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Track Listings
| 1. Promises In The Dark |
| 2. Fire And Ice |
| 3. Just Like Me |
| 4. Precious Time |
| 5. It's A Tuff Life |
| 6. Take It Any Way You Want It |
| 7. Evil Genius |
| 8. Hard To Believe |
| 9. Helter Skelter |
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Format:Audio CD
I know this is a seriously old album now which I bought years ago and pulled out of my collection to play again today for the first time in ages, but looking down the track list I rediscovered how good this album is. Pat's voice was in great rock form here and I still think that Neil Geraldo was one of the most underrated guitarists of his generation because his playing on this album is second to none!
Every song is really well crafted, well arranged and well produced (although it might be interested to hear a digitally remastered version one day) from the opening chords of Promises (which was the song that turned me on to her when I first heard it on a free flexidisc from Sounds - for those of you that are old enough to remember that music paper now) to the closing reworking of the Beatles Helter Skelter.
If you want a great album from PB, get this one! In fact, get the double cd pack with Get Nervous also available through Amazon as both albums are well worth the price of admission!
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I really bought this CD for one track ...."Fire and Ice" but was pleasantly impressed by all the others especially "Evil Genius".
Pat Benatar has such an amazing vocal range and from such a tiny body....incredible.
A must for the CD collection.
Pat Benatar has such an amazing vocal range and from such a tiny body....incredible.
A must for the CD collection.
Format:Audio CD
Pat Benatar's third album in three years definitely showed signs of the strain of her contractual obligations. While a couple of tracks are absolutely outstanding, it is mostly a poor cousin to her first two. The song-writing is often shakey and the lyrics, particularly, too often tend toward being naff.
Generally, it continues the stylistic approach of its predecessor, `Crimes of Passion', including having Keith Olsen at the production desk again. Though, he is joined this time by her very talented guitarist, co-writer and partner, Neil Geraldo. The triumvirate of Benatar, Geraldo and drummer Myron Grombacher again power the record, but despite its soaring high points, there is something limp about it in total.
This album screeches out of the gates with the savagery of its opener, `Promises in the Dark'. Benatar's vocals have possibly never been as screamingly hard rock as they are on this superb song. With its melodramatically threatening lyrics and searing guitar, it sets up the raw conviction with which she delivers all of the songs on this flawed record. It is followed by the slower paced, but equally dramatic and impressive `Fire and Ice'. The harshly handled cover of the 1967 Paul Revere and the Raiders hit, `Just Like Me', continues the pace and attack before things drop off with corporate songwriter, Bill Steinberg's mundane `Precious Time' - though Benatar's vocal performance rescues it from mediocrity. The first side/half finishes on another high with Neil Geraldo's bitchy hard rock reggae fusion, `It's A Tuff Life'. Unfortunately, other than a suitably aggressive closing cover of The Beatles' `Helter Skelter', the rest of the songs feel rushed and underwritten, verging on being downright poor at times (`Evil Genius', `Hard to Believe').
The cover art tended to indicate a disconnect between her music and her visual image as well - aggressive hard rock and slightly conservative high fashion? It was just a bit too off track to qualify as surprising. The 2006 remaster is strong and clear.
Generally, it continues the stylistic approach of its predecessor, `Crimes of Passion', including having Keith Olsen at the production desk again. Though, he is joined this time by her very talented guitarist, co-writer and partner, Neil Geraldo. The triumvirate of Benatar, Geraldo and drummer Myron Grombacher again power the record, but despite its soaring high points, there is something limp about it in total.
This album screeches out of the gates with the savagery of its opener, `Promises in the Dark'. Benatar's vocals have possibly never been as screamingly hard rock as they are on this superb song. With its melodramatically threatening lyrics and searing guitar, it sets up the raw conviction with which she delivers all of the songs on this flawed record. It is followed by the slower paced, but equally dramatic and impressive `Fire and Ice'. The harshly handled cover of the 1967 Paul Revere and the Raiders hit, `Just Like Me', continues the pace and attack before things drop off with corporate songwriter, Bill Steinberg's mundane `Precious Time' - though Benatar's vocal performance rescues it from mediocrity. The first side/half finishes on another high with Neil Geraldo's bitchy hard rock reggae fusion, `It's A Tuff Life'. Unfortunately, other than a suitably aggressive closing cover of The Beatles' `Helter Skelter', the rest of the songs feel rushed and underwritten, verging on being downright poor at times (`Evil Genius', `Hard to Believe').
The cover art tended to indicate a disconnect between her music and her visual image as well - aggressive hard rock and slightly conservative high fashion? It was just a bit too off track to qualify as surprising. The 2006 remaster is strong and clear.
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