Tropico (album)

Tropico is American rock singer Pat Benatar's sixth album, released in 1984. It peaked at #14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the Top-10 hit "We Belong". Additional well-known songs from the album were "Painted Desert", "Outlaw Blues" and "Ooh Ooh Song" (also a Top-40 hit), a Spanish version of which appeared on her 1999 compilation, Synchronistic Wanderings. The album was Benatar's sixth consecutive Platinum-certified album in the United States.

During the filming of the video for the single "Painted Desert", Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo discovered they were expecting their first child. ^[3] It is also said by Benatar and Giraldo that this album is the first where they moved away from Benatar's famed "hard rock" sound and start experimenting with new, sometimes "gentler," styles and sounds. ^[4]

First album featuring Donnie Vossov replacing Roger Capps on Bass.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Diamond Field" – 3:20 (Giraldo, Grombacher; Copyright Big Tooth Music, Neil Giraldo Music, Rare Blue Music & Tyreach Music-ASCAP)
2. "We Belong" – 3:40 (Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro; Copyright Screen Gems/EMI Music-BMI)
3. "Painted Desert" – 5:24 (Giraldo, Grombacher; Copyright Big Tooth Music, Neil Giraldo Music, Rare Blue Music & Tyreach Music-ASCAP)
4. "Temporary Heroes" – 4:30 (N. Trevesick, J. Clee; Copyright Black Lion Music-ASCAP)
5. "Love in the Ice Age" – 4:05 (Giraldo, Giordano, Grombacher; Copyright Big Tooth Music, Neil Giraldo Music, Rare Blue Music, Charlie Giordano Music & Tyreach Music-ASCAP)

Side two

1. "Ooh Ooh Song" – 4:28 (Benatar, Giraldo; Copyright Big Tooth Music, Neil Giraldo Music & Rare Blue Music-ASCAP)
2. "The Outlaw Blues" – 3:47 (Giraldo, Grombacher; Copyright Neil Giraldo Music, Rare Blue Music & Tyreach Music-ASCAP)
3. "Suburban King" – 1:48 (Giraldo, Billy Steinberg; Copyright Neil Giraldo Music, RAre Blue Music, Billy Steinberg Music & Denise Barry Music-ASCAP)
4. "A Crazy World Like This" – 4:02 (Giraldo, Tom Kelly, Steinberg; Copyright Neil Giraldo Music, Rare Blue Music, Billy Steinberg Music & Denise Barry Music-ASCAP)
5. "Takin' It Back" - 4:07 (Giraldo, Benatar; Copyright Big Tooth Music, Neil Giraldo Music & Rare Blue Music-ASCAP)

Production

• Produced By Peter Coleman & Neil Giraldo
• Engineered By Dave Hernandez

Personnel

• Pat Benatar: Lead & Backing Vocal
• Neil Giraldo: Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards, Synclavier, Backing Vocal
• Charlie Giordano: Keyboards
• Donnie Nossov: Bass, Backing Vocal
• Myron Grombacher: Drums, Percussion

External links

• "Tropico" at discogs

References