Notes & Personnel Info |  | Madacy's Rock On 1987 is a 12-song collection of hits both big and small from 1987's pop charts. Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" is the largest hit here, but other dance-pop queens like Samantha Fox ("Touch Me"), Kim Wilde ("You Keep Me Hangin' On"), and Jody Watley ("Don't You Want Me") are represented. The rest of the disc includes some pop from Belinda Carlisle ("Heaven Is a Place on Earth"), modern R&B from Ready for the World ("Love You Down"), and Club Nouveau's pallid cover of Bill Withers' great "Lean On Me." The disc is far too brief to be anything but a random glimpse of the year in music. That and the lack of any classic songs make this one of the weaker entries in Madacy's series. ~ Tim Sendra | | Each volume of Excelsior's Rock On series provides an extremely arbitrary snapshot of the year that's being covered. Only 12 songs are on each disc, meaning that a good amount of space goes to waste, and there's little in the way of stylistic focus. Needless to say, these hastily patched-together budget-line discs shouldn't be considered suitable documentations for the years they are covering. Rock On: 1987 includes Wang Chung's "Let's Go!," Samantha Fox's "Touch Me," Ready for the World's "Love You Down," Survivor's "Is This Love," Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On," Club Nouveau's "Lean on Me," and Taylor Dayne's "Tell It to My Heart." ~ Andy Kellman |
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