Pat Benatar
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar, Giraldo, P.
One Love (Song of the Lion)
Let s Stay Together
Too Long a Soldier
Lift Em on Up (5 out of 5 stars) It is such a travesty that this album never garnered Pat greater acclaim and has been lost in virtual obscurity.
Song choice: flawless.
Putting the exclamation mark on Pat Benatar s career as a fe
Lawrance M. Bernabo
| 12/15/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) I know that Wide Awake in Dreamland is the best of the albums from the third part of Pat Benatar s career, but if I cannot make an argument for it being her best album ever I can still say that it is my favorite. Or, to be more specific, that what would have been the A side if this was a record is my favorite, because once I play the first five tracks I am just as likely to go back to the beginning or play the fifth track again than to proceed to the final five tracks. But then the fifth track on this album is one of her very best songs.
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