Pat Benatar has been a great help to me. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your life. You are a sweet and beautiful and so kind and so thoughtful. I owe you a drink and I hope that you will be able to enjoy it when it's done. I love you Pat Benatar forever. Your friend Iris.
My absolute favourite of all of Pat and Neil's songs. Beautiful, ethereal, strikingly tragic - showing all the deep, hard beauty of love. Tragedy with bliss. Ageless.
My favorite Pat Benatar song of all. So beautiful, so full of emotion and sung and played to perfection. Takes me to a sad dreamlike place "where no direction looks like home oh where is my oasis??"
Kenneth Newnum : I haven't heard that song since I was 13 years old. Now I'm 46. I kept thinking about it ,but couldn't remember it,until now! Love this song!
Kenneth Newnum It's my favorite, too. You described the reasons perfectly. It has a yearning to it that even sounds like the lonely Southwest. Perfectly played, sang and produced. The vocal solo slays me...
This isn't my favorite Pat Benatar song, this is my favorite song, period. Her voice is beyond words. The guitar, the feel, everything about it is perfect. "No direction looks like home, oh where is my oasis?"
Such a beautiful song, and such a terrific album! I have listened to "Tropico" 100s of times, easily, since I bought it in 1984. Now, I let Alexa do the playing, but I still listen to the album in it's entirety. Highly recommended..
Stayed the night in a Wal Mart parking lot in Gallup, NM...woke up just before sunrise and drove to the Painted Desert in Arizona. Walked around the empty park while listening to this on my ipod...magical experience. Then went to Winslow, AZ and stood on the corner! ;)
I was 15 years old when i just fall in love with this song, without understanding one word it said. 44 years later, i listen to it and love it still so much.
One of my dear friends used to listen to in the heat of the night, this is how I was turned on to Pat Benetar. Sadly my friend passed 20 years ago .. listening to pat gives me alot of comfort such a wonderful voice ....
I love this song so much... don't know why I've never seen this video lol I've been singing this song for 30 years. Definitely my favorite pat benatar song 😍
One of Neil's best penned songs - and the atmosphere he brings to the piece with his great blues guitar playing. Hands down, the most haunting that his wife ever recorded.
one of her most underrated songs in my opinion, she had several that just never got enough attention - if you think you know how to love me also comes to mind.
This is what radio calls a 'deep track'. It deserves WAY more rotation than it gets, and when you DO hear it , you want more ....and more. Perfect fit for the video.
I always loved this song. It's such a gentle and beautiful song💞 but there's a sadness to it that clutches one's heart, and the video matches perfectly. Certain parts of the video emphasizes this, such as the close up of the heart and the two glasses, where one is empty and the falling of the rose. It is clear that now she is alone. Such a touching and meaningful song and video.😔🧡
I really like this song. I have been a fan of Pat's since the early eighties and I recently bought this record. I think this is one of her best songs off of one of her best records.
I went to Namibia in 2019. Second least populated country in the world. It is composed of various kinds of deserts. We hired a tiny car and made our way out of the capital city Windhoek going to the Namib Naukluaft park and we almost immediately missed the turn. My son, the navigator kept silent not wanting me to panic. Awestruck, we drove through the most beautiful country side, with shining quartz stones scattered alongside the dirt track, warthogs and wild horses and the colours of a painted desert, those various shades or orange and pink and beige and we listened to music. And we listened to this song Painted Desert, a favourite of mine, as a chosen part of our play list for our trip. I cannot quite explain just how magical it was driving in a small car through that mystical desert landscape singing along or trying to, with me oblivious to the missed turn and my son secretly knowing we were on the wrong road. He eventually told me after I noted we had not seen any cars at all, that we had missed the turning, but not to worry, there was a place called Ruimte coming up we could just ask somebody there if we could still get to our destination if we continued. But there was nothing there, not a person, house or building. There was nothing but desert...and the realisation hit me...ruimte means space. There was nothing but empty space there.. We just laughed and laughed and laughed. And we kept going and the rough dirt track took us to the road which led to our destination having travelled about two hours longer than expected. So whenever I hear Painted Desert, I think of the missed turning, that resulted in one of the best days of my life.
Pat Benatar is my favorite singer. This song is the one I prefer on all her other beautiful songs! Pat has been in my heart since the age of 13, she rocked my adolescence and now 37 years later she did not leave me!! ;-) Too bad I'm French, I never had this chance and opportunity to see her in concert. Does she still have gigs?
One of My Favorites. I use to go sing in a Huge Covert that went under a Highway because the acoustics was amazing and made me sound good. I was 15 -17. I love her and always will....I so wish I had this in Karaoke .
I love her in so many ways she is the epitome of voice and words, I truly feel all that she sings in so many ways and will always will look for the oasis!
this song is mellow and would never have been a mega hit like many of her others.... not that it is not worthy...just not commercial enough. I personally LOVE it!!!!!
"I've done some thinking, now that you're not here. I know your reasons... And, they're still not clear. All I'm sure of, is what I've got to loose. I tried to be a better looser.... But it's just no use" . :-( That verse hit's my heart strings really hard this morning.
I agree. Neil and Pat went in a different direction with this album, and it worked. Still some rock numbers, but they let her softer part shine...and it did!
What makes it such a great album is that it reflected a growing level of musical skill and maturity for Pat Benatar as a vocalist and her husband Neil as lead guitarist and composer. Not many rock/pop acts have been able to achieve this level of capability relatively soon after starting their careers. This song, and the hit 'We Belong' are reflective, introspective tracks, with deep emotion and meaning.
Pat Benatar has been a great help to me. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your life. You are a sweet and beautiful and so kind and so thoughtful. I owe you a drink and I hope that you will be able to enjoy it when it's done. I love you Pat Benatar forever. Your friend Iris.
Very underrated 🤚🙆🏼♀️
Her best stuff hardly made it to airplay, love the deeper tracks.
Same...it deserves more love ❤️
Completely agree
My absolute favourite of all of Pat and Neil's songs. Beautiful, ethereal, strikingly tragic - showing all the deep, hard beauty of love. Tragedy with bliss. Ageless.
My favorite Pat Benatar song of all. So beautiful, so full of emotion and sung and played to perfection. Takes me to a sad dreamlike place "where no direction looks like home oh where is my oasis??"
Kenneth Newnum I couldn't agree more!!
Kenneth Newnum : I haven't heard that song since I was 13 years old. Now I'm 46. I kept thinking about it ,but couldn't remember it,until now! Love this song!
Kenneth Newnum It's my favorite, too. You described the reasons perfectly. It has a yearning to it that even sounds like the lonely Southwest. Perfectly played, sang and produced.
The vocal solo slays me...
@@stevenduvall2549 I also love her song "Anxiety"! I love ALL her songs though! Those are just 2 of my favorites!
@@kimberlythunert3068 I love that song as well. It tends to stick in my head.
Legend. This gal needs to be in the Rock hall of fame already.
yeah, what's the hall of fame without the queen of rock! Still performing and still awesome!
There should be a petition to get Pat into RR Hall of Fame. It's ridiculous that she's not.
yes, her and annie lennox.
Markis Anthony So true! So talented, and she and her hubby/lead guitarist wrote everything! What an amazing voice!
SyrDon X Great point. Annie is a genius with a rare talent.
This isn't my favorite Pat Benatar song, this is my favorite song, period. Her voice is beyond words. The guitar, the feel, everything about it is perfect. "No direction looks like home, oh where is my oasis?"
Such a beautiful song, and such a terrific album! I have listened to "Tropico" 100s of times, easily, since I bought it in 1984. Now, I let Alexa do the playing, but I still listen to the album in it's entirety. Highly recommended..
Wonderful very underrated song, absolute stunning range of vocals.
Absolutely! One of those songs that gives me goose bumps every time I hear it - for almost 35 years!
She's got, what, an eight-octave range, I think? Truly beautiful voice, talent, the complete package.
She said that her range was 3.5 octaves, though on a few of her songs, she went to 5 octaves.
And I don't even have 1 octave. She's amazing!
I've heard that she has an 8 octave too!
opera training she has i think. not sure.
@@NikkiGloom I think I’ve heard that as well. Sure wouldn’t surprise me. Absolutely stunning voice.
Stayed the night in a Wal Mart parking lot in Gallup, NM...woke up just before sunrise and drove to the Painted Desert in Arizona. Walked around the empty park while listening to this on my ipod...magical experience.
Then went to Winslow, AZ and stood on the corner! ;)
Did you stop at Radiator Springs?
I was 15 years old when i just fall in love with this song, without understanding one word it said. 44 years later, i listen to it and love it still so much.
I thought this came out in 1984?
Perhaps one of her best underrated tracks. Reminds me of how underrated her first single, If you think you now how to love me was. A classic!
I love that song too, huge fan for well decades
One of my dear friends used to listen to in the heat of the night, this is how I was turned on to Pat Benetar. Sadly my friend passed 20 years ago .. listening to pat gives me alot of comfort such a wonderful voice ....
This song always brings me back to when it first came to me.
Same here. Love you Pat!
I love this song so much... don't know why I've never seen this video lol I've been singing this song for 30 years. Definitely my favorite pat benatar song 😍
This entire album is so underrated and underappreciated
As with many, this is my favourite Pat Benatar song! Vocally/ musically perfect.
One of Neil's best penned songs - and the atmosphere he brings to the piece with his great blues guitar playing. Hands down, the most haunting that his wife ever recorded.
Myron Grombacher co-wrote this song which probably why it has such a unique and incredible drum part
@@meachster4316Benatar Giraldo
Universal Music Group
Mar 11, 2009
@@garycarr3857 Myron co-wrote this song...google it.
one of her most underrated songs in my opinion, she had several that just never got enough attention - if you think you know how to love me also comes to mind.
Underrated masterpiece 🥰
YES.
No me cansa escuchar ésta melodía una y otra vez. Excelente voz, acústica, ritmo, hasta la letra. Definitivamente para sensibles y civilizados.
Mar 11, 2009
Such a haunting beautiful song💕
It's my favorite song of hers. ❤
Pat is brilliant! I've loved this song for 25 years.
Pat Benatar is a fantastic songstress. She is the sought of woman I could easily fall in love with.
This is what radio calls a 'deep track'.
It deserves WAY more rotation than it gets, and when you DO
hear it , you want more ....and more.
Perfect fit for the video.
Why is Pat Benatar so underrated?? She was who got me into rock music as a child and loved rock music ever since😎💙
I always loved this song. It's such a gentle and beautiful song💞 but there's a sadness to it that clutches one's heart, and the video matches perfectly. Certain parts of the video emphasizes this, such as the close up of the heart and the two glasses, where one is empty and the falling of the rose. It is clear that now she is alone. Such a touching and meaningful song and video.😔🧡
This song is stunning! It's always moved me.
Agreed. Love it
Can't believe how underrated this song is...it's like a lost gem 💎
This and her version of Wuthering Heights... two classics!
Three ladies that continue to rock my world: Pat Benatar, Ann & Nancy Wilson. Those ladies are rock royalty and have my loyalty forever.
Been a fan since 1981............nuff said.........!!!!!!
she does it effortless i got all her stuff right from the start all on vinyl
absolute magical voice and still going strong go all the benatar fans
I really like this song. I have been a fan of Pat's since the early eighties and I recently bought this record. I think this is one of her best songs off of one of her best records.
I went to Namibia in 2019. Second least populated country in the world. It is composed of various kinds of deserts. We hired a tiny car and made our way out of the capital city Windhoek going to the Namib Naukluaft park and we almost immediately missed the turn.
My son, the navigator kept silent not wanting me to panic. Awestruck, we drove through the most beautiful country side, with shining quartz stones scattered alongside the dirt track, warthogs and wild horses and the colours of a painted desert, those various shades or orange and pink and beige and we listened to music.
And we listened to this song Painted Desert, a favourite of mine, as a chosen part of our play list for our trip.
I cannot quite explain just how magical it was driving in a small car through that mystical desert landscape singing along or trying to, with me oblivious to the missed turn and my son secretly knowing we were on the wrong road.
He eventually told me after I noted we had not seen any cars at all, that we had missed the turning, but not to worry, there was a place called Ruimte coming up we could just ask somebody there if we could still get to our destination if we continued.
But there was nothing there, not a person, house or building. There was nothing but desert...and the realisation hit me...ruimte means space.
There was nothing but empty space there..
We just laughed and laughed and laughed.
And we kept going and the rough dirt track took us to the road which led to our destination having travelled about two hours longer than expected.
So whenever I hear Painted Desert, I think of the missed turning, that resulted in one of the best days of my life.
The best cut from the Tropico album... by far.
I agree with Outlaw Blues running a close 2nd
How has this song not reached over a million yet is beyond me 😮
Tropico was one of my favorite albums of my youth. It holds a special place in my heart!! This song is gorgeous.
Brilliant song from a brilliant singer.
Ive seen here live about 6 times, and I still think she' s incredible
Pat Benatar is my favorite singer. This song is the one I prefer on all her other beautiful songs! Pat has been in my heart since the age of 13, she rocked my adolescence and now 37 years later she did not leave me!! ;-) Too bad I'm French, I never had this chance and opportunity to see her in concert. Does she still have gigs?
I know this comment is 2 years old lol and I’m just now discovering her music videos. Yeah she’s still performing to this day!
This is one of Pat’s biggest and most played hits in my country Lebanon.
This is one of my favorite, yet obscure, Pat Benatar songs....
Been to the Painted Desert, it's not to be missed...
One of My Favorites. I use to go sing in a Huge Covert that went under a Highway because the acoustics was amazing and made me sound good. I was 15 -17. I love her and always will....I so wish I had this in Karaoke .
I love her in so many ways she is the epitome of voice and words, I truly feel all that she sings in so many ways and will always will look for the oasis!
2021- Anyone listening to this unforgettable song and a legendary singer?
2023 and still love it
She used so many voice characteristics, so ingenious imop.
this song is mellow and would never have been a mega hit like many of her others.... not that it is not worthy...just not commercial enough. I personally LOVE it!!!!!
Underrated gem 💎
"I've done some thinking, now that you're not here. I know your reasons... And, they're still not clear. All I'm sure of, is what I've got to loose. I tried to be a better looser.... But it's just no use" . :-( That verse hit's my heart strings really hard this morning.
simply incredible song!
Love this song bc I always feel a bit lost on this journey called life.
@@juliehundt687I can completely relate
Doing some mid-life reminiscing...been stuck on planet Benatar for about a week now. Good God this woman rox.
I love pat benatar so much I had her hair style when I was 19 and I got it cut again like that at 51 patty rules
😃☺
That's so cool
Wonderful singer, the song is one of my favourite...thanks
hell ya
I've always loved Pat benatar music from day one. She should have been in the hall of rock and roll and fame 🥰 🤗❤️💞🌹✌️
She is, with Neil.
Producers wanted another "hit me with your best shot...They could not dig it...This Album Rocks...Chrysalis Records....
Me gusta mucho esta melodía, la música me transporta a mi juventud, me llena de inspiración
Beautiful song Pat!❤
Ne è passato di tempo... la tua voce e la tua bellezza rimangono leggendari. Quasi 40 anni fa ascoltavo la tua voce sul vinile...
One of my all-time favorite songs
My favorite song by Pat.... just beatiful! Lyrics and music!
One of the best songs Pat ever made.. means so much for me....
"... all I´m sure of is what I got to loose..."
I love this girl, her voice is amaizing!
"I know your reasons, and there still not clear" Great song, That voice goes right through me. Always has.
Indeed! The best sopranI of all time! She Rocks!
Love this! She is incredibly underrated 🌺😃
Good to see it .....been awhile....haunting voice! for the ages!
Most beautiful voice Love you Pat Benatar Happy birthday mine too the 9th day before you
It was such an usual album for her musically that many people didn't give it the time of day.
I love the album... so underrated
I agree. Neil and Pat went in a different direction with this album, and it worked. Still some rock numbers, but they let her softer part shine...and it did!
@@user-wk2qp8cp8xadd me to that list. Bought the cassette when it came out.
What makes it such a great album is that it reflected a growing level of musical skill and maturity for Pat Benatar as a vocalist and her husband Neil as lead guitarist and composer. Not many rock/pop acts have been able to achieve this level of capability relatively soon after starting their careers. This song, and the hit 'We Belong' are reflective, introspective tracks, with deep emotion and meaning.
I love this beautiful song beautiful music video 🥰👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
We all need to get togetterr and push to get her in the RR Hall of Fame
YES. been saying that forever....
Such a great song, timeless
one of my favs of all time
Omg I use to play the song so mush on the record! I would lay on the floor reading the lyrics that come on the record sleeve 😊😌
Beautiful ❤️
She my legend!!!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸❤❤❤
Nunca cambiarìa por nada a mi adorada PAT BENATAR...y esta canciòn es de mis preferidas...
Such an underrated song💜💙
Her best song.
I agree
No doubt.
Yesssss
Que se puede decir de la Fantástica Para Benatar....es infinita❤
I love harmony in this song
Great video. Please give this one a 4K upgrade!
Both Pat Benatar and Rush got me into rock actually 💯☝️
2023 I love you Pat🔥🇲🇽...
I love this song because I have a very good understanding of it. I love the arrangement. Pat you are the bomb.
"All I'm sure of is what I've got to lose.
I tried to be a better loser, but it's just no use. "
Wow. Anyone been there?
Anyone?
EddieRay VanLynch oh fuck yeah....alot
I have...
had this song listened to a long lost girlfriend last night. We're back at square one....1990. Thanks Pat Benatar. ;-)
The best female singer of all time , why is she not in the hall of fame?????
Incredible voice!!! One of the best in the world !!!
I always loved, loved this song and the seemingly haunting music in it. Takes me back to another time. God I miss those days.
This song could be considered by anyone. Great lyrics and song.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an absolute favorite of mine. It makes me feel so many emotions.
Awesome song and a change of pace from the earlier songs from Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
Cool song. I always turned this one up when playing the LP.
Very beautiful 😍 ❤
Great ballad, real evolved here
I love this song.. ❤❤❤
one of my favorite newer PB songs....haunting.