Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) [2 LP]

Awesome Deluxe Edition of a classic Tom Petty Album. This album ranks right up there with Damn The Torpedos. This album really launched TP & The Heartbreakers into stardom. A must have for any Tom Petty fan.

I finally have all the long after dark relesses....came on time beautifully packaged and worth the money...

I'm a lifelong Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fan. Over the decades, I realized that they're my favorite band of all time. This deluxe edition of Long After Dark only further proves my point. The nine songs that are not already included on the original album are terrific! Should Long After Dark have been originally released as a double album? I'm not sure. I know Wildflowers should've been, though. Add the other songs that are on the LAD bonus disc, and it gets even better! Buy this gem!

A solid follow up to “Hard Promises”, “Long After Dark” embraced New Wave textures on “You Got a lucky” and a couple of other tracks here as well. Unlike the debacle with the recent Pete Townsend boxed set of concerts, they got this right but one has to wonder with some of their recent mistakes if this was the Petty estate that made sure these were right.Collecting both the original album, some rare and some unreleased outtakes on disc two, this set features a nice mastering job. It is available on streaming if one already has the original album and doesn’t want to purchase it, for audiophiles the set includes a Blu-ray with 5.1 and Atmos mixes of all the tracks from the CDs.Hot on heels of both a massive tour and the success of “Hard Oromises” (his best album to date), Petty and the band retuned to the studio with a set of new material they had tried on the road (well, some of them they had). While the band is a bit fatigued sounding compared to what they did before, that fatigue actually adds to the atmosphere for the album IMHO. Even fatigued, this was one of the crack bands on the planet. New bassist Howe Epstein appears on most of the tracks (RIP Howie) and original bassist Ron Blair returns for a pair of cameos as well completing the transition from the original band to the new one (Blair would return full time after Epstein was let go. Blair left for personal reasons).I’m not a fan of digit packs but this one is fairly decently packaged as it folds out with four panels with each disc, a booklet and an essay on the inside cardboard folds.the cardboard IS a little thin as Imwould have wanted a bit thicker stock on this set. I would suggest, if one plans on playing this a lot to repurpose some plastic holders for the discs and rescan the artwork, print it and put it in each one holder (if a three disc holder isn’t available to purchase ).Kudos to the aoetty estate for not inflated the price of this set like many artists are doing and adding an unnecessary coffee table set. They are doing right by music lovers with this set.A terrific set for a criminally underrated Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers albums, the label Geffen (the multinational conglomerate Universal Music) gets this set right; it’s a good value and they are not, unlike The Beatles overpriced sets, withholding Atmos mixes or a Blu-ray for further exploitation of fans. The only issue is that the cardboard sleeve could be on thicker stock but, if fans are going to play this a lot rather than just rip it and listen to files, they could repurpose it to a hard case.Now that we have this, let’s see the first four reissued along with “Southern Accents” and “Pack Up The Plantation” in a similar fashion as the “Hard Promises” Atmos mix is already streaming.Highly recommended,

Fans already know what a great album Long After Dark is. The remastering brings new life to the original tracks and the bonus disc of material is fantastic. The audio blu ray is revolutionary.On the manufacturing end: There is an odd issue when loading the CDs on my PC. Disc 1's track listing and data all comes up in Japanese on my PC (?). Very strange. Disc 2 appears totally in English. I would assume both discs of the set are pressed at the same plant so not sure what is happening in this instance. Others noticing this on their purchase?

Great packaging,extensive collection of songs associated with the original album

Although I already had a CD of this album, I was interested in the Blu Ray and the extra CD of outtakes and live performances. I was not disappointed. The sound quality of the Blu Ray is outstanding and it has surround sound options. The bonus CD has previously unreleased recordings. Well worth the money.

For some reason, Tom Petty wasn’t on my radar growing up even though he was definitely in my generation. It wasn’t until the early 90s that I started really listening and appreciating his stuff so even though I’ve had this particular CD for a while it’s nice to have it remastered with some bonus things on there too…