Just because Pat Benatar's longtime guitarist and husband Neil Giraldo gets top-level billing here doesn't mean anything has really changed. Giraldo has backed her since her...
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For her first studio album in half a dozen years, Benatar returned with a fairly characteristic and varied set of mainstream rock, longtime cohort Neil Giraldo in the...
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All Fired Up: The Very Best of Pat Benatar is an excellent two-disc compilation on one of rock & roll's first ladies. Her previous hit collection, Best Shots, was too brief...
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Contains some of the most passionate (warmth for the ages rather than heat of the night) music that Benatar's band has ever done, and yet it chugs like mad too. The addition...
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8-15-80, in many ways, is a minor treasure for dedicated Pat Benatar fans. The disc was captured live in San Francisco, just as she was launching the supporting tour for her...
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In 1999, BGO released Tropico/Seven the Hard Way, which contained two complete albums -- Tropico (1984, originally released on Chrysalis) and Seven the Hard Way (1985,...
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If you're serious about your Benatar, you'll probably aim for the two-CD All Fired Up anthology. This 16-track single-disc compilation has many of her biggest hits (with...
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The success of Pat Benatar's debut single, "Heartbreaker," made it evident that listeners longed to hear the Long Islander rock out more often. Instead of stressing new...
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In interviews, Pat Benatar made it clear that she had no desire to be stereotyped as a hard rocker -- often adding that she preferred new wave's melodic keyboards over hard...
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Gravity's Rainbow marked Pat Benatar's return to arena rock after the dismal failure of her blues album True Love. While it well-produced and carefully constructed, the...
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Several compilations have appeared in the years since it first hit the shelves, but Best Shots remains the finest Pat Benatar collection yet assembled, largely because it is...
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Pat Benatar's debut album takes the tough-but-tender sensibility of Chrissie Hynde and gives it the arena rock treatment, with a splash of new wave. Which isn't a bad thing;...
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One of Pat Benatar's most famed attributes is that she performs extremely well to an audience, and no album solidifies this more than Live From Earth, with tracks taken from...
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Pat Benatar's third album, Precious Time, was her only number one record, yet it wasn't as consistent as her previous two albums. While it follows the same polished arena...
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Seven the Hard Way continues the slick pop approach of Tropico and is benefitted by a wealth of songs written by professional songwriters. At this point, Pat Benatar and her...
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The Benatar band at the height of their MTV-fueled success, even as the hell of Reaganomics was hitting children and their parents; "Suburban King" is a jab at sport utility...
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On Tropico, Pat Benatar began refashioning her sound, moving toward a more middle-of-the-road sound as evidenced by the hit single "We Belong." The change in direction...
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The album no one ever dreamed Benatar would make, so she did: an entire blues session, with covers of standards by Kings B.B. and Albert among others, plus convincing...
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A radical departure from the type of slick pop/rock she'd been embracing on albums like Tropico and Wide Awake in Dreamland, True Love found Pat Benatar embracing blues and...
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Although it falls short of the excellence of Crimes of Passion, Precious Time, and Get Nervous, Wide Awake in Dreamland is a generally decent and respectable effort that has...
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