A few posts back I told you about how my cousin Flavia would give me an album for Christmas every year. Pat Benatar’s Crimes Of Passion was one of those albums. I feel like I had never heard of Pat Benatar prior to that Christmas. I suppose I could have gotten to Hit Me With Your Best Shot and thought to myself “Oh, this is Pat Benatar.”
Again, I played it relentlessly and grew to love all the tracks on it. Hell Is For Children would have to be my least favorite with I’m Gonna Follow You and Wuthering Heights on the other end of the spectrum.
I likedCrimes Of Passionso much that I set out to acquire more Pat Benatar music. Like I did with KISS, I was on a mission to get all of the albums she had released. This behavior would repeat itself numerous times throughout My Musical Evolution .It is basically the exact opposite of downloading a single song from iTunes. Not only do I want all of the songs on an album, if I really like the artist, I want all of the albums.
Fortunately for my wallet, there was only one other at that point In The Heat Of The Night. I picked that one up but we’ll talk about it later.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
You Better Run
Although I would not experience MTV firsthand until the summer of 1983, I’m told that this was the 2nd video that aired. There’s some triva for you.
I’m Gonna Follow You
Wuthering Heights
Never Wanna Leave You
It seems that my favorite Pat Benatar songs are her softer, gentler songs. Does that mean something?