Taking Sides: Pat Benatar's "We Belong" vs. Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero"

Growing up far after the peaks of both songs, I'd say I probably heard "Love is a Battlefield" about 40 times before I heard "We Belong" once, for whatever that's worth.

Suppose we could start looking at total sales, weeks on chart, etc etc. fwiw, "Battlefield" (which doesn't do much for me) did seem to pwn MTV for months.

Sadly, she never released her cover of "Wuthering Heights" as a single...

Alfred, don't worry, "Shadows Of The Night" will live on for as long as there is breath in my lungs on karaoke night. It's epic, though the chorus repeats get a little tired.

This kid at day camp had a couple of visors of various colors, emblazoned with the word(?) "BOOZ".

About four of us sang to him, to the tune of the Tina Turner song: "We don't need another BOOOOOOOZ hat!"

In my head I misheard "We don't need another hero" as "We don't need two 'nother wang ho's"

Another misheard line is "We are the ones to Philbin the air"

You gotta love Tina in general, but "Hero" is supposed to be set in this savage, post-apocalyptic, post-technological future, and the song drips with air-conditioned-LA-studio, sushi-eating, yoga-doing vibe. It's doesn't fit.

Even after factoring in the chorus, "Invincible" seems no better or worse than much of the Benatar/Geraldo catalog, from "Hard To Believe" to "Le Bel Age." What am I missing?

THAT, folks, is what we call a bold statement. Respec'.

Wye Oak's cover of "We Belong" made me fall back in love with this song.

https://youtu.be/sWlP5rCXWmA

ALL THE CHILDREN SAY

otm

yes

has to be the 6-minute version from the soundtrack/12", though

I fucking love that synth loop in We Belong so much, Giraldo is such a lowkey mad genius - he has such a skill for setting the table for Benatar to belt it out of the park

the 12" instrumental cut here is one of my secretest secret weapons

https://www.discogs.com/Tina-Turner-The-Balearic-Sound-Of-Tina-Turner/release/6235018

thunderdome is sick. and private dancer. both are sick.

"One of the Living" >>>> "We Don't Need Another Hero"