Poll--The Weakest Link: Pat Benatar BEST SHOTS, Round 5

"We Belong" was treated like a misfit, and "Hell Is For Children" used some adult language as it left the stage.

One at a time from here out.

Discussion question: What is the extent of your Pat Benatar collection?

T7 We Belong
T7 Hell Is For Children
T9 Invincible
T9 We Live For Love
T11 One Love
T11 All Fired Up
T13 Suffer The Little Children/ Hell Is For Children
T13 Painted Desert
T13 Outlaw Blues

 

Hell is for Children is the first I'll miss surprised that went so early as it was one of her bigger hits. Why the diskike?

Never bought anything by her

 

Voted "Love Is A Battlefield." Have all her albums up to this compliation.

 

Love Is A Battlefield.

DQ: I have Get Nervous on vinyl and Crimes of Passion on cassette.

 

Uncomfortable with the message in the lyrics? I don't get it either.

 

Voted for "Hit Me".

I own a random scattering of Pat's albums on CD (no plan to it; if I see them and they're inexpensive, I pick them up. So, for example, I don't currently have Tropico, an album I like, but I do have True Love and Gravity's Rainbow). I also have the excellent All Fired Up: Very Best Of 1994 comp, and the 2005 (LOUD!!!) Greatest Hits.

 

Sad for "We Belong". It's among my top three of Pat's all time.

"Love Is A Battlefield" and that stupid shoulder shake dance from the video need to go!

 

I've got all her regular albums except "Go", but it's on its way from Israel as I type this (was never released in Europe afaik). Bought them all on vinyl first, then imported the first edition CDs from the US in the mid '80s. Only collection I got is Synchronistic Wanderings. Also have a couple of live albums, one bootleg.

Voted "Shadows of the night" as it's a cookie cutter tune to me. Favorite tunes from Get nervous is I'll do it. Actually, I think Get nervous has some very strong second side tunes.

 

No dislike from me- I just prefer to hear it live and not the recorded version that appears on Crimes of Passion. Also, 'Hell Is For Children' was never released as a single, but it was the B-side to 'Love Is A Battlefield' in its live format in 1983. It was therefore never a "hit" but more of a fan favourite.

 

To me her hits were the tunes played in regular rotation on MTV

 

I voted for 'Hit Me...' as I have grown tired of it over the years.

I have been collecting Pat Benatar releases since I was a little kid. I have all official albums on original vinyl and CD with the exceptions being Gravity's Rainbow, Innamorata, and Go which I only have on CD. I also have all officially released 7" singles and 12" singles and a variety of CD singles from about 1988 onwards. I own the original 'Benatar Live' VHS which was given to me as a gift in 1984 and the DVD version which drops a song from the concert, the Choice Cuts DVD video collection, the Summer Vacation Live DVD from 2001 and the 35th anniversary tour DVD/CD from last year. Oh, I also have all official live releases on CD- I think there are four of them, all from early in her career and four or five picture discs on vinyl. I have also picked up the Best Shots compilation (both the UK and US versions), All Fired Up 2 disc compilation, 2005's Greatest Hits, Ultimate Collection from 2009, a French 2 disc one called The Very Best of..., a German single disc one called Heartbreaker- 16 classic performances and a single disc European one called The Very Best Of Volume 1. Oh, and the anthology from 1999: Synchronistic Wanderings.

I'm somewhat of a fan...

 

Did 'Hell Is For Children' get regular MTV play? I didn't even know there was a video for it.

 

I don't dislike it either, but the competition was too tough. I've already had three of my absolute favourite Pat songs voted out: "We Belong", "Invincible" and "We Live For Love".

 

Choreographed by "Thriller" choreographer Michael Peters, no less. You can tell too. It's very "Thriller"-esque, the problem being that Pat, alas, is rhythmically no Michael Jackson.

 

Maybe I'm wrong, it was a long tine ago. I heard it a lot somewhere never having her records and most of my exposure to her was from MTV.

 

Promises In The Dark.

I have In The Heat Of The Night, Crimes Of Passion, Get Nervous, Precious Time, Tropico and Seven The Hard Way on CD. I had LPs of Tropico, GN and COP at one time too.

 

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Shadows Of The Night

 

Personally I feel "Hell Is For Children" is her best song, regardless whether it was a hit or not. But if we want to get technical it was a huge radio hit and "Best Shots" is a best of, not necessarily a greatest hits collection so its inclusion here is justified, IMO. Just my .02

The only Benatar I own or need is "All Fired Up" so what do I know?

For this round I've got to aim for "Shadows of the Night". It's....ok...but the weakest here.

 

Voted against 'Love Is a Battlefield'

DQ - All I have is:

 

Promises. Good song but they're all good songs now.

DQ: this and a 2-CD compilation. Also picked up the live album on used vinyl a couple years back.

 

Worst Song? Best Shot.

Nothing.

 

Heartbreaker to go. I can't believe Hell is For Children is gone.

I own every album through Seven The Hard Way.

 

I chose "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," as radio overplays that song to the exclusion of almost everything else in her catalog.

I think I have most, if not all, of Pat's 1980s output, both LPs and 45s. Many of the hit mixes are superior to the album mixes - "We Live for Love," "We Belong" and even "Best Shot" are among them. I also have scattered material from the 1990s on 45s, and I have "Christmas in America" from 2001 on a compilation CD.

 

Always more of a jiggle dance to me, I like it.

 

Shadows Of The Night

Question: I have her book and didn't read it.