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80's Wave - Entertainment Weekly

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This is one of the first items I ever reviewed at AMAZON (on a different product page), back on 12/4/06. Since then I've published almost 3100 more reviews. Here's a reprint of the original:

80's WAVE is a two-CD set that is SO hard to resist. With songs like "Goody Two Shoes," "Addicted To Love," "Mickey," "The Safety Dance," "Cars" and much more, you just may find yourself dancing in your seat as you listen to this one. A terrific package!

DISC 1:
1. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
2. Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
3. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
4. Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
5. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
6. Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
7. True - Spandau Ballet
8. Everybody Wants To Rule the World - Tears For Fears
9. It's My Life - Talk Talk
10. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
11. Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop) - Q-Feel
12. Cars - Gary Numan

DISC 2:
1. Rock This Town - Stray Cats
2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
3. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls
4. Kids in America - Kim Wilde
5. Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
6. I Melt With You - Modern English
7. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
8. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
9. Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred
10. Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
11. Mickey - Toni Basil
12. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer

There was cheezy 80s music, and then there was New Wave Music.
Most of this is New Wave music.
All of them were big hits.
And it sounds great too. Mastered before the loudness wars.