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Somebody’s Baby
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Crazy
Side One
We Live for Love
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So Sincere
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Heartbreaker
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My Clone Sleeps Alone
MTV
Pat Benatar Is A Prisoner Of Love To A Cool Zero Evil Genius
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Prisoner of Love
Side One
Side Two
Evil Genius
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Cool Zero
Ooh Ooh Sex As A Weapon
Side One
Sex as a Weapon
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Red Vision
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Ooh Ooh Song
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La Cancion Ooh Ooh
Mr. Richard’s Reviews: The Big Chill Soundtrack – Motown Various Artists
The Big Chill Soundtrack – Motown Various Artists
First off, I only like The Big Chill and The Goonies as far as Spielberg productions go. This movie is adorable, but the soundtrack is even better. It literally has been my favorite mix for as long as I can remember. I remember when my parents got a used BMW that had an “exotic” CD player in the dash. My mom went out and bought a dozen or so CD’s, the second weekend we had it to enjoy in the car. This album is the one that I have listened to, by far, the most. There’s nothing like a great tune to find a dead body to!
I suppose I chose this disc to review because of Mother’s Day and my own mom having a pretty good taste in music. It certainly was amazing when I was a child. Asides from ‘The Big Chill Soundtrack’, we used to listen to all kinds of radio because my mother hates ads. I remember watching MTV’s Morning Grind with her before heading off to the bus. These ten Motown hits are just the tip of the iceberg.
The Rascals are my all-time favorite Motown group, not soloist. So any mix that includes them in a good flow is alright in my mind. As Erica can attest, I get really into the energetic vibe of a compilation and can spend hours rearranging songs until it works for what I need. ‘The Big Chill’ gives me chills when the needle hits the grooves. It always puts me in a good mood or an even better one. However, “Good Lovin’” isn’t my favorite The Rascals single.
Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” is such a touching piece. If I’m really upset, it can bring me to tears. Of course, Marvin Gaye’s rendition of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” is my favorite version. His voice is beyond soulful and he delivers his lyrics with overwhelming sincerity. It’s so good. On the B-side, I love “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by The Temptations, whoever might have been in rotation for that recording. But really, Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is beautiful. Usually when I listen to this album I must play the B-side twice just to get Procol Harum again.
After I listen to “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, I need The Exciters for a cool down lap. There’s just too much energy in such a slow tempo that it’s almost creepy. I feel like I’m alone in a study when I play it. I can’t praise it enough. Play it through giant speakers during any civil unrest and maybe everyone might pause for four minutes to enjoy it as much as I do.
Overall, if you dig Motown or the movie itself and haven’t listened to the soundtrack, then it’s a must. I garauntee that a copy of ‘The Big Chill Soundtrack’ is cheap and readily available at your local used record store. If you collect vinyl, then you may have a lot of these hits on other pressings, but an excellent mix is essential for any good collection. I highly recommend it as I play it another dozen times myself.
– Mr. Richard
Check out the original post HERE!
It’s Too Little Too Late For Pat Benatar
“For every day since I was old enough to think, I’ve considered myself a feminist … It’s empowering to watch and to know that, perhaps in some way, I made the hard path [women] have to walk just a little bit easier.” Pat Benatar
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Little Too Late
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Fight It Out
We Are Young
I remember rocking out to this song in middle / early high school with an old friend. We had our own dance routine and would make her mom blast it in the car all the time. We had a lot of quirky inside jokes on top of this, but we loooooved 80s music!!
It’s sad how people grow apart, even with social media. I was quite an asshole to quite a lot of people in the day, this friend included but was ready to apologize and basically gravel to explain I was an ass but am pretty much a completely different person.
I didn’t really get that chance, you know, getting the good old block / unfriend despite no actual contact or messaging. You can’t force it on people, but I feel like some people also never expected me to succeed, her included perhaps and they get mad when I’m not what they expect. A little self centered, I know, but whatever. I’ll never really know since there was never a conversation.
Anyway, I’ll always love this song and really enjoy our friendship that we had even with the weird ending made easy by good ol’ Facebook. Friendships, especially among women for some reason can be a battlefield so it’s a bit of an ironic song to remember the friendship by.
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
We are strong, no one can tell us we’re wrong
Searchin’ our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield
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Love is a Battlefield
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Hell is for the Children (Live Version)
It’s Hard To Believe We’re Walking In The Underground
At 54, Ms. Benatar still looked fantastic. Of course, since the above photo is from 2007, she has aged a little but still looks phenomenal!
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Le Bel Age
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Walking in the Underground
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Fire and Ice
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Hard to Believe
Pat Benatar Is Invincible
“Invincible” is the grammy-nominated lead single for Pat Benatar’s seventh studio album Seven the Hard Way (1985), released in July 1985.
The song was written by Holly Knight (who also wrote “Love Is a Battlefield”), and was used as a theme song for the film The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). The song was a huge hit, peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Invincible (Theme from Legend of Billie Jean)
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Invincible (Theme from Legend of Billie Jean (Instrumental))
We Belong
On to the Pat Benatar singles! I’m really excited, since I love 80s and especially Ms. Benatar. We have three LPs that I’ve posted before, but I do actually want to revisit that post and add track listings. I didn’t do that for LPs before and I really want a uniform look. It’s kind of my goal to overhaul the blog this month!
For now, I’ll be focusing on the singles, this being the first of quite a lot. I included a brief bio on the LP post so use the tags if you want to check that out. I’ll definitely be digging in deeper as we get through the singles too.
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We Belong
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Suburban King
Patty Smyth’s Downtown Train
Patty Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. Patty first came into national attention in 1982 as the lead singer of the band Scandal. She went on to record and perform on her own. Her distinctive voice and new-wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on what were then newly emerging cable music video channels such as MTV.
Her debut album Never Enough was well received, and generated a pair of Top 40 hits. Smyth had a remarkable stage presence and drew large audiences through the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s she again reached the Top 10 with the hit single “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough”.
Patty performed and co-wrote with James Ingram the song “Look What Love Has Done” for the 1994 motion picture, Junior. The work earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
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Downtown Train
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Tough Love
My Dad's Albums 