Precious Time/Get Nervous [Import, Original recording remastered]

Pat Benatar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00000IHAE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Promises in the Dark

2. Fire and Ice

3. Just Like Me

4. Precious Time

5. It's a Tuff Life

6. Take It Any Way You Want It

7. Evil Genius

8. Hard to Believe

9. Helter Skelter

10. Shadows of the Night

11. Looking for a Stranger

12. Anxiety (Get Nervous)

13. Fight It Out

14. The Victim

15. Little Too Late

16. I'll Do It

17. I Want Out

18. Tell It to Her

19. Silent Partner

Editorial Reviews

Her third & fourth albums, respectively, together on one CD,the double platinum #1 1981 smash 'Precious Time' & theplatinum top five 1982 smash 'Get Nervous'. Each was firstreleased on Chrysalis. A combined total of 19 tracks,including the hits 'Promises In The Dark', 'Fire And Ice','Shadows Of The Night', 'Precious Time' and her memorablecover of the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'. All tracks areremastered from the original master tapes. Also features theoriginal cover art of each, plus additional sleeve notes.1998 BGO release.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of my old favorites., June 7, 2002

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Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Precious Time/Get Nervous (Audio CD)

The song "Silent Partner" has so many little things that I like in it that I can't begin to put much of my appreciation into words. This combination CD has two albums that I originally bought 20 years ago, possibly as selections from a record club that kept telling me the titles of the big hits on each record. I was incredibly impressed by the titles of the hits on her first album. I kept buying albums because it was always better to have more than to miss anything. People who don't have these songs have missed a lot, but I don't see how anyone ever catches up with the truly fantastic discoveries of bygone years. These songs may never seem that good again, but this is still a great buy. I found this because I did a search for the song "Evil Genius" and I'm overjoyed that I am not the only person in the world who can identify Pat Benatar as the singer who recorded it. Of all the songs which sound like they are complaining about something, "Evil Genius" strikes me as the one which states the most valid complaint, and it was written early in the 1980s, when I was bound to wonder if anyone could be this smart. You might not realize how obvious this is unless you've heard it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good deal if you don't want a remastered product, September 7, 2009

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Just Fell In "Just Fell In" (LA, California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Precious Time/Get Nervous (Audio CD)

I love Pat Benatar and own several of her albums. As far as the content of this cd, Precious Time is a classic. Get Nervous changed her sound slightly to match the times and it works in some cases but not in others. Precious Time is the rockier album while Get Nervous is more '80's pop'-sounding. I bought this product under the false pretense that it would be remastered. I already own a verifiably remastered version of Precious Time. I bought this because I wanted a remastered version, as it was adverstised in Amazon, of Get Nervous. Since I already owned Precious Time in remastered format, I was able to compare the sounds between it and this cd and the remasted version was clearly superior. This cd doesn't sound like it was remastered at all. I kept it and didn't try to return it to Amazon because I liked Get Nervous enough to keep it, and since there is no other "remastered" version of it available, it was my only choice if I want to own this album. I give Precious Time 4.5 stars on content while Get Nervous gets 4.0 stars. I preferred Pat when she rocked out a little more. Get Nervous now sounds dated, although it's still enjoyable to listen to. It has great moments in "Shadows Of The Night", "Looking For A Stranger", "Anxiety", and "Little Too Late", which were the hits, but its better to get these on her boxed-set "Synchronistic Wanderings" and get the great-sounding remastered versions of those songs. It is very reasonably priced and you will get almost all of her essential tracks. The album tracks are a little spottier. "Fight it Out", "The Victim", "I'll do It", are classic Benatar while "Tell It To Her", and "Silent Partner" have that doctored 80's dated sound. I don't like "I Want Out" at all, but there's always a stinker on every Benatar album and that is this one's. So all in all, you get 7 out of 10 solid songs with the others not being as good. Not a bad deal, but the hits really are the superior songs on this one. If you're buying this to get a remastered version, then you're out of Luck... Precious Time on the other hand, is gold Benatar. Except for a generic remake of Helter-Skelter, almost all of the tracks are great.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this really remastered with AAD code on sleeve ?, June 3, 2008

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D. Kelly (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Precious Time/Get Nervous (Audio CD)

I purchased this pair of albums and also Pat Benatar's other combo with Live from Earth because they said "remastered". I also purchased similar combos for Loverboy (Loverboy/Get Lucky) and Billy Squier (Tale of the tape/Don't Say No) and all of these combos say "remastered" but on the disc cases, they have an AAD code. From my experience, AAD is the absolute worst sound you can have for a CD (analog-analog-digital). Those are the ones that have that wonderful message that says something like "hiss can be heard or disc may reveal limitations of source tape" on them. I know that ADD is better and DDD is the best. How can AAD really be remastered ? I think the real point here is why did they individually remaster Crimes, Heat and Precious but neglect Get Nervous and Live from Earth ? I hate when record companies and/or artists do that (like for instance Boston remastering Boston and Don't Look Back but not Third Stage, Van Halen remastering all Warner Bros albums with David Lee Roth but not the Van Hagar Geffen albums 5150, OU812, etc.)