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Gravity's Rainbow (album)

FieldValue
nameGravity's Rainbow
typeAlbum
artistPat Benatar
coverGravitysRainbow.jpg
altcut-out black and white photo of Pat Benatar swinging arms to side in front of orange cartoon drawings
releasedJune 1, 1993
studioSpyder Mae's Soul Kitchen, Los Angeles, California
genreRock
length45:27
labelChrysalis
producerDon Gehman, Neil Giraldo
prev_titleTrue Love
prev_year1991
next_titleInnamorata
next_year1997
misc{{Singles
nameGravity's Rainbow
typestudio
single1Everybody Lay Down
single1dateJuly 21, 1993
single2Somebody's Baby
single2dateAugust 30, 1993

Gravity's Rainbow is the ninth studio album and tenth album overall by American singer Pat Benatar. It was released in 1993 on Chrysalis Records. The album is named after Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel of the same name, but was not otherwise directly inspired by the novel. It peaked at No. 85 on the US Billboard 200, Gravity's Rainbow would be Benatar's last studio album recorded for Chrysalis.

Track listing

Singles

"Somebody's Baby"

  • US cassette single, 4KM-24839 / EU cassette single, TC-CHS 5001
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (edit) - 3:39
  2. "Temptation" (non-LP track) - 3:28
  • US CD maxi single, F2-58001
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (edit) - 3:39
  2. "Somebody's Baby" (a/c mix) - 3:52
  3. "Pictures of a Gone World" - 0:41
  4. "Everybody Lay Down" (The Dyffernt Mix) - 4:31
  5. "Temptation" (non-LP track) - 3:28
  6. "Promises in the Dark" (live - 1993) - 5:11
  • EU CD single, 0946 3 24902 2 3
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (edit) - 3:39
  2. "Somebody's Baby" (a/c mix) - 3:52
  3. "Somebody's Baby" (album version) - 4:24
  4. "Temptation" (non-LP track) - 3:28
  • AUS CD single, 880736-2
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (album version) - 4:24
  2. "Temptation" (non-LP track) - 3:28
  3. "Love is a Battlefield" - 4:03
  4. "All Fired Up" - 4:27
  • UK CD single (CD 1), CDCHSS 5001
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (radio edit) - 3:39
  2. "Somebody's Baby" (a/c mix) - 3:52
  3. "Temptation" (non-LP track) - 3:28
  4. "Promises in the Dark" (live - 1993) - 5:11
  • UK CD single (CD 2), CDCHS 5001
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (radio edit) - 3:39
  2. "Love is a Battlefield" - 4:03
  3. "We Live for Love" - 3:54
  4. "We Belong" (single version) - 3:40
  • JPN 3" Mini CD single, TODP-2432 / US CD promo, DPRO-04743
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (edit) - 3:39
  2. "Somebody's Baby" (a/c mix) - 3:52
  3. "Somebody's Baby" (album version) - 4:24
  • US 7" Jukebox promo, S7-17490
  1. "Somebody's Baby" (album version) - 4:24
  2. "Crazy" (album version) - 4:24

"Everybody Lay Down"

  • JPN 3" Mini CD single, TODP-2418 / US CD promo, DPRO-04693
  1. "Everybody Lay Down" (edit) - 3:57
  2. "Everybody Lay Down" (album version) - 4:25
  • US 7" Jukebox promo, S7-17592
  1. "Everybody Lay Down" (album version) - 4:25
  2. "Promises in the Dark" (live - 1993) - 5:11

"Crazy"

  • US CD Promo, DPRO 04594
  1. "Crazy" (edit) - 3:40
  2. "Crazy" (album version) - 4:24

Personnel

Band members

  • Pat Benatar – vocals, executive producer
  • Neil Giraldo – guitar, keyboards, percussion, executive producer
  • Frank Linx – bass, percussion
  • Myron Grombacher – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

  • Greg Piccolo – saxophone on "Crazy"
  • Richard Dodd – cello on "Somebody's Baby"
  • Donte Scher – violin on "Somebody's Baby"

Production

  • Don Gehman – producer, engineer
  • Rick Will – engineer, mixing of "Tradin' Down"
  • Ed Thacker – mixing
  • Danny Alonso – mix assistant
  • Sheldon and Nicholas Devane – mixing of "Pictures of a Gone World" and "Rise (Part 2)"
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering

Weekly charts

Year (1993)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)130
Canadian Albums (RPM100)44
US (Billboard 20085

References

References

  1. "P Benatar albums".
  2. "singles".
  3. "singles".
  4. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Pat Benatar Gravity's Rainbow review". [[Rovi Corporation]].
  5. Odintz, Andrea. (30 September 1993). "Album Reviews: Pat Benatar - Gravity's Rainbow".
  6. "Pat Benatar Chart History: Billboard 200". [[Billboard (magazine).
  7. "Pat Benatar ARIA Chart history (1988 to 2024)". ARIA.
  8. (31 July 1993). "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 58, No. 3, July 31, 1993". [[Library and Archives Canada]].
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