Pat Benatar ~ Love Is A Battlefield 1983 Extended Meow Mix

The first song I ever heard from Pat Benatar was "We Live For Love" from her debut LP, the rocking classic "In The Heat Of The Night" from 1979. New Wave was really pumping out the hits and "We Live For Love" fit the bill. The song was remixed with an added guitar riff after the first pressing and readied for single release.

I played the hell out of that album, and my brother and his motor-head rock fans loved it too, it really surprised me! It was a rocking affair with "Heartbreaker" and an assortment of songs that she put her distinctive stamp on.

In 1983 she recorded a live album and included two studio singles, "Lipstick Lies" and "Love Is A Battlefield". "Love" was written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman for Benatar and was originally conceived as a ballad. Neil Giraldo was not feeling the song and began experimenting with drum machines. Once he decided that uptempo was the way to go, the rest of the recording went easily.

Issued as a single on September 24, 1983 it went on to become her most popular single ever, on par with 1984's "We Belong". The song topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks for four weeks and peaked at #5 on the Hot100. It also topped charts around the world. It signaled a new sound for Pat as it featured an electronic dance production courtesy of Neil Giraldo that broke her to a newer audience. She also took home her fourth consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1984.

The video was also innovative in that it was the first video in the MTV age to include dialogue. It followed Benatar's storytelling of a woman who left home after a serious argument with her father. She becomes a dancer in a club where she rounds up the other women who are being harassed by the club owner and turns the tables on him, freeing them and they all dance off and we see Benatar on a bus headed out of town. It was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video, but she lost to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".

"Love Is A Battlefield" was covered by Carrie Underwood, Luke Evans, Jann Arden, Cee Lo Green & Vicci Martinez, and also perfomed on Glee by Chris Colfer and Darren Criss.

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