At one time or another, I have owned all of her cds, live cds, box set, hi collections, and several bootlegs. Pat as a smooth voice that can sing a lullaby, a soulful voice that sing the blues, and a powerful voice that belt out a rock song with the best.
In The Heat Of The Night (B) Her debut cd is not one of my favorites from her, most of the songs seem average rock songs, with only a couple songs that stand out, Heart breaker and You Think You Know How To Love Me. No I did not miss We Live For Love, I really don't like the chorus of this song.
Crimes Of Passion (A), One of my favorite cds by her. A lot of stand out tracks, Hell Is For Children, Treat Me Right, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, You Better Run. Rest of the cd is above average songs, with nothing below average.
Precious Time (C+) An average sounding cd, only a couple songs stand out, Fire And Ice, and Promises In The Dark. Big disappointment after the last cd.
Get Nervous (A-) Great cd, with a good mixture of songs, from hard rock, Anxiety, to pop, Little Too Late, plus other gems like Shadows Of The Night, Fight It Out, I Want Out, and Tell It To Her. Rest of the cd is pretty good too.
Live From Earth (C-) Too short of a cd. Pat has a lot of good material and hardly nothing is here. Check out the Live DVD, has a lot more songs (Below) Of the two new songs Lipstick Lies is ok, and Love Is A Battlefield is awesome. Hell Is For Children is bad on this cd, the punch has been taken from it, as with a lot of the songs.
Tropico (B+) I use to hate this cd when it first came out, but each time I listen to it, it keeps getting better. Painted Desert has some awesome guitar work and vocal on it. We Belong is one of my top 3 Benatar songs. Other stand outs are Diamond field, Temporary Heroes, Suburban King, and Takin It Back. Stinker is Ooh Ooh Song, and Love In The Ice Age isn't that great either.
Seven The Hard Way (A) This is my favorite cd by Pat, the whole cd rocks, with a modern (for then) edge. Invincible is another of my top 3 songs by Pat. Not a bad song on the cd, but Seven Rooms Of Gloom is the weakest song on the cd. Red Vision is a very underrated song. Run Between The Raindrops showcases Pats soulful side of her voice. Sex As A Weapon just can't be beat for the rock factor in it, great mixture of guitar and keyboards.
Wide Awake In Dreamland (B) This cd is more laid back than her other cds up to this point. All Fired Up rounds out my top 3 of favorite songs by Pat. Lift em On Up, One Love, Don't Walk Away round off the good songs on this cd. The rest is just filler.
True Love (C-) True Love is an awesome song, but as a whole cd, it is pretty sad. Pat's voice is smooth as silk, but fo the most part I am not a blues fan, and a whole cd of blues song is just to much for me. So Long is the other good song on the cd.
Gravity's Rainbow (B-) The is a hit or miss cd, with some strong songs, Everybody Lay Down, Some body's Baby. Crazy, and Every time I Fall Back. Good mixture of rock and slower songs, but for the most part, most of the songs are boring.
Inamorata (B+) A great acoustic rockin cd. Pat's voice covers it all. She belts it out, and croons with the best. The songs are very heartfelt. The first 3 songs are the best, Only You, River Of Love, & I Don't Want To Be Your Friend. Rest of the songs follow closely behind these three, and keep the mood going. Last two songs are the least liked by me, but still "ok".
The King Biscuit Flower Hour (B+) is a lot better than Live from Earth (above) and really any other official live cds she has. Recorded during the Precious Time tour, so no later day material is on this cd.
Live Summer Vacation Tour Soundtrack (B) is a good later live cd. Recorded in 2001, you get more of her hits. Neil does an awesome job reworking Love Is A Battlefield and We Belong is up there too. Most songs come off good, but the new songs (live) are the weak spots on the cd.
Live At The Electric LadyLand (B) A good cd, recorded in 2002. Again nothing really stands out, and the only weak point is Hit Me With Your Best Shot.
GO (D+) Pat tries to return to her first 4 cds, and fails. The whole cd wants to rock, want to be heard, and wants to be hip, but it is not. Not one song stands out on this cd.
As far as live cds go Pat as many more than I have, most were recorded during her first 3 cds. I believe they all have about the same track listings too. I know of only 2 cds with latter day concerts, and I have them both. If you get a boot of the 86 7 Rooms Tour, or Crossroads show, pick them they are very good.
As Far as Hit cds go, Pat has had a few of them too.
Best Shots 89 (A-), All Fired Up, The Very Best Of Pat Benatar 2cd 1994 (A), Synchronistic Wanderings 3cd 1999 (A) . Theses are my top picks of her hits. And the 1999 Wanderings has several demo, and unreleased songs.
There are also some good bootleg cds out there get these if you get a chance
Live in Portland 1986. Has some good later day songs on it and an awesome version of Red Vision.
Crossroads is from the tv show. Some great sounding music, slips my mind of who she is teamed up with, but the whole cd is great.
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