Like, Omigod!
Chances are I'd last 30 seconds at any bar, restaurant, or party that was playing this. Okay, Gary Numan is still great, but the rest...
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I knew if it was REALLY going to be a good boxed set it had better include "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors. And it does!!
Posted by: Jeff at June 13, 2002 2:25 PM
Hey, I sang "Whip It" at a karaoke bar and the chicks went stone-cold ape. Don't knock it.
Posted by: Josh at June 13, 2002 3:41 PM
What, no Culture Club? Boy George must not be ready to be included in the (has-been) retrospective category. I also don't see "Red Red Wine" and "Piano in the Dark", two songs I heard incessantly on the radio (along with "Don't Worry, Be Happy") when I lived in Baton Rouge in the late '80s. Not my favorite decade for music even though it should have been my prime, college years musical experience.
Posted by: Lauri at June 13, 2002 8:41 PM
Did it come across that I was knocking "Turning Japanese," Josh? I LOVE that song!!
Posted by: Jeff at June 14, 2002 8:45 AM
No love for "da da da"? Come /on/!
Posted by: Eamon at June 14, 2002 12:06 PM
Okay, I have to go back on my word and say that after digging a little more, there are a few tracks just as good as Numan....
The Breaks (Part 1) - Kurtis Blow
Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club (timeless)
The Look Of Love (Part 1) - ABC (They were just too campy not to like)
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant (a classic - video knocked my socks off when I first saw it as a kid)
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E. (sexy, sexy, sexy)
Posted by: Todd at June 14, 2002 1:56 PM
Rhino has/had a great 15-volume set called "Just Can't Get Enough" that collected all the one-hit wonders. It had great stuff like Haircut One Hundred. That can't be bad. This looks a bit more "mainstream," if you know what I mean. Any "80s" themed things I hear are always playing the same 10 songs.
Posted by: james at June 14, 2002 2:21 PM
Bah! No Cure? No Bauhaus? No Siouxsie and The Banshees? Hell, there isn't even any Clash on there...or Big Audio Dynamite :)
And, I must say, a practically all-white lineup, too. Why are 80s collections so focused on the neon-socks trip to the exclusion of anything else? Kraftwerk toured America and inspired a generation of inner-city kids to invent house and techno, later mixing it in with breakbeats and sampling.To me, old LL Cool J and Stetsasonic are just as quintesentially 80s as the Thompson Twins, but are always excluded from compilations like this...whyzzat?
Posted by: AJ Kandy at June 17, 2002 4:08 PM
What a weird collection of stuff! Where else are you going to hear The Vapors along with worthless throwaways from Air Supply, etc.?
Posted by: michael at June 18, 2002 1:51 PM
