'80s Pop Hits is a three-disc set from Sony with a heavy emphasis on ballads, many of which continue to be played on adult contemporary radio stations across the U.S. The relatively upbeat material -- like Wham!'s "Wake Me Up ...

After four excellent volumes featuring local and regional soul charters, ITP Records veers slightly off its course. "Baby Come Close," by Smokey Robinson, one of my favorites, doesn't belong on the Underground Oldies series, no Motown recording does since they're ...

Whereas UNKNOWN PLEASURES' interplay of light and shadow was daubed in contrasting layers of chiaroscuro, CLOSER is saturated with the harsh industrial glow of fluorescent light. Adding modernizing touches in the form of synthesizers--whether chirping like cicadas or forming elliptical, ...

Feat.Blondie,Billy Squier, Gino Vannelli,Taste Of Honey,+

Includes liner notes by Dave Roy Carly Simon,Jody Watley,Stacyq Taylor Dayne,Samantha Fox Liner Note Author: Dave Roy. Illustrator: Brad Hamann. Like Ladies of the 80's: Volume 1, this volume is a guilty pleasure and includes soft rock songs like Karyn White's "Superwoman," Carly Simon's ...

Madacy's Rock On 1980 mixes big hits from the year with lesser-known and forgotten ones, and come up with a brief (12 songs) and thematically fuzzy collection. The big hits come from established artists like Blondie ("Call Me"), Dr. Hook ...

This Rockin' 80's budget-line series should actually be called "Pop Rockin' 80's" -- few rock & roll fans would consider Men at Work, Eddy Grant or Terrence Trent D'Arby to be rockin' artists. This third volume is the most eclectic ...

Volume 11 in Madacy's year-by-year overview of the biggest hits of the '70s and '80s kicks off the latter decade with an eclectic roster running the gamut from new wave oddities like Devo's "Whip It" and Gary Numan's "Cars" to ...

Madacy's Rock On 1983 shows just how popular the new wave style had become. Of the ...