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Best Shots (CD & DVD Combo)

Pat Benatar - Best Shots (CD & DVD Combo) Audio CD

A fair review of the Pat Benatar "Best Shots (CD & DVD Combo)" 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.

Band: Pat Benatar
Title: Best Shots (CD & DVD Combo)
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Release Date: 2003-09-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Love Is a Battlefield 2: Promises in the Dark 3: One Love 4: All Fired Up 5: We Live For Love 6: Hell Is For Children 7: Shadows of the Night 8: Hit Me With Your Best Shot 9: We Belong 10: Invincible (from "The Legend of Billie Jean") 11: Fire and Ice 12: Heartbreaker 13: Suffer The Little Children/Hell Is For Children (Live) 14: Painted Desert 15: Outlaw Blues 16: You Better Run (DVD) 17: I'm Gonna Follow You (DVD) 18: Fire And Ice (DVD) 19: Promises in the Dark-Live (DVD) 20: Precious Time (DVD) 21: Shadows of the Night (DVD) 22: Anxiety (Get Nervous) (DVD) 23: Little Too Late (DVD) 24: Love Is A Battlefield (DVD) 25: Lipstick Lies (DVD) 26: We Belong (DVD) 27: Ooh Ooh Song (DVD) 28: Painted Desert (DVD) 29: Invincible (DVD) 30: Sex As A Weapon (DVD) 31: Le Bel Age (DVD) 32: All Fired Up (DVD) 33: One Love (DVD) 34: Don't Walk Away (DVD) 35: Let's Stay Together (DVD) 36: True Love (DVD) 37: So Long (DVD) 38: Somebody's Baby (DVD) 39: Strawberry Wine (DVD) 40: Christmas In America (DVD) 41: Heartbreaker-Live (DVD) 42: I Need A Lover-Live (DVD) 43: Heartbreaker-Live (DVD) 44: Hell Is For Children-Live (DVD)

Beats the hell out of YouTube videos!
This CD and DVD seem like a great value to me, and I could not be happier reliving my youth of watching Benatar videos on MTV (back when MTV played music). I bought this for the DVD video collection after getting sick of the miserable quality of Benatar videos on YouTube.

Great combo from the queen of '80s rock!
It includes all the biggest hits, including "We Belong," "Invincible," "We Live For Love" and "Heartbreaker. "Best Shots" is a very good "Best of" collection. " Sadly, the CD ignores some of her hits, like "Little Too Late," "Le Bel Age" and "Sex As A Weapon" in favor of non-hit songs like "Outlaw Blues. " Still, what's here is cream-of-the-crop stuff, so you can't go wrong with this CD (although two versions of "Hell Is For Children" is overkill).

The DVD is simply fabulous. It contaains loads of music videos that range from hysterically awful ("Precious Time") to devastatingly beautiful art ("Somebody's Baby" -- this one will bring tears to your eyes). While the videos are a treat, the optional commentary from Pat and Spider ROCKS! This musical duo doesn't hold back on making fun of themselves and badmouthing their suck-tastic record label. AWESOME! And for this price, you can't go wrong! .

A Nice Collection Of Classics + Brilliant DVD!
The 'Best Shots' is a nice introduction to Pat's music before 1989. Thumbs up to Capitol for putting this nice collection together. Although the liner notes don't mention the album being remastered, the audio sounds much better than on some previous releases, including certain selections from the
'Anthology' released in 1999. So I'm assuming it has been remastered again. But perhaps that's just my ears! It's nice having this 'Best Shots' disc for the brilliant live version of "Suffer The Little Children/Hell Is For Children. "

Now on to the DVD. Capitol did a good job putting this together. While the picture quality isn't the best from the earlier videos, this is to be expected since the material is rather old. So I have no complaints here. The DVD has been remastered in Dolby Digital 5. 1 and Dolby 2. 0 Stereo. I was blown away while watching the "We Belong" video with the audio on my 330-watt stereo system. The sound quality is amazing, much better than on the CD itself, which I found surprising. I never knew the song had so much bass. The audio has been very well restored here.

As for the videos, it's nice being able to see a lot of these older videos from the 1980's, along with the videos from the 1990's - most of which I've never seen before, considering I was born in 1981! Some of the earlier videos are extremely cheesy, which is expected of most early 80's videos. Pat and her husband, Neil, definitely make note of this, making the "video/audio commentary" option a plus! We get to hear their thoughts about each video! I found myself laughing several times.

Pat and Neil seem to be very proud of the "Somebody's Baby" video, and I can see why. It's a very underrated video and one of my favorites. The same goes for "Strawberry Wine (Life Is Sweet)" which they give praise to as well! It's nice to have these videos on DVD, since they got such little airplay at the time of release.

A nice bonus are the live cuts of "Hell Is For Children" and "Heartbreaker" from 2001!

Seeing this DVD makes me want to run out and buy Pat's entire catalog. I think I'll work on doing that!

Now it's time for Capitol to remaster and re-issue all her albums with bonus tracks! I've never heard the extended remixes of some of the earlier recordings like "We Belong" and "Invincible" - which are listed in the liner notes of the 'Anthology. ' Time for Capitol to reissue these!!!.

Cd & DVD of Pat's greatest hits.
It also made me mad at Capitol in that in 2002 Blondie released a new Greatest Hits cd and DVD and the dvd isn't as good as this collection. I recieved this cd as a Christmas gift and had the original cd when it was first put out in 1989 and since I have been a fan since 1980 when I first heard "Heartbreaker" and bought In The Heat Of The Night and everything up to her newest Go cd - I was very happy to see that there was a DVD attached to this collection. You get 25 classic videos with commentary both just audio and also visually with Neil & Pat making fun of themselves ,bandmembers,costumes and hairstyles for added fun. The videos are somewhat dated in look but not in sound or style. There is also 4 live tracks- "Heartbreaker" and "I Need A Lover" from 1980 that showcase a somewhat rawer and tougher looking Pat that really was a highlight for me. The 2 other videos are newer performances of "Hell Is For Children" and "Heartbreaker" from 2001. So if you are a new fan or an older one the cd if you don't have it is great but it is the DVD that really makes this collection special. Pat still rocks!.

The Best Of Both Worlds
I have been a Benatar fan for 20+ years and I love this set. This is an excellent collection for any fan. Originally I was going to skip the "Best Shots" CD, because I all ready purchased the "Synchronistic Wanderings [BOX SET]". But then I was looking for the DVD and I ran across this. The CD contains 15 of Pat's incredible songs, such as, "Hell Is For Children" (which is not on the original release of "Best Shots"), "One Love", "Painted Desert", "We Belong" and others. The DVD is the "Choice Cuts" DVD. With the 25 videos, 4 extra concert videos, and both the audio and video option commentary form Pat and Neil. This is a must have for fans who do not have the "Best Shot" album yet or for the new Benatar fans coming in off of her new album "Go" which also ROCKS!!!!! So for the price of this set you really are getting the best of both worlds.

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