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.
Agreed. What has always set this song apart is that it is a mature, well-crafted piece of pop music. I've always liked Pat Benatar because she has been a class act all the way. Sexy, but not tawdry or slutty.
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?"
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...
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! ;)
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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!
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 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.
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 .
Neil and Pat, I just saw the video of the Hall of Fame induction. Congrats! It would have been cool if you'd had more time to do something like this one, too -- to showcase that other side of your music.
This song is such an erroneous ferocity and a velocity immersive annunciation of emblazoned with the treachery of solitary with a lot of recumbent and pendular of tremulous penitent of sought ness of love in this effortless of a auspicious of this timeless beauty of a song like this and merely epilation of stratification to venation on euphoric cosmical deepness in this song that touches you without a doubt of a trace me and my late boyfriend loved this song by her as me being the trans woman that I am today because of my futuristic hubby taught me and made feel something that I never felt from anyone before i always will thank him for that Iove you sweetums Mr. Brian James pottorff are love will always be forever beautiful song.
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.
"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.
Very underrated 🤚🙆🏼♀️
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.
Agreed. What has always set this song apart is that it is a mature, well-crafted piece of pop music. I've always liked Pat Benatar because she has been a class act all the way. Sexy, but not tawdry or slutty.
"...where is my oasis?" 💜
💜 🏝 💜
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?"
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.
Her best stuff hardly made it to airplay, love the deeper tracks.
Same...it deserves more love ❤️
Completely agree
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!
Feel free to listen to French Soul singer Laura Mayne ' s recent version which is a great hommage to Benatar 🎹🎹🎹🎹🙏
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
Pat is brilliant! I've loved this song for 25 years.
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..
Pat and Neil are rock and roll royalty.
Underrated masterpiece 🥰
YES.
Listen to Laura Mayne ' s version with a piano / voice arrangement 🎹🙏🎙
Pat Benatar is a fantastic songstress. She is the sought of woman I could easily fall in love with.
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?
Such a haunting beautiful song💕
It's my favorite song of hers. ❤
This song always brings me back to when it first came to me.
Same here. Love you Pat!
2023 I love you Pat🔥🇲🇽...
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 song is stunning! It's always moved me.
Agreed. Love it
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
Great video. Please give this one a 4K upgrade!
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 ....
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
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?
Discover a new version sung by French Soul singer Laura Mayne, it's a piano / voice arrangement and it's brilliant 🎹🙏🎙☀☀☀☀
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
The best cut from the Tropico album... by far.
I agree with Outlaw Blues running a close 2nd
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.
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.
2021- Anyone listening to this unforgettable song and a legendary singer?
2023 and still 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!
As with many, this is my favourite Pat Benatar song! Vocally/ musically perfect.
My favorite song of hers. I would love for this video to get a remaster.
You are cool!
Underrated gem 💎
How has this song not reached over a million yet is beyond me 😮
Three ladies that continue to rock my world: Pat Benatar, Ann & Nancy Wilson. Those ladies are rock royalty and have my loyalty forever.
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 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.
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.😔🧡
Ive seen here live about 6 times, and I still think she' s incredible
Been to the Painted Desert, it's not to be missed...
This is one of my favorite, yet obscure, Pat Benatar songs....
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!
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!
Brilliant song from a brilliant singer.
This is one of Pat’s biggest and most played hits in my country Lebanon.
She used so many voice characteristics, so ingenious imop.
Congrats to Pat for finally getting in RRHOF
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.
I love the bridge in this song. Why don’t songwriters write bridges into their music these days?
simply incredible song!
Love this song bc I always feel a bit lost on this journey called life.
@@juliehundt687I can completely relate
I love this beautiful song beautiful music video 🥰👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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.
Wonderful singer, the song is one of my favourite...thanks
hell ya
She my legend!!!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸❤❤❤
I always loved, loved this song and the seemingly haunting music in it. Takes me back to another time. God I miss those days.
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
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 .
Me gusta mucho esta melodía, la música me transporta a mi juventud, me llena de inspiración
Doing some mid-life reminiscing...been stuck on planet Benatar for about a week now. Good God this woman rox.
Such an underrated song💜💙
Great Album. I love this song❤
I love this girl, her voice is amaizing!
Both Pat Benatar and Rush got me into rock actually 💯☝️
*Myron Grombacher at **4:10** ?!? ARE WE TO JUST IGNORE POSSIBLY ONE OF THE SICKEST DRUM FILLS IN THE HISTORY OF DRUM FILLS ?!? 🤷🏿♀️*
One of my all-time favorite songs
This Song is Excellent .I was A Big Fan ov hers many moon Ago.❤. My Favorite.
one of my favs of all time
Beautiful song Pat!❤
Love this! She is incredibly underrated 🌺😃
Neil and Pat, I just saw the video of the Hall of Fame induction. Congrats! It would have been cool if you'd had more time to do something like this one, too -- to showcase that other side of your music.
I love harmony in this song
Her best song.
I agree
No doubt.
Yesssss
This song is such an erroneous ferocity and a velocity immersive annunciation of emblazoned with the treachery of solitary with a lot of recumbent and pendular of tremulous penitent of sought ness of love in this effortless of a auspicious of this timeless beauty of a song like this and merely epilation of stratification to venation on euphoric cosmical deepness in this song that touches you without a doubt of a trace me and my late boyfriend loved this song by her as me being the trans woman that I am today because of my futuristic hubby taught me and made feel something that I never felt from anyone before i always will thank him for that Iove you sweetums Mr. Brian James pottorff are love will always be forever beautiful song.
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.
had this song listened to a long lost girlfriend last night. We're back at square one....1990. Thanks Pat Benatar. ;-)
Good to see it .....been awhile....haunting voice! for the ages!
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 😊😌
We all need to get togetterr and push to get her in the RR Hall of Fame
YES. been saying that forever....
One of the best songs Pat ever made.. means so much for me....
"... all I´m sure of is what I got to loose..."
Ne è passato di tempo... la tua voce e la tua bellezza rimangono leggendari. Quasi 40 anni fa ascoltavo la tua voce sul vinile...
This song could be considered by anyone. Great lyrics and song.
Que se puede decir de la Fantástica Para Benatar....es infinita❤
Such a great song, timeless
"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.
The best female singer of all time , why is she not in the hall of fame?????
Great album, Pat Benatar is a Legend!
What a great track. One of my favourite s from the mighty pat benatar ❤
Very beautiful 😍 ❤
Nunca cambiarìa por nada a mi adorada PAT BENATAR...y esta canciòn es de mis preferidas...
Pat benatar fue es y será lo máximo ! Me quito el sombrero!!!
Indeed! The best sopranI of all time! She Rocks!
wow been looking for this so haunting, love it! She rocks all the way!
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!