Damn The Torpedoes  by Tom Petty

The third studio album by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers brought them one step below the top of the Billboard chart. What stopped them was Pink Floyd's The Wall, and yes, the battle was uneven (!) However, 1979's Damn The Torpedoes was one of the albums of its year that was heard and loved greatly by the rock community – particularly – in the U.S.

The two producers, Tom Petty and primarily Jimmy Iovine, gave the nine compositions of the album the heartland rock atmosphere, which was extremely popular in the United States in the late '70s and early the following decade. Songs like Here Goes My Baby and Refugee have written their own chapter in the career of Tom Petty, as well as in American rock music. All the songs are compositions by Tom Petty, while the two aforementioned songs also bear the signature of Mike Campbell.

The album has been occasionally praised by critics and music magazines, but the greatest confirmation of the beauty and value of Damn The Torpedoes is the 3,000,000 copies it has sold in the U.S. and another 200,000 in Canada. In simple math, this meant that Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' sales sextupled in their homeland compared to their previous album.