Hit Me with Your Best Shot

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"Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Crimes of Passion
B-side "Prisoner of Love"
Released September 15, 1980
Format 7"
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock, hard rock, heartland rock
Length 2:52
Label Chrysalis
Writer(s) Eddie Schwartz
Producer Keith Olsen

"Hit Me with Your Best Shot" is a song written by Canadian singer/songwriter Eddie Schwartz, and recorded by American singer Pat Benatar in 1979. It was released as the second single from her second album Crimes of Passion, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first top 10 hit. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" sold one million copies, achieving a gold certification by the RIAA. The song is arguably Benatar's most recognizable. It can be heard at many baseball and soccer games, and is featured on many of Benatar's greatest hits compilations.

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[edit] Structure

The song is in E major and features a general chord progression of I-IV-vi-V, with occasional added chords built on passing and neighboring tones,[1] although Benatar has commented that in hindsight she would have preferred to replace the C# minor (vi) chord with F# minor (ii).[2]

[edit] Covers

My American Heart covered the song and it was used in a commercial for GameTap. Others to cover the song include Wheatus, Offcutts, Martina McBride, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Chikinki. The song was sampled by D12 in a song of the same name; it was originally made for Eminem's seventh studio album Recovery, released in 2010, but it did not make the final cut. The song has since leaked on the internet, in early 2011. TV show Glee did a mash up of this song with Blondie's "One Way or Another" in its season 3 episode "Mash Off". Kelly Clarkson covered the song during the Fan Request section of her Stronger Tour in 2012.

[edit] Video games

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Benatar Pat "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Chords". Tablaturas.buanzo.com.ar. 1997-06-30. http://tablaturas.buanzo.com.ar/index.php?ident=207408. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  2. ^ "I'm with them on that one, that the F# would sound better there. I thought of that, too, and I wondered whether I should run it by [songwriter] Eddie [Schwartz], but I decided it wasn't worth making a scene over, so the C# went into the single, and now it's what the fans want to hear. But hey, as long as you've got the ASCAP license, you can use whatever chord you want." Interview with Geoff Reynolds, "Pat Benatar Fires Away on Marriage, Middle Age, and the Future of Rock and Roll," Rocker Quarterly, Vol. IX, No. 4 (Winter 1995-96), p. 47.
  3. ^ Inc, Activision. "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - Xbox 360: Video Games". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TGDHW8. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  4. ^ Inc, Activision. "Guitar Hero Smash Hits: Nintendo Wii: Video Games". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UWP3FY. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  5. ^ Inc, Activision. "Guitar Hero: On Tour: Video Games". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013ZEMUK. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  6. ^ "Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar // Songs // Rock Band®". Rockband.com. 2007-11-20. http://www.rockband.com/songs/hitmewithyourbestshot. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
  7. ^ ""Hit Me With Your Best Shot" - Xbox.com". Marketplace.xbox.com. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/0ccf01c7-0000-4000-8000-000045410829?cid=RockBandCom&partner=RockBandCom. Retrieved 2012-02-21. 
Pat Benatar
Studio albums
Compilations
  • Coxon's Army Live from Sam Miller's Exchange Cafe
  • Pat Benatar Hit Videos
  • Pat Benatar in Concert
  • Pat Benatar The Visual Music Collection
  • Best Shots
  • Benatar All Fired Up the very best of Pat Benatar
  • Pat Benatar Heartbreaker Sixteen Classic Performances
  • Back to Back Hits Blondie Pat Benatar
  • Pat Benatar Eight-Fifteen-Eighty
  • Pat Benatar All-Time Greatest Hits
  • Synchronistic Wanderings: Recorded Anthology 1979-1999
  • Extended Versions Pat Benatar The Encore Collection
  • Best of Volume 1 and 2
  • Pat Benatar Neil Giraldo Summer Vacation Tour Book DVD
  • Pat Benatar Neil Giraldo Summer Vacation Soundtrack
  • Classic Masters Pat Benatar
  • Choice Cuts Pat Benatar The complete video collection
  • From the Front Row...Live Pat Benatar
  • Best of Pat Benatar Vol.1 and Vol.2
  • Pat Benatar Greatest Hits Live
  • Greatest Hits
  • Pat Benatar Ultimate Collection
  • Pat Benatar Collector's Edition
Import compilations
Singles
  • "Day Gig"
  • "I Need a Lover"
  • "If You Think You Know How to Love Me"
  • "Heartbreaker"
  • "We Live for Love"
  • "Rated X"
  • "You Better Run"
  • "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"
  • "Treat Me Right"
  • "I'm Gonna Follow You"
  • "Hell Is for Children"
  • "Fire and Ice"
  • "Promises in the Dark"
  • "Precious Time"
  • "It's a Tuff Life"
  • "Shadows of the Night"
  • "Anxiety (Get Nervous)"
  • "Little Too Late"
  • "Looking for a Stranger"
  • "Love Is a Battlefield"
  • "Lipstick Lies"
  • "We Belong"
  • "Diamond Field"
  • "Ooh Ooh Song"
  • "Temporary Heroes"
  • "Painted Desert"
  • "Invincible (Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean)"
  • "Sex As a Weapon"
  • "Le Bel Age"
  • "Big Life"
  • "All Fired Up"
  • "Don't Walk Away"
  • "Let's Stay Together"
  • "One Love"
  • "True Love"
  • "Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss"
  • "So Long"
  • "Everybody Lay Down"
  • "Somebody's Baby"
  • "Crazy"
  • "Every Time I Fall Back"
  • "Strawberry Wine (Life Is Sweet)"
  • "At This Time"
  • "Papa's Roses"
  • "Christmas in America"
  • "Have It All"
  • "Go"
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