EMI's massive six-disc Original Hits: 80s Pop box set collects 120 club jams from the 1980s. Most of the usual suspects are here (Duran Duran, Culture Club, Thomas Dolby, Spandau Ballet, Thompson Twins, Human League), but the inclusion of '80s compilation rarities like XTC's "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)," Adam & the Ants' "Prince Charming," and Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "21st Century Boy" helps to keep things fresh. ~ James Christopher Monger

A testament to the experimental nature of 1980s pop, this collection from EMI is as varied and exciting as the decade itself. Here are hits by artists as diverse as Dexy's Midnight Runners (the fiddle-stomper "Come on Eileen"), classic rocker Steve Miller ("Abracadabra"), and Irene Cara ("Flashdance.")

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Some of the biggest hits in the history of Pop music were recorded in the 1980s and live on today in fabulous compilations like this one. Kim Carnes spent nine weeks at the #1 position with her 1981 multi-platinum hit "Bette Davis Eyes" and Bret Michaels of Poison crooned "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" in 1988 to spend three weeks at the top of the charts. Night Ranger had hit after hit like "Sister Christian" while Taylor Dayne became one of the leading ladies on the Billboard with hits like "Ill Always Love You". Former Runaway's guitarist Lita Ford brought us "Close My Eyes Forever" while Debbie Gibson thought about "Only In My Dreams' for million selling singles. A second "British Invasion" brought us artists like Howard Jones, Big Country and Modern English and Bertie Higgins had us... Less

Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher .80s Pop: The Best of Smooth Love Songs collects ten quiet storm hits released in the '80s including original versions of "Always" (Atlantic Starr), "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" (Peabo Bryson), "Just the Two of Us" (Grover Washington, Jr.), and "Baby, Come to Me" (Patti Austin & James Ingram). A definite bargain bin pick. ~ Al Campbell

Sony Music's three-disc Essential: The 80s collection hits mostly high notes in its quest to chronicle pop music's most polarizing decade. Being a U.K. release, the compilation draws heavily on English radio hits like "Blue Hat for a Blue Day" (Nick Heyward), "Happy Birthday" (Altered Images), and "Boxerbeat" (Jo Boxers), but there are enough international hits from the likes of Toto ("Africa"), the Bangles ("Eternal Flame"), and Ray Parker, Jr. ("Ghostbusters") to fuel 100 nostalgic late-night dance parties worldwide. ~ James Christopher Monger

Now here's a CD that rocks with a sound you can move to. This collection of selected tunes offers a solid, consistent beat, driven by the powerful drum and guitar sound that is reminiscent of the 80's pop culture. Use this CD to power through your workout, whether you're walking, using any The CD includes two sizzling 30-minute workouts that can be used separately or played back-to-back for one supercharged 60-minute exercise session.

Traveling back in time to the decade that the whole series started in, the Now series tackles the '80s with Now That's What I Call the 80's Hits. Featuring songs like Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," the compilation pulls together some of the hits that would go on to become iconic of the era. For anyone looking to sum up '80s pop radio in one easy disc, Now That's What I Call the 80's Hits won't disappoint. ~ Gregory Heaney

Essential: 80s Love is a better-than-averag e three-disc set highlighting 60 pop singles released in that decade. Along with the original versions of such hits as "Hold Me Now" (Thompson Twins), "Eternal Flame" (Bangles), "All Out of Love" (Air Supply), "Can't Fight This Feeling," (REO Speedwagon), and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" (Deniece Williams), are less-than-obvious inclusions by Deacon Blue, FM, Dee C. Lee, and Five Star. ~ Al Campbell

Compilation producers: David McLees, Andrew Sandoval. Includes liner notes by Jim Green.Audio Remasterers: Ken Perry; Andrew Sandoval; Bill Inglot.Liner Note Author: Jim Green. Photographers: Waring Abbott; B.C. Kagan; Greg Allen.If you want to get technical, which you probably don't, the songs that comprise the 13th volume of Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits probably aren't new wave -- and if they are new wave, they're arriving at the tail end of new wave, when the term didn't signify as much (as if it ever did). That means this is devoted to songs from the mid-'80s, from defining songs like Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" to such great power pop revivals as Dwight Twilley's "Girls." Between those two extremes are some definitive singles of the '80s -- Wang Chung's amazing, cool... Less

2008 five CD set. 100 Hits 80s Pop showcases the best classic tracks from the decade, including tracks from Fine Young Cannibals, Communards, Debbie Gibson, Bananarama, A-Ha and many more. 100 Hits.

By Various. For solo alto saxophone. Instrumental Folio. Pop Rock, Rock and Play Along. Difficulty: medium. Solo alto saxophone songbook and accompaniment CD. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Mind-blowing five CD set packed with hits from the '80s. Not only will you find New Wave classics from Ultravox, Yazoo, Heaven 17, Duran Duran, OMD, Blondie, Baltimora, Kajagoogoo and Culture Club but there's also plenty of R&B, Rock, Pop and Top 40 magic from Jermaine Stewart, Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Sheena Easton, Sly Fox, Ashford & Simpson, John Waite, Marillion, Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Morrissey, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Alexander O'Neal, Queen and many more. This is an '80s party just waiting to happen! 101 hits crammed into one box. Like, oh my gawd! EMI.

Some of the biggest hits in the history of Pop music were recorded in the 1980s and live on today in fabulous compilations like this one. Kim Carnes spent nine weeks at the #1 position with her 1981 multi-platinum hit "Bette Davis Eyes" and Bret Michaels of Poison crooned "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" in 1988 to spend three weeks at the top of the charts. Night Ranger had hit after hit like "Sister Christian" while Taylor Dayne became one of the leading ladies on the Billboard with hits like "Ill Always Love You". Former Runaway's guitarist Lita Ford brought us "Close My Eyes Forever" while Debbie Gibson thought about "Only In My Dreams' for million selling singles. A second "British Invasion" brought us artists like Howard Jones, Big Country and Modern English and Bertie Higgins had us... Less

Liner Note Author: Gail Mitchell. Representative of the transition between late-1970s funk and the smooth R&B that came to dominate '80s pop radio, Frankie Beverly's Maze is rightfully recognized as an important band in the genre. This 2004 compilation brings together 18 of Maze's finest moments, ranging from 1979's bass-popping jam "Workin' Together" to the silky, Quiet Storm vibe of 1993's "The Morning After." In between is more than a decade's worth of accessible soul, including lock-step funk ("Running Away"), slow-pulse love balladry ("Never Let You Down"), and lounge-ready mid-tempo grooves ("We Are One").Leader, songwriter, and singer Frankie Beverly is the focus here, and his smooth-as-butter croon, complete with emotive R&B embellishments, shines throughout. Though influenced by... Less

Producers include: Stephen Bray, Jellybean, Mark Kamins, Madonna, Patrick Leonard.Includes liner notes by Brian Chin.This is not a true greatest hits, but a collection of newly remixed (1987) versions of her hits.Madonna's meteoric rise to stardom had as its springboard the early '80s NY club scene; dance music has provided a home base for any of the musical journeys her widely varied career has seen her take. 1987's YOU CAN DANCE found the reigning queen of pop revisiting some of her more famous works, courtesy of the mixing skills of some of the friends she'd made along the way, notably NY DJ and mix artist Jellybean Benitez (a name which was inseparable from the dance music genre at the time). Producer of Madonna's breakthrough "Holiday," he returns here with two slick remixes of the... Less

While many automatically think of such acts as Whitesnake, Def Leppard, and Van Halen when discussing the top acts of the '80s pop metal movement, Night Ranger often get lost in the shuffle. For several years during the mid-'80s, it appeared as though the band could do no wrong. The hits and the sellout tours just kept on coming.But the band called it quits shortly after the disappointing showing of their 1988 release BIG LIFE, with singer Jack Blades finding further success as part of the supergroup Damn Yankees. 1989's GREATEST HITS collects the very best of the Night Ranger catalog, spotlighting all the quintet's chart busters and notable tracks--such as the hard-edged "Don't Tell Me You Love Me," the smash power ballad "Sister Christian," and the pop rocker "When You Close Your Eyes."

The roster of `80s pop acts that successfully reinvented themselves decades later is only marginally longer than the list of great kosher barbecue restaurants. Those `80s artists who reentered the spotlight at all either went the nostalgia route, trotting out the old hits, or banged out new tunes using the same old formula. Red Box, however, seem to have found a workable new sonic identity that neither trades on the band's past nor seems likely to alienate old fans. In the mid-`80s, Red Box took their synth pop sound to the upper reaches of the British pop charts with such hits as "Lean on Me" and "For America," but the group only lasted until 1990. On their first album in 20 years, though, Red Box leave the drum-machine beats and synth riffs behind in favor of a warmer, much more organic... Less

By Various. For solo tenor saxophone. Instrumental Folio. Pop Rock, Rock and Play Along. Difficulty: medium. Solo tenor saxophone songbook and accompaniment CD. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Compiles tracks from the TRUE DEMOCRACY, EARTH CRISIS and BABYLON THE BANDIT. Photographer: Ebet Roberts.Nothing on this 1993 compilation was actually a smash hit for Britain's Steel Pulse, a roots reggae outfit who started out with a rasta-righteous punk fervor in the late '70s but grew increasingly sleek and pop oriented as the '80s dawned. Drawn from the group's three '80s albums for Elektra Records, 1982's True Democracy, 1984's Earth Crisis and 1986's Babylon the Bandit, Smash Hits lacks anything from Steel Pulse's earlier impressive peak with Island Records when tracks like "Ku Klux Klan" made them a truly focused, politically committed and even dangerous band. Aside from a few scattered cuts like the wicked "Not King James Version," little of that early fire is on display here... Less

Liner Note Author: Gail Mitchell. Representative of the transition between late-1970s funk and the smooth R&B that came to dominate '80s pop radio, Frankie Beverly's Maze is rightfully recognized as an important band in the genre. This 2004 compilation brings together 18 of Maze's finest moments, ranging from 1979's bass-popping jam "Workin' Together" to the silky, Quiet Storm vibe of 1993's "The Morning After." In between is more than a decade's worth of accessible soul, including lock-step funk ("Running Away"), slow-pulse love balladry ("Never Let You Down"), and lounge-ready mid-tempo grooves ("We Are One").Leader, songwriter, and singer Frankie Beverly is the focus here, and his smooth-as-butter croon, complete with emotive R&B embellishments, shines throughout. Though influenced by... Less

While some of the volumes in Legacy's LOVE SONGS series are limited to a particular (often latter-day) period of the artist's recording career, the label's Dionne Warwick collection is far more definitive, spanning eras in a cross-licensing coup. So you get not only Warwick's late- 1970s/early-'80s MOR hits, but also the '60s Bacharach-David tunes that made her a pop icon. Such stellar examples of the latter as the transcendent "Alfie" and the breezy, bossa nova-tinged "Walk on By" share space with the Bee Gees-penned '80s hit "Heartbreaker" and the bombs-away epic ballad "I'll Never Love This Way Again" (produced by Barry Manilow, appropriately enough). Even a '90s take on the supple Sting composition "Fragile" is offered up here. By cobbling together tracks from disparate stretches of... Less

Top of the Pop Hits, Vol. 1: The 70's collects 60 songs over the span of six discs (which is hardly necessary), touching on almost every style of the decade, including soft rock, hard rock, disco, soul, roots rock, R&B, and pop. Most of the usual suspects are here (Hall & Oates, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd), resulting in a spirited, but ultimately harmless collection of songs that you could randomly spin the dial on the radio and hit in two or three tries. ~ James Christopher Monger

Great Records of the Decade: 60s Hits Pop, Vol. 1 is a budget-line collection that features 13 hits from the '60s, including the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda," Jack Scott's "What In the World's Come Over You," Jackie DeShannon's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," Jan & Dean's "Surf City," Little Anthony's "Goin' Out of My Head," Al Martino's "Spanish Eyes," Wayne Newton's "Danke Schöen" and Bobby Vee's "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes." Although there's no particular rhyme or reason to why these particular songs were selected -- and the selection is fairly uneven -- the disc is an entertaining listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Personnel: Etta Jones, Gloria Lynne (vocals); Greg Skaff, Henry Johnson, Jimmy Ponder, Melvin Sparks, Rodney Jones (guitar); Tom Aalfs (violin); David "Fathead" Newman (flute); Cochemea Gastelum (saxophone); Vincent Herring (alto saxophone); David Newman , Eric Alexander , Houston Person, Teodross Avery (tenor saxophone); Howard Johnson (baritone saxophone); Jennifer Hartswick (trumpet); Winston Byrd (flugelhorn); Benny Powell (trombone); John Di Martino, David Leonhardt, Dick Morgan, John Hicks, Norman Simmons, Danny Grissett (piano); Jerry Z , Papa John DeFrancesco (Hammond b-3 organ); Joey DeFrancesco, Will Boulware (keyboards); Essiet Essiet, John Menegon, Keter Betts, Leon Lee Dorsey, Lisle Atkinson, Lonnie Plaxico, Tony Banda (bass instrument); Joris Dudu, Paul Wells , Frankie... Less

Cher's best career-spanning collection on the market. And what a career she had. Starting in the mid-'60s with the girl group-styled pop of Sonny & Cher and her solo folk-rock work all the way through to the dance-pop sensation of 1999's "Believe," she has never stayed put for long and that makes for a very interesting collection. The first disc collects songs recorded with Sonny, her early folk-rock hit "All I Really Want to Do," and her solo work from the '70s, including an extended version of her 1979 disco hit "Take Me Home." The second disc combines her '80s rock babe persona and her dance diva work at the end of the century, and includes remixed versions of "Heart of Stone" and "One by One." Both discs are solid listens.DISC 1: 1. I Got You Babe - (with Sonny) 2. Baby Don't Go -... Less

HEADLINES AND DEADLINES is a 16-track greatest hits collection by Norway's A-Ha featruing their hit "Take On Me."Norway's a-ha took "Take on Me" to the number one spot on Billboard's Top 40 in 1985, thanks to the award-winning animated video that accompanied it. Still, a-ha contributed rather accordingly to the '80s pop sound, drenching their music with bouncy riffs and employing the keyboard as the foundation to their colorful formula. Headlines and Deadlines: The Hits of a-ha assembles all of their singles together, a definite one-stop for all of their music. Combining ballads and radiant '80s pop, this set includes their most fervent offering in "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.," which hit number 20 in 1986 and originated from Hunting High and Low, the same album that included "Take on... Less

Budget-priced box featuring 144 pop, soul & new wave gems ofthe decade. Includes hits by Blondie, Freddie Jackson, Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Go West, Billy Idol, Climie Fisher, Mel & Kim, P.I.L., Kim Wilde, Culture Club, Human League, Spandau Ballet, the Waterboys, Kajagoogoo, J. Geils Band, Paul Hardcastle, Ultravox, Eddy Grant, Billy Ocean, Talk Talk, Jermaine Stewart, John Waite, China Crisis and many, many more! Each disc comes in a separate full color slipcase & together they are packaged in a full CD-sized brilliant box. 1998 release.

Audio Mixers: Sergio Munzibai; John Morales; Jellybean.Liner Note Author: Robbie "DJ Gerald McBoing Boing" Busch.With a name like Electro Slash Disco for a compilation, it could be safely presumed that this is another budget-line compilation filled out with maybe one or two synth pop hits that are instantly familiar, with the remainder consisting of filler and material best forgotten. This time around, the assumption would be fairly inaccurate, as Koch does an outstanding job of assembling a 14-song session of underground dance hits that are worthy of the title "classics." The are some obscure numbers here to be sure, but for every Nick Straker Band track there's a Yaz or Afrika Bambaataa hit to finely balance it out. Other contributions from Klein + M.B.O., Dominatrix, and Konk fill... Less

Personnel includes: Adam Ant (vocals).SUPER HITS presents a quickie introduction to Adam and the Ants for those who missed his campy forays into pop culture during his early '80s heyday. Concentrating on that time period, the album manages to find space, within its concise ten tracks, for both his better-known singles as well as more obscure material. Ant made a splash at the onset of the decade with the delirious bragging of "Antmusic," a peculiar boast that toasts its own bizarre assimilation of tribal drums and '50s guitar.Also represented is the more rewarding "Press Darlings" which slights famed English rock critic Nick Kent. Ant's fascination with pirates and Indians reached its apex with the propulsive "Stand and Deliver." Ant next became an MTV darling with the cute "Goody Two... Less