Essential New Wave Hits

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Flashback
• ASIN: B00000FCJK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the few dollars., March 11, 2007

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Kevy_Metal (Pacific Northwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential New Wave Hits (Audio CD)

While not all tracks on this compilation are New Wave nor essential, or even hits, it's a solid (and compact at 10 songs) collection. The selection of tracks is a smart and fun sampling of the new sounds of pop music circa the early 1980's. There's the ususal suspects found on many 80's compilations like "Tempted", "Cars", "I Ran" and "Pop Muzik", as well as a couple of Top 40 favorites with "What I Like About You" and "My Sharona". The Wide Boy Awake addition, "Chicken Outlaw", is an upitty ditty - filled with hand claps and mandolin - not easily found on other 80's collections, a relative obscurity. The track I appreciate most is "Favourite Shirts" by Haircut One Hundred. They are usually represented on compilations by their more well known "Love Plus One", but 'Shirts' is just as good or better and its inclusion greatly increases the overall value of this CD. At the time of this review this CD can be found for as little as 1 US dollar - it's definately worth it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars London Boston Paris Munich Everybodytalkabout Pop Muzik, June 10, 2004

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Essential New Wave Hits (Audio CD)

If you know that lyric, you'll love this CD. This is by no means great music performed by superior talent, but the tunes are a lot of bouncy fun and if you were young at the time, you'll enjoy it. Tunes like "What I Like About You," "My Sharona," "Whip It," and "Pop Muzik" (the latter Eurorap tune curiously beat out "Rapper's Delight" and "King Tim III," the first rap records, only by a few months) are the kind of delightfully mindless songs that make you want to get on the dance floor and act as unapologetically idiotic as possible. Not great art, but great stuff.