Tropico (Pat Benatar album)
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Cover photo by Rebecca Blake | ||||
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| Released | November 1, 1984 | |||
| Recorded | May–September 1984 | |||
| Studio | MCA Whitney Studios (Glendale, California) | |||
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| Length | 38:57 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
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Tropico is the fifth studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on November 1, 1984, by Chrysalis Records. It is the first album to feature bassist Donnie Nossov, who replaced Roger Capps in Benatar's band. It marks Benatar and Giraldo's first attempt to move away from Benatar's famed "hard rock" sound and start experimenting with new "gentler" styles and new wave sounds.
The album peaked at No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart and produced the Grammy-nominated Top Five Pop hit "We Belong". Other well-known songs from the album include "Painted Desert", "Outlaw Blues" and "Ooh Ooh Song" (also a Top 40 hit). A Spanish version of "Ooh Ooh Song" was on the B-side of the US single and appeared also on her 1999 compilation, Synchronistic Wanderings. Tropico was Benatar's sixth consecutive Platinum-certified album in the United States.
BGO Records reissued Tropico on CD with Seven the Hard Way.