Well, it\u2019s 2025 and I’ve just now listened to my first Pat Benatar record. Not that I had any reason not to, it\u2019s just that nothing from her was ever sandwiched between my Ryan Adams and Calexico records until now.<\/p>\n
Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (along with her husband and musical partner Neil Giraldo) Benatar\u2019s first three classic albums just received the reissue treatment on vinyl. Let\u2019s start right at the beginning with 1979\u2019s In The Heat Of The Night<\/i>. <\/p>\n
The thumping and globally-known \u201cHeartbreaker\u201d starts the listen with Benatar\u2019s unmistakable, pretty yet fierce pipes that suit Glen Alexander Hamilton\u2019s thumping drums. The melodic and bright \u201cI Need A Lover\u201d follows with playful bass from Roger Capps, and the energy continues with the powerfully sung, rugged \u201cIf You Think You Know How To Love Me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rounding out the first half is the intimate \u201cMy Clone Sleeps Tonight,\u201d where Giraldo\u2019s pretty keys and the soft singing bursts into a scrappy rock tune, while Side B leads with \u201cWe Live For Love,, where razor sharp guitars and dreamy vocals take hints at the New Wave sounds that were in their infancy in the late \u201970s.<\/p>\n
Deeper into the 10 tracks, \u201cDon\u2019t Let It Show\u201d leads gentle but quickly escalates into soaring moments of soulful ideas, as Benatar hits some really high notes. \u201cSo Sincere\u201d is the last song, and, like many before it, starts calm before entering lively and charged areas that welcome Scott St. Clair Sheets\u2019 meticulous guitar. <\/p>\n
Benatar\u2019s debut charted high in several countries and set in motion a very prolific time that resulted in an album a year until 1985. Her anthemic moments sure did strike a chord with listeners around the globe, and the hard-rock-meets-pop formula on display here is still appreciated today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5968],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-47070","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-pat-benatar","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47070"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47070"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}