Happy 60th Birthday, Pat Benatar

[philouze]

Neil Geraldo (or whatever his name is, I'm plastered) rules.

[sadaist]

Can anyone reach Pat and make her see this thread???
Because there is Real Love & Respect here, and I'm sure she would be pleased. Pleased to know that she still makes 30-40+ yo dudes hard for her...
Pat, get over he'a..

She is just so classy. Never had to slut it up like Lita Ford, get all dark & scary like Joan Jett, or be a sell out like so many others. Just great rock music and a fabulous voice.....BAM! And she is the one left standing after 25 years. Much respect for her & all of her music.

[Kristy]

She's old and had a mouth full of teeth. She's the lost chipmunk - songs like one, too. Bland, corporate rock - the female Huey Lewis.

[philouze]

Yeah but she never got to play with Thin Lizzy, ba-bay.
Too bad, it would've been cool.. Phil & Pat... God I miss Mr Lynott...

[Terry]

I really liked Pat Benetar.

Liked the production, songwriting, vocals and instrumentation...she stood out and STILL stands out in a way that most of the girls who followed in her wake just don't.

I mean, I will say Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had great voices, but their songs were just too much top-40 fluff for my tastes.

Like, how one goes from Pat Benetar to Taylor Swift and calls that progress...I mean, fuck me, you know?

Not everything of the late 1970s/early 1980s was worth being nostalgic over, but what Pat Benetar brought to the table certainly was.

[Pat B Lover]

S0 SEXY - you can say that 100 times .

[Jack68]

I really liked Pat Benetar.

Liked the production, songwriting, vocals and instrumentation...she stood out and STILL stands out in a way that most of the girls who followed in her wake just don't.

I mean, I will say Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston had great voices, but their songs were just too much top-40 fluff for my tastes.

Like, how one goes from Pat Benetar to Taylor Swift and calls that progress...I mean, fuck me, you know?

Not everything of the late 1970s/early 1980s was worth being nostalgic over, but what Pat Benetar brought to the table certainly was.

Had a really great band and the songs on the first few albums were real good. Too bad the video of for shadows of the night kinda torpedoed the song .

[Kristy]

She's 60 now?

And here I thought many of you were relics.

[Satan]

So.... does that make her a GILF?

[Terry]

Had a really great band and the songs on the first few albums were real good. Too bad the video of for shadows of the night kinda torpedoed the song .

Yeah, that Shadows of the Night single was a pretty clear demarcation point for me. After that and Love Is A Battlefield, I sorta lost interest. Right around 1983 or so the synths and keyboards got more and more upfront in the sound, along with drum machines starting to creep in. The music began to sound overproduced. Still, what a great rock voice she had.