Retro Spins: Pat Benatar - Wide Awake In Dreamland

I was wide awake in dreamland and all fired up for a solid Retro Spin today, so I decided to take the needle to the platter of Pat Benatar's last entry in the 80's - 1988's Wide Awake In Dreamland.

The album builds the excitement up pretty quickly with the first track, All Fired Up, and from there, goes into a song I had long since forgotten. The slower paced, One Love. Amazing song! Track three, Let's Stay Together, not so much.

Don't Walk Away and Too Long A Soldier were decent, but felt very Madonna like. The rest of the album unfortunately fell to background noise as I moved on to other things - Mentally.

Overall, the album just wasn't popping for me. At this point in Benatar's career, I honestly expected a solid album from front to back. Instead, I got a handful of good tracks, and wide variety of what felt like filler.

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