Billboard Top Hits: 1982

Billboard Top Hits (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2011)
• Original Release Date: September 15, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Billboard
• ASIN: B0000032KG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,029 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1980s

Track Listings

1. Harden My Heart

2. Rosanna

3. Eye in the Sky

4. Gloria

5. Who Can It Be Now?

6. Open Arms

7. Don't Talk to Strangers

8. Maneater

9. Up Where We Belong

10. Centerfold

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Billboard Series - Billboard Top Hits: 1982

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Top 40 radio's last "hurrah"., July 8, 2001

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David Kenner (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billboard Top Hits: 1982 (Audio CD)

I consider 1982 to be the last year of real honest to goodness Top 40 radio. Once we began to slink into the middle of the decade, the quality of your average pop single seemed to begin to slip. This is only an opinion but I think if you'll compare 1981 to 1987 you'll see what I mean. Once we got to the point where half the songs played on the radio belonged to the same "superstar" artists over and over and over (Steve Winwood, Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston) it was just so boring to listen to a top 40 station. The diversity was gone and so was the life that pop music had possessed since the early 1960s. I will admit that I think things started to improve again around 89-90 but since that time, radio station program directors are so strict in their respective formats that you have to keep punching the dial from one station to another to hear any kind of variety. But variety still has its' last gasping breaths on this CD which features some of the more popular singles of 1982. Toto, Alan Parsons, Laura Branigan and Men At Work have the highlights.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars '82 Revisited, July 11, 2000

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billboard Top Hits: 1982 (Audio CD)

This is an average collection of songs from '82. "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band is a classic and is welcome on any album. Songs like "Gloria", "Harden My Heart" & "Eye In The Sky" are nice additions as they are good songs and you'd never want to purchase complete Laura Branigan, Quarterflash or Alan Parsons to get them. "Maneater" is not one of Hall & Oates better efforts and "Up Where We Belong" is still sappy as ever.