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VH1: More of the Big 80's

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This CD is loaded with 1 hit wonders from the 80s I originally bought it for "Major Tom" and didn't want to buy Schillings CD for only one song. then I found out that this CD is full of songs like that. I ran, Obsession, Come on Eileen All songs I love on the radio are a part of my collection without having to buy all the individual CDs.This and the other VH1 CD are essentials for anyone that grew up in the 80s.

One hit wonders and just good eighties tunes. This is packed with them sort tunes you miss from such a great era. I have so many eighties tapes and CDs I keep collecting. I think this captured several really good songs on it and they are hard to track down songs. When it comes to to collections this one is tops. I can listen to these songs over and over again. Never tire of them. Guess the eighties will never die while I'm still breathing. :) I knew all the songs on this CD by heart and if you're an eighties fan you will too. It's a great gift for the eighties fan in your life too. That's where I get most of my tunes. People know I'm a hopeless eighties fan. :)

This is a compilation full of mostly good songs, but most of them have gotten really old by now, esp. "Mickey". Don't particularly like the song order, it's almost too spontaneous, even for my various taste. A Flock of Seagulls "I Ran" is among 1 of my favorite songs, but it got cut off at the end!! 1 saving grace is putting Peter Schiling's "Major Tom" last. One main reason I had gotten this a few years ago was to replace the bad copies I had taped off the radio years before, so it served its purpose at the time. But now with cd burners, I have no desire to buy any more 80's compilations cuz you can just make your own. All in all, it's a good introduction into 80's music for those who aren't too familiar with it, even mainstream ones like most of these are.

but it does have my signature hit, "Come On Eileen". This is one of the few one hit wonders that I like on this album. There were a lot of other songs from the 80's that I would have picked over "I ran", "Words", "Tuff enuff.." Enough said, the first half of the album is very good, but then it just starts to lose steam. It's as if they were running out of ideas as to what to put on the album. I didn't like these songs back in the 80's so why should I like them now. I guess that is the price I pay to get the few songs I did want.
I always loved the show, The big 80's on Vh1. And when this and the first c.d. came out, I bought them together. All in all, not such a terrible purchase. I like the first one much better, there are a better selection of songs.

Just like watching an hour or so of MTV back in the good ol' days!! Very entertaining CD.

If you like the 80's then this cd is for you. Worth every cent I paid for it. Der Kommissar, Major Tom, Cry and A Flock of Seagulls... Great compilation. Only down was Major Tom. It wasn't long enough...

Well, this had a couple songs I wanted. It's a good cd. some of the songs are on just about every 80's compilation there is though. So, if you own one 80's compilation you probably already have 1 or 2 of the songs on this cd. but it's a good quality cd. The music is reproduced very good, I amvery pleased that I bought this.

Great CD! I love to listen to the eighties music. and guess I'm a fanatic when it comes down to it. This one has alot of old ones I hadn't heard in ages.

Conceptually correct cover aside, VH1's Big 80s collection disappoints. That, or the title is completely misleading: nothing here has the dazzling, enormous-sounding production that has become a trademark eighties sound. Why? Nearly all are from the very early 80s, and nothing is from later 1986. Bombastic overproduction didn't emerge until about '87 or '88. Think Richard Marx, Def Leppard, Whitney Houston, Taylor Dayne, Bon Jovi. This difference is especially apparent because the early 80s offer sharp contrast by sounding very small, robotic, and claustrophobic. This should have been named something else. Big hits? Yes. Big-sounding? Not at all. Plus, the songs are overplayed already (except Cry), so you've probably heard them to death already or even flat-out own then.

If you want to up the slickness, up the drums, and up the charisma, check out artists and compilations with music from 1987 to 1989.