Album Review:
True Love
- Release Date: 1991
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Alliance
- Total Time: 38:08
- Artist: Pat Benatar
- Rating:
- Styles: Arena Rock, Pop/Rock, Album Rock
- Track Picks: "I Get Evil," "Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss"
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Review
A radical departure from the type of slick pop/rock she'd been embracing on albums like Tropico and Wide Awake in Dreamland, True Love found Pat Benatar embracing blues and early pre-rock R&B. Opting for less production and a much rawer approach, an inspired Benatar ditches the synthesizers and keyboards and sounds like she's leading a bar band in a Chicago dive. From Albert King's "I Get Evil" to B.B. King's "Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss" to Charles Brown's "Please Come Home for Christmas," the results aren't breathtaking, but are generally honest and soulful. Quite clearly, this was an album Benatar was eager to make. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Bloodshot Eyes | |
Hank Penny, R. Hall | Pat Benatar | (2:49) |
| Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss | |
B.B. King | Pat Benatar | (3:15) |
| So Long | |
Russ Morgan, Remus Harris, Irving Melsher | Pat Benatar | (3:59) |
| I've Got Papers on You | |
B.B. King | Pat Benatar | (2:23) |
| I Feel Lucky | |
Neil Giraldo, Myron Grombacher | Pat Benatar | (4:31) |
| True Love | |
Neil Giraldo | Pat Benatar | (4:42) |
| The Good Life | |
Neil Giraldo, Myron Grombacher | Pat Benatar | (4:11) |
| Evening | |
Pat Benatar | (3:43) | |
| I Get Evil | |
Albert King | Pat Benatar | (3:12) |
| Don't Happen No More | |
Pat Benatar | (2:43) | |
| Please Come Home for Christmas [*] | Charles Brown, Gene Redd | Pat Benatar | (3:09) |
