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| I Want My 80's Box | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music
List Price: $35.98
Buy New: $23.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 34221
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.8
MPN: 556758
UPC: 731455675825
EAN: 0731455675825
ASIN: B00005LZVD
Release Date: July 17, 2001
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Condition: Brand new, factory sealed. Fast shipping!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles | | • | Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? - Culture Club | | • | Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson | | • | 867-5309 / Jenny - Tommy Tutone | | • | Rapture - Blondie | | • | You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band | | • | Let It Whip - Dazz Band | | • | Harden My Heart - Quarterflash | | • | Poison Arrow - ABC | | • | The Heat Of The Moment - Asia | | • | Mickey - Toni Basil | | • | Celebration - Kool & The Gang | | • | Tempted - Squeeze | | • | Tainted Love - Soft Cell |
Disc 2
| • | Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar | | • | Cuts Like A Knife - Bryan Adams | | • | Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics | | • | Take On Me - A-Ha | | • | Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood | | • | One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx | | • | In A Big Country - Big Country | | • | Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners | | • | Our House - Madness | | • | Weird Science - Oingo Boingo | | • | Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels | | • | Sister Christian - Night Ranger | | • | Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins | | • | Missing You - John Waite |
Disc 3
| • | Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears | | • | Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel | | • | She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals | | • | Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung | | • | Walk This Way - Run DMC | | • | Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer | | • | Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley | | • | Oh Yeah - Yello | | • | Luka - Suzanne Vega | | • | Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh | | • | I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany | | • | Here I Go Again - Whitesnake | | • | My Prerogative - Bobby Brown | | • | Higher Love - Steve Winwood |
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God bless punk and new wave. Without them, '80s pop music might well have ended up as vapid and ghettoized as, well, pop music of the '90s. Those late '70s movements were frankly reactionary at heart (seeking to counter what was perceived as the overwrought tendencies of rock's prog and hard-rock elite and calling for a return to the diverse energy of '60s Top 40), but their influences can be felt on nearly every cut of this triple-disc hits anthology, from the Buggles' all-too-prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star" to the nouveau funk of Kool and the Gang, the Dazz Band, and the Gap Band, to the nascent big-hairdom of Night Ranger ("Sister Christian") and Whitesnake. If you're looking for the roots of alternative rock or obscure college playlist fodder, look elsewhere; this is prime-time '80s pop chart glory, as seen on MTV (over and over and over). Though the songs here cover a breadth of style and genre (if not necessarily substance), there's a remarkable unity of purpose and hook-laden musical accomplishment that's sorely missed. If this collection woefully shortchanges hip-hop, it still underscores a distinctly irony-free era where style admittedly triumphed over substance, as opposed to the '90s, where style caricatured substance. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 essential September 16, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I mix 80s dance music and the number of times when mixing that I find myself reaching for either this compilation or its companion, "Hit Me With Your 80s Box," is extraordinary. These are two outstanding collections. They are pricey, but worth every penny. For many people, owning these two will be all the 80s music you'll ever need.
Fidelity is outstanding, the tracks are well organized more or less chronologically, and the sequences in which tracks are placed is excellent. The "box" itself in which the 3 CDs come is sturdy, it is easily folded out in part or in whole to access any of the CDs quickly and easily (unlike many multi-CD offerings). Liner notes are extensive and interesting.
This offering is a class act all the way. Highly, highly recommended. 7 stars.
Overpriced overview July 20, 2001
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Goodness knows there are enough 80's compilation CD's out there, and many cover exactly the same territory. ROLE CALL! Culture Club, present. Blondie, present. Tears For Fears, present. Michael Jackson, absent. Soft Cell, present. Duran Duran, absent. Eurythmics, present. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, present. Cyndi Lauper, absent. Thomas Dolby, absent. Peter Gabriel, present. Madonna, absent. Kool & the Gang, present. Bryan Adams, present. New Kids on the Block, absent, but who cares? Not a bad turn out. Given that there's under 50 tracks, there's a pretty good representation of the hits of the day, and even a few misses (Tempted, Oh Yeah, Weird Science) that have aged better than several high charted songs. If somehow, by this point in your life, you've avoided buying these tracks separately, this is a good way to get them together for your next retro party. But you probably already have more than half of them or you wouldn't be reading this far. As such this may be more than you want to spend. Check out Rhino's New Wave Dance Hits (Just Can't Get Enough) series for a lot more depth and a lot less repetition with your current collection. Wonder who'll be included on the first 3-CD review of this decade...
Pop-fluff "New Wave" masterpiece July 26, 2001
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Nice remastered box set if you liked the FM-lite "pop" oriented material to come out in the 80's feel good, big hair & dress-up decade (Adam Sandler would get off on this boxed set). I think this boxed-set would be better named with "New Wave" somewhere in the title (for that's where 95% of the songs fall). I grew up in the 70's and 80's so I know each of these songs - some still by heart. The only draw back is that so many of these songs are all the same "New Wave" flavor. Where's the rock, hard rock and metal? Where's the true new wave of the Pyschadelic Furs ("Pretty In Pink") or anything by the Flock Of Seagulls? While this box set does contain a several choice cuts by A-Ha, The Motels, Asia, Big Country and The Fixx; it's missing a ton of talented bands with top rated songs. Would have been nice to hear something from: Aerosmith ("Janie's Got A Gun"), Def Leppard ("Photograph"), AC/DC ("You Shook Me All Nite Long"), Van Halen ("I'll Wait" or "Jump"), Rush ("Tom Sawyer", or "Spirit Of The Radio"), Scorpions ("No One Like You"), or even Jethro Tull's farce of a grammy song "Farm On The Freeway" (from Crest Of A Knave). Not to mention a few well known pop outfits didn't even get a look - like Foreigner, Toto, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, or The Police. All in all, a great collection of "New Wave" hits, but not varied enough for me... I realize on these box sets - you can't please everyone. Maybe this box set song list was created by a female - most of these songs appeal to my wife. Also - way over-priced.
 Lots of memories (of better songs) July 29, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's a good collection of tunes from the 80s that appeals to those of us who came of age during the time. But, after a listen-through, it left me craving a collection with a few more of the high-points from the decade.
Music I grew up with... March 31, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There is not a bad song in this set. It is full of wonderful, classic music from the 80's and not to be missed. Ahh, the 80's. How I miss that time. At least now I can relive some of it with this music!
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