| Product Summary | | Label: Varese Sarabande | | UPC: 00030206654622 | | Release Date: 5/11/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 61004798 | | Item#: MYH2MU | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Centerfold - J. Geils Band ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley ~ Various Artists | | | 3. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive ~ Various Artists | | | 4. I Eat Cannibals - Total Coelo ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Whip It - Devo ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Fire Woman - The Cult ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Shake It Up - The Cars ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Breakup Song, The (They Don't Write 'Em) - Greg Kihn Band ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Just So Lonely - Get Wet ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Venus / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want To Know A Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Gonna Lose That Girl / Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Down Under - Men At Work ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Electric Blue - Icehouse ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Stay The Night - Benjamin Orr ~ Various Artists | | | 15. We Belong - Pat Benatar ~ Various Artists | | | 16. No New Tale To Tell - Love & Rockets ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister ~ Various Artists | |
| This unique collection which features many 80s hits not normally found on any other 80s collection, also gathers together some of the biggest, best and most requested hits of the 80s as well. Then, Totally Oldies-The 80s Again features 13 Top 15 hits, including six #1's.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Liner Note Authors: DJ Andy Anderson; Bill Pitzonka. | | Arranger: Barry Blue. | | The second '80s-focused entry in Varese Sarabande's Then: Totally Oldies series mixes it up more than some '80s comps, still concentrating on the new wave salad days of the first half of the decade, but reaching as far as 1988 and 1989 to include Icehouse's sleek AOR standard "Electric Blue" and the Cult's rampaging "Fire Woman." This gives the collection a bit more diversity, even if there are a lot of familiar tunes at its core, songs like "Centerfold," "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," "Whip It," "Walk Like Egyptian," "Down Under," and "Broken Wings" that regularly show up on '80s comps. What distinguishes this one is that there's some interesting choices in the margins, things that make up for the inclusion of the hideous Stars on 45 medley that stops the disc dead in its tracks about halfway through. Discounting that, there are some good things that don't appear all that much on standard '80s collections, such as Get Wet's "Just So Lonely," Benjamin Orr's "Stay the Night" (giving this collection a grand total of two Cars-related cuts), Pat Benatar's anthemic "We Belong," Love and Rockets' college favorite "No New Tale to Tell," and the Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime," which was revived earlier in 2004 by Beck on the soundtrack for Michel Gondry's brilliant film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. All of these inclusions help make Then: Totally Oldies '80s Again, Vol. 7 a better than average '80s collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Bob Rock; David Kahne; Devo; Peter Alan Waterman; Jaap Eggermont; Bryon Davis; Bill Pitzonka; James Warren; Larry Klein; Love & Rockets; Matt Aitken; Matthew King Kaufman; Mike Shipley; Mike Stock; Neil Geraldo; Paul De Villiers; Peter Coleman; Peter McIa |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/11/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 066546 | | Label : Varese Sarabande (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00030206654622 |
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