LP, You’re Gonna Get It!, from 1978, earned them a well-deserved gold disc. Also featuring talented ex-Mudcrutch duo Mike Campbell (lead guitar) and Benmont Tench (keyboards), in addition to new recruits bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch, The Heartbreakers gigged hard and quickly chalked up international acclaim when “Anything That’s Rock’n’Roll,” the second single from their eponymous 1976 debut, entered the UK Top 40, setting them on the path to success with their 1979 album, Damn The Torpedoes.

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Issues with personnel and their label, however, caused a series of reshuffles and, by early ’76, Petty was fronting a new quintet, The Heartbreakers. Promising Florida-born singer-songwriter Tom Petty initially pitched up in LA with his first band, Mudcrutch, who recorded a lone 45, “Depot Street,” for Leon Russell and Denny Cordell’s Shelter imprint in 1975.