Showing posts with label Pat Benatar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pat Benatar. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2015

January 10, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...



Robinson Jeffers (1887 – 1962):
“Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.”




Philip Levine (1928 - ):
“Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.”




Stephen Ambrose (1936 – 2002):
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

and
“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”




Pat Benatar (1953 - ):
“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.”




Jemaine Clement (1974 - ):

“It doesn't matter what country someone's from, or what they look like, or the color of their skin. It doesn't matter what they smell like, or that they spell words slightly differently...some would say, more correctly.”



Monday, August 15, 2011

Great Songs from My Favorite Year in Music: 1985, Part 49

Pat Benatar - "Invincible (Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean)"



(Single Release: November 1985)
We will always associate Ray Parker, Jr. with Ghostbusters, Simple Minds with The Breakfast Club, and Huey Lewis with Back to the Future, but does anyone even remember The Legend of Billie Jean? Yeah, I didn't think so. The film tanked at the box office. It has apparently found a cult audience, but I have yet to meet that cult. But, every 80s movie had to have a powerful theme song, and for this tale of teenage rebellion, they got the great Pat Benatar. She was already a concretely established artist with over six albums and thirteen top 100 singles. While the movie may have bombed, the song did gangbusters, becoming her fourth biggest hit at the time, after "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," "Love is a Battlefield," and "We Belong." That's pretty damn good company. I'm not sure if I would place it fourth in my top ten list of Benatar tracks, as most of Crimes of Passion and Precious Time would make that list, but it is still a kick-ass song with a great chorus.