Tom Petty & The HeartbreakersBest Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
72
Opinions
22
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 72 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’s catalog across 22 albums from 72 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album is Damn the Torpedoes (1979) with a 8.3/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Into the Great Wide Open and The Live Anthology. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1976 to 2022. The Waiting ranks as the highest-rated Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers song on Rate.fm with a 8.4/10 average.
The Waiting
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers • 1981
American Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers • 1976
Don't Do Me Like That
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers • 1979
Damn the Torpedoes
“This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. When punk rock arrived as a combative answer to the bloating and fatigue of 1970s rock, an odd thing happened: Bands that were interested only in plugging in and channeling Chuck Berry were cast in with Britain’s […]”
Damn the Torpedoes
“Damn the Torpedos is the peak of Tom Petty’s songwriting with the Heartbreakers. Slick, big, and immutably classic, the album is a front-to-back feat of production and songwriting.”
The Live Anthology
“Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ only previous live album, 1986’s Pack Up the Plantation, was a stone bore: The note-for-note versions of "Refugee" and "American Girl" didn’t come close to capturing the excitement of a Petty show. The Live Anthology redresses that wrong with a panoramic picture of the Heartbreakers’ indestructible groove. Powerhouse versions of […]”