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Old 05-10-2000, 04:57 PM
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Probably my dumbest post ever!

Remember that video for "Love is a Battlefield" in which Pat gets thrown out of the house at the tender age of thirty-two (it's never really explained why, one suspects it was a haircut issue), grabs a Greyhound from her home in Appleton Wisconsin to the bright lights of post-industrial Chicago, becomes a dime-a-dance girl, then unifies her fellow Mad Max dressed call-girl friends against their oppressor -- the evil Saturday Night Fever gold-tooth Guido/pimp guy -- in a rebellious boob shakin' dance number?

Remember? They must have played it once an hour when I was a kid.

To this very day, whenever I hear "Love is a Battlefield" on the radio when they reach a certain point in the song, I still in my head involuntarily hear somebody shout "Leave me alone!" just like it was in the video.

Is it just me?
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Old 05-10-2000, 05:41 PM
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! Pat Benatar in the early MTV years.
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Old 05-10-2000, 05:47 PM
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Pat Benatar's real name is Patricia Andrezejewski. Just so you know.

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Old 05-10-2000, 06:01 PM
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What a dumb question.

Hehe, no it's not. When I had access to all kinds of mixing equipment in my last job, I made a mix of that sond containing excerpts from the video. The video version is longer and has an instrumental part. I still listen to it once in a while, and yes, I hear "leave me alone!"

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Old 05-10-2000, 06:49 PM
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Laughing my ass off..

God, I thought my husband and I were the only ones.

Not dumb dumb dumb.

Funny funny funny.
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Old 05-10-2000, 08:35 PM
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Reminds me of years ago when I was living in this Christian household and I came in the front door singing Pat Benatar's "Hell is for Children" while a prayer meeting was going on.
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Old 05-10-2000, 09:16 PM
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Inky, that desciption was priceless

I have that too sometimes, although not with Pat Benatar. But Michael Jackson songs always seem to bring up the mental sounds from the videos.
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Old 05-11-2000, 04:50 AM
Wendell Wagner Wendell Wagner is offline
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Shadenwawa writes:

> Pat Benatar's real name is Patricia Andrezejewski. Just
> so you know.

Well, sort of. She was born Patricia Andrzejewski (note the spelling), but she didn't change her name because she thought Benatar was a cool name for a rock star. She acquired that name at 18 when she married her first husband, Dennis Benatar.
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