Track Listing

1. Diamond Field
2. We Belong
3. Painted Desert
4. Temporary Heroes
5. Love In The Ice Age
6. Ooh Ooh Song
7. Outlaw Blues
8. Suburban King
9. Crazy World Like This
10. Takin' It Back
11. Sex As A Weapon
12. Le Bel Age
13. Walking In The Underground
14. Big Life
15. Red Vision
16. Seven Rooms Of Gloom
17. Run Between The Raindrops
18. Invincible
19. Art Of Letting Go
20. Love Is A Battlefield

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45159 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Good value sentimentality.
It's great to be reaquainted with bands and artists from one's formative years; and this double album (on 1 disc) is no exception.

Tropico is probably my favourite Benatar album, with great tracks like: We Belong, Painted Desert, Temporary Heroes, Love in the Ice Age and Suburban King (my absolute favourite). I guess I could've listed the lot.

Seven the Hard Way is a great album too, with a bonus track: the classic Love Is A Battlefield.

Good value double album.

exciting"tropical"heat
If the price was only for the "tropico"cd still it would be a "best buy".If you just heard the single "we belong" you're missing "painted desert","crazy world like this","love in the ice age" e.t.c.wonderfull songs-most probably the best ever-more mature sound,attractive arrangements and production.Consider the "seven the hard way" as a bonus with some realy nice tracks and you have a cd with a tempting sample of 80's pop/rock at its best.

Two of Pat Benatar's best albums together; gotta love it
The one constant on Pat Benatar's albums has always been the glorious voice. On "Tropico" what stands out as well is the music, which offers a rich and yet diverse collection of songs to compliment Benatar's singing. Neil Geraldo and the rest of the band are certainly hitting their stride at this point. Clearly this album gets away from basic rock & roll and into more sophisticated musical stylings from the almost classical guitary opening of "Temporary Heroes" to the synthesized rhythms of "Temporary Heroes." This is an album that can put the frenetic energy of the "Ooh Ooh Song" next to the moody blues of "The Outlaw Blues." We all know that Benatar's voice can overpower most music, but it is nice to enjoy not only those moments but those where the music gets out of the way, as on the album's big hit song "We Belong." Ultimately Benatar exhibits as much range in her singing as we find on the album in terms of the music. "Tropico" is one of the most polished Benatar albums.

"Seven the Hard Way" continues what was begun on "Tropico," although "Invincible (theme from 'The Legend of Billie Jean')" is not only the big hit from the album but one of the few songs not written by Gerlado and Gromacher. If "Le Bel Age" seems to be a bit different from the rest of the songs it is because that is one of the other tunes not written by the duo. Again there is the emphasis on showcasing Benatar's vocal talent, not only in rockers like "Sex As A Weapon" but in the moodier pieces like "Walking in the Underground" that better serve to define this period in the group's career. These two albums both evince the group's growth from its first rather basic rock-n-roll albums.