Now That's What I Call Music 1984 [Import]

Now Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00000JNKU
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,527 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I Want to Break Free

2. Pride (In the Name of Love)

3. Two Tribes

4. Rebel Yell

5. Reflex

6. Together in Electric Dreams

7. Sex Crime (1984)

8. Free Nelson Mandela

9. Young at Heart

10. Passengers

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now0)

2. Victims

3. I Should Have Known Better

4. Shout

5. Wouldn't It Be Good

6. I'll Fly for You

7. Waterfront

8. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes

9. Locomotion

10. Too Late for Goodbyes

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

UK compilation featuring 36 of 1984's most memorable international chart hits, from a wide array of genres, ranging from pop to rock to soul. Includes hits by Queen, Tina Turner, Special AKA, Paul McCartney, Style Council, Madness, Dazz Band, & Bronski Beat. 1999.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FILLED WITH CLASSICS, September 5, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1984 (Audio CD)

This is definitely one of the better Now Music compilations, with plenty of amazing songs like U2's Pride, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes, Giorgio Moroder's Together In Electric Dreams, Tina Turner's What?s Love Got To Do With It, Billy Ocean's Caribbean Queen, Bananarama's Robert de Niro's Waiting and UB40's Cherry O Baby. As usual, all the relevant styles are well represented, for example Rock (Queen), Synthpop (Eurythmics, Depeche Mode), Pop (Culture Club, Tracey Ullman), Dance (Kool And The Gang, Bronski Beat). The following are considered classics: Nelson Mandela by The Special A.K.A., White Lines by Grandmaster Flash, Sex Crime (1984) by Eurythmics and Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It?. My favorites also include Billy Idol's moody Rebel Yell and Move Over Darling by Tracey Ullman. Of course these UK compilations aren?t exhaustive so there?s always going to be certain important omissions from any given year, but overall this 1984 collection does an excellent job of bringing some of the best tracks together to enable the listener to wallow in nostalgia for a more innocent age.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars i'm with matt tn, no esposito = boooooooooooo, June 22, 2005

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Dirk the Jerk "beep! beep!" (anywhere, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1984 (Audio CD)

"you're the best around" changed the face of civilization as we know it, if it wasn't for that All Valley Tournament montage i probably wouldn't have the will to live, and that says something, because i'm a successful business man now that gets a fair share of the ladies, i'd hate to toot my own horn, but it really is amazing. do yourself a favor and get the entire Joe Espo. catalog before you consider this failure of a compilation.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Booooooooooooooooooooooo, June 18, 2005

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MLIFES Tell-Tale Bonanza "Damn I'm Cool" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1984 (Audio CD)

the reason this gets a 1 star is due to the fact that they failed to leave only the best song to come out in 1984, that being Joe Espositos "You're the Best Around" most notably seen in the first film of Karate Kid (during the breath taking all valley karate tournament montage) now that's what I CALL MUSIC! I was just discussing with Lupus Fury the stupidity of the people that put this album out, how could they skip over this song??? they should rename this album "Now that's what I call a gigantic rip-off because we failed to include Joe Esposito"
that sounds much better.