Precious Time/Get Nervous [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Promises in the Dark

2. Fire and Ice

3. Just Like Me

4. Precious Time

5. It's a Tuff Life

6. Take It Any Way You Want It

7. Evil Genius

8. Hard to Believe

9. Helter Skelter

10. Shadows of the Night

11. Looking for a Stranger

12. Anxiety (Get Nervous)

13. Fight It Out

14. Victim

15. Little Too Late

16. I'll Do It

17. I Want Out

18. Tell It to Her

19. Silent Partner

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Her third & fourth albums, respectively, together on one CD,the double platinum #1 1981 smash 'Precious Time' & the platinum top five 1982 smash 'Get Nervous'. Each was first released on Chrysalis. A combined total of 19 tracks, including the hits 'Promises In The Dark', 'Fire And Ice', 'Shadows Of The Night', 'Precious Time' and her memorable cover of the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'. All tracks are remastered from the original master tapes. Also features theoriginal cover art of each, plus additional sleeve notes. 1998 BGO release.

Tracks:

Promises in the Dark
Fire and Ice
Just Like Me
Precious Time
It's a Tuff Life
Take It Any Way You Want It
Evil Genius
Hard to Believe
Helter Skelter
Shadows of the Night
Looking for a Stranger
Anxiety (Get Nervous)
Fight It Out
Victim
Little Too Late
I'll Do It
I Want Out
Tell It to Her
Silent Partner

Album Description

Her third & fourth albums, respectively, together on one CD,the double platinum #1 1981 smash 'Precious Time' & the platinum top five 1982 smash 'Get Nervous'. Each was first released on Chrysalis. A combined total of 19 tracks, including the hits 'Promises In The Dark', 'Fire And Ice', 'Shadows Of The Night', 'Precious Time' and her memorable cover of the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'. All tracks are remastered from the original master tapes. Also features theoriginal cover art of each, plus additional sleeve notes. 1998 BGO release.

Album Details

Remastered Two-Fer of her Early Eighties Releases.

Customer Reviews:

The second two Pat Benatar albums on a single CD is a good deal.......2005-12-07

It used to be that it was mostly albums from the 1960s that were short enough that putting two of them on a single DVD was easy (and cost effective). But apparently this applies to the early albums of Pat Benatar as well, and what you have here is the second such double feature, which offers her third and fourth albums. Those four albums make up the first stage of Benatar's career, and I think 1981's "Precious Time" is the best of the bunch even though the critics tend to prefer "Crimes of Passion." Then again, it was the only one of her albums to reach the top of the Billboard chart. My preference is based more on admiring how Neil Geraldo is clearly learning how to write for Benatar's voice, as you can tell from the opening track, "Promises in the Dark" (#38).

That is the single off of the album that did the best, with "Fire and Ice," "Just Like Me," and "Take It Anyway You Want It" also being released as singles. Listen to this album again and pay attention to how the more she has to do in a song the more Benatar delivers, especially when she has a chance to really bust loose and just let it rip. Note the difference between the relatively restrained title track or "Hard to Believe" and how she belts out "Helter Skelter" at the end of the album. I can make an argument that Benatar got that one back from Charlie long before Bono and U2.

In 1982 Benatar released "Get Nervous," ending the first chapter in her career (right before she really hit the big time). This might be the weakest of those first four albums but it is still pretty good. Note that Geraldo is co-writing half the songs on her album and is about to hit his own stride, even if the best single from this album, "Shadows of the Night," is written by somebody else. The other thing you will notice is that the production values have improved greatly from their debut effort. This is also one of the few albums where the hit single actually ends up being the best track as well. "Shadows of the Night" made it to #13 on the Billboard chart and won Benatar the Grammy for Best Female Rock Performance.

The other singles released from this one were "Little Too Late" (#20) and "Looking for a Stranger" (#39). But I point to "Anxiety (Get Nervous)" as proof that Geraldo was really learning how to write for Benatar's voice. For the rest of that decade Benatar would be one of the dominant female rock vocalists. Ironically, it was Benatar's insistence of singing songs with melodies rather than screaming that ultimately cost her part of her fan base but ended up producing what I think are her best songs. Regardless of where you rank this particular pair of early Pat Benatar albums having both of them on a single CD is a really good deal.

EXCELLENT!!!!.......2005-08-06

If you're looking at this CD.....you are already very familiar with Pats legacy and impact on female rock....so no need to review each track.

What you are getting is her 3rd and 4th albums....gloriously remastered like you never heard her before....the sound is strong and clean....the highs just sparkle...alot of effort went into the remastering of these tracks....the liner notes are fantastic...all the lyrics included.

You wont be disappointed..guaranteed!!!!

One of the best values on Amazon..........2005-03-09

OK. Get this...two remastered albums, with liner notes and lyrics, both on one disc?
This is a sweet deal, any way you look at it.
Now, if you are reading this, you must have some fondness for Benatar and this era of music. I know I do. Her first four albums took up a lot of time residing on my turntable.
Plus me being a guy, and her being...well...hot...I know most of these songs backwards and forwards.

I haven't heard these albums, all the way through, probably in twenty years. Yet I put this CD in my car, and played it from beginning to end.

I still remembered every lick, every riff, every unbelievably catchy chorus.

Of the two, I prefer "Precious Time". More songs work than not. You have anthemic 80's standards like "Promises In The Dark" and "Fire and Ice." You have covers that DON'T work (uh.."Helter Skelter"?) and one that really really DOES ("Just Like Me"). You have her trying, pseudo-successfully, a Police-like pop reggae tune ("it's a Tuff Life"). There are two outstanding examples of 80's pop rock..."Hard To Believe" and "Take It Any Way You Want It."

"Get Nervous" doesn't have nearly the number of giddy highs that "Precious Time" does, yet you still have a few epic tunes. "Shadows Of The Night" is a glorious, tacky anthem that virtually defines the era. "Looking For A Stranger" tries to inject a bit of perky new wave synth pop into her recipe.
My reason to love this album is the perfect "Little Too Late". It is tremendous, fist-thrusting, singalong power-pop; it doesn't get better than this.

The remastered sound is clean and crisp; it's a well balanced mix.

I cannot wait to pull this one out of the CD player, and pop in the first two albums on CD, available in a similar manner. If I could just quit hitting "repeat" after "Little Too Late"...

Enjoy your time-travel trip back to the early 1980's!

Senior year!.......2002-11-14

GET NERVOUS was my prefered record my senior year in high school. I particularly liked "Silent Partner", "Tell it to her" and "Anxiety".
The other album is equally as solid, with awesome songs like "Precious Time" and "Fire and Ice".
Both albums on one CD? Don't walk, run and buy this!

Some of my old favorites........2002-06-07

The song "Silent Partner" has so many little things that I like in it that I can't begin to put much of my appreciation into words. This combination CD has two albums that I originally bought 20 years ago, possibly as selections from a record club that kept telling me the titles of the big hits on each record. I was incredibly impressed by the titles of the hits on her first album. I kept buying albums because it was always better to have more than to miss anything. People who don't have these songs have missed a lot, but I don't see how anyone ever catches up with the truly fantastic discoveries of bygone years. These songs may never seem that good again, but this is still a great buy. I found this because I did a search for the song "Evil Genius" and I'm overjoyed that I am not the only person in the world who can identify Pat Benatar as the singer who recorded it. Of all the songs which sound like they are complaining about something, "Evil Genius" strikes me as the one which states the most valid complaint, and it was written early in the 1980s, when I was bound to wonder if anyone could be this smart. You might not realize how obvious this is unless you've heard it.

In the Heat of the Night (Original Release)

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In the Heat of the Night (Original Release)
Pat Benatar
Manufacturer: Chrysalis Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000NFK912

Product Description

This is the original 1984 release on the Chrysalis label. Tracks are: 1. Heartbreaker 2. I Need A Lover 3. If You Think You Know How To Love Me 4. In The Heat Of The Night 5. My Clone Sleeps Alone 6. We Live For Love 7. Rated X 8. Don't Let It Show 9. No You Don't 10. So Sincere

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Precious Time/Get Nervous

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A299FA
Release Date: 1998-02-20

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Precious Time/Get Nervous
Pat Benatar
Manufacturer: Bgo Records/Ka
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002B67XQ
Release Date: 2002-05-24

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Music Review

1. Promises in the Dark
2. Fire and Ice
3. Just Like Me
4. Precious Time
5. It's a Tuff Life
6. Take It Any Way You Want It
7. Evil Genius
8. Hard to Believe
9. Helter Skelter
10. Shadows of the Night
11. Looking for a Stranger
12. Anxiety (Get Nervous)
13. Fight It Out
14. Victim
15. Little Too Late
16. I'll Do It
17. I Want Out
18. Tell It to Her
19. Silent Partner