Hit Me With Your 80's Box (2002) (3 Cd Set)

Product Summary Label: Polygram Label Group UPC: 00731458537922 Release Date: 1/29/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60514700 Item#: M4DVMX Buy.com Sales Rank: 25140 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Brass In Pocket (I'm Special) - The Pretenders ~ Various Artists 2. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield ~ Various Artists 3. Maneater - Hall & Oates ~ Various Artists 4. Super Freak (Part 1) - Rick James ~ Various Artists 5. Down Under - Men At Work ~ Various Artists 6. Stray Cat Strut - The Stray Cats ~ Various Artists 7. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant ~ Various Artists 8. I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses ~ Various Artists 9. Safety Dance, The - Men Without Hats ~ Various Artists 10. Mr. Telephone Man - New Edition ~ Various Artists 11. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell ~ Various Artists 12. Whip It - Devo ~ Various Artists 13. I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls ~ Various Artists 14. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol ~ Various Artists 2. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister ~ Various Artists 3. Warrior, The - Scandal/Patty Smyth ~ Various Artists 4. Drive - The Cars ~ Various Artists 5. Jeopardy - Greg Kihn ~ Various Artists 6. Jump (For My Love) - The Pointer Sisters ~ Various Artists 7. Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean ~ Various Artists 8. Easy Lover - Philip Bailey/Phil Collins ~ Various Artists 9. Cruel Summer - Bananarama ~ Various Artists 10. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby ~ Various Artists 11. No More Words - Berlin ~ Various Artists 12. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling ~ Various Artists 13. True - Spandau Ballet ~ Various Artists 14. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves ~ Various Artists 2. Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer ~ Various Artists 3. You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey ~ Various Artists 4. No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones ~ Various Artists 5. Holding Back The Years - Simply Red ~ Various Artists 6. Nightshift - The Commodores ~ Various Artists 7. Oh Sheila - Ready For The World ~ Various Artists 8. Word Up - Cameo ~ Various Artists 9. Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic ~ Various Artists 10. Something About You - Level 42 ~ Various Artists 11. Breakout - Swing Out Sister ~ Various Artists 12. Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles ~ Various Artists 13. Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle ~ Various Artists 14. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) - Cinderella ~ Various Artists (P) 2002 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2002 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation producers: Mike Ragogna, Pat Lawrence. Includes liner notes by Kevin Flaherty. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Liner Note Author: Kevin Flaherty. Photographers: B.C. Kagan; Larry Williams . Hit Me With Your 80's Box! is a sequel to Hip-O's previous three-disc compilation, I Want My 80's Box!, released six months earlier, and like its predecessor, it contains 42 pop singles chart entries from the 1980s, most of them released between 1981 and 1986, and all of them familiar to anyone who watched MTV in those years. In its first five years of existence following its premiere on August 1, 1981, MTV, which broadcast music videos pretty much 24 hours a day (as opposed to the varied programming that characterized the network 20 years later), heavily influenced the pop charts, contributing to the success of a raft of videogenic stars such as Duran Duran, Rick Springfield, and Billy Idol, all of whom are featured here. The set is not quite as hit-laden as I Want My 80's Box!, which contained 35 Top Ten hits, among them 15 chart-toppers; the statistics here are 31 Top Tens, of which ten went to number one. But the orientation is still the same -- the trendy dance-pop music of the first half of the '80s. Tracks have been licensed from all of the major labels, overcoming one of the usual problems with compilations. But other typical weaknesses remain. The sequencing makes no particular sense, though it moves in very rough chronological order, such that the early-'80s tracks are on the first disc and the third disc contains a track (Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam") that actually peaked in the charts in early 1990. And the selection consists of recordings that are compiled over and over, the big hits of lots of minor artists rather than big stars. So, this is not a comprehensive collection of the decade's most popular music. But if you grew up in the '80s, there's plenty here to enjoy. ~ William Ruhlmann   Technical Info Release Date : 01/29/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 585379 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00731458537922    Product Image