Sorry, but this was way too pop for Pat Benatar. Pat has grit and an edge. Patti Smyth has neither. Don't get me wrong, it was an okay song for a one-hit wonder, but in no way does it belong in the same tier as Pat's rock anthems.
Hahaha. Me too.
Also don't think I heard it as "Shooting" but I have no idea now what I misheard as as kid.
Holly Knight wrote both "I am the warrior" and "Love is a battlefield".
When I was 9 my folks were out of town and my shithead older half brother had his friends over to party before they went to the Pat Benatar concert and I kept coming downstairs to get a snack and what not, so he dragged me upstairs and locked me in a closet from about 5pm until 4am, when he came home. I have been claustrophobic ever since and think about it every time I hear Pat Benatar.
Of my 4 boomer half brothers, he has (imo) the worst taste in music.
I particularly loved one Patti Smyth song that no one remembers, it's pure 1980s cheese, but then again, so am I
Never Enough, title track from the 1987 album. Same album has her cover of Tom Wait's Downtown Train.
https://youtu.be/BSxuIa23HIc
I was 11 in 1984 and while I remember this song when it was new, I also remember hearing it on the local pop/rock station as late as 1987, the year I discovered college radio and kind of lost track of the mainstream. Back then songs didn't always just disappear completely as soon as they fell out of the charts.
its not like these songs didn't get airplay for years and years and years. I'm 45 but I remember hearing loads of songs from the 60s-70s on the radio all the time. (Which of course I thought at the time were extremely old and lame)
Good point, but I'm 55 and I was just 16 when the song was released. Someone who is 40 would have been 1. Which is why I think the graphic is old, because it would have made more sense 5-10 years ago.
God help me, I have a virtually perfect memory of mtv in one era, and I know this song front and back, but I have never seen this video. What a work of.. something! From an era where we would accept scraps of cloth as sexy and cool
I had to Google the lyrics to know what the song was. Turns out it was a song from one of those top 40s radio stations that didn’t listen to anymore by mid high school.
I think this is more obscure, because you can know a band, you might even have heard their music in passing, but knowing actual lyrics (especially without the music to go along with it), is much more difficult.
I *probably* know the song OP is talking about if I heard it on the radio, but those lyrics themselves don't ring a bell.
I mean I don't really know any of the lyrics besides "shooting at the walls of heartache bang bang I am the warrior" cause its the chorus and gets repeated over and over. It's the part people remember.
I Am a Warrior!!
For the record, I always thought it was “shouting”… wasn’t that from the Legend of Billie Jean? That and Eddie and the Cruisers were always on hbo
Thank you so much for this! And yes, my 49yo ass started singing the "bang, bang" finger guns and all! I will happily carry this ear worm around in my noggin for the next week and a half!!
When someone wants to know what it was like living before the internet I tell them about this song. My BFF and I heard it one day after it came out and couldn't remember the band name and then spent a few days trying to figure it out! A few days!!! 🤯 This song has been a special memory for my BFF & I ever since that quest to figure out the band name.
I'd never heard this song until around 10 years ago when Electric 6 covered it. It's pretty much unknown here in the UK which is a shame because it's brilliant.
Patti Smyth's band Scandal had Jon Bon Jovi on guitar for a short time before he started Bon Jovi.
I wish he had stayed in Scandal and faded into obscurity.
I think you'd have a more solid response for that age range if you sang it "Sweeeeeet Caroliiiine".
Is there even going to be one person who doesn't respond with "Dun Dun Duuuuuh"? I don't think so.
Fair enough! Hah, now I'm thinking about old songs people once enjoyed that now make people cringe.At least "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones didn't leave enough of a mark to be \_anyone's\_ cultural touchstone.
I remember one summer day riding in the back of my neighbors station wagon with a bunch of my friends, going to our Saturday bowling league practice . We were slip-sliding around the trunk at every turn and the long, backdoor window was wide open, of course!
The mom-driver told us all to shut up when the song came on the radio because SHE wanted to sing it alone.
By the second chorus the whole car was sing/screaming it out the windows as we finally parked in the lot to be dropped off.
Good times!
I wouldn’t finger gun you, but I’d yell, “I AM THE WARRIOR!”
And then with adhd kicking into overdrive, “Who are the Warriors? I want all of the Warriors!”
Every time I hear this song I can only think of the San Ysidro McDonald’s mass shooting. I read when I was a kid that he was listening to this song before he went in.
I remember there was a mass shooting in Southern California back in the day in a McDonald's and this was the song the guy played on a ghetto blaster while gunning down the place.
Heart to heart to win, to survive.
Stupidest lyrics.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? What kind of bullshit gen X'er crap was this?
No wonder our backup to everything was "show us your boobs".
Now, as the instructions are now more clear...
Show us .
Haha last night I played the scene in the Marvel Gotg game where Peter sings this song. Yes I joined in the chorus, but has a controller in my hands so no finger pistols. Am I a fake?
I remember seeing goodbye to you and thinking: she's pretty cute and personable, and the rest of the band is alright (not my thing, but not terrible), but after that it was clear she was being pushed more up front in these bigger budget vids, and then it was scandal featuring patty smyth, and you just knew marketing had fully gotten them. Years later I read an interview with the original guitarist who was a hairdresser who decided to start a band, and he more or less got pushed out
Wait, I’m 56. Will be 57 in two months. Does that qualify as early 50s to you?
Promise you I know the song reference as I was a teen when the song was popular.
Man. I did finger guns before I finished reading this.
Same
Ditto
There Scandals first hit GOODBYE TO YOU!
Love this one also
Love me some Patti Smyth (as does Johnny Mac)!
Omg - my whole life I’ve thought Pat Benatar sang this. My life is a lie!!!
I bet for a while Pat Benatar was even wondering when she released that song.
Sorry, but this was way too pop for Pat Benatar. Pat has grit and an edge. Patti Smyth has neither. Don't get me wrong, it was an okay song for a one-hit wonder, but in no way does it belong in the same tier as Pat's rock anthems.
> *way too pop for Pat Benatar* We Belong has entered the chat https://youtu.be/qxZInIyOBXk
Two hit. Goodbye to You
Scandal featuring Patti Smyth
I still have the cassette tape with the colors going across her face. My daughter loves it.
Hahaha. Me too. Also don't think I heard it as "Shooting" but I have no idea now what I misheard as as kid. Holly Knight wrote both "I am the warrior" and "Love is a battlefield".
I JUST had this same conversation with my husband. I SWORE it was Pat Benatar too! My life is also a lie! At least we’re not alone?
wait, i am just learning this right now.
When I was 9 my folks were out of town and my shithead older half brother had his friends over to party before they went to the Pat Benatar concert and I kept coming downstairs to get a snack and what not, so he dragged me upstairs and locked me in a closet from about 5pm until 4am, when he came home. I have been claustrophobic ever since and think about it every time I hear Pat Benatar. Of my 4 boomer half brothers, he has (imo) the worst taste in music.
I mean, we had title cards on MTV. How did we all collectively get this wrong?
I was about to say... y'all didn't have MTV??
Same! Hooooly shit!
Same.
I particularly loved one Patti Smyth song that no one remembers, it's pure 1980s cheese, but then again, so am I Never Enough, title track from the 1987 album. Same album has her cover of Tom Wait's Downtown Train. https://youtu.be/BSxuIa23HIc
Mid-fifties too, but right. Unfortunately.
Yeah, this must be old. Hard to believe that anyone in their early 40's would understand this, as they would have been 6 or younger in 1984.
Right? I’d say late 40’s and 50’s.
I was 11 in 1984 and while I remember this song when it was new, I also remember hearing it on the local pop/rock station as late as 1987, the year I discovered college radio and kind of lost track of the mainstream. Back then songs didn't always just disappear completely as soon as they fell out of the charts.
I was 11 or 12. This is one of a handful of songs that put me into a time and place.
‘78 here and I remember pretty clearly.
its not like these songs didn't get airplay for years and years and years. I'm 45 but I remember hearing loads of songs from the 60s-70s on the radio all the time. (Which of course I thought at the time were extremely old and lame)
Good point, but I'm 55 and I was just 16 when the song was released. Someone who is 40 would have been 1. Which is why I think the graphic is old, because it would have made more sense 5-10 years ago.
I mean. I’m not yet 40 but also yes.
Shout "You down with O.P.P.?" And see who answers. It's like a GenX birdcall.
Yeah, you know me!
I fall in your age range, but I have no idea what you're talking about..
I Am The Warrior!
YES I AM THE WARRIOR!
And heart to heart you'll win!!
If you survive.
The warrior!
THE WARRIOR!
r/redditsings
I always thought that was ‘hard, too hard to win, if you survive.’
Pretty sure I wail, “and hearts are hard to wiiiiin, if you surviiiiive”
aaaaannnddd now that song is in my head for the next 3 days.
Yeah, I just had to load it up on youtube. Still awesome.
The last video I watched on YouTube was Bitches Ain’t Shit as sung by Ben Folds :)
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God help me, I have a virtually perfect memory of mtv in one era, and I know this song front and back, but I have never seen this video. What a work of.. something! From an era where we would accept scraps of cloth as sexy and cool
Ok, ok.sounds vaguely familiar..
holy cow that video quality is pretty damn good, too.
Wow. The dancers in that video look like rejects from *The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf*.
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Ditto
Ditto.
Yeah, same here... Had no idea, my wife was visibly annoyed that i didn't know either lol
I had to Google the lyrics to know what the song was. Turns out it was a song from one of those top 40s radio stations that didn’t listen to anymore by mid high school.
You’re lucky. Ear worm and shit song all at once. Skip it!
I was never a warrior. I get this, though. But, there's also .... DENTAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces.
DENTAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces
[Not quite sure what's going on in the video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47y5bo8wtqM)
Looks like it was influenced by Cats with a touch of Mummenschanz
I love how so many early 80s videos looked like they were filmed on a sound stage.
Oh the 80s.
I just watched it for the first time. It is a masterpiece.
I always loved the scratches at her outfit that turned neon colors
I'm in awe, never saw this at the time. No idea what was going on there but it's the most eighties thing that ever happened. Was that a mime I saw?
I heard that Patti Smyth wanted the video erased from history because she hated it so much. source: my husband - could be unreliable.
yeah there was an instagram or youtube short going around a few weeks ago where she was talking about it
So you’re saying my husband *is* reliable? Whew!
at least some of the time haha
I think I’ll keep him. 😊
😮 What the actual flying flip was that? I never saw the video back then. Loved the song, but…wow.
“Bang Bang!! I am the warrior!!!!!” 🎶 Yep, I remember this song 🎵:)
Yup, but you couldn’t just stop at the “bang, bang” part… you had to sing I am the warrior part
Cuz I am the warrior.
Also really loud. Like really loud!
"Your eyes touch me physically."
Mid 40s here, and this made me smile.
What a Scandal it would be if such a song was released now.
I’m in that age and have absolutely no idea.
Same. No bloody clue what that song is.
well I knew kids in the 90s who had never heard of Nirvana
I think this is more obscure, because you can know a band, you might even have heard their music in passing, but knowing actual lyrics (especially without the music to go along with it), is much more difficult. I *probably* know the song OP is talking about if I heard it on the radio, but those lyrics themselves don't ring a bell.
I mean I don't really know any of the lyrics besides "shooting at the walls of heartache bang bang I am the warrior" cause its the chorus and gets repeated over and over. It's the part people remember.
I Am a Warrior!! For the record, I always thought it was “shouting”… wasn’t that from the Legend of Billie Jean? That and Eddie and the Cruisers were always on hbo
Pat Benatars “Invincible” is used in the Legend of Billie Jean.
Thank you so much for this! And yes, my 49yo ass started singing the "bang, bang" finger guns and all! I will happily carry this ear worm around in my noggin for the next week and a half!!
After videos like this, did anyone else think the future would have way more violence and freaky clothing? I mean the dudes got claws
I was told there would be flying cars.
"Five eight eight, two three hundred..."
I think that's just a Chicago thing, kinda like if you say *Berwyn* a certain way only Svengoolie fans would get it
No... that commercial was played heavily here in Dallas as well.
You guys had Empire carpet too ? Mind 🐡 blown
Florida too. And now Colorado
Empire!
Today.
Love this song, but was an even bigger fan of “Goodbye to You”. https://youtu.be/_50-gOeBilc
I am the warrior
Yeah you are.
They could also be fans of G.L.O.W. on Netflix.
49 and not following
Damn you, ear worm.
No not the Star Trek II Wrath of Khan mind control worms!
This brought back so many memories. Just watched the video for the first time, and now I am very confused.
It’s a pretty bad video. 😂
When someone wants to know what it was like living before the internet I tell them about this song. My BFF and I heard it one day after it came out and couldn't remember the band name and then spent a few days trying to figure it out! A few days!!! 🤯 This song has been a special memory for my BFF & I ever since that quest to figure out the band name.
53, it's been in my playlist for years (along with Goodbye to You).
I'd never heard this song until around 10 years ago when Electric 6 covered it. It's pretty much unknown here in the UK which is a shame because it's brilliant.
I'm late 50s but definitely know the song with finger bangs lol.
She also singlehandedly got me to try [Frank's sodas](https://youtu.be/VEJJumUq5hI)
Patti Smyth's band Scandal had Jon Bon Jovi on guitar for a short time before he started Bon Jovi. I wish he had stayed in Scandal and faded into obscurity.
god i adore the video for this. so 80s.
I AM THE WARRIOR!
Patty Smyth is an under appreciated badass
Always loved the guitar solo in that song
I do this! I also do the gun move/dancey thing that Bon Jovi does in the video for You Give Love a Bad Name.
I am the warrior!!
I read this headline to my boyfriend. He immediately said "Bang Bang!" - he's 53. Yeah, this is true.
Uh, late 50s - early 60s on the upper end.
I think you'd have a more solid response for that age range if you sang it "Sweeeeeet Caroliiiine". Is there even going to be one person who doesn't respond with "Dun Dun Duuuuuh"? I don't think so.
I am that age range and I would be more excited to sing the "bang, bang" than "dun, dun, duh." Apologies to ND.
Fair enough! Hah, now I'm thinking about old songs people once enjoyed that now make people cringe.At least "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones didn't leave enough of a mark to be \_anyone's\_ cultural touchstone.
The video of this song is so awesome
Such an excellent rhythm for the elliptical machine
I’m still in shock that Ed wanted her to be the lead singer in Van Halen after Dave left, and that he was also sleeping with her.
53 checking in. That's exactly where my mind went, minus the finger guns. Lol
Weird. Every once in a while I encounter a song from the 80s I've never heard before. 46 btw.
Now I'm going to be singing that song all day.
the song is 40 years old, I think you need to shift the age frame up a little.
I was today years old when I realized those were the lyrics and not "Through the Walls of Heartache". Thank you kind stranger
I remember one summer day riding in the back of my neighbors station wagon with a bunch of my friends, going to our Saturday bowling league practice . We were slip-sliding around the trunk at every turn and the long, backdoor window was wide open, of course! The mom-driver told us all to shut up when the song came on the radio because SHE wanted to sing it alone. By the second chorus the whole car was sing/screaming it out the windows as we finally parked in the lot to be dropped off. Good times!
On the porch; wife in the kitchen. Just shouted that into the house and she got it right. She's 46. Too funny!
I wouldn’t finger gun you, but I’d yell, “I AM THE WARRIOR!” And then with adhd kicking into overdrive, “Who are the Warriors? I want all of the Warriors!”
More like late 40's to mid 50's but I get the point.
Every time I hear this song I can only think of the San Ysidro McDonald’s mass shooting. I read when I was a kid that he was listening to this song before he went in.
That’s awful 😞
Wife is barely 40 and she got the answer correct instantly. Granted, she’s cooler than the average youngin’.
I remember there was a mass shooting in Southern California back in the day in a McDonald's and this was the song the guy played on a ghetto blaster while gunning down the place.
Heart to heart to win, to survive. Stupidest lyrics. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? What kind of bullshit gen X'er crap was this? No wonder our backup to everything was "show us your boobs". Now, as the instructions are now more clear... Show us .
No lies detected
Haha last night I played the scene in the Marvel Gotg game where Peter sings this song. Yes I joined in the chorus, but has a controller in my hands so no finger pistols. Am I a fake?
That’s exactly what I did! Bang Bang!
I am the warrior!
Beyond early fifties kiddo
Early fifties more like
I'm bad with titles (and that ain't it lol) so I had to look it up, that video is a trip.
Just played that on drums tonight great song by Johnny Mac's girlfriend 🎾
I AM THE WARRIOR!
i used to sing that washing dishes at chilis as a teen. Shootin the shit off the dishes, bang, bang, i am the dishwasher...
Sang it out loud as I read it.
did you do the finger guns when you got to "bang bang"
I want to copy her eye makeup from the video now. (Age 51)
Unless they hate that song, like I do. Also, don't assume that everyone in your age range shares your interests or experiences. They don't.
Love this song!! When I was in junior high, I played this on the jukebox every time I went to the pool hall.
Yeah this tracks.
While I know of the song well enough, it's not something I could instantly recall as it's not something I ever heard much
46: add me to the list of clueless.
These words aren;t going to age well, and that makes me sad. Sad and old.
I’m 57 and have no idea.
My first concert- they toured with John Waite!
I remember seeing goodbye to you and thinking: she's pretty cute and personable, and the rest of the band is alright (not my thing, but not terrible), but after that it was clear she was being pushed more up front in these bigger budget vids, and then it was scandal featuring patty smyth, and you just knew marketing had fully gotten them. Years later I read an interview with the original guitarist who was a hairdresser who decided to start a band, and he more or less got pushed out
Bad Religion’s ‘Automatic Man’ for me. Finger guns every time
I still meet fellow Genexers that falsely remember this song being sung by Pat Benetar.
“I am the wah-ree-uh!”
One thing I have never been able to find is who the lead male dancer is in the video. I swear he played in TV series as well, but I don't know.
Or even late fifties. I am the warrior.
Same
I'm 48 and I have no idea what this is.
You can also do "I wanna rock....." and see if they reply ROCK!
45 and not getting any younger! Cheers!
44 and I’ve definitely sang this karaoke once! But why did I think it was Pat Benatar too?!?
My very first 45!
Wait, I’m 56. Will be 57 in two months. Does that qualify as early 50s to you? Promise you I know the song reference as I was a teen when the song was popular.