Tombstone Mountain Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Well, she made some great music with her hubby Neil....pretty edgy stuff in its day...whaddya think? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Is Nat King Cole reggae? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Is "Heartbreaker" metal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 She's as METAL as dingo crap on a lasagna, and THAT is metal! :smoke: :haz: :guitar: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) I forgot who it was but someone on some hard rock countdown on VH1 Classic was talking about how Heartbreaker was able to be such a huge hit on the charts in spite of it's heavy sound due to Pat Benatar's voice. I think it was Dee Snider who said it, IIRC. Metal or not, it rocks and Neil is such an underrated guitarist. Edited February 6, 2013 by invisible airwave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shail Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 She's rock / pop. On the heavier edge of rock. Metal not so much. Some influence and sounds might come across in the music tho. Great artist. Love her. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Her first 3 albums, "In the Heat of the Night", "Crimes of Passion", and "Precious Time" definitely have hard edge to them. Her fourth album "Get Nervous" added synthesizers (and someone to play them). After that, her music had less of an edge and more pop sounding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Her first 3 albums, "In the Heat of the Night", "Crimes of Passion", and "Precious Time" definitely have hard edge to them. Her fourth album "Get Nervous" added synthesizers (and someone to play them). After that, her music had less of an edge and more pop sounding. That will do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Her first three albums are incredible...when I listen to them I grow more and more impressed. They have a certain velocity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Bay Rush Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Is she mental? No, just kind of crazy... Oh, "metal." Sorry, my mistake... No, not metal. But, the more important issue is whether or not she has the nicest chick bum in rock... I say, "HELL YES!" Even now, at age, 50 something... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILSnwdog Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Metal? Hell no. I think she was a little more than your garden variety pop star though. I actually like some of her music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Metal? Hell no. I think she was a little more than your garden variety pop star though. I actually like some of her music.she could probably make you say her name...that's kinda metal right? She was really kicking some ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomesickAlien Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I've never thought of Pat Benatar as metal. Of course, I've also never thought of Rush as metal, so what do I know? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I was a big Pat Benatar fan before discovering Rush and I have her first four albums. Lyrically, Pat was good at being the jilted girl. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Classically trained vocally and her husband has laid down some incredible riffs. His early solos are melodic metal! Pat's first two albums are Metal! Then it all went downhill from there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. P. L. Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Yeah she is. I discovered her in the 80s with the "Invincible" song. That and Heart's "Never" were my favourite songs for many months. "Long Suits Metal"!!!! :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: Heart had better hair, though. :drool: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Is she mental? No, just kind of crazy... Oh, "metal." Sorry, my mistake... No, not metal. But, the more important issue is whether or not she has the nicest chick bum in rock... I say, "HELL YES!" Even now, at age, 50 something... I knew I wasn't the only one who misread the thread title..! :P 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Not Metal. But she got the hard rock edge from her husband. I remember reading an interview where he talked about the Eddie influence. He definitkey had some 70s hard rock / metal going through him. The solo at the end of Heartbreaker is great..starting st 2:40... http://youtu.be/vy-QmgdUVTI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Her autobiography is pretty good. She was signed to Chrysalis Records in the 80s and she HATED the people and claimed they were very chauvinistic. She purposely made herself look unsexy for the cover of "Get Nervous", but they made her compromise a bit by putting on more makeup for the final edition. I think a lot of her angry songs were about her feelings towards record company executives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akron162 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 i could call her many things, but not metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I suppose it depends. Some people think that only bands that sound like they're in a race to get to the end of the song, or bands that sing about the joys of killing your mother, or bands whose lead vocalist sounds like Cookie Monster are "metal." If that's the criteria, she isn't. If Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, 70s and early 80s Rush are metal, and I think they are, then Pat's early work is metal. Like a lot of bands and performers who played harder music in the early 80s, the quality of her stuff went down as the decade wore on, but her ealy stuff is pretty heavy. She tried her hand at blues in the early 90s. It's pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-XgVifUQ0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I got "Get Nervous" the same time I got "Signals". Get Nervous has "Shadows of the Night" on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 I suppose it depends. Some people think that only bands that sound like they're in a race to get to the end of the song, or bands that sing about the joys of killing your mother, or bands whose lead vocalist sounds like Cookie Monster are "metal." If that's the criteria, she isn't. If Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, 70s and early 80s Rush are metal, and I think they are, then Pat's early work is metal. Like a lot of bands and performers who played harder music in the early 80s, the quality of her stuff went down as the decade wore on, but her ealy stuff is pretty heavy. She tried her hand at blues in the early 90s. It's pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-XgVifUQ0I believe you are right my man!!! She was ferocious early on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 I suppose it depends. Some people think that only bands that sound like they're in a race to get to the end of the song, or bands that sing about the joys of killing your mother, or bands whose lead vocalist sounds like Cookie Monster are "metal." If that's the criteria, she isn't. If Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, 70s and early 80s Rush are metal, and I think they are, then Pat's early work is metal. Like a lot of bands and performers who played harder music in the early 80s, the quality of her stuff went down as the decade wore on, but her ealy stuff is pretty heavy. She tried her hand at blues in the early 90s. It's pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-XgVifUQ0 Pat and Neil are such a great songwriting team...complex arrangements, profound emotion, and musically curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Greatest female rock voice, but not metal. Definitely edgy. Not exactly "garden variety" as is put in this poll. Took what Ann Wilson of Heart did and added MORE balls. Edited February 7, 2013 by CygnusX-1Bk2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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