{"id":363,"date":"2007-04-04T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-04-04T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:49:49","slug":"tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-damn-the-torpedoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-damn-the-torpedoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers &#8212; Damn the Torpedoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pettytomdamntorpedoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-861\" title=\"Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers -- Damn the Torpedoes\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pettytomdamntorpedoes.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers -- Damn the Torpedoes\" width=\"500\" height=\"1250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Damn the Torpedoes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1979<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1979 &#8211; Fort Bragg Post Exchange<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about writing this review. I don&#8217;t know much about Tom Petty or the Heartbreakers. I can&#8217;t compare it to their other work because I only own one other LP by them and it&#8217;s a CD. However, Tracy insists I&#8217;m the one for this job because: 1) it&#8217;s my album,  2) it is the first album I ever bought, and  3) I play it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>It is my album, and when Tracy and I united our vinyl together in holy matrimony, there was no duplicate for <em>Damn the Torpedoes<\/em>. In fact it was our only Tom Petty record.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first album I bought. I had been living in Germany where ABBA ruled. They were all I heard except for my sister&#8217;s cassettes in the car. She is six years older than me, and she forced Ted Nugent, Kiss and Queen on my younger sister and me at high decibles.<\/p>\n<p>When we moved back to the USA my sister moved out to CA, leaving me in a musical void. The radio played disco (it was 1979) and the rock station (there was only one) played a lot of Jimmy Buffet.<\/p>\n<p>One day my friend and I walked to the base PX (post exchange) where she wanted to buy the latest record by The Babys. Maybe I felt pressure to buy a record too &#8211; or maybe I was desperate for something better than the radio, or the Firefall and Toto cassettes my sister left behind. I specifically remember picking up an REO Speedwagon album at the store, something with Tuna in the title, but I bought Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers&#8217; <em>Damn the Torpedoes<\/em> instead (Thank you, Jesus).<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I think I went with TPHB because of the album cover. It looked fresh. It didn&#8217;t look like anything my older sister had, and after years of being called a &#8220;copycat&#8221; by her, the last thing I wanted was more of her music. I mean, I was about to go into high school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5lzmJAFYrHU\">I had to be me<\/a> (Thank you, Marlo Thomas).<\/p>\n<p>I do play this record a lot. I&#8217;ve liked it since the first listen. To me, it has a lot of energy, and in 1979, it sounded new and we all needed something other than Supertramp and Pink Floyd (we still do). The Babys were new too, and I liked my friend&#8217;s purchase, but I was always glad the Tom Petty record came home with me. I began to wonder if I was a musical geinus to select such a record with out knowing anything about the band.<\/p>\n<p>There are nine songs on this record. I love eight of them. The ninth, &#8220;Louisiana Rain&#8221;, is a little too ballad-like for me, yet it is the chorus to &#8220;Louisiana Rain&#8221; that I am always singing when the album is over. Songs like &#8220;Refuge&#8221; still sound fresh, but my favorite song has to be &#8220;Even the Losers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Title: Damn the Torpedoes Year: 1979 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1979 &#8211; Fort Bragg Post Exchange Keeper: Yes I&#8217;m not sure about writing this review. I don&#8217;t know much about Tom Petty or the Heartbreakers. I can&#8217;t compare it to their other work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,479,453],"tags":[502,46,934,1016,1033],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-p","category-record-collection","tag-502","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-tom-petty","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}