Customer Reviews

Pop Music: Modern Era 1976-1999

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I noticed right away that there is not a listing of the songs, Does Sony think we are mind readers? well here is a listing of the songs :!.DREAM ON- AEROSMITH 2. PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC -WILD CHERRY.3. LOWDOWN-BOZ SCAGGS 4.BOOGIE NIGHTS- HEATWAVE 5. YOUR SMILING FACE-JAMES TAYLOR 6. JUST THE WAY YOU ARE -BILLY JOEL 7. TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE-EDDIE MONEY 8.SHAKE YOUR BODY-JACKSON 5 9.DONT BRING ME DOWN-ELO 10.HUNGRY HEART-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 11.GUILTY-B STREISAND & BARRY GIBB 12.KEEP ON LOVIN YOU-REO SPEEDWAGON13.OPEN ARMS-JOURNEY 14. EBONY & IVORY MCCARTNEY & WONDER 15.ROSANNA -TOTO 16. WHO CAN IT BE NOW-MEN AT WORK 17.HEARTLIGHT- NEIL DIAMOND 18. ROCKIT-HERBIE HANCOCK 19.GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN-CINDI LAUPER 20.BILLIE JEAN-MICHAEL JACKSON / FIRST DISC. i HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE OUT !STEPHAN

i may not be an expert on the history of sony records, the modern era 23 years worth of music and all they have is this? They should have put out two volumes of the modern era, vol.1 with the classics like Aerosmith, ELO, Journey, etc. and vol.2 with Fiona Apple, New Kids on the Block, I'm sure Sony could have done better. I gave it 3 stars just for the classic groups. And the classics i do not mean Michael Bolton & Wham (Know what i mean?)

I really love this album. I had it in my shopping cart for the longest time and finally purchased it for Christmas. It has great songs that I did not own. A good variety of artists and music. Highly recommend!

The first part showed the early years and the development into what several people seem to label as "standard" music, and the second part showed that, and then the sudden transition into more modern music, the third part shows how wide a genre it became. Although they seem to group the songs with similar songs, I feel that this album still shows the several directions that pop music split up into.

This disc, however, still shows what makes pop music pop music. It's short, catchy, accessible, and usually heavily produced (usually in a good way). I think that they mainly picked out really good songs, and I feel that because of the many directions pop music split up into, it wasn't an easy task to show what pop music is and was.

This is probably my favorite of the three compilations. However, I would recommend that if you ever decide to really study the history of pop music, to listen to more than just this compilation and the other two parts.

One problems is that a couple of the songs exist only in the castrated version (missing a verse here or a bridge there). One example is "Just The Way You Are" (Billy Joel). This is, however, well worth buying secondhand.

I NEED TO GET IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS CAUSE A LOT OF GOOD MUSIC AREN'T IN THE RIGHT GREATEST HITS, COLLECTIONS AND ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE NEGLICTED WE ALL KNOW THIS SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE A STAND AND DO THE WHOLE WORLD A FAVOR JG IN AK JUST KEEPING IT REAL (PEACE)