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Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night/Crimes of Passion Audio CD

A fair review of the Pat Benatar "In the Heat of the Night/Crimes of Passion" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Pat Benatar reviews here, or go back to the Pat Benatar tabs.

Pat Benatar Band: Pat Benatar
Title: In the Heat of the Night/Crimes of Passion
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Release Date: 1998-09-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Heartbreaker 2: I Need a Lover 3: If You Think You Know How to Love Me 4: In the Heat of the Night 5: My Clone Sleeps Alone 6: We Live for Love 7: Rated X 8: Don't Let It Show 9: No You Don't 10: So Sincere 11: Treat Me Right 12: You Better Run 13: Never Wanna Leave You 14: Hit Me With Your Best Shot 15: Hell Is for Children 16: Little Paradise 17: I'm Gonna Follow You 18: Wuthering Heights 19: Prisoner of Love 20: Out of Touch

Remastered sound on this series is not as good as on other remastered issues
Both Pat Benatar's debut, In the Heat of the Night, and her sophmore effort, Crimes of Passion are excellent albums. This is an excellent buy as far as content. Crimes is the best record she ever made and Heat isn't far behind. The only problem that I have with this release is that the remastering claimed by the manufacturer is only marginallly good compared with other remasters of Pat's work and with remastered products in general. If you don't care about the sound quality as much, then this is very highly recommended as you get 2 very good 80s rock albums for the price of one. As far as Benatar goes, these are the best ones along with her third release, Precious Time and 1993's Gravity's Rainbow. If you like quality remastered sound, then spend the extra money and get the single album remasters instead. The 3 stars are only for the remastering, with the content getting 4 and 1/2 stars.


Great music, dreadful remastering on this release

But do NOT purchase this CD. In the Heat of the Night is Benatar's best record, IMHO.
The "remastering" job done on this release borders on the criminal, in that it doesn't sound appreciably better than the first CD releases.
I understand they released another remastered version of these records in 2006. If you're buying these records for the first time, buy the later remasters.
As for me, luckily I had the original vinyl versions, which sound 5x better than this mud when I digitized them myself with an $8 adapter from Radio Shack. Still, I wish I had legal recourse for wasting $20 on this CD.


EXCELLENT!!!
If you're looking at this CD. . . . you are already very familiar with Pats legacy and impact on female rock. . . . so no need to review each track.

What you are getting is her 3rd and 4th albums. . . . gloriously remastered like you never heard her before. . . . the sound is strong and clean. . . . the highs just sparkle. . . alot of effort went into the remastering of these tracks. . . . the liner notes are fantastic. . . all the lyrics included.

You wont be disappointed. . guaranteed!!!!.


Pat Benatar ruled! Other girls (singers) drooled!
Two of the very best Heavy Rock albums of the 80's in one place. This is really a great combination CD. I bought these albums separately before, but this one is a real cost-effective way to get truly Pat Benatar's best albums.
Listening to the songs on these albums. I was impressed again with Benatar's powerful voice. She punches right through on each song, and she can be just as effective on the Heavy stuff like "Heartbreaker" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", as she can be on the more softer stuff like "In The Heat Of The Night" and "Wuthering Heights" (a real under-rated performance, much better than the Kate Bush version - and SHE WROTE IT!).
Throughout both albums, though, it is clear that Pat's secret weapon is guitarist Neil Geraldo. Man, this cat rocked! I really liked his solos on "Heartbreaker" and "Out Of Touch". I'm glad he had the self-awareness and respect for Pat Benatar to unselfishly contribute to each song without going on the ego-trip of - say - a G. E. Smith (Hall And Oates) or that guy from Van Halen! A real rocker, and so cool!
I had only one comment about this CD, though. With both albums packed so tightly on one CD, my player had difficulty loading individual songs, but it worked out after a few tries.
These may be Pat Benatar's best albums, but check out "Precious Time" and "Get Nervous". They continue her winning combinations.
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two of her best albums on one CD, with full length versions
This CD instead offers all the full length album versions of her first two albums, which are probably her best because they lean more towards a melodic new wave, almost Blondie-esque sound. I'm so glad that this CD did not make the error the Tropico/Seven the Hard Way CD made, which is to edit about 3 of the songs from those albums to squeeze the radio edit of Love is A Battlefield onto the CD. My only disappointment is that I was hoping that In the Heat of the Night would--by a fluke--have the impossible to get on CD mix of We Live For Love that was available on some of the initial pressings of the original album. It was a much more new wave sounding version that removed much of the guitar and had a more pulsing bassline. I've sampled every Pat Benatar CD I come across to see if any compilations features that version, and have yet to find one. I would love to have both versions of the song on CD so I could get rid of my old vinyl album. But, having said that, this is still a 5 star CD.


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