Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ ‘Long After Dark’ Gets Deluxe Reissue With Unreleased Songs

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark will get the deluxe treatment this fall with a new reissue that pairs the original 1982 album with an additional disc of unreleased music from the era.

Long After Dark Deluxe Edition, out October 18 via Geffen/UMe, boasts a dozen “newly discovered” tracks, including seven unreleased tracks, some of which were recorded for the album but left off the LP.

“There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album,” Petty once said of the cuts. “I left off…four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door.”

The unearthed tracks include Petty’s version of “Never Be You,” later a hit for Rosanne Cash, “Don’t Make Me Walk the Line,” “One on One,” and “Ways to Be Wicked,” a Petty/Mike Campbell co-write that ultimately landed on Lone Justice’s 1985 album. 

Other tracks on the bonus disc include songs Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded for French TV, including Long After Dark’s “Between Two Worlds” and “Straight Into Darkness.” The latter’s French TV version is now accompanied by remastered footage of the band performing at the Record Plant in 1982.

Long After Dark itself featured the Petty classics “You Got Lucky” and “Change of Heart.” The deluxe edition is now available to preorder in a variety of formats, including a Petty store exclusive 2LP pressing on 180-gram red with black splatter color vinyl, housed in a numbered foil tip-on jacket and a lithograph. The deluxe edition also comes with liner notes courtesy of David Fricke, Cameron Crowe, and the album’s producer, Jimmy Iovine.

Long After Dark Deluxe Edition Track List

DISC 1
1. A One Story Town
2. You Got Lucky
3. Deliver Me
4. Change Of Heart
5. Finding Out
6. We Stand A Chance
7. Straight Into Darkness
8. The Same Old You
9. Between Two Worlds
10. A Wasted Life

DISC 2
1. Stories We Could Tell (French TV)
2. Never Be You *
3. Turning Point (Original Drums Version)
4. Don’t Make Me Walk The Line *
5. I’m Finding Out (French TV) *
6. Heartbreakers Beach Party (Extended Version)
7. Keeping Me Alive (French TV)
8. Straight Into Darkness (French TV)
9. Ways To Be Wicked (Denver Sessions) *
10. Between Two Worlds (French TV) *
11. One On One *
12. Wild Thing *

* previously unreleased