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| Living In Oblivion : The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 4 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 78195
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 724382833925
EAN: 0724382833925
ASIN: B000002TOJ
Release Date: October 4, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Dance Hall Days - Hues, Jack | | • | One Thing Leads to Another - Curnin, Cy | | • | True - Kemp, Gary | | • | Come on Eileen - Rowland, Kevin | | • | Digging Your Scene - Doctor Robert | | • | Sister of Mercy - Bailey, Tom | | • | Under the Milky Way - Kilbey, Steve | | • | Lean on Me - Clarke, Simon Touls | | • | Since Yesterday - Bryson, Jill | | • | You Don't Know - Hild, Robin | | • | Some People - Some, Belouis | | • | Shock - Davis, Martha [2] | | • | Belly of the Whale - McGovern, Tim | | • | Tenderness - General Public | | • | Get Out of London - Intaferon | | • | Go! - Ash, Daniel | | • | Slang Teacher - Mooney, Kevin | | • | Lawnchairs - Our Daughters Weddi | | • | Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Living Oblivious September 20, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are some tracks on this disk that (thankfully) I had never heard of. However, there are a few songs here that are very difficult to find.
Belly of the Whale - Burning Sensations. In fact it was for this one song that I bought the CD.
Get out of London - Intaferon. As previously mentioned this is a hard song to locate.
Also, WangChung, Tones on Tail and the Thompson Twins add to the value of this disc (for me at least.)
 Enjoyable Pop Songs March 17, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Beyond the obvious hits there are some quite catchy numbers that most people (like some reviewers) will completely ignore. Go! by Tones on Tail is a radio classic, and You Don't Know by Scarlett & Black is a delight. A must-have for those open to hearing things they haven't heard a million times before.
Best of the series April 27, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
How wrong are some reviewers. This is one of the cds of the series I enjoyed the most. There are some real gems in this cd that now are unfortunately really living in oblivion. Take for instance Sister of Mercy by Thompson Twins or the wonderful (tough some how cheesy) You don't know by Scarlett and Black and the sophisticated new romantic sound of Digging your scene by The Blow Monkeys.
If you like the sophisticated and mannered sound that were common in some big name groups of the 80s give a try to these lesser known but excellent groups: The Blow Monkeys or Thompson Twins. You wont be dissapointed.
Anyway, this compilation really surprised me. I didn't expect to hear that many really goods songs but I did. I didn't care for two or three songs all the other ones are really great.
 If you valued the 80's, don't buy this product August 30, 1999
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
You'd think that an 80's anthology of music would understand that it caters to an audience which is nostalgic toward that decade. I give this two stars only because you can't take away from the 80's music, but I figure that the inane commentary on the CD booklet should be calculated in this rating too. It was highly unnecessary and insulting to 80's fans to include disparaging remarks about the decade and banal political commentary by obvious leftist sympathizers.
The Worst in the Series April 19, 1999
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Living In Oblivion, Vol. 4, contains three notably great selections: "Mexican Radio", "Under the Milky Way", and "Belly of the Whale". The rest of the songs are either monster hits that can be found anywhere (i.e. Spandau Ballet's "True", "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners) or unknown songs that are obscure for a reason. The compliation team seems to have gotten lazy here and the disc is unsatisfying as a result. Avoid unless you just want to get the whole set.
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