Various Artists - All The 80`s

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

9325583018589

Description:

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

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Theme From Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) - Joey Scarbury
2. Brass in Pocket - 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 - The 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-ha
41. Rock Lobster - The B-52`s
42. Strange Way - Firefall
43. Blues
44. Winelight - Grover Washington, Jr.
45. Comin Home - The Radiators

Album Information

Release Date:

02/28/2003

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Folk Rock

Label:

Warner Bros.

Catalog Number:

0927487192

Original Release Year:

2003

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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