Wide Awake in Dreamland

Performer: Pat Benatar
Artist: Nick Gilder
Distributor: (Independently by Label)

Notes: Personnel: Pat Benatar, Nick Gilder (vocals); Neil Geraldo (guitar); Kevin Savigar, Charlie Giordano (keyboards); Fernando Saunders (bass); Frank Linx (bass, vocals); Myron Grombacher (drums); Bo Castro (percussion); Carmen Twillie, Phyllis St. James, Maxine Waters (background vocals). Producers: Peter Coleman, Neil Geraldo, Keith Forsey. Engineers: Peter Coleman, Neil Geraldo, Ed Thacker, Paul Lini. Although it falls short of the excellence of Crimes of Passion, Precious Time, and Get Nervous, Wide Awake in Dreamland is a generally decent and respectable effort that has more pluses than minuses. Closer in spirit to Tropico than Passion or Time, the consistently melodic Dreamland stresses pop elements and steers clear of hard rock. The CD's most memorable offerings include the haunting and moody "Too Long a Soldier," the infectious "Lift Em on Up," and a disturbing commentary on child abuse, "Suffer the Little Children." Unfortunately, Pat Benatar's popularity was starting to decline in 1988 -- and in the early-to-mid-'90s, she would receive little attention. ~ Alex Henderson

The siren-voiced Pat Benatar leapt onto the music scene in the late '70s, when hard rock was still pretty much a boys' club. She made a strong impression. On in-your-face hits like "Heartbreaker" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Benatar issued challenges to bad-boy lovers, and her tough-gal image was bolstered through dramatic videos on MTV for a string of hits including "We Belong" and the powerful "Love is a Battlefield." But Benatar was always much more than an image, as the many strong compositions in her songbook attest.

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