2024 the best of love songs 80s review

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CD
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.84 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 3.39 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ UTV Records
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2140856
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1999
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ UTV Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000JWN0
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
Reviewer: johnf
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: When the 80's were something new
Review: In the 80s everything seemed new. VCR’s changed how everyone watched TV and were spawning mom and pop rental stores everywhere. Cable TV brought recent movies home - I can still remember the HBO theme. There were lots of teen comedies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and lots of new faces in them. And there were music videos on MTV. It felt like a celebration, perhaps the last truly optimistic decade for a long time to come. It was perfect that when MTV went on the air on August 1, 1981 the first video was The Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star. The song seemed a bit arrogant in its proclamation to American ears, where radio was still the only thing, but in the U.K. music videos had been around for years and were an important part of music promotion. The song itself had been around since 1979 when it had been a #1 hit in Britain and most of Europe but only #40 in the U.S., so no one really heard it. Here it sounded like a new song at the dawn of a new era.With a deceptively mellow electric keyboard opening that seemed as it were about to launch into a love song by Stephen Bishop or Lionel Richie, it immediately switched gears with an uptempo and the seemingly vocoded voice of Trevor Horn into a prototype of the 80’s sound ahead of its time. It also exuded an irony and detachment that became a frequent part of the decade’s style. Even the video contained the looks of the 80s from Horn’s sunglasses to the backup singers’ glamorous looks. It was goodbye to granola and earth tones - the Eighties were here.Of course things moved a little more slowly then, and it took awhile for everything to really get going. MTV spread gradually into major markets. But within a year the channel was just about everywhere and all the young people were watching it. The thing was, they needed videos to play and it was the British bands who had them. America was behind for a change and to be honest, the music scene had become somewhat dull with stadium rock and big pop stars but nothing in particular really going on. There were some New Wave bands, with Blondie just breaking out but they were mostly a cult thing.These British bands had a new look and new sound with synthesizers, keyboards that became the sound of the day. Before long there was a real Second British Invasion going on as this collection attests with 16 of its 20 songs being by British artists. Like the 1964 British Invasion these bands generally had many more hits in the U.K. than America. Of course the 80s were as broad and varied a decade as any with funk bands and R&B balladeers, traditional rock, country-rock and pop singers but it was this synth-pop/new wave-ish sound that became emblematic of the decade.Pure 80s doesn’t try to cover the full expanse of 80s music but instead hones in on this particular sound with a few exceptions for the sake of variety.. The people who put it together really captured the birth and expansion of the 80s sound and it’s this which sets it above many similar collections. There’s no attempt to be strictly chronological or get too literal about the times (it includes songs as far as 1986) but for the most part it’s a great portrait of the explosion of music in the early years of the decade. (Still, it should have included Don’t You Want Me by the Human League).The Eurythmics and Annie Lennox became major stars of the decade once Sweet Dreams hit in early ‘83 with its dark minor key tune and message that “Everybody’s looking for something”. Tears for Fears also became major and are present here with their summer of ‘85 hit, Everybody Wants To Rule the World. Culture Club’s biggest song, Karma Chameleon, featured a video in which everyone was on a Mississippi riverboat dressed in 1870’s finery except for Boy George himself who seemed to have been beamed in directly from 1984. Duran Duran had one of the most popular videos with Hungry Like the Wolf, filmed in Sri Lanka with an Indiana Jones vibe. Animotion was an L.A. group that so perfected the new sound that everyone thought they were British; their video was appropriately set around a swimming pool. Obsession was used in early 80s heartthrob, Christopher Atkins’ film, A Night In HeavenSteve Winwood had been around since he sang lead on the Spencer Davis Group’s Gimme Some Lovin’ in late 1966 and had been in Blind Faith and Traffic as well; it was great to see him make it again in the 80s. Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love was very popular with its band of models made up like Patrick Nagel’s paintings of women (he did the cover of the Rio album). Palmer amped it up even further in his follow-up, Simply Irresistible.Two of the great party songs of the 80s are here with Wang Chung’s four minutes of total madness, Everybody Have Fun Tonight and Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, whose original video pushed the envelope a little too far and was never aired. The Irish-sounding Dexy’s Midnight Runners were actually from Birmingham and Madness had a sound more like UB40 before they made Our House. Somehow there’s still room for some Americans, including Rick Springfield (Jessie’s Girl was the #1 song in the country when MTV debuted), the J. Geils Band and the Stray Cats, who were part of an early 80s Rockabilly thing. Though Squeeze’s Tempted wasn’t a hit originally it’s been used so often in other media that’s it’s become an 80s standard. Unusually the lead vocal isn’t Glenn Tilbrook but keyboardist Paul Carrack.This is a great 80s collection for its length. It was released in 1999 when, under pressure from the internet, the labels decided to cooperate with each other for a change. You couldn’t have a collection like this in the past: each label would have put out their own collection. But after the experiment of Now That’s What I Call Music succeeded, they joined forces. Released by Universal, acts from many labels are here.

Reviewer: Andria-Neicohl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Music
Review: The disc arrived undamaged (rare). It registers on all my players, so I know it's authentic. Very good selection of songs.I recommend this disc.

Reviewer: Betsy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly recommended
Review: My boyfriend love it! He love music from the 80, I purchase this cd for his bday!

Reviewer: Sherry C.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic, but not by original artists
Review: This CD collection is Extremely well done, and the singing and music are surprisingly excellent. However, None of it is by the original artists. It states that on the CD box, but I missed it somehow. That's my fault, definitely. But just be aware of that if you are considering this collection.

Reviewer: BobBoylston
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good value and music
Review: Good sample collection of the 80’s. It ripped fine in Media Player and sounds fine. The case on the blue CD in this series arrived cracked.To get a full(er) 80’s collection, however, you must buy all three in this series - the orange ‘Pure 80’s #1s,’ the blue ‘Pure 80s,’ and the red ‘More Pure 80s’. You can also buy the white ‘Pure 80s Love’. I passed on the white one. I have little to no desire to hear Air Supply, Michael McDonald, or Spandau Ballet one more time – not even in an elevator. The white CD does contain Cutting Crew’s “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight” and Mr. Joe Cocker’s duet with Jennifer Warnes, “Up Where We Belong,” but they can be found on other 80s collection that add a few songs to the other 3 CDs in this series.So, the bad news it that it will set you back $30 or $40; the good news is that there is very little, if any, ‘filler’. All of the songs received plenty of air play. The three CDs (orange, blue, and red) contain a total of 56 legit 80s tunes; that’s about 80 cents a tune. Pretty cheap these days, sad to say.Those who state that the music doesn’t sound right have either forgotten or are too young to remember – THIS is what we listened to during the snowstorm known as The 80’s!

Reviewer: Tracy Smith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 80's cd
Review: The songs are the all time greatest songs in the four decade!

Reviewer: J.S.T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: GREAT
Review: THEY DON'T MAKE MUSIC LIKE THIS ANYMORE

Reviewer: Placeholder
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All my favorites from back in the day
Review: I was very surprised to find a cd with only 2 that weren't my favorites. Of course it was the start of MTV when they actually played music 24/7 so I think everyone had the TV on with speakers hooked to the TV for great music all the time with the latest video from your favorite bands. Such a shame it had to end. But it was perfect background music with the bonus of the video to hang out to while doing whatever else and actually see the band too. Great cd

Reviewer: Carlos S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: El sonido del cd es excelente, artistas originales y selección de temas muy bueno.

Reviewer: Gilles Qc.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: EXCELLENT ! Très bon produit à un très bon prix. Je vous recommande ce CD qui est en passant est très complet pour tous les bons collectionneurs de musique des années 80. Vous y entendrez 20 chansons interprétés par les artistes originaux, tous des hits. Un heureux plaisir de réentendre ces succès qui nous ont fait tant danser. Ce CD sorti en 1999 sur étiquette Universal Music Special Markets, Inc. U.S.A. Bonne Écoute!

Reviewer: MK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 80年代の洋楽は様々なコンピレーションアルバムが発売され、いくつか持っていますが、この商品は大ヒットした曲やそこまでのヒットはしていないナンバーも入っていて、自分は気に入ってます。

Reviewer: ken
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Video killed the Radio Star, great song.Like all the song on this CD, great for long drivesThank you

Reviewer: RICARDO LOPEZ NUNEZ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: CADA TEMA DE ESTA RECOPILACION , FUE Y ES EXITOSO AUN AHORA MAS DE 30 AÑOS . ASIA , THE OUTFIELD , TEARS FOR FEARS Y OTROS , PERO LA MARAVILLA DE ESTE ALBUM ES SIMPLE MINDS Y LA VERSION EXTENDIDA DE ( DON'T YOU ) FORGET ABAUT ME , QUE ES MI CANCION FAVORITA DD 1985 . GRACIAS .