Tom Petty was really churning out albums in the late 70s and early 80s. His next album came out just a year after Hard Promises.

1982’s Long After Dark is the fifth straight Petty album to tread the same ground — short, muscular songs in what had become the Heartbreakers’ signature sound (I’ll borrow AllMusic.com’s The Byrds-meet-The Stones description again).

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