Eighties Complete - Volume 1 (1980-1982)

Artist: Various
Type: Album
Release date: 1997
Run time: 70:49
My Rating: 6

1. Blondie, Call Me (3:29)
2. The Vapors, Turning Japanese (3:47)
3. Sheena Easton, Morning Train (9 to 5) (3:14)
4. Genghis Khan, Moscow (4:32)
5. Kelly Marie, Feels Like I'm In Love (3:16)
6. Kim Carnes, Bette Davis Eyes (3:41)
7. Hot Chocolate, Girl Crazy (3:22)
8. The Pointer Sisters, Slow Hand (3:51)
9. Cold Chisel, Forever Now (4:29)
10. The Pretenders, Brass In Pocket (3:05)
11. Loverboy, Turn Me Loose (5:42)
12. Kim Wilde, Kids In America (3:28)
13. Billy Squier, The Stroke (3:39)
14. Kim Hart, Love At First Sight (3:26)
15. Joe Dolce, Shaddup You Face (3:14)
16. Juice Newton, Queen Of Hearts (3:24)
17. Long John Baldry & Kathi MacDonald, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (5:12)
18. The Motels, Total Control (5:51)

Comments

Ah, the Eighties. I have a particular liking for the music of this decade, though I'm never sure exactly why. I'm not as familiar with the music of the first few years as I am with the later years, but here we go anyway...

Morning Train, I remembered from my childhood - high nostalgia value there. Moscow seems an odd sort of song, considering the cold war was still on back then! Odd, but fun. Some of the songs (Such as Feels Like I'm In Love) sound like left-overs from the Seventies.

For the rest of the CD there are some classics and some songs I've never heard of. The Stroke? Hmm. Shaddup You Face is another song from my childhood. Is-a quite-a fun. It's a shame it sounds like some of the songs really needed to be remastered.