80s compilation

oh dude like id TOTALLY put on 'Wild Sex In the Working Class' by Oingo Boingo cuz like this guy Josh on the basketball team LOVES the BOINGO DUDE! and then like id put on 'Lady Cab Driver' by Prince cuz he's SO RAD i just love his clothes!

Wax the van- Lola. Dancing with tears in my eyes _ Ultravox.

"Eighties" by Killing Joke, of course

Camouflage "The Great Commandment"
Alphaville "Forever Young"
Baltimora "Tarzan Boy"
Falco "Der Kommissar"
Peter Schilling "Major Tom"
Kajagoogoo "Too Shy"
Paul Hardcastle "Na-na-na-na-Nineteen"
Trans-X "Living On Video"

And why not the original "99 Luftballons"?

OMD - Enola Gay
Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend

...I'd swap the Mike Oldfield for Moonlight Shadow & Human League for Keep Feeling Fascination. Maybe a few one-offs too, such as Drowning in Berlin (The Mobiles). What about The Farmers Boys' Muck it out?

Loads more Human League[Life on your own,Louise,Sound of the Crowd,Black Hit of Space etc]Heaven 17's 'Penthouse & Pavement','Play to Win','We Live so Fast',Lotus Eater's 'First Picture of You',Tears for Fear's 'Pale Shelter',Pale Fountains,Dollar[Videotheque,Mirror Mirror,Hand Held in Black & White-can't get them on CD which is a shame]Philip Jap's 'Save us',Our Daughter's Wedding's 'Lawnchairs',The Mood's'Paris is one day away',The 'Fizz's 'My Camera never lies',Data 'Fallout',Mobiles'Drowning in Berlin',New Musik's 'Living by Numbers','This World of Water','Sanctuary','Straight Lines'[totally brilliant group,download now]

Nostalgia's a very personal thing, isn't it? I would have to have West End Girls on there, I was thinking about this song the other day and realised that it really stands out among their catalogue (along with a couple of others).

Good call on 'Lawnchairs', Paul.

How about: Split Enz - I Got You; Haircut 100 - Surprise Me Again; A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing; The Korgis - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime; Landscape - Norman Bates; Vanessa Paradis - Joe Le Taxi ...?

Cheers Zebedee,I'd forgotten about Split Enz,I'll try & download it

Hahaha - Philip Jap...I'd completely forgotten about him!! Pale Fountains definitely...

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way"
The Breakfast Club - "Right On Track"
Baltimora - "Tarzan Boy"
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"
Boy's Don't Cry - "I Wanna Be A Cowboy"
Wa Wa Nee - "Sugar Free"
Men Without Hats - "Moonbeam"
a-ha - "Cry Wolf"
Expose - "Let Me Be The One"
The Cure - "Inbetween Days"
The Smiths - "Sheila Take A Bow"
INXS - "Need You Tonight"
Thomas Dolby - "Hyperactive"
B-52s - "52 Girls"
Toto Coelo - "I Eat Cannibals"
Ready For The World - "Love You Down"
Anita Baker - "Sweet Love"
Dead Or Alive - "Something In My House"

(I am an 80s pop whore.)

Latest newsletter from Music Non Stop, details a new 80s CD from Sony:

Electric 80's

Review
Fantastic 3CD compilation with a total of 45 classic tracks from the electronic / nostalgic 80's ( THE best decade for new, innovative, exciting music ever ? ) "Electric 80's" includes indispensible songs taken from some of the biggest names of that time with timeless tracks included from Soft Cell, Visage, Art Of Noise, Human League, Yello, Propaganda, Bahaus, John Foxx, Tubeway Army, Dead Or Alive and many more - with many presented in extended 12" mix form !
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Format
3CD
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Tracklisting
Disc 1 :-
01. Soft Cell - Torch ( 12" Version )
02. Visage - Fade To Grey ( 12" Version )
03. Talk Talk - Today
04. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
05. Duran Duran - Planet Earth ( 12" Night Version )
06. A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran ( Full Album Version )
07. Japan - Life In Tokyo ( Original 12" Version )
08. Tears For Fears - Mad World
09. OMD - Enola Gay
10. Scritti Politti - Absolute
11. Animotion - Obsession
12. Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You
13. Mobiles - Drowning In Berlin
14. Passions - I'm In Love With A German Filmstar ( Long Version )
15. Art Of Noise - Moments In Love ( 12" 'Beaten' Version )

Disc 2 :-
01. Human League - Love Action ( 12" Version )
02. Japan - Quiet Life ( 12" Version )
03. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short ( 12" Version )
04. A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing ( 12" Version )
05. Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side
06. Yello - Vicious Games
07. Propaganda - Dr Mabuse ( 12" '13th Life' Version )
08. Swansway - Soul Train
09. Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
10. Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
11. Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye
12. Fad Gadget - Back To Nature ( Full Album Version )
13. John Foxx - Underpass
14. Tubeway Army - Down In The Park

Disc 3 :-
01. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round ( 12" 'Performance' Version )
02. Yazoo - Don't Go
03. Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love
04. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny
05. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance ( 12" Version )
06. Marilyn - Calling Your Name
07. Blue Zoo - Cry Boy Cry
08. M - Pop Muzik
09. ABC - The Look Of Love ( 12" Version )
10. A-Ha - Take On Me
11. Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven
12. Landscape - Einstein A Gogo
13. New Muzik - Living By Numbers
14. Toyah - It's A Mystery
15. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
16. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now ( 12" Version )
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Record Label
Sony
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Release Date
11th July 2005

how does deethelurker rate this 80s compilation?

'Pop Music', 'Down In The Park' & 'Video Killed The Radio Star' (at least) were all released before 1980

Wow. I'm duly impressed by this compilation. I'm really happy they've decided to include more obscure tracks than any other '80s comp I've seen -- I'm especially excited by Passions' "Im In Love With A German Filmstar", "Feels Like Heaven" by Fiction Factory, and Fad Gadget's "Back To Nature". And not ONE but TWO Japan songs and not one of them is from Tin Drum! AND they're actually putting on the kick-ass version of "Planet Earth"! AND one of Talk Talk's greatest songs ever (IMHO), "Today"! And "To Cut A Long Story Short"! And Visage! Altered Images! "Love On Your Side"! They obv angled to make Disc 3 the "Ah, why the heck not?" disc, what with Haysi Fantayzee's "Shiny Shiny", Landscape's "Einstein A Go Go", and Toyah's "It's A Mystery" on it. And, um, Marilyn. But hey, when the weakest link on a comp is someone that underrepresented by '80s comps before it, the comp has got to be really, really good.

And yes, "pedantic fuxor", there are songs on this comp that are from pre-1980 -- the ones you named are from 1979, sure -- but I thought they didn't become big hits until 1980 or 1981.

This compilation is amazing. I am verklempt. I want.

AND the 12" version of "Torch"! Yep, looks great.