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Recorded
  
1979–1988

Artist
  
Pat Benatar

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Length
  
67:42

Release date
  
November 1989

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Released
  
October 26, 1987 (Europe) November 1989 (US)

Producer
  
Neil Giraldo, Peter Coleman, Keith Olsen, Mike Chapman

Best Shots (1987)
  
Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988)

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop rock, Hard rock

Similar
  
Pat Benatar albums, Rock music albums

Best Shots is a Platinum-certified greatest hits album released by the American rock singer Pat Benatar in 1987 in Europe and in an updated version in 1989 in North America. It peaked at No. 67 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, two years after the album peaked at No. 6 in the UK.

Contents

Track listing (European Version)

Side one

  1. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" (Eddie Schwartz) – 2:51 (single version)
  2. "Love Is a Battlefield" (Mike Chapman, Holly Knight) – 4:12 (single version)
  3. "We Belong" (Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro) – 3:42 (single version)
  4. "We Live for Love" (Neil Giraldo) – 3:58 (remixed version)
  5. "Sex as a Weapon" (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) – 4:19
  6. "Invincible" (Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean) (Simon Climie, Knight) – 4:04 (single version)

Side two

  1. "Shadows of the Night" (D. L. Byron) – 3:42 (single version)
  2. "Heartbreaker" (Geoff Gill, Clint Wade) – 3:28
  3. "Fire and Ice" (Kelly, Scott St. Clair Sheets, Pat Benatar) – 3:20
  4. "Treat Me Right" (Doug Lubahn, Benatar) – 3:28
  5. "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" (Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 3:47 (single version)
  6. "You Better Run" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) – 3:04

Original album releases

  • Tracks 4, 8, 11 – In the Heat of the Night (1979)
  • Tracks 1, 10, 12 – Crimes of Passion (1980)
  • Track 9 – Precious Time (1981)
  • Track 7 – Get Nervous (1982)
  • Track 2 – Live from Earth (1983)
  • Track 3 – Tropico (1984)
  • Tracks 5, 6 – Seven the Hard Way (1985)

    • Track listing (U.S. Version)

    1. "Love Is a Battlefield" – 5:24
    2. "Promises in the Dark" (Giraldo, Benatar) – 4:48
    3. "One Love" (Giraldo, Mryon Grombacher) – 5:12
    4. "All Fired Up" (Kerryn Tolhurst, Grombacher, Benatar) – 4:27
    5. "We Live for Love" – 3:55
    6. "Hell Is for Children" (Giraldo, Benatar, Roger Capps) – 4:48
    7. "Shadows of the Night" – 4:20
    8. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" – 2:51
    9. "We Belong" – 3:40
    10. "Invincible" – 4:28
    11. "Fire and Ice" – 3:20
    12. "Heartbreaker" – 3:26
    13. Medley: "Suffer the Little Children / Hell Is for Children" (Live 1988) (Giraldo, Benatar) – 6:45
    14. "Painted Desert" (Giraldo, Grombacher) – 5:24
    15. "Outlaw Blues" (Giraldo, Grombacher) – 4:19 (1989 re-recording)

    Tracks 1–12 were on the LP and cassette release

    Tracks 13–15 were CD only bonus tracks

    Original album releases

  • Tracks 5, 12 – In the Heat of the Night (1979)
  • Tracks 6, 8 – Crimes of Passion (1980)
  • Tracks 2, 11 – Precious Time (1981)
  • Track 7 – Get Nervous (1982)
  • Track 1 – Live from Earth (1983)
  • Tracks 9, 14 – Tropico (1984)
  • Track 10 – Seven the Hard Way (1985)
  • Tracks 3, 4 – Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988)
  • Track 15 – An earlier arrangement/recording appears on Tropico (1984)

    • Songs

    1Hit Me With Your Best Shot2:51
    2Love Is a Battlefield4:10
    3We Belong3:40

    References

    Best Shots Wikipedia
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