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Pat
Benatar
Go
label: Bel Chiasso
released: 08.12.03
our score: 4.0 out of 5.0
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As
she has not had a top 40 hit since 1988, Pat Benatar - who was
once the most ballyhooed fiery and independent female artist of
the early 80's - has seen her career luge and was very low key
during the 90's (mostly confined to opening slots on area rock
tours, such as the Styx reunion in '97). She now (sadly) seems
more of a footnote in rock history than the genuine rocker she
truly is.
Her
career also suffered lots when she let her guitarist-husband Neil
Giraldo start producing her albums. As Giraldo, who is a great
songwriter, was not very experienced in production and not the
best choice to be turning the knobs and calling the shots. Benatar
would have been better off if she had kept Keith Olsen on the
payroll, as he produced her 1980 tour-de-force- Crimes Of
Passion. Giraldo must have gotten a hold of Olsen's notes,
as he produces her new release Go, which turns out to
be Benatar's best product since Crimes. She can rage
like she was still the waif-like leather clad vixen of her hey-day
on prevailing tunes as the title track "Go," "Girl,"
"I Won't" and even pulls off a first-rate ballad with
"Please Don't Leave Me."
While
nothing on Go matches such Benatar classics as "Hell
Is For Children" or "Love Is a Battlefield," Go
is not the sign of a mid-age rocker trying to recapture a moment,
but a case study of maturing in sound, yet still having chutzpah
to spare.
Just
to remind you how great she is: Her 1980 cover of The Rascals'
"You Better Run" actually had more heart and ire and
bested their original version. And outdoing one of the kings of
60's blue-eyed-soul is something that most could never do…but
Benatar did and still can.
12-Aug-2002
9:04 AM
If you
liked Go...
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| Tracklist:
1. Go
2. Brave
3. I Won't
4. Have It All
5. Sorry
6. Please Don't Leave Me
7. Girl
8. Out Of The Ruins
9. In My Dreams
10. Tell Me
11. Brokenhearted
12. Bonus Track
13. Bonus Track
14. Bonus Track
15. Bonus Track
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