Millennium: 80's New Wave Party

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227592325
EAN: 0081227592325
ASIN: B00001W0AW

Release Date: 1999-10-05

Millennium: 80's New Wave Party

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Tracks:

Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Whip It - Devo
Take On Me - A-Ha
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred
Our House - Madness
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Just What I Needed - The Cars
In The Name Of Love - Thompson Twins
Mickey - Toni Basil
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
I Melt With You - Modern English
Cars - Gary Numan
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Valley Girl - Frank & Moon Zappa
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

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Customer Reviews:

Rhino Stumbles.......2006-05-05

I really expected more. Rhino, the author of the Stiff Records and 'Left of the Dial' box sets and the 'Just Can't Get Enough' series assembled this tired set of eighties new wave? Wow.

A third of this CD has been anthologized to death. Toni Basil? Men Without Hats? A-Ha? Modern English? Thomas Dolby? Dexy's Midnight Runners? Again??? Where's Nena and "99 Luftballoons"?

I could name six more interesting choices in my sleep: Pete Shelley. Freur. Lene Lovich. Heaven 17. Fun Boy Three. Blancmange.

Gary Numan, Haircut 100 and Frank & Moon Zappa lend a breath of fresh air, and Rhino does their usual stellar job of remastering, but it's not enough.

This is for the person who: A. is an extremely casual music fan (i.e. buys a CD about every other year), or B. is too young to have been around when these songs were all over the airwaves.

Otherwise, you likely have the better stuff on this CD elsewhere, and who needs to hear "Mickey" ever again? (And I mean EVER again.) If you fit one of the two profiles listed above, you'll be completely content. If you don't--save your money.

New Wave just Can't Get Any Better!.......2004-12-16

This CD is for ultimate parties! I love it! This particular collection made me get a bunch more albums by the artists on this CD. My favoriet one on here is Gary Numan's "Cars", and A Flock of Seagulls, "I Ran" As mentioned before, this CD has Rhino's top of the line digital remastering, and it does sound extreamly good on all CD players of all different qualities. If anybody wants to get a collection of 80's New Wave, this is the one to get and it's worth it! (In fact,) I'm thinking of getting a second one so in case something happens to my first one, I'll have the second for a backup. It's that awesome!

Rhino Remastering Makes These Hits Sound AMAZING!.......2004-02-11

Thumbs up to Rhino Records for actually putting out good music on their compilations! I'm not just referring to the music included but also the sound quality. I was blown away when I stumbled upon another "Millennium" release by Rhino. The sound quality is amazing. So I was inspired to buy 3 (!) more of their "Millennium" compilations. According to their website, they look for the best available original master tapes and use the best state-of-the-art equipment for remastering these songs, referring to the "remastered in rhinophonic authentic sound" logos on the releases. Most labels don't even remaster the material! I'm really big on sound quality and I've never heard any of these songs on this collection (or any of their other "Millennium" releases) sound so crisp, bright, and clear! Take for example, "Sweet Dreams" or "Whip It," recorded in 1983 and 1980, respectively. The bass stands out like any song released today. A must-have just for the quality!

Besides the sound quality, the tracklisting is one of the best I've seen for an 80's collection (despite not all songs being "New Wave"). Another plus is the liner notes with the Billboard Hot 100 chart peaks and year of release.

If you say so........2003-06-25

Just because this music was released during the New Wave era, doesn't mean it's new wave music. Maybe the Eurythmics, Madness, The Thompson Twins, and some of the bands with one hit wonders such as Thomas Dolby or Modern English could be considered New Wave; but Tony Basil? Wang Chung? Bow Wow Wow?! that's like saying all nazis were germans and all germans are nazis. Which isn't true. Not all 80's music is new wave! and those cheerleader pop songs are not new wave. It's like saying that Britney Spears' rendition of "I love Rock and Roll" is Rock and Roll music. New wave music has a meaning behind it. A lot of times it relates to what's going on in the world around (NOT U2!). Not, "oh mickey you're so fine," but, "people are people, so why should it be, you and I should get along so awfully?" Maybe you can sneak some punk in there: The Clash, any one that really told it how it was. But don't insult New Wave!!! Bring on the Depeche Mode (the early years-before '86, after Alan Wilder first began before they went Synth-Pop when they really had something to say), bring on the tears for fears, and even some of the Talk Talk!

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