All The 80's (2003) (Import)

Product Summary UPC: 09325583018589 Release Date: 10/1/2006 Buy.com Sku: 62283110 Item#: MUUKCG Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Theme From Greatest American Hero (believe It Or Not) ~ Joey Scarbury ------ 2. Brass in Pocket ~ The Pretenders ------ 3. Drive ~ The Cars ------ 4. Glory Road ~ Richard Clapton ------ 5. How Do I Make You Feel ~ Linda Ronstadt ------ 6. Bamba ~ Los Lobos ------ 7. Let's Dance ~ Chris Rea ------ 8. Life in a Northern Town ~ The Dream Academy ------ 9. Owner Of A Lonely Heart ~ Yes ------ 10. Forever Now ~ Cold Chisel ------ 11. Have You Ever Been In Love ~ Leo Sayer ------ 12. Rockabilly Rebel ~ Major Matchbox ------ 13. Ride Like The Wind ~ Christopher Cross ------ 14. You're Gonna Get Hurt ~ Jenny Morris ------ 15. We Can Get Together ~ Icehouse ------ 16. You Can't Hurry Love ~ Phil Collins ------ 17. Whip It ~ Devo ------ 18. This Charming Man ~ The Smiths ------ 19. Shake It Up ~ The Cars ------ 20. Gimme Head ~ The Radiators ------ 21. Solid Rock ~ Goanna ------ 22. Real Love ~ The Doobie Brothers ------ 23. Boys In Town ~ The Divinyls ------ 24. One Day I'll Fly Away ~ Randy Crawford ------ 25. Johnny Come Home ~ Fine Young Cannibals ------ 26. Legs ~ ZZ Top ------ 27. Say You Will ~ Foreigner ------ 28. Love Is ~ Alannah Myles ------ 29. That's When I Think Of You ~ 1927 ------ 30. Venus ~ Bananarama ------ 31. Kokomo ~ The Beach Boys ------ 32. Mister Sandman ~ Emmylou Harris ------ 33. Lawyers In Love ~ Jackson Browne ------ 34. Rose ~ Bette Midler ------ 35. Boy From New York City ~ Manhattan Transfer ------ 36. California Girls ~ David Lee Roth ------ 37. Singin The Blues ~ Dave Edmunds ------ 38. Smalltown Boy ~ Bronski Beat ------ 39. Solitaire ~ Laura Branigan ------ 40. Take On Me ~ A ------ 41. Rock Lobster ~ The B ------ 42. Strange Way ~ Firefall ------ 43. Blues ------ 44. Winelight ~ Grover Washington, Jr. ------ 45. Comin Home ~ The Radiators ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info A compilation of 45 hits from the 1980s featuring such songs as "Let's Dance," "Owner of a Lonely Heart," and "Boys in Town." All the 80's is a three-CD box set assembled by the Strategic Marketing division of the Australian branch of major label Warner, consisting of 45 tracks performed by 43 different American, Australian, and British recording artists. The selection and sequencing are random; the only determining factor in choosing the songs seems to have been that the tracks were in the Warner vault, having been released originally by a Warner-controlled imprint such as Asylum, Atco, Atlantic, Elektra, Sire, Slash, Swan Song, or Warner Bros.. (There are a few tracks that were released on non-Warner labels in the U.S., but presumably Warner had them for Australia.) One assumes that most or all of them were Australian hit singles, though that doesn't mean they were also American hits. Of the 45 tracks, 33 reached the Billboard Hot 100; 25 of those made the Top 40; 19 got into the Top Ten; and five hit number one. So, for the American listener, the collection will be a combination of the familiar and the unfamiliar, as big hits by internationally known acts such as the Beach Boys, the Cars, and Yes are mixed in with recordings by acts that had no presence at all in the U.S. charts (Richard Clapton, Major Matchbox, the Radiators -- the last not the American band from New Orleans) or very little (Cold Chisel, Goanna, 1927), plus well-known artists performing songs that, in the U.S., were not chart singles (Divinyls, Dave Edmunds, Leo Sayer). There's some good 1980s pop music in a variety of styles to be heard on the disc, but it is all jumbled up with material that, especially for Americans, is quite obscure. ~ William Ruhlmann   Technical Info Release Date : 02/28/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 0927487192 Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 93255830185896    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray