Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)
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Free Music Review: perfect title for a perfect 80s collection
Hit: 5 Stars
the only thing missing from this collection is a rubiks cube. someone dug deep into the archives to find the billy crystal song. some songs here are garbage "da da da" and "you dropped a bomb on me"....however....some songs featured here cant be found anywhere else like the theme song from "hill street blues". 7 discs and 140 songs and someone forgot about madonna / genesis / the police / def leppard / and AC-DC (just to name a few). "video killed the radio star" was dropped a notch to song #2 on disc one...quite a small tragedy considering that one song took pole position for MTVs debut. the song by foreigner "i want to know what love is" is perhaps one of the greatest songs of all time, the best slot would have been at the end of disc 7 instead of the middle of disc 5. everytime i hear the song "geopardy" i cant help to think of its parody song by weird al yankovik "i lost on geopardy". the price of the set is reasonable considering the average price per disc is about 12 dollars..... wake me up when the matching vidios are released on DVD.Free Music Review: Nice Overview of the 80's
Hit: 5 Stars
This collection will save you alot of money. Think if you were to go out and buy every CD that these songs are on. Here you get over 141 top hit songs of the 80's on 7 discs plus an awesome collectable box and a novelty 80's book with facts and pictures for every single year. Information about all the songs, artists, events , tv shows, movies and happenings during the 80's. Open up the Box and you see all the popular dances of the 80's including the Head Spin, The Wave, The Tick, The Mannequin and more. It also shows you how to do them with pictures step by step! The box is truly unique. Heres the song listings disk by disk.
Disc 1-
1.Devo- Whip It
2.The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star
3.Meco- Empire Strikes Back
4.Queen- Another One Bites the Dust
5.Kool and the Gang- Celebration
6.Kurtis Blow- The Breaks Part 1
7.Pete Townshend- Let my love open the Door
8.Blondie- Call Me
9.REO Speedwagon- Keep on loving you
10.The Vapors- Turning Japanese
11.Air Supply- Lost in Love
12.Dolly Parton- 9 to 5
13.Eddie Rabbitt- I love a rainy night
14. Christopher Cross- Sailing
15.Grover Washington Jr- Just the 2 of us
16.Gary Numan- Cars
17.Donnie Iris- Ah!Yeah!
18.Frankie and the Knockouts- Sweetheart
19.The Cars- Shake It Up
20.Billy Squire- The stroke
Disc 2
1.Billy Idol- Dancing with Myself
2.Loverboy- Working for the Weekend
3.Rick Springfield- Jessie's Girl
4.Tom Tom Clun- Genius of Love
5.J Geils Band- Centerfold
6.Billy and the Beaters- At this moment
7.Quarterflash- Harden My Heart
8.38 Special- Hold on loosely
9.Joey Scarbury- Theme from Greatest American Hero
10.Bob and Doug Mckenzie- Take off
11.Rick James- Super Freak Part 1
12.Tommy Tutone- Jenny/867-5309
13.Kim Carnes- Bette Davis Eyes
14.Alan parsons project- time
15.Laura Branigan- Gloria
16.Hall and Oates- Maneater
17.Theme from Hill street Blues
18.Frank Zappa and Moon Unit- Valley Girl
19.Trio- Da da da
20.Gap Band- You dropped a bomb on me
Disc 3
1.Duran Duran-Hungry like the Wolf
2.ABC- The Look Of Love
3.Soft Cell- Tainted Love
4.Stray Cats- Rock this Town
5.Thompson Twins- Lies
6.Missing Persons- words
7.The Human League- Dont you want me
8.Haircut One Hundred- Love plus One
9.Men at work- down under
10.Joe Jackson- Steppin Out
11.Bow Wow Wow- I Want Candy
12.Dexies Midnight Runners- Come on Eileen
13.Toni Basil- Mickey
14.Golden Earing- Twilight Zone
15.Melissa Manchester- You should hear how she talks about you
16.Bertie Higgins- Key Largo
17.Buckner and Garcia- Pac Man Fever
18.Bonnie Tyler- Total eclipse of the heart
19.Toto- Africa
20.Scandal- Goodbye to you
21.Taco- Puttin on the Ritz
Disc 4
1.Greg Kihn Band- Jeopardy
2.Thomas Dolby- She blinded me with science
3.Eddy Grant- Electric Avenue
4.Eurythmics- Sweet dreams are made of these
5.Madness- Our House
6.Martin Briley- The salt in my tears
7.Cyndi Lauper- Girls just want to have fun
8.The romantics- Talking in your sleep
9. Peter Shilling- Major Tom coming Home
10.Naked Eyes- Always somthing there to remind me
11.Big Country- In a Big County
12.The Fixx- One thing leads to another
13.After the Fire- Der Komisser
14.The Motels- Suddenly Last Summer
15.Culture Club- Karma Chameleon
16.The Cure- Lets go to Bed
17.Kajagoogoo- Too Shy
18.Michael Sambello- Maniac
19.Night Ranger- Sister Christian
20.Quiet Riot- Cum On Feel the Noise
Disc 5
1.Yes- Owner of a lonely Heart
2.Styx- Mr. Roboto
3.Pointer Sisters- Im so Excited
4.The Pretenders- Back on the chain gang
5.Foreigner- I want to know what Love is
6.Corey Hart- Sunglasses at Night
7.John Waite- Missing You
8.Nena-99 LuftBalloons
9.General Public- Tenderness
10.Tracey Ullman- They dont know
11.Bryan Adams- Heaven
12.White horse- Laidback
13.Shannon- Let the music play
14.Deniece Williams- Lets hear it for the boy
15. New Edition- Cool it Now
16.Ray Parker Jr- Ghostbusters
17.Kenny Loggins- Footloose
18.Twisted Sister- We're not gonna take it
19.The Scorpions- Rock you like A Hurricane
20.Sheila E- The Glamourous Life
Disc 6
1.Animotion- Obesession
2.Tears for Fears- Shout
3.A-Ha- Take on me
4.Simple Minds- Dont you Forget About Me
5.Katrina and the Waves- Walkin on Sunshine
6.Til Tuesday- Voices Carry
7.Oingo Boingo- Weird Science
8.Dead or Alive- You Spin me Round like a Record
9.Jan Hammer- Miami Vice Theme
10.Dream Academy- Life in a Northern Town
11.Mr. Mister- Kyrie
12.Paul Young- everytime you go away
13.Starship- We Built This City
14.John Parr- St Elmos Fire
15.Robert Palmer- Addicted To Love
16.Harold Faltermeyer- Axel F
17.Debarge- Rhythm of the night
18.Billy Crystal - You Look Marvelous
19.Don Johnson- Heartbeat ( Dont know why they put this one on here) lol
20.Wang Chung- Everybody have fun Tonight
Disc 7
1.Bananarama- Venus
2.The Bangles- Walk like an Egyptian
3.The Art of Noise With Max Headroom- Paranoimia
4.Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark- If you Leave
5.Georgia Satellites- Keep your hands to yourself
6.INXS- What you need
7.Run-D.M.C.- Walk this Way
8.Timex Social Club- Rumors
9.Crowded House- Dont dream its over
10.Simply Red- Holding back the Years
11.New Kids on the Block- i'll be loving you forever
12.The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Tuff Enuff
13.The Outfield- Since youve been gone
14.Debbie Gibson- Only in my Dreams
15.Rick Astley- Never gonna give you Up
16.Los Lobos- La Bamba
17.The Escape Club- Wild Wild West
18.Bobby Mcferrin- Dont worry Be Happy
19.Richard Marx- Right Here Waiting
20.The B-52's- Roam
Is missing some great artists from the 80's but overall it's a nice collection of songs and would make a good gift for anyone who loved the 80's. 4.5 Stars.
Free Music Review: What the hell?
Hit: 2 Stars
As a compilation of course there will always be something missing...but no Pet Shop Boys? no Madonna? no DM? No New Order? No Michael Jackson? Maybe their record companies or the artists themselves did not allow their songs to be included here but seven discs and 90 bucks for a compilation missing these giants are almost a shame...As one of the reviewers pointed out, 60% good music and the rest is garbage- and that 60% is not wonderful music (for instances instead of Broken Wings, Kyrie by Mr. Mister etc etc)Free Music Review: The BEST 80's Compilation So Far
Hit: 5 Stars
Some fans of the 80's will find more songs in other box sets and even there might be better selections of songs. This compilation outstands from the rest since the quality that Rhino puts in their music is great and also this set comes with a 90 pages booklet that will bring information of every song on it along with pictures and headline news of the decade.
I was a teenager in the 80's and by listening to the songs, reading the booklet and watching the pictures I was able to go back in time and enjoy some precious memories that money can not buy.
Two kinds of people will enjoy this amazing box set,
1- Those who went to high school and had fun with the cheesy pop and soft rock from the 80's.
2- The newer generations trying to go back in time to find out the roots of some of the popular tunes of nowadays.
Song buyers will complain that a lot of the popular artist from the 80's will be missed in this compilation, but most of the real 80's fans will rather have songs that are barely played in the radio but still were popular in our scenarios than big stars that are easy to find in CD and are still played in a lot of the radio stations around the world.
This is the key of success for these products from Rhino.
Go and buy yours, do not even attempt to download the music. It is worth to collect these songs on these 7 CD's.
Free Music Review: overall a good collection
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a good choice to pick if you're looking to purchase all the songs featured normally on the 80's Pop or similar CDs. It doesn't have anything by the more mainstream and still in the public eye artists but is more a showcase for the one-hit wonders and "where are they now" artists. I bought it as a Gold Box purchase and got the "good deal" that way. I wouldn't pay full price for it.