Blogocentric Formulations

Shadows of the Night

DAY 16

"Shadows of the Night"
by Pat Benatar

I'm all for gender equity, so I might as well follow up an 80s rock ballad by Stan Bush with an 80s rock ballad from the incomparable Pat Benatar. She's better known for "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield" and "We Belong," but this one is up there for me right alongside "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" as one of her best. It wasn't from a particularly memorable album (it's from 1982's Get Nervous, her fourth album), and it got a little lost between the much more successful Crimes of Passion from 1980 ("Hit Me with Your Best Shot") and 1983's Live From Earth ("Love Is a Battlefield").

By the way, can we just for a minute recognize the incredible feat she accomplished with putting out seven albums in seven consecutive years between 1979 and 1985? That's an incredible amount of musical output, even by today's standards. This song has also been featured in The Goldbergs as well as the soundtracks for a variety of other movies, television, and video games. And like the Stan Bush track, this one is frequently on my workout playlist on account of the fact that it's just so energetic it helps me stay motivated while I'm working out.

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Written for "The Soundtrack of Your Life"