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Disc 1:

  1. Whip It - Devo
  2. Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
  3. Empire Strikes Back (Medley) - Meco
  4. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
  5. Celebration - Kool & The Gang
  6. The Break (Part 1) - Kurtis Blow
  7. Let My Love Open The Door - Pete Townshend
  8. Call Me - Blondie
  9. Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
  10. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  11. Lost In Love - Air Supply
  12. 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
  13. I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
  14. Sailing - Christopher Cross
  15. Just The Two Of Us - Grover Washington, Jr.
  16. Cars - Gary Newman
  17. Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris
  18. Swetheart - Franke & The Knockouts
  19. Shake It Up - The Cars
  20. General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights
  21. The Stroke - Billy Squier

Disc 2:

  1. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
  2. Working For The Weekend - Loverboy
  3. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
  4. Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
  5. Centerfold - J. Geils Band
  6. At This Moment - Billy & The Beaters
  7. Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
  8. Hold On Loosely - .38 Special
  9. Believe It Or Not (Theme From 'Greatest American Hero') - Joey Scarbury
  10. Take Off - Bob & Doug McKenzie
  11. Super Freak (Part 1) - Rick James
  12. 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
  13. Bettie Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
  14. Time - Alan Parsons Project
  15. Gloria - Laura Branigan
  16. Maneater - Daryl Hall
  17. Hill Street Blues (Theme) - Mike Post
  18. Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
  19. Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Lave Me Aha Aha Aha) - TriO
  20. You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band

Disc 3:

  1. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
  2. The Look Of Love (Part 1) - ABC
  3. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
  4. Rock This Town - Stray Cats
  5. Lies - Thompson Twins
  6. Words - Missing Persons
  7. Don't You Want Me - The Human League
  8. Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred
  9. Down Under - Men At Work
  10. Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
  11. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
  12. Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
  13. Mickey - Toni Basil
  14. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
  15. You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
  16. Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
  17. Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
  18. Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  19. Africa - Toto
  20. Goodbye To You - Scandal
  21. Puttin' On The Ritz - Taco

Disc 4:

  1. Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band
  2. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
  3. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
  4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
  5. Our House - Madness
  6. Thae Salt In My Tears - Martin Briley
  7. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
  8. Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
  9. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
  10. Always Something There To Rewind Me - Naked Eyes
  11. In A Big Country - Big Country
  12. One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx
  13. Der Kommissar - After The Fire
  14. Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
  15. Karma-Chameleon - Culture Club
  16. Let's Go To Bed - The Cure
  17. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
  18. Manic - Michael Sembello
  19. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
  20. Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot

Disc 5:

  1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
  2. Mr. Roboto - Styx
  3. I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters
  4. Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
  5. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
  6. Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
  7. Missing You - John Waite
  8. 99 Luftballons - Nena
  9. Tenderness - General Public
  10. They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
  11. Heaven - Bryan Adams
  12. White Horse - Laid Back
  13. Let The Music Play - Shannon
  14. Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
  15. Cool It Now - New Edition
  16. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
  17. Footlose - Kenny Loggins
  18. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
  19. Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
  20. The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.

Disc 6:

  1. Obsession - Animotion
  2. Shout - Tears For Fears
  3. Take On Me - A-Ha
  4. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
  5. Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
  6. Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
  7. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
  8. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
  9. Miami Vice (Theme) - Jan Hammer
  10. Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy
  11. Kyrie - Mr. Mister
  12. Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
  13. We Built This City - Starship
  14. St. Elmos Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr
  15. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
  16. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
  17. Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge
  18. You Look Marvelous - Billy Crystal
  19. Heartbeat - Don Johnson
  20. Everbody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

Disc 7:

  1. Venus - Bananarama
  2. Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
  3. Parangimia - The Art Of Noise
  4. If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  5. Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satillites
  6. What You Need - INXS
  7. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C
  8. Rumors - Timex Social Club
  9. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
  10. Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
  11. I'll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids On The Block
  12. Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  13. Since You've Been Gone - The Outfield
  14. Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson
  15. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
  16. La Bamba - Los Lobos
  17. Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club
  18. Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
  19. Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
  20. Roam - The B-52's

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Album Details: Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)

Release Date:
07/02/2002
Label:
Rhino / Wea
UPC:
081227823924

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Rock criticism has two schools of thought regarding the '80s. One complains that it was all crass, commercial crap, breathing a sigh of relief that we made it through that dreck (thanks to IRS, SST, jangle pop, college rock, and hardcore punk, of course). The other celebrates the album as "cheesy" fun, full of naïve, silly singles; bad haircuts; big synthesizers. It's a school intent on reducing it all as nostalgic fodder -- and whenever '80s music is written about in this fashion, it's always given ironic adjectives, straight out of the height of valley girl speak. All this ghettoizes an era in pop music that was rich in innovation, great one-hit wonders, oddities, and inexplicable flukes that make it a wonderful cross between the first days of the British Invasion and the peak of AM pop in the early '70s. It was the last great era for pop singles -- the last time that singles really mattered, the last time that something totally unexpected could capture the minds of the public, before radio consolidation meant hits couldn't build in a region, before MTV turned to non-music programming and cut off a national outlet for new music. Like, Omigod It's the '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) captures that era pretty well. Even if it occasionally succumbs to treating the decade's music as if it was nothing but silly ephemera (which, granted, some of it was -- but it was catchy, well-made silly ephemera), it does do a couple of things right: Namely, it relies on new wave, yet tempers it with soul, hip-hop, hard rock, and soft rock, while realizing that the prime period of the '80s was before 1985, and that the one-hit-wonders and spirit of new wave faded away after that. This box spends about five-and-a-half of its seven discs on that era, with the remaining disc-and-a-half having about a disc's worth of 1986-era hits before quickly wrapping it up as we approach the first Bush era and the height of superstar MTV (the years when only the big guys -- whether it was Michael Jackson, Madonna, Aerosmith, Don Henley, or Steve Winwood -- ruled the prime time MTV airwaves, and the network no longer had to rely on interesting, primarily British, oddities to fill time). That's a good thing, because that was the best time for pop music in the '80s, and this captures much of the giddy feel of that time. The main problem with the box is that its sheer size gives the impression that it's more definitive than it really is. Forget the complaints that there's nothing from critical favorites and heavy-hitters like Elvis Costello, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, R.E.M., U2, Prince, Madonna, Springsteen, etc.; the real crime is that there are numerous great, definitive one-hit wonders and fluke breakthroughs by cult favorites missing. Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You," as good as any single released in the '80s, isn't here; there's nothing from Adam the Ants, XTC, the B-52's, or the Violent Femmes; "Warm Leatherette" isn't here, nor is M's "Pop Muzik," "88 Lines about 44 Women," or "I Don't Like Mondays"; there's not a single from Squeeze, Split Enz, or the Jam; no "Someday, Someway," no "Mexican Radio," no "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"; no "I Know What Boys Like" or "I Melt With You"; Peter Wolf's "Lights Out," never present on any '80s hits collection, isn't here; "The Safety Dance" is missing; no Flock of Seagulls or Baltimora. It's hard not to miss any of the above, once you realize they're not here, especially since apart from Joey Scarbury's "Theme From 'Greatest American Hero'" and a host of novelties that it would be better off leaving behind (Bob and Doug McKenzie, Billy Crystal's "You Look Mahvelous," Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" - it's a wonder Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" isn't here), there's nothing unexpected here (other than it's amazing that Rhino has finally managed to release an '80s collection without the Plimsouls' "A Million Miles Away."). Still, many great singles are here, there's diversity in the selection, and it's a fun listen, so many collectors may prefer this to Rhino's classic, new wave-centric Just Can't Get Enough series. Just don't think that it's the final word on the '80s -- there was too much great pop music for it to be contained on a mere seven discs.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide


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