Vinyl Record

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes album cover

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes on LP vinyl. A 1979 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 1979

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1979 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Damn The Torpedoes is Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers turning pressure into definition. Released in 1979, the third album arrived around Petty's battle with the record business and emerged sounding anything but tentative: tight, bright, stubborn and built from hooks that feel carved rather than decorated. Refugee opens like a warning flare, Here Comes My Girl turns spoken confidence into melodic release, Even The Losers gives defeat a grin and a chorus, and Don't Do Me Like That proves how naturally the band could make economy feel huge. Jimmy Iovine's production sharpens the guitars and drums without robbing the Heartbreakers of bar-band muscle, while Mike Campbell's playing gives Petty's songs both bite and lift. The album's triumph is not just hit-making. It is the sound of a band finding the exact balance between new-wave urgency, classic rock-and-roll craft and Petty's lifelong refusal to sound impressed by anyone's power but the song's.

It matters because Damn The Torpedoes is the breakthrough that made the Heartbreakers a major American rock band. It turned Petty's legal and business turmoil into a set of songs that sounded defiant, concise and built for permanent radio life.

For collectors, this is the central early Heartbreakers album: the point where the promise of American Girl and Breakdown becomes a fully realized band identity. Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, Even The Losers and Don't Do Me Like That make it indispensable.

Sharp American rock with ringing guitars, lean drums, organ color, power-pop hooks, new-wave-era urgency, Petty's nasal drawl and choruses that convert stubbornness into lift.

Recommended for: Collectors building an essential Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers shelf; Fans of Refugee, Here Comes My Girl and Even The Losers; Listeners who want late-1970s rock with hooks, grit and clean band power.

When was Damn The Torpedoes released? Damn The Torpedoes was released in 1979 as the third Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers studio album. What are the key songs on the album? Refugee, Don't Do Me Like That, Here Comes My Girl and Even The Losers are the album's defining songs. Why is Damn The Torpedoes considered a breakthrough? It delivered the band's first fully sustained hit album statement and established Petty as a major American rock songwriter.