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| Artist: Pat Benatar
Label: Bel Chiasso
Buy New: $44.98
New (4) Used (9) from $13.90
Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 77109
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 015707974325
EAN: 0015707974325
ASIN: B0000ALFZR
Release Date: August 12, 2003
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Condition: Brand new-factory sealed. Small upc hole punched.
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 A fantastically awesome album. Definitely NOT a retro thing, either. April 19, 2007
Joseph M. Siegler (Garland, TX USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a review written in sections from three different years.
Original 2003 Review: It's taken six years for another Pat Benatar record to be released (not counting a plethora of live and greatest hits albums which I ignored). My wife and I went to see Pat Benatar in concert on Aug 9th 2003, and it was wonderful. They had Go for sale (when we were at the concert, hadn't yet been released which was very cool to see). So I picked it up. Listened to it in the car on the way home, and on first listen, there's quite a lot of really good stuff on it. Go, Girl, Have it All, are amongst the highlights. A definite must buy - it's quite bloody good!
Update 1: As I update this in October 2004, I have to say this album is a great mix of her new adult rock style, with some smatterings of her older styles thrown in. Not to say she's returned to the 80's but this is more a rock album than Innamorata is. Right up there with Innamorata (which is my favorite all time Benatar album), in my opinion.
Update 2: As I update this yet again in April 2007, this album has grown stronger. When most people think of Pat Benatar, they think of what they remember from the 1980's. Now there's nothing wrong with the music from then, but remembering someone as an 80's artist pigenholes them into what they can be perceived in doing. Go destroys that. As some of the other reviews here have stated, Go is an ignored album. Ask your average rock fan if they have this, they'll likely say no, followed by "She's still making records", and then most likely think about the "80's stereotype". That's a damn shame. I run a website for the band Black Sabbath. I point that out, because I should, by the stereotype be the last person to love this album. The heck with that - great music is great music. This is a brilliantly strong record from start to finish. There's no filler here, and I cannot recommend this album strongly enough. It's hard to pick out individual tracks for praise because I like so many of them, but if I had to, my favorite is "Brokenhearted". But it's all good.
Fabulous!!! February 2, 2004
Irene C Gonzalez (Hallandale Beach, FL USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just saw Pat Benetar in concert and immediately bought this album after the concert. This CD is outstanding! Pat Benetar is at her best. Throughout the years, she has managed to not only maintain her edge, but to take the level of her talent and music a notch higher. This is definitely a must buy!!
Three words: Buy this Disc October 28, 2005
J. Bengel (Raleigh, NC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After blistering the charts -- and the airwaves -- with six multi-platinum albums in her first six tries, the public's radar more or less lost contact with Pat Benatar. A much-deserved break between 1985 and 1988 all but erased her memory from a large percentage of music buyers. Returning with "Wide Awake in Dreamland" (The Best Kept Secret of 1988), "True Love" (The Best Kept Secret of 1991), "Gravity's Rainbow" (The Best Kept Secret of 1993) and "Innamorata" (wait for it...The Best Kept Secret of 1997) Benatar seemed to have softened somewhat from the fire-breathing in-your-face rocker we knew from "In The Heat of The Night" up through "Get Nervous". This was a happier Pat, a kinder, gentler Pat and it was heartwarming to hear someone who'd given so much to her audience finally sounding like she'd found the sunny side of the street. Still, we did kind of miss the edgy, raw energy of the early years...
No more. It's back, with interest on "Go". Even the cover art harks back to the days of "Fire and Ice" and "No You Don't". The lyrics to the title track remind us of that long-ago ad in Rolling Stone captioned "Pat Benatar Kicks Ass", as well as the songs that inspired it. "I Won't" conjures memories of "I Want Out" (Get Nervous) and remind anybody who might have forgotten that this is NOT a woman to trifle with.
Neil Giraldo continues to defy convention as a guitarist and a composer, keeping us just off-balance on tracks like "Have It All". Just as quickly, the husband-wife team give us an almost-oratorio with "Out Of The Ruins", which stirs memories of Benatar's cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" (Crimes of Passion), and reminds us just why she's had 25+ years of staying power. Unlike the glam-mill female rock singers so ubiquitous in today's market, Benatar can actually SING. And while the classically-trained range may have shrunk to the realm of the merely mortal, make no mistake -- none of the latest pop diva/goddesses can touch her for true musical ability.
If you're a long time fan, you'll find this album as comfortable and familiar as your favorite shirt. If you haven't yet discovered the force-of-nature power of Pat Benatar, this is a great place to start. And if you came in late (post-1988) this will be a crash course in what you missed -- and an incentive to catch up!
 GO -- AND GET THIS GREAT COMEBACK CD! August 20, 2003
D. FOXWORTH (TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Wow! I really looked forward to this CD but I didn't dare to even hope that it would be THIS GOOD! The first song -- GO -- also the name of the title, starts off like many old Benatar songs... hard rockin' and hot! Other noteworthy songs are I WON'T and SORRY... I love part of the lyrics to HAVE IT ALL... "You think you're the second coming, Sorry to say it doesn't do it for me." Ha ha sounds like some people I know! While it is about half hard rockin' and half ballads, there is NOT a bad song on this entire album. I like the fact that Pat's Christmas Song -- Christmas in America -- is included even though it was not listed on the insert. GO PAT AND NEIL! KEEP 'EM COMING AND ROCK ON! (However, wouldn't it be AWESOME if someday Pat did an entire opera CD!)
 1+1 = 0 September 1, 2003
Robert A. Coley (Raleigh, NC USA)
5 out of 19 found this review helpful
The first album I ever bought was Pat Benatar's first album, In the Heat of the Night. I was lifelong fan. Her sexy, cool image & tough, beautiful voice sold me. Back then every boy wanted Benatar for himself, and the music was a rousing, melodic call to action. Shape up or ship out - THIS woman had standards and expectations. The beginning of the end ocurred with her partnership with Neil Geraldo. No doubt he's a great guy, but as soon as he started producing her albums and writing most of the material, things went south. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they have a wonderful relationship -- but the listening public doesn't care. Benatar's voice is her strength, and songs written and produced by those outside their love prove to be the strongest in her career. As far as this album goes, I am very disappointed. First, the album cover is absolutely dreadful. I'm not all that artistic, but I know I could have done a better job touching up her teeth with Photoshop. I hope they didn't pay that guy too much. As far as songs go, they're dreadful. The only bright spot is "Have it All," which would have been much better with a tempo change & a talented producer. The mix emphasises all this guitar stuff that Benatar fans couldn't care less about. It's amateur night at the boards as far as this album is concerned. I get the sense that Geraldo has to be as important as Benatar. The energy is low, and the multi-overdubbed vocals are tiresome. Let's hear Pat belt a few tunes without multiple layers of vocals. We know it's possible, or at least possible for her fans not to be smacked in the face with the obviousness of it all. I'm waiting in eagar anticipation of the next Bentar album, sans the overwhelming Giraldo influence. Pat, please get an outside producer and great songwriters that will showcase your talents!
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