Friday Night Videos

It's hard to believe that despite Pat Benatar's legendary career, she never scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard top 40. Crazy, right? She got up to No. 13 with "Shadows of the Night," which is tonight's featured video. It's a ridiculous WWII era fantasy about fighter planes, behind-enemy-lines espionage and fighting Nazis. What's not to love? Oh yeah, it's got a young Judge Reinhold at the beginning as an Allies fighter jock and a young Bill Paxton later as a Nazi officer. I mean, where else are you going to find quality entertainment like that?

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Pat Benatar's "Sex As A Weapon" was a top 20 hit for her back in the day, but oddly, she left it off her greatest hits compilation. The song's pretty in-you-face for the time, but really, the video goes so far beyond the song it has to be seen to be believed. Yes, there's some valid social commentary at work here, but the whole thing is such a gonzo exercise of 80s excess that it stumbles drunkenly into exploitation territory, albeit in an entertaining, hilarious way. Enjoy.

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Today's featured Friday Night Video is "All Fired Up" by Pat Benatar. Because I haven't had enough rocker chicks here lately. This was one of the most popular songs played during Stampede hockey games back in my sportswriter days. I'm serious, they played this one every night. Fortunately, it's a killer song, and generally enough to cleanse my ears of the Spice Girls crap they also played every night. Enjoy.



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