Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $99.98
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 20586
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.9 x 1
MPN: 78239
UPC: 081227823924
EAN: 0081227823924
ASIN: B000068ZVP
Release Date: July 2, 2002
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Disc 1
| • | Whip It - Devo | | • | Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles | | • | Empire Strikes Back (Medley) - Meco | | • | Another One Bites The Dust - Queen | | • | Celebration - Kool & The Gang | | • | The Breaks (Part 1) - Kurtis Blow | | • | Let My Love Open The Door - Pete Townshend | | • | Call Me - Blondie | | • | Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon | | • | Turning Japanese - The Vapors | | • | Lost In Love - Air Supply | | • | 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton | | • | I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbit | | • | Sailing - Christopher Cross | | • | Just The Two Of Us - Grover Washington Jr. w/ Bill Withers | | • | Cars - Gary Numan | | • | Ah! Leah! - Donnie Iris | | • | Sweetheart - Franke & The Knockouts | | • | Shake It Up - The Cars | | • | General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights | | • | The Stroke - Billy Squier |
Disc 2
| • | Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol | | • | Working For The Weekend - Loverboy | | • | Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield | | • | Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club | | • | Centerfold - J. Geils Band | | • | At This Moment - Billy & The Beaters | | • | Harden My Heart - Quarterflash | | • | Hold On Loosely - .38 Special | | • | Theme From "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It Or Not) - Joey Scarbury | | • | Take Off - Bob & Doug McKenzie | | • | Super Freak (Part 1) - Rick James | | • | 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone | | • | Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes | | • | Time - Alan Parsons Project | | • | Gloria - Laura Branigan | | • | Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates | | • | The Theme From "Hill Street Blues" - Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton | | • | Valley Girl - Frank Zappa | | • | Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha) - Trio | | • | You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band |
Disc 3
| • | Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran | | • | The Look Of Love (Part 1) - ABC | | • | Tainted Love - Soft Cell | | • | Rock This Town - Stray Cats | | • | Lies - Thompson Twins | | • | Words - Missing Persons | | • | Don't You Want Me - The Human League | | • | Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred | | • | Down Under - Men At Work | | • | Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson | | • | I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow | | • | Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners | | • | Mickey - Toni Basil | | • | Twilight Zone - Golden Earring | | • | You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester | | • | Key Largo - Bertie Higgins | | • | Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia | | • | Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler | | • | Africa - Toto | | • | Goodbye To You - Scandal | | • | Puttin' On The Ritz - Taco |
Disc 4
| • | Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band | | • | She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby | | • | Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant | | • | Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics | | • | Our House - Madness | | • | The Salt In My Tears - Martin Briley | | • | Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper | | • | Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics | | • | Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling | | • | Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes | | • | In A Big Country - Big Country | | • | One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx | | • | Der Kommissar - After The Fire | | • | Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels | | • | Karma Chameleon - Culture Club | | • | Let's Go To Bed - The Cure | | • | Too Shy - Kajagoogoo | | • | Maniac - Michael Sembello | | • | Sister Christian - Night Ranger | | • | Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot |
Disc 5
| • | Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes | | • | Mr. Roboto - Styx | | • | I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters | | • | Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders | | • | I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner | | • | Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart | | • | Missing You - John Waite | | • | 99 Luftballoons - Nena | | • | Tenderness - General Public | | • | They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman | | • | Heaven - Bryan Adams | | • | White Horse - Laid Back | | • | Let The Music Play - Shannon | | • | Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams | | • | Cool It Now - New Edition | | • | Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. | | • | Footloose - Kenny Loggins | | • | We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister | | • | Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions | | • | The Glamorous Life - Sheila E. |
Disc 6
| • | Obsession - Animotion | | • | Shout - Tears For Fears | | • | Take On Me - A-Ha | | • | Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds | | • | Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves | | • | Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday | | • | Weird Science - Oingo Boingo | | • | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive | | • | "Miami Vice" Theme - Jan Hammer | | • | Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy | | • | Kyrie - Mr. Mister | | • | Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young | | • | We Built This City - Starship | | • | St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr | | • | Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer | | • | Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer | | • | Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge | | • | You Look Marvelous - Billy Crystal | | • | Heartbeat - Don Jonhson | | • | Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung |
Disc 7
| • | Venus - Bananarama | | • | Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles | | • | Paranoimia - The Art Of Noise w/ Max Headroom | | • | If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | | • | Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites | | • | What You Need - INXS | | • | Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. | | • | Rumors - Timex Social Club | | • | Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House | | • | Holding Back The Years - Simply Red | | • | I'll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids On The Block | | • | Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds | | • | Since You've Been Gone - The Outfield | | • | Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson | | • | Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley | | • | La Bamba - Los Lobos | | • | Wild, Wild West - The Escape Club | | • | Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin | | • | Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx | | • | Roam - The B-52's |
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Album Description
You want your '80s! Fer sure! This is the mother of all tributes to the era of skinny ties, Reaganomics, and Pac-Man! Seven CDs, 142 hit songs, from New Wave to Pop to R&B to Hip-Hop to Novelty, including an incredible 49 #1 tracks! Starring Queen, New Edition, Duran Duran, Richard Marx, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Men At Work, Toto, The Cure, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Simple Minds, Bangles, New Kids On the Block...and many more. Plus a 90-page book with hundreds of historical photos, facts, and memories from the decade that wanted it all! Limited edition sculpted rubber cover! Approx. 10 x 8 x 3/4 inches. 2002.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 75 more reviews...
 Sometimes inspired, but often middling August 3, 2008
George W. Bush (Washington DC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sometime in the 1990s, Rhino released a set of 15 CDs titled Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The 80s. Most of those have fallen out of print, and I suppose this box set was supposed to act as a replacement. Whatever the scenario may be, I'd encourage anyone to try to hunt down the 15 Just Can't Get Enough CDs, because everything that Rhino did right in that series is amplified by all that is done wrong here.
The 1980s produced a lot of great New Wave singles, some of which are on this box set and many of which can be found on the Just Can't Get Enough series. But instead of going the extra mile to license those off-beat tracks for this box set, the producers filled the discs with a whole bunch of crap.
Sure, you get "Whip It" and "Turning Japanese." You get Gary Numan, The Buggles, Blondie and Duran Duran. And you get some great rock tracks from the J. Geils Band, Billy Idol, and Georgia Satellites. But Christopher Cross? Grover Washington Jr.? Billy Crystal? The theme to The Greatest American Hero? Simply put, for every great song like the Cars' "Shake It Up" there are tracks by Styx or New Kids On The Block.
This issue is compounded more when you consider what is not on the set. While chart-topping artists like U2, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Guns N' Roses and Def Leppard may have presented licensing hurdles, the entire underground alternative rock scene is ignored. You'll find nothing from the Replacements, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., the Pixies, R.E.M., or any other groundbreaking alt-rock 80s band.
Also absent is XTC, "88 Lines About 44 Women," "I Don't Like Mondays," "Pop Muzik," Marshall Crenshaw, "I Melt With You," "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," A Flock Of Seagulls, Adam Ant, Ultravox, "Mexican Radio," and Midnight Oil's stellar single "Beds Are Burning." These omissions are simply inexcusable. The birth of hip-hop is also given the short end of the stick.
In short, the 80s could have been done much better.
 Audio CD July 26, 2008
Prowler1015
I had been looking for a number of these songs and found it in all one boxed set. Buying from Amazon was much more economical than from the bookstore, even with 15% off. Delivery was immediate, as promised.
great collection March 20, 2008
alejandro (Valdivia, Chile)
its a very good and almost complete 80's colletion.
there is a few songs not important or famous.
the box is pretty and the book its interesant.
 Decent Collection for Reagan Babies March 5, 2008
Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a child of the 80's I really enjoyed hearing all of the songs in this box set. The box set really showcases all of the one-hit-wonders that seemed to make up top 40 radio in the 80's: Kajagoogoo, Bow Wow Wow, Taco, The Fixx, etc. Most of the decade's major stars are absent, but I'm sure one Madonna, Michael Jackson or Prince tune would have cost way too much to license. If you love 80's music, you will enjoy this box set, that is if you don't already own most of these tunes.
My problem with the box set is that it doesn't differentiate itself from so many countless others that are available. I picked this box set up after listening to Rhino's "Have a Nice Decade: 70's Box Set". The 70's box featured about 4 or 5 soundbites per disk wedged between songs. The scope of music found of the 70's box set was fantastic, and the various styles presented kept my attention. The Newscasts and soundbites, the variety really captured the flavor of the 70's. You won't find this in the 80's box set. The tunes presented in the 80's set are basically all Top 40 hits, and really doesn't scratch the surface of the music scene in the 80's. Where is Siouxsie and the Banshees, where are The Dead Milkmen, where is Morris Day and the Time? I like the hits, but let's face it, I don't need another copy of "Tainted Love" or "Take on Me" which are readily available on almost any 80's best of CD.
The booklet that comes with the box set has some decent info, but why does it start off with an essay that is so critical of the decade? Instead of celebrating the Reagan years, we get a diatribe about "greed" and how shallow and dismal the decade was???? Buyers of this box set probably have fond memories of the time this set represents...why have such a negative essay start things off? The song by song rundown is good, as is the timeline running along the bottom of the booklet which points out key events of the decade.
I guess in the long run it boils down to if you don't have these tunes, this is a handy collection to pick them all up in one shot, but if you already have plenty of 80's cds in your collection..you may want to pass as there really isn't anything new here.
just ok February 25, 2008
D. Shaw (Sacto.,Ca.)
Although this set has a good selection of 80's music i don't feel it included a lot of songs that are better than what it has. I really like the 70's version of this set though.
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