Casey Kasem Presents: America's Top Ten - The 80's New Wave

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Top Sail Productions
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 805667189729
EAN: 0805667189729
ASIN: B000098ZSR

Release Date: 2003-05-20

Casey Kasem Presents: America's Top Ten - The 80's New Wave

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Tracks:

Tainted Love - Soft Cell
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Our House - Madness
Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Reflex - Duran Duran
I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
Be Near Me - ABC
Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
What You Need - INXS
Take on Me - a-ha
Obsession - Animotion
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

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Customer Reviews:

Not a bad CD!.......2004-12-16

For the most part, this CD seems to flow well. It starts off with the early new wave songs, and then gradually moves on into the mid 80's. There are some rare versions of a couple of songs like "Safty Dance" and a different lengthed version of "Lay Your Hands on Me" by the Thompson Twins. There are some hard to find songs on here such as INXS's "What You Need" not found on a various artist CD too often. Also ABC's "Be Near Me" is hard to find too. The sound quality though, is a little under par, but still worth listening to.

Good collection of 80s new wave hits.......2003-06-25

Top Sail's recent pair of collections, one featuring 70s classic rock, and this one featuring 80s new wave hits, are an interesting contrast. Both catalog the commercial spin of underground movements; 70s classic rock having been, to a large extent, a by-product of underground rock of the late 60s, and 80s new wave having been a commercial spin-off of late-70s punk rock. What separates them, however, is the humanity and lasting listenability of the music.

The guitar-fueled rock of the 70s retains an earthy presence that, while certainly of its time in many ways, still shows much of the music's original vitality. In contrast, 80s new wave, or at least many of the cuts anthologized here, feel contrived. Perhaps it's an inability to separate these tracks from the embryonic videos that gained them play on a pre-geologic MTV. How can anyone hear A Flock of Seagull's "I Ran (So Far Away)" without thinking of Mike Score's haircut? Or a-ha's "Take On Me" without remembering the accompanying animated/live-action video? Perhaps it's just the disposable nature of so many of these bands - the count of one-hit wonders is lengthy.

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