Damn The Torpedoes (studio album) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
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Damn The Torpedoes is ranked as the best album by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 08/09/2025 11:05 | solunastra | | 80/100 |
75/100 | 08/03/2025 15:46 | Imaybeparanoid | | 71/100 |
90/100 | 07/29/2025 10:34 | mash | | 89/100 |
80/100 | 07/13/2025 17:15 | rfowler | | 85/100 |
60/100 | 07/11/2025 17:38 |  Dingerbell | | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Great record
Good pop rock album, some tracks are great and some are just ok, but there's not a bad one.
The energy and spirit of this album never gets old. Damn the Torpedos is Petty's crowning achievement. Nothing else comes close. It's the one you will always go back to.
A-Side: Don't Do Me Like That
B-Side: Refugee
This has to be the definitive Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers album: Punchy, raucous, and loaded with swinging hits, it's a fun listen on both sides.
For those prefer the softer, familiar sounds of Tom Petty, check out 'Into The Great Wide Open' - but only after this Torpedo party is over!
Highly enjoyable, very catchy without a single track being below par.
planetneutral 12/13/2020 03:55
An album more boosted by the quality of the best songs than penalized for the mediocre ones.
llibnanoon 07/14/2020 18:56
Great Album! Rating (81.67)
teague 07/03/2020 20:35
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at their peak. It's obvious these guys were more concerned with writing great songs rather than a great album, but they did both.
Another great album from TP
TerryTezza 06/29/2019 03:11
A truely great rock album that I played on high rotation when I discovered it in 1985 and still a great listen today. From Refugee to Even The Losers, Don't Do Me Like That and all the rest.
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