Album Description: Out of print in the U.S.! Hot-selling compilation from the first lady of AOR/Rock 'N' Roll, originally released in 1989. Features 15 outstanding tracks including 'Love Is A Battlefield', 'Heartbreaker', 'We Live For Love', 'Shadows Of The Night', 'Hell Is For Children' and 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot'. EMI
Amazon.com: When Pat Benatar tore onto the scene in the late '70s, her stage presence and attitude were just as formidable as her talent. One of the new breed of women in rock, Benatar, a trained opera singer, assumed all of the rock poses from her male lead singer counterparts and delivered each song with a take-no-prisoners attitude. "Heartbreaker," her first single, was a big monster of locomotive hard rock. Its throaty, growling, and suggestive vocal style established Benatar as a contender in an arena championed by the likes of Robert Plant. Benatar also took cues from the hard rock catalog of tricks with "Hell Is for Children," building the song from a near-ballad into an all-out ballsy rocker. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" had her combining her edge with a knack for strong melodies. "Promises in the Dark" and "Fire and Ice" continued in the same vein with guitarist Neil Giraldo's furious fretwork holding up to Benatar's vocal pyrotechnics. Best Shots also chronicles the less stellar singles, with the annoying "Love Is a Battlefield," and "We Belong to the Night." Benatar's fire burned brightest in the beginning and it seems best to remember her that way. --Steve Gdula
Disc 1:
Love Is a Battlefield
Promises in the Dark
One Love
All Fired Up
We Live for Love
Hell Is for Children
Shadows of the Night
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
We Belong
Invincible
Fire and Ice
Heartbreaker
Suffer the Little Children/Hell Is for Children [Live]
A decent and well known Pat Benatar compilation Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R313NR8SS3TU0G My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!! Pat Benatar is one of one of my favorite singers/writers.
Actually... Crimson and Clover was Joan Jett. However, this album is in fact missing Treat Me Right and You Better Run.
Still, a very good showing for one of the best voices in rock.
like this CD this is a good CD. but it is missing something(s) treat me right and crimson and clover. Pat did a good job on both of these songs.
This "best of" compilation has only one positive. The only positive to this CD is that it includes the album tracks. "All Fired Up! The Best of Pat Benatar" and the remastered "Greatest Hits" both use the single versions of a handful of songs. This 15-song selection ommits a few good tracks, inlcuding "Treat Me Right", "Little Too Late", and "You Better Run". The sound quality is also below par.
Boy, Am I Glad I Got "Greatest Hits" Instead Of This In my opinion, Pat Benatar is the reigning first lady of hard rock (with Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart in second), and when you have had a career as prolific as hers, casual fans are left with a barrage of skimpy greatest hits and best of collections to choose from. In 1989, the 15 track "Best Shots" was released. 15 years later (and even after the release of the 10x superior "Greatest Hits"), this collection is still on the market. Should you buy "Best Shots"? Here are the positives and the negatives.
Positives: -Whether you get this or "Greatest Hits", you are getting some of the greatest hard rock ever recorded, including rock radio classics like "Heartbreaker", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Hell Is For Children", "Love Is A Battlefield" and "We Belong". -It includes an unreleased live version of "Hell Is For Children", done as a medley with "Suffer The Little Children" (a trakc originally found on 1988's "Wide Awake In Dreamland"). -This collection does include the unedited version of "Love Is A Battlefield". This is the only collection I know of that includes it.
Negatives: -This collection leaves out a ton of essential and well known Benatar classics, including "You Better Run", "Treat Me Right", "Precious Time", "Anxiety (Get Nervous)", "Little Too Late", "Looking For A Stranger", "Ooh Ooh Song", "Sex As A Weapon" and "La Bel Age (The Best Years)". The omissions of "Treat Me Right" and "Little Too Late" are especially puzzling, considering both were top 20 hits. -The sound isn't all that great. -We really did not need the live version of "Hell Is For Children". -"Painted Desert" and "Outlaw Blues" are good songs, but aren't among her best shots. -Worst of all, this cd doesn't even come close to filling the eight minute time limit a cd will allow. This cd only has a run time of 66 minutes and 34 seconds. That's almost 15 minutes worth of space. Plus, if you got rid of the the live track and "Painted Desert" and "Outlaw Blues" and replaced them with the tracks I mentioned, you'd have the definiitve Pat Benatar collection.
My advice is to skip this skimpy collection (the only reason I rated it three stars, is because I find it hard to rate anything by Benatar as a whole less than five stars). You should go out and pick up the recently released "Greatest Hits", which is superbly remastered and includes all 17 of her chart singles as well as three great album tracks. "Best Shots" just isn't needed anymore.
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