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4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice overview - may be addictive..., June 27, 2004
This review is from: Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Audio CD)
Be forewarned, the sugar-coated empty calories found in the LIKE, OMIGOD... box set from Rhino will just leave you wanting more. 142 tracks across seven CDs and it just scratches the surface on a shallow, yet oddly endearing decade. LIKE, OMIGOD... hits almost all of the popularly acknowledged high points, including "867-5309/Jenny," "Tainted Love," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," - as well as great novelty numbers and underground tunes like "Pac-Man Fever," "Da Da Da," and "Turning Japanese." While not in strict chronological order like Rhino's 70s set, HAVE A NICE DECADE, LIKE, OMIGOD... is well-sequenced and provides a relatively satisfying trip - as well as a great set for any party. No need for "random play" here - just load this set, hit "play" and dance away. While this set is almost certainly a one-stop shop for the music fan simply looking for a well-balanced 80s collection, the completist and discerning collector will no doubt view this as the tip of the iceberg. Those such as myself, more enthralled with the simultaneous New Wave movement, will find lots more to love (approximately 300 tracks worth - with minimal duplication) in Rhino's 15-volume JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH 80s collection. Even then, LIKE, OMIGOD... will spur you on to fill up your shopping cart with with entire albums by Billy Squier, Duran Duran, The Fixx, Pretenders and more. The only downside to be found is that LIKE, OMIGOD... also forces the listener to take the bad with the good (or the worse with the bad?), presenting end-of-the-decade stinkers such as New Kids on the Block and Richard Marx toward the end of the seventh disc. For this listener, those musical tragedies are still too recent, too terrible to revisit with any degree of nostalgia. As gaudily packaged as the decade it represents, LIKE, OMIGOD... is presented in a hardcover book format identical to HAVE A NICE DECADE and contains a similar full-color booklet complete with essays, trivia, 80s timeline and notes on each of the performers and songs included. The sound of the CDs, as with all Rhino product, is pristine. As for the sound of some of the music - well, you can't blame Rhino...
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The BEST 80's Compilation So Far, September 7, 2005
This review is from: Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Audio CD)
Some fans of the 80's will find more songs in other box sets and even there might be better selections of songs. This compilation outstands from the rest since the quality that Rhino puts in their music is great and also this set comes with a 90 pages booklet that will bring information of every song on it along with pictures and headline news of the decade.
I was a teenager in the 80's and by listening to the songs, reading the booklet and watching the pictures I was able to go back in time and enjoy some precious memories that money can not buy.
Two kinds of people will enjoy this amazing box set,
1- Those who went to high school and had fun with the cheesy pop and soft rock from the 80's.
2- The newer generations trying to go back in time to find out the roots of some of the popular tunes of nowadays.
Song buyers will complain that a lot of the popular artist from the 80's will be missed in this compilation, but most of the real 80's fans will rather have songs that are barely played in the radio but still were popular in our scenarios than big stars that are easy to find in CD and are still played in a lot of the radio stations around the world.
This is the key of success for these products from Rhino.
Go and buy yours, do not even attempt to download the music. It is worth to collect these songs on these 7 CD's.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OMIGOD - best '80s collection ever!, September 6, 2002
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This review is from: Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Audio CD)
If you are a child of the '80s, you have to have this set. I hadn't bought any '80s collection until this one because none of the others were ever comprehensive enough, nor did the others have the one-hit-wonders that I loved. This set has them all -- indeed, preserves them for posterity. Very representative of the entire decade, with all the songs I loved, from the most hokey to the utterly heartbreaking. Plus, the sizeable book that comes in this package is terrific, with smashing color photos and graphics on glossy paper, a world-events timeline keyed to informative paragraphs about the artists and the tracks, and provocative essays about the music and other pop culture of the decade by pre-eminent figures from the '80s media. A very, very good read, this book stands on its own but adds immeasurably to appreciation of the music. My recommendation: just slip a CD in the player, take the book in hand, and travel back in time. This is the life!
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