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We Are the 80's

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While not the definitive Eddie Money set(since it lacks his late-70's monster hits "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets To Paradise"),it still is concise,fun complation of his biggest 80's hits including "Take Me Home Tonight","Walk On Water","I Think I'm In Love","Shakin","I Wanna Go Back" and "Peace In Our Time",plus such minor hits as "The Big Crash","Endless Nights"and "The Love In Your Eyes"(the latter two were not included on "The Essential" set).The sound is surperb and the liner notes(by Michael Hill)are pretty darn fine as well.

YES, this is Eddie Money in the 80's. All his 80's hits are on this great cd. Baby Hold On TO Me, and Two Tickets To Paradise came out in the 70's. Get over it people....

There must be some unwritten rule that whenever a record company releases a "best of" compilation, the artist in question's die hard fans - who are the least likely to need the compilation in the first place - come out of the woodwork screaming about how they left off this song or that song. In the case of the Eddie Money "We Are the 80's" compilation, the omission of "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby Hold On" seems to have the Eddie Money die-hards riled up. Guess what, folks? Those songs came out in the 1970's, which means they have no business on a compilation called "We Are the 80's"! It's not that hard to figure out.

I'm glad we cleared that up, because this is actually a very good compilation album. Eddie Money was one of the best, and most overlooked, artists of the 80's. The man's steady voice and sax, combined with the fact that he worked with a fantastic group of songwriters, resulted in some of the best pop songs of the decade (and that's saying a lot, considering the wealth of great pop songs that came from the 1980's).

The "We Are the 80's" collection, which ties into the VH1 Classic (greatest channel ever) program of the same name, features 14 of Money's best known songs from the decade, including "Take Me Home Tonight", "Walk on Water", and "I Wanna Go Back." All of the songs have been digitally remastered for the best possible sound. And if that's not enough, the disc is pretty cheap too! Serious Eddie Money fans probably have all of these songs already, but this is a great album for those of us who want a great sounding, affordable way to hear so many of the songs that were part of the soundtrack to our lives in the 1980's.

By far the best CD in the We Are the 80s collection. This CD really takes me back. You gotta love the sax!! Absolutely perfect for any party soundtrack.

Quick! Name two Eddie Money songs.......
I said "Quick!!!!".........I know, it's been a while, and you never hear this guy on the radio anymore, so it's understandable that you'd struggle a bit, but...what?
"Two Tickets to Paradise"? Excellent. That's one. Now give me another...............C'mon, you can do it. They played it every day for nearly two years on album-oriented radio back in the day....... Need a hint?
....."Whatever will be will be..." Does that help?
"Baby Hold On to Me." YOU GOT IT!!!
Awesome. Those are undoubtedly Eddie Money's most famous songs, right?
Now, for bonus points, name just one more. Come on, double or nothing. Okay, I'll go even better than that, TRIPLE or nothing. Just one more song. Just.......one........more...............
You can't do it, can you? Well, to be honest, neither could I. So why in the world would I want to own a collection of Eddie Money songs if it DOESN'T EVEN CONTAIN HIS TWO MOST WELL-KNOWN SONGS??????? What are they thinking?
"We Are the Eighties" is a new CD series that compiles songs from has-been artists who had a modicum of popularity twenty-five years ago, but today couldn't sell water in a desert. Now, Eddie Money seems like a really nice guy, and I certainly do not want to offend him, but I'm sure he's aware of the fact that he isn't getting much airplay these days, and so is Columbia/Legacy, his record label. As a ploy to appeal to ageing baby-boomers, they are re-packaging his stuff as part of this "We Are the -80s" series. The problem is, Eddie's biggest hits date from the `70s, and so this collection simply ignores their existence. Instead of compiling a genuine "Best of" collection, we get fourteen tracks of thoroughly dated and totally forgotten material. The only track that even rings a bell is "Take Me Home Tonight/ Be My Baby," and that's only because I remember that crappy video with a cameo from Ronnie Spector.
Honestly, if Columbia really wanted to do their artist a favor, and sell some records, don't you think they'd at least include his hits on this compilation CD? Or, if their intent is to focus on artists from the `80s, why choose Eddie Money? As I type this, there are at least four collections available that feature Eddie Money's Greatest Hits (not to mention his first album, which is a virtual greatest hits all on its own), so why does this CD even exist? Eddie may not be a star any longer, but he still deserves much better than this. This may be the most ridiculous repackaged product of the past ten years. F (Sorry, Eddie) Tom Ryan