Track Listing

1. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
2. Love Is A Battlefield
3. We Belong
4. We Live For Love
5. Sex As A Weapon
6. Invincible
7. Shadows Of The Night
8. Heartbreaker
9. Fire And Ice
10. Treat Me Right
11. If You Think You Know How To Love Me
12. You Better Run

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7259 in Music
• Released on: 1990-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Pat Benatar tore onto the scene in the late 1970s, 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

CD Description
Along with Heart, Pat Benatar showed the largely male-dominated rock world that women could rock just as hard as men. Enjoying a string of hit albums, singles, and sold-out tours in the early '80s, Benatar's 1989 collection, BEST SHOTS, features nearly all of her songs that continue to pop up on classic rock radio to this day.
Included in her band was one of the 1980s' most underrated rock guitarists, her future husband Neil Geraldo, who proves to be the perfect musical foil to Pat's soaring voice. Featured are such big '80s rock radio hits as "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Fire and Ice", "Heartbreaker", and "Promises in the Dark".

Customer Reviews

Entertaining, if brief, overview
The success of this retrospective in the UK came as a big surprise. Always huge in the States, Benatar registered barely a blip over here except for the occasional hit single. There is a good reason for this difference in acceptance - AOR goes down that much smoother on the other side of the pond.

The jumbled sequencing of this collection does not allow the listener to really get a sense of Benatar's musical progression - from new wave to arena rock and to synthesised AOR. However, it does cream off some of the career highlights. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is a knock-down drag-out guitarfest; "Love Is A Battlefield" is a dance rock anthem, very much of its time; "We Belong" is a nice adult contemporary ballad; "Invincible" is a rebel-rousing soft rock call to arms. An interesting curiosity is "Sex As A Weapon" - a sexual politics themed 80s timewarp piece.

So is it any good? Well, there are some strong singles, an original choice of cover versions, some fairly corny stadium rock ballads ("Shadows Of The Night" is a particular offender) - and a great deal missing. A Benatar best-of without "Hell Is For Children" or even "Promises In The Dark" is selling the lady short.

It's a fairly good retrospective - even better, however, is the US version that appeared 2 years later: it's much more complete and has the advantage of including her late '80s rock hit "All Fired Up".

It's a do or die situation, and she's done it
Mmmmm Pat Benatar, hair gel, shoulder pads and high heels. Times were good. "Love is a Battlefield", "We Belong" and "Invincible". Great pop music and all very Top Gun. This sits nicely alongside my Berlin and Roxette CD's.

It's funny to think that some of her songs were released at the same time House Music was first breaking in Chicago!

Great
This is a great cd.It shows all her best tracks that will keep you singing.I really love this cd and the artist. Go and buy it.trust me it is good.