Damn The Torpedoes
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Damn The Torpedoes by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1979
Release date: 1979-10-19
Overall rank: 763rd   
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 522 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1979 (12th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (170th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (763rd)

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers bestography

Damn The Torpedoes is ranked 2nd best out of 32 albums by Tom Petty on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tom Petty is Full Moon Fever which is ranked number 529 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,294.

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Damn The Torpedoes

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Damn The Torpedoes track list

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Damn The Torpedoes rankings

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Overall rank: 763rd | 1970s rank: 170th | 1979 rank: 12th

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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 522 votes)
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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 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.

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85/100
From 09/06/2022 17:20 | #289409
Great record
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75/100
From 06/17/2022 18:34 | #286469
Good pop rock album, some tracks are great and some are just ok, but there's not a bad one.
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From 04/25/2021 20:37 | #268974
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
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80/100
From 04/12/2021 19:57 | #268484
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!
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70/100
From 01/04/2021 20:03 | #263834
Highly enjoyable, very catchy without a single track being below par.
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80/100
From 12/13/2020 03:55 | #262623
An album more boosted by the quality of the best songs than penalized for the mediocre ones.
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80/100
From 07/14/2020 18:56 | #255580
Great Album! Rating (81.67)
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From 07/03/2020 20:35 | #254994
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.
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80/100
From 07/09/2019 20:02 | #239224
Another great album from TP
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From 06/29/2019 03:11 | #238603
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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