Synchronistic Wanderings is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by American rock singer Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States...

. Spanning three discs, it is a box set chronicling her career from 1979 to 1999 - twenty years. Included are soundtrack contributions, b-sides, studio outtakes, previously unreleased songs, and rarities, as well as well-known singles - overall, it adds up to fifty-three tracks total. The booklet chronicles her career, discussing her ups and downs and giving additional commentary and background on most of the included songs from Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo.

Among the previously unreleased tracks are a cover of Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

's "Crying", a demo of "Love Is a Battlefield

Love Is a Battlefield

"Love Is a Battlefield" is a song written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman, after Pat Benatar asked Chapman to write her a hit song. It was released as a single from Benatar's album Live from Earth. The single has been certified gold and is her highest charting single in the United States...

", a live version of "I Need a Lover

I Need a Lover

"I Need a Lover" is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp under the stage name John Cougar. It first appeared on his 1978 album A Biography, which was not released in the United States....

", part 1 of "Rise" (from her 1993 album Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (album)

Gravity's Rainbow is Pat Benatar's tenth album, released in 1993. It peaked at #85 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It is named after, though bears little other relation to, the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name...

), a live performance of "Run Between the Raindrops" (from Seven the Hard Way), and a remix of "Every Time I Fall Back".

Disc 1

1. "Heartbreaker
   Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar song)
   "Heartbreaker" is a song recorded by Pat Benatar on her 1979 album In the Heat of the Night. Written and composed by Geoff Gill and Clint Wade, it reached No. 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It is a staple of her live shows....
   
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2. "We Live For Love"
3. "My Clone Sleeps Alone"
4. "I Need a Lover
   I Need a Lover
   "I Need a Lover" is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp under the stage name John Cougar. It first appeared on his 1978 album A Biography, which was not released in the United States....
   
    [Live]"
5. "In the Heat of the Night"
6. "You Better Run"
7. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot
   Hit Me with Your Best Shot
   "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" is a song written by Canadian singer/songwriter Eddie Schwartz and recorded by American singer Pat Benatar in 1979. It was released as the second single from her second album Crimes of Passion, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first top 10 hit...
   
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8. "Treat Me Right"
9. "Wuthering Heights"
10. "Hell is for Children"
11. "Fire and Ice"
12. "Promises in the Dark"
13. "Precious Time"
14. "Shadows of the Night"
15. "Little Too Late"
16. "Looking for a Stranger"
17. "Anxiety" (Get Nervous)
18. "Love Is a Battlefield
    Love Is a Battlefield
    "Love Is a Battlefield" is a song written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman, after Pat Benatar asked Chapman to write her a hit song. It was released as a single from Benatar's album Live from Earth. The single has been certified gold and is her highest charting single in the United States...
    
     [Demo Version]"

Disc 2

1. "Love Is a Battlefield"
2. "Ooh Ooh Song"
3. "We Belong
   We Belong
   "We Belong" is a 1984 single from Pat Benatar's sixth studio album Tropico. It matched the success of "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S., peaking at number five, and reaching number three on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart and the top 40 on its Adult...
   
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4. "Painted Desert"
5. "Outlaw Blues"
6. "Invincible" [Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean
   The Legend of Billie Jean
   The Legend of Billie Jean is a 1985 American drama film, directed by Matthew Robbins.-Plot:Billie Jean Davy , a Corpus Christi, Texas high school girl, rides with her younger brother, Binx , on a Honda Elite to a local lake to enjoy a day of swimming and relaxation...
   
   ]
7. "Sex as a Weapon"
8. "Le Bel Age"
9. "New Dream Islands" [Session Outtake]
10. "Run Between the Raindrops" [Live]
11. "One Love (Song of the Lion)"
12. "True Hearts" [Session Outtake]
13. "Let's Stay Together"
14. "All Fired Up"
15. "Shooting Star"[Live-Harry Chapin tribute concert]
16. "La Cancion Ooh Ooh" (Ooh Ooh Song - Spanish Version)

Disc 3

1. "Payin' the Cost to be the Boss"
2. "True Love"
3. "The Good Life"
4. "I Feel Lucky"
5. "Please Come Home for Christmas"
6. "Tell Me Why"
7. "Crying" [Session Outtake]
8. "Sometimes the Good Guys Finish First" [from The Secret of My Success
   The Secret of My Success
   The Secret of My Success is a 1965 British comedy film from American writer-director Andrew L...
   
   ]
9. "Somebody's Baby"
10. "Everybody Lay Down"
11. "Rise (Part 2)"
12. "Rise (Part 1)" [Session Outtake]
13. "Temptation"
14. "Every Time I Fall Back (Remix)"
15. "The Effect You Have on Me" [from the Édith Piaf
    Édith Piaf
    Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
    
     Tribute album]
16. "Rescue Me" [from Speed]
17. "Strawberry Wine"
18. "I Don't Want to be Your Friend"
19. "Here's My Heart" [from Metropolis
    Metropolis (film)
    Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
    
    (1984 re-release)]

External links

• Pat Benatar on Billboard.com
• Official Site