Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box Totally

This collection will save you alot of money. Think if you were to go out and buy every CD that these songs are on. Here you get over 141 top hit songs of the 80's on 7 discs plus an awesome collectable box and a novelty 80's book with facts and pictures for every single year. Information about all the songs, artists, events , tv shows, movies and happenings during the 80's. Open up the Box and you see all the popular dances of the 80's including the Head Spin, The Wave, The Tick, The Mannequin and more. It also shows you how to do them with pictures step by step! The box is truly unique. Heres the song listings disk by disk.Disc 1-1.Devo- Whip It2.The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star3.Meco- Empire Strikes Back4.Queen- Another One Bites the Dust5.Kool and the Gang- Celebration6.Kurtis Blow- The Breaks Part 17.Pete Townshend- Let my love open the Door8.Blondie- Call Me9.REO Speedwagon- Keep on loving you10.The Vapors- Turning Japanese11.Air Supply- Lost in Love12.Dolly Parton- 9 to 513.Eddie Rabbitt- I love a rainy night14. Christopher Cross- Sailing15.Grover Washington Jr- Just the 2 of us16.Gary Numan- Cars17.Donnie Iris- Ah!Yeah!18.Frankie and the Knockouts- Sweetheart19.The Cars- Shake It Up20.Billy Squire- The strokeDisc 21.Billy Idol- Dancing with Myself2.Loverboy- Working for the Weekend3.Rick Springfield- Jessie's Girl4.Tom Tom Clun- Genius of Love5.J Geils Band- Centerfold6.Billy and the Beaters- At this moment7.Quarterflash- Harden My Heart8.38 Special- Hold on loosely9.Joey Scarbury- Theme from Greatest American Hero10.Bob and Doug Mckenzie- Take off11.Rick James- Super Freak Part 112.Tommy Tutone- Jenny/867-530913.Kim Carnes- Bette Davis Eyes14.Alan parsons project- time15.Laura Branigan- Gloria16.Hall and Oates- Maneater17.Theme from Hill street Blues18.Frank Zappa and Moon Unit- Valley Girl19.Trio- Da da da20.Gap Band- You dropped a bomb on meDisc 31.Duran Duran-Hungry like the Wolf2.ABC- The Look Of Love3.Soft Cell- Tainted Love4.Stray Cats- Rock this Town5.Thompson Twins- Lies6.Missing Persons- words7.The Human League- Dont you want me8.Haircut One Hundred- Love plus One9.Men at work- down under10.Joe Jackson- Steppin Out11.Bow Wow Wow- I Want Candy12.Dexies Midnight Runners- Come on Eileen13.Toni Basil- Mickey14.Golden Earing- Twilight Zone15.Melissa Manchester- You should hear how she talks about you16.Bertie Higgins- Key Largo17.Buckner and Garcia- Pac Man Fever18.Bonnie Tyler- Total eclipse of the heart19.Toto- Africa20.Scandal- Goodbye to you21.Taco- Puttin on the RitzDisc 41.Greg Kihn Band- Jeopardy2.Thomas Dolby- She blinded me with science3.Eddy Grant- Electric Avenue4.Eurythmics- Sweet dreams are made of these5.Madness- Our House6.Martin Briley- The salt in my tears7.Cyndi Lauper- Girls just want to have fun8.The romantics- Talking in your sleep9. Peter Shilling- Major Tom coming Home10.Naked Eyes- Always somthing there to remind me11.Big Country- In a Big County12.The Fixx- One thing leads to another13.After the Fire- Der Komisser14.The Motels- Suddenly Last Summer15.Culture Club- Karma Chameleon16.The Cure- Lets go to Bed17.Kajagoogoo- Too Shy18.Michael Sambello- Maniac19.Night Ranger- Sister Christian20.Quiet Riot- Cum On Feel the NoiseDisc 51.Yes- Owner of a lonely Heart2.Styx- Mr. Roboto3.Pointer Sisters- Im so Excited4.The Pretenders- Back on the chain gang5.Foreigner- I want to know what Love is6.Corey Hart- Sunglasses at Night7.John Waite- Missing You8.Nena-99 LuftBalloons9.General Public- Tenderness10.Tracey Ullman- They dont know11.Bryan Adams- Heaven12.White horse- Laidback13.Shannon- Let the music play14.Deniece Williams- Lets hear it for the boy15. New Edition- Cool it Now16.Ray Parker Jr- Ghostbusters17.Kenny Loggins- Footloose18.Twisted Sister- We're not gonna take it19.The Scorpions- Rock you like A Hurricane20.Sheila E- The Glamourous LifeDisc 61.Animotion- Obesession2.Tears for Fears- Shout3.A-Ha- Take on me4.Simple Minds- Dont you Forget About Me5.Katrina and the Waves- Walkin on Sunshine6.Til Tuesday- Voices Carry7.Oingo Boingo- Weird Science8.Dead or Alive- You Spin me Round like a Record9.Jan Hammer- Miami Vice Theme10.Dream Academy- Life in a Northern Town11.Mr. Mister- Kyrie12.Paul Young- everytime you go away13.Starship- We Built This City14.John Parr- St Elmos Fire15.Robert Palmer- Addicted To Love16.Harold Faltermeyer- Axel F17.Debarge- Rhythm of the night18.Billy Crystal - You Look Marvelous19.Don Johnson- Heartbeat ( Dont know why they put this one on here) lol20.Wang Chung- Everybody have fun TonightDisc 71.Bananarama- Venus2.The Bangles- Walk like an Egyptian3.The Art of Noise With Max Headroom- Paranoimia4.Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark- If you Leave5.Georgia Satellites- Keep your hands to yourself6.INXS- What you need7.Run-D.M.C.- Walk this Way8.Timex Social Club- Rumors9.Crowded House- Dont dream its over10.Simply Red- Holding back the Years11.New Kids on the Block- i'll be loving you forever12.The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Tuff Enuff13.The Outfield- Since youve been gone14.Debbie Gibson- Only in my Dreams15.Rick Astley- Never gonna give you Up16.Los Lobos- La Bamba17.The Escape Club- Wild Wild West18.Bobby Mcferrin- Dont worry Be Happy19.Richard Marx- Right Here Waiting20.The B-52's- RoamIs missing some great artists from the 80's but overall it's a nice collection of songs and would make a good gift for anyone who loved the 80's. 4.5 Stars.

This new 7-disc set of 1980s pop tunes stands head and shoulders above previous compilations for its completeness as well as its range. Too many of the previous nostalgia collections focused on tracks that received "retro" attention during the craze of the late 90s, or tried to distill the music of the 80s into specific genres such as the vague and inapt "new wave." Rhino's compilation, conversely, treats itself as a cultural and historical document, and thus strives to present a broad overview of the decade -- not just musically, but culturally as well.In addition to including the de rigeur one-hit wonders for which the 80s are famous (the Vapors' "Turning Japanese" and Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy," for example), this set also includes 80s hits by more successful artists whose careers spanned more than one decade, a feature sadly lacking in many other compilations. Queen, Yes, and INXS are all represented here, even though their success was not confined to the 80s (megahit pop powerhouses like Madonna, Michael Jackson and the Police are not, however).More importantly, Rhino includes tracks that represent trends in other areas of 80s culture: Films (Meco's hilarious "Empire Strikes Back" medley, Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F"), television (the Afternoon Delights' "General Hospi-Tale," Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice"), Broadway musicals (Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok"), and even video games (Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever"). Also included are short-lived "novelty" tracks that may not have done much on the charts at the time, but provide precious cultural insights: Bob & Doug McKenzie's "Take Off," Bertie Higgins's "Key Largo," Billy Crystal's "You Look Marvelous," and the Art of Noise's "Paranoimia."Perhaps the greatest aspect of this box set is that it includes a lushly produced 88-page book that's more than just liner notes. It's a set of analytical pop culture essays on the decade that defined a generation, from politics, media, medicine and technology to TV, Hollywood, music and all the trappings of pop culture. In addition to these intellectually stimulating essays are discussions of every single one of the 142 included songs, as well as hundreds of photographs that will resurrect all your memories from the decade, even the ones you thought you'd successfully interred forever.If you're an aficionado of 80s pop music who was collecting back in the day, this compilation may be all you need to complete your 80s experience. You probably have your own suite of favorite artists from the decade, and already own their CDs (Depeche Mode, U2, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears come to mind). This CD set will fill in the nooks and crannies, for those are the gaps where culture grows.

I was born in the late 70's so being a child of the eighties I really saw a lot of nostalgia value in this box set. They did a fabulous job on the song choices, they really fit a minimum of 20 songs on per CD. The cover art on the box is killer, definitely a keepsake. I know the box set I purchased was not brand new but MAN the seller really babied it from the box the CD's came in (a couple of the slots for the CD's no longer fit them like they probably did brand new but no big deal, I'm just careful about how I put the CD's away), to the CD's (very few minor scratches, but what CD isn't scratched a little bit right??) to the AWESOME pop culture booklet that came with it. LOVE that book, with just over 90 pages it gives a little back story on each song and then a bunch of milestones for each year along a time line from sports, to media, to political and more These guys really did their research!!. Between the music, the box art, and the booklet that comes with it this stuff really takes me back and reminds me of JUST how long ago these songs came out and how much of a transition music has made in the last 30 some odd years. To be clear it is almost predominantly pop music so you don't get a whole lot of other eighties genres like disco, reggae, punk, or the early incarnations of rap. There are a few MAJOR artists that SHAPED the eighties pop scene that are strangely absent like say, Madonna and Michael Jackson. I would assume it was a legal thing that kept them off this box set. A shame considering what a HUGE influence they had on this decade. This is the ONLY reason I deduct a star. Other than that the box set is AMAZING in every other way! At the very least get it for the other major players.