I scored an Awesome 80's CD today at Target for only $9.99. It's called 80's New Wave. I have most of the normal 80's fare already, but this double CD set was obviously compiled by a true 80's fan.
Song list:
DISC ONE: Always Something There to Remind Me~Naked Eyes The Reflex~Duran Duran Sunglasses at Night~Corey Hart Rapture~Blondie She blinded me with Science~Thomas Dolby It's A Miracle~Culture Club Mexican Radio~Wall of Voodoo Tenderness~General Public Sixty-Eight Guns~The Alarm Take the L~The Motels Communication~Spandau Ballet Kids in America~Kim Wilde Promised you a Miracle~Simple Minds Let Me Go~Heaven 17 Hanging on a Heart Attack~Device
DISC TWO: Turning Japanese~The Vapors Talk Talk~Talk Talk Words~Missing Persons Making Plans for Nigel~XTC White Wedding~Billy Idol Drive, She Said~Stain Ridgway Election Day~Arcadia Get It On~The Power Station One Small Day~Ultravox Love Stinks~J. Geils Band Bette Davis Eyes~Kim Carnes Too Shy~Kajagoogoo Tarzan Boy~Baltimora The Politics of Dancing~Re-Flex Living in a Box~Living in a Box
I enjoy every song on these CDs. Some of the more obsure songs are classics that I had kind of forgotten about over time. Go get it!
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Half of the songs I have...the other half I never heard of.
I never heard of:
Making Plans for Nigel
Drive, She Said
One Small Day
Sixty-Eight Guns
Take the L
Communication
Promised you a Miracle~Simple Minds
Let Me Go~Heaven 17
Hanging on a Heart Attack~Device
I don't know any of those...maybe if I heard them I would recognize them....Call me and play them for me.... Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Those compilation CD's always have the same songs but in different order. Counting the numbers of CD's I have I have all the songs but nonetheless a good CD that you got.......
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Motley is totally right about most 80's compilation CDs having the same songs just in a different order. I agree that an 80's music junkie would have most of these songs, but there are several songs on this CD that I seldom see on most basic 80's compilation CDs.
For instance, most of the songs Isis named, plus Mexican Radio, The Politics of Dancing, & Tarzan Boy.
Plus the price of $9.99 made it worth it for me, since I only had about 1/3 of the songs already.
Posted by Baseball_Fury06 (Member # 4514) on :
ISIS named the same songs that I havent heard either. very good comp, and a very good price!
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I'd forgotten about Living in a Box
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Wasn't Living in a Box played in Can't Buy Me Love?
Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :
quote:Originally posted by MotleyRulz: Wasn't Living in a Box played in Can't Buy Me Love?
Yes. It was also used in that same year's "Masters Of The Universe".
If I didn't own the majority of the songs already, I would buy it. As it stands now, I'll just try and find the few tracks I don't have on Shareaza.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Hey Valley, you're right this is an awesome cd set. Muffy actually gave it to me as a Christmas present 2 years ago! I love it! The box is pretty cool too!
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
Those are a cool list of songs. I wish that there was a site that you could go to and vote for songs that you wish would all be released on the same album. It seems like so many of the 80s compilation Cd's have a lot of the same songs on them. There were some of those songs I hadn't heard of either, now it might be a different story if I actually heard the song I would probablly recognize it. You would think they have to have been popular to make a greatest hits CD.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I t looks like a good compilation, only problem is there is only one song, Device's hanging on a heart attack that I don't have. I guess, I have so much that it's hard for me to hear something I don't have.
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
OMG, I totally want it sooo bad! Looks like a cool album...
On a sidenote, the Heaven 17 band sounds familiar...I heard it in a movie once, but I can't seem to remember, now matter how hard I try...grrrr. Darn brain! (bonks it)
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Taking their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel "A Clockwork Orange" where 'The Heaven Seventeen' are at number 4 in the charts with 'Inside'. Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group The Human League.
As far as the song being in a movie, they did have a song called 'Temptation' in the movie "Trainspotting. not sure about 'Let Me Go' though.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Sixty-Eight Guns~The Alarm has great guitar riffs. Not sure how to categorize this song, but it grows on ya.
Posted by alli (Member # 4892) on :
Fred, the satellite radio station on XM radio (44) is fantastic at digging up the lesser know and largely forgotten treasures from the 80s
Posted by Smayt Shatner (Member # 1500) on :
Interseting to see what is being labelled as NEW WAVE on that compilation. Plans for Nigel is a good song... Hey ''we only want whats best for him''right? hehe
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Looks like a cool album...