01. Heartbreaker (Single Mix)
02. We Live For Love
03. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
04. Hell Is For Children
05. Treat Me Right
06. You Better Run
07. Fire And Ice
08. Promises In The Dark
09. Precious Time
10. Shadows Of The Night (Single Edit)
11. Little Too Late (Single Edit)
12. Looking For A Stranger
13. Love Is A Battlefield (Single Edit)
14. We Belong
15. Ooh Ooh Song (Single Edit)
16. Invincible (Single Edit)
17. Sex As A Weapon
18. Le Bel Age (Single Edit)
19. All Fired Up (Single Edit)
20. One Love (Song Of The Lion) (Single Edit)

Pat Benatar - Primary Artist, Vocals
Roger Capps - Bass, Vocals (Background)
Charlie Giordano - Keyboards
Neil Giraldo - Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals (Background)
Myron Grombacher - Drums,
Glen Alexander Hamilton - Drums
Frank Linx - Bass, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Donnie Mossov - Bass, Bass Instrument
Keith Olsen - Tambourine
Alan Pasqua - Piano
Fernando Saunders - Bass
Kevin Savigar - Keyboards
Scott St. Clair Sheets - Guitar

The liner notes to Capitol's 20-track retrospective of rock goddess Pat Benatar's golden years are filled with testimonials from some of the genre's queens, both reigning (Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos) and retired (Jane Wiedlin, Martha Davis). It's a fitting tribute to the artist, as her four-and-a-half-octave vocal range spewing arena-sized anthems has yet to be matched by anyone with as much rock & roll panache. "We Belong," "Shadows of the Night," "Promises in the Dark," and "Love Is a Battlefield" are all certifiable '80s classics -- not just guilty pleasures -- and even later semi-hits like "Sex as a Weapon" and "All Fired Up" don't sound as overwrought as one would imagine, having not heard them in some time. Greatest Hits is just five songs longer than 1989's Best Shots -- reissued in 2003 with an accompanying DVD -- but the inclusion of fan favorites such as "Little Too Late" and "Le Bel Age" make this collection the most effective to date. Fair is fair. ---James Christopher Monger, AllMusic Review

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01. Red Vision
02. Fire And Ice
03. Shadows Of The Night
04. Big Life
05. We Live For Love
06. Diamond Field
07. We Belong
08. Promises In The Dark
09. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
10. Le Bel Age
11. Invincible
12. Sex As A Weapon
13. Heartbreaker
14. Love Is A Battlefield
15. Ooh Ooh Song
16. Hell Is For Children


Recorded Live at Portland Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA - March 31, 1986.

This is one of Benatar's most underrated albums. Having generated the commercially successful singles, Invincible and Sex as Weapon, it's criticized by some as being another commercial sellout. Listening to the rest of the tracks, it's clear that this album offers much more musically and lyrically than the 'poppy' radio friendly singles that were produced.

Other than the two commercially oriented singles, there is some great songwriting found in the collaboration between Myron Grombacher (Pat's long time drummer) and her guitarist-hubby, Neil Geraldo. ---Darren, amazon.com

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1. Diamond Fields
2. We Belong
3. Painted Desert
4. Temporary Heroes	 
5. Love is a Battlefield
6. Ooh Ooh Song 
7. Outlaw Blues	 
8. Suburban King
9. A Crazy World Like This 
10. Takin' It Back
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11. Love in the Ice Age

Bass – Donnie Nossov, Roger Capps (tracks: 2 & 3)
Drums – Myron Grombacher
Guitar, Harmonica – Neil Geraldo
Keyboards – Charlie Giordano
Vocals – Pat Benatar

On Tropico, Pat Benatar began refashioning her sound, moving toward a more middle-of-the-road sound as evidenced by the hit single "We Belong." The change in direction revitalized the singer, resulting in her best album since Precious Time. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

The keyboards are in the background by now, but the drums have acquired an obnoxious electronic sound, and the guitars focus on playing distorted chords instead of catchy licks. It's not an improvement. There are a lot of midtempo ballads here, most of which Pat didn't write; on the hit "We Belong" she's in fine voice, but nobody needs to hear half-baked tunes like "Love In The Ice Age" or "A Crazy World Like This." The rock numbers lack any of the band's earlier drama - with no dynamics changes or riffs, "Ooh Ooh Song" and "Temporary Heroes" are rote and boring. Capps apparently left while the album was being made; Donnie Nossov plays most of the bass parts. ---warr.org

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