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

Artist	Various Artists
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Rhino
Producer	Bryan Adams, The Art of Noise, The Buggles, Devo, Thomas Dolby, Dave Edmunds, Danny Elfman, General Public, The Human League, Joe Jackson, Rick James, Kool & the Gang, Kenny Loggins, Mr. Mister, Gary Numan, Queen, Peter Schilling, Styx, John Waite, George Duke, Jan Hammer, Greg Mathieson, Deodato, Jon Astley, Katrina & the Waves, Mike Post, David Foster, Buckner & Garcia, Peter Collins, Paul Dean, Bernard Edwards, Keith Forsey, Daryl Hall, Rupert Hine, Laid Back, Clive Langer, Ralph MacDonald, Nile Rodgers, Bob Sargeant, Jim Steinman, Michael Jonzun, Giorgio Moroder, Michael Sembello, Matt Aitken, Tom Lord-Alge, Mark Avsec, Roy Thomas Baker, Chris Barbosa, Steve Bartek, Jeff Baxter, Kevin Beamish, Tony Bongiovi, John Boylan, Vincent Brantley, Philip Chapman, Rick Chertoff, Bob Clearmountain, David Cole, Peter Coleman, Pat Collier, Kevin Cronin, Paul DeVilliers, Lee DeCarlo, Dieter Dierks, Sheila E., John Eden, Frank Zappa, Bruce Fairbairn, Colin Fairley, Harold Faltermeyer, Robert Ford, Jr., Chris Frantz, Tim Friese-Greene, Mitchell Froom, Val Garay, Gary Gersh, Jeff Glixman, Linda Goldstein, Eddy Grant, Reinhold Heil, Trevor Horn, Chris Hughes, Seth Justman, David Kahne, Matthew King Kaufman, David Kershenbaum, Chris Kimsey, Harry King, Kenny Laguna, Nick Laird-Clowes, Laurie Latham, Stewart Levine, Steve Levine, Mark Liggett, Steve Lillywhite, Sonny Limbo, Mack & Billy, Scott Maclellan, David Malloy, Tony Mansfield, Arif Mardin, Robert Margouleff, Richard Marx, Peter McLan, Rodney Mills, Meco Monardo, Michael Omartian, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, John Oates, Keith Olsen, Ray Parker, Jr., Gregg Perry, Richard Perry, Chuck Plotkin, Vini Poncia, Robie Porter, Manfred "Manne" Praeker, Lance Quinn, Phil Ramone, Nick Rhodes, Gary Richrath, Rick Rubin, Martin Rushent, John Ryan, Armin Sabol, Alex Sadkin, Chas Sandford, Shell Schellekens, Lonnie Simmons, Russell Simmons, Jeremy Smith, Peter Solley, Steven Stanley, Maurice Starr, Dave Stewart, Mike Stock, Alan Tarney, David Thoener, Mike Thorne, Colin Thurston, Rick Timas, Bob Tischler, Trevor Veitch, Steve Verroca, Klaus Voormann, Grover Washington, Jr., Pete Waterman, Tom Werman, Tina Weymouth, William Wittman, Fred Zarr, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Pat Glasser, D. Foster, George Nicholson, J.B. Moore, David Gilmore, Chris Thomas, Alan Parsons, J King, Starr Co., Marc Giacomelli
Release Date	2002 07 02
Song List	1: Whip It (2:39) 2: Video Killed the Radio Star (3:27) 3: The Empire Strikes Back (3:03) 4: Another One Bites the Dust (3:34) 5: Celebration (3:43) 6: The Breaks, Pt. 1 (4:09) 7: Let My Love Open the Door (2:44) 8: Call Me (3:32) 9: Keep on Loving You (3:22) 10: Turning Japanese (3:44) 100: We're Not Gonna Take It (3:39) 101: Rock You Like a Hurricane (4:12) 102: The Glamorous Life (3:42) 103: Obsession (3:58) 104: Shout (4:06) 105: Take on Me (3:47) 106: Don't You (Forget About Me) (4:20) 107: Walking on Sunshine (3:59) 108: Voices Carry (4:23) 109: Weird Science (3:49) 11: Lost in Love (3:54) 110: You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record) (3:17) 111: "Miami Vice" Theme (2:27) 112: Life in a Northern Town (4:17) 113: Kyrie (4:15) 114: Every Time You Go Away (4:16) 115: We Built This City (4:56) 116: St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) (4:10) 117: Addicted to Love (4:01) 118: Axel F (3:01) 119: Rhythm of the Night (3:54) 12: 9 to 5 (2:46) 120: You Look Marvelous (3:58) 121: Heartbeat (4:17) 122: Everybody Have Fun Tonight (4:11) 123: Venus (3:50) 124: Walk Like an Egyptian (3:23) 125: Paranoia (3:18) 126: If You Leave (4:26) 127: Keep Your Hands to Yourself (3:24) 128: What You Need (3:35) 129: Walk This Way (3:39) 13: I Love a Rainy Night (3:10) 130: Rumors (3:33) 131: Don't Dream It's Over (3:57) 132: Holding Back the Years (4:12) 133: I'll Be Loving You (Forever) (3:57) 134: Tuff Enuff (3:23) 135: Since You've Been Gone (4:13) 136: Only in My Dreams (3:52) 137: Never Gonna Give You Up (3:32) 138: La Bamba (2:54) 139: Wild, Wild West (4:06) 14: Sailing (4:16) 140: Don't Worry, Be Happy (3:55) 141: Right Here Waiting (4:25) 142: Roam (4:04) 15: Just the Two of Us (3:58) 16: Cars (3:57) 17: Ah! Leah! (3:43) 18: Sweetheart (3:49) 19: Shake It Up (3:34) 20: General Hospi-Tale (4:01) 21: Stroke (3:37) 22: Dancing With Myself (3:19) 23: Working for the Weekend (3:41) 24: Jessie's Girl (3:15) 25: Genius of Love (3:30) 26: Centerfold (3:38) 27: At This Moment (4:14) 28: Harden My Heart (3:37) 29: Hold on Loosely (3:55) 30: Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not) (3:14) 31: Take Off (2:43) 32: Super Freak, Pt. 1 (3:20) 33: 867-5309/Jenny (3:47) 34: Bette Davis Eyes (3:45) 35: Time (4:32) 36: Gloria (4:52) 37: Maneater (4:32) 38: The Theme From Hill Street Blues (3:14) 39: Valley Girl (3:48) 40: Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha) (3:25) 41: You Dropped a Bomb on Me (4:03) 42: Hungry Like the Wolf (4:05) 43: The Look of Love, Pt. 1 (3:31) 44: Tainted Love (2:42) 45: Rock This Town (2:40) 46: Lies (3:14) 47: Words (4:24) 48: Don't You Want Me (3:58) 49: Love Plus One (3:37) 50: Down Under (3:43) 51: Steppin' Out (3:47) 52: I Want Candy (2:46) 53: Come on Eileen (4:14) 54: Mickey (3:27) 55: Twilight Zone (4:51) 56: You Should Hear How She Talks About You (3:58) 57: Key Largo (3:07) 58: Pac-Man Fever (3:55) 59: Total Eclipse of the Heart (5:35) 60: Africa (4:19) 61: Goodbye to You (3:47) 62: Puttin' on the Ritz (3:25) 63: Jeopardy (3:47) 64: She Blinded Me With Science (3:42) 65: Electric Avenue (3:49) 66: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (3:36) 67: Our House (3:23) 68: The Salt in My Tears (3:30) 69: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (3:53) 70: Talking in Your Sleep (3:57) 71: Major Tom (Coming Home) (4:12) 72: Always Something There to Remind Me (3:41) 73: In a Big Country (3:55) 74: One Thing Leads to Another (3:24) 75: Der Kommisar (4:08) 76: Suddenly Last Summer (3:42) 77: Karma Chameleon (4:08) 78: Let's Go to Bed (3:34) 79: Too Shy (3:36) 80: Maniac (4:11) 81: Sister Christian (4:21) 82: Cum on Feel the Noize (3:27) 83: Owner of a Lonely Heart (3:51) 84: Mr. Roboto (4:49) 85: I'm So Excited (3:50) 86: Back on the Chain Gang (3:53) 87: I Want to Know What Love Is (5:00) 88: Sunglasses at Night (3:54) 89: Missing You (4:02) 90: 99 Luftballons (3:53) 91: Tenderness (3:31) 92: They Don't Know (3:01) 93: Heaven (3:58) 94: White Horse (3:53) 95: Let the Music Play (4:31) 96: Let's Hear It for the Boy (4:10) 97: Cool It Now (4:09) 98: Ghostbusters (4:00) 99: Footloose (3:44)
Style.Categories	Pop/Rock, New Wave, Adult Contemporary, Urban, Dance-Pop

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Rock criticism has two schools of thought regarding the '80s. One complains that it was all crass, commercial crap, breathing a sigh of relief that we made it through that dreck (thanks to IRS, SST, jangle pop, college rock, and hardcore punk, of course). The other celebrates the album as "cheesy" fun, full of naïve, silly singles; bad haircuts; big synthesizers. It's a school intent on reducing it all as nostalgic fodder -- and whenever '80s music is written about in this fashion, it's always given ironic adjectives, straight out of the height of valley girl speak. All this ghettoizes an era in pop music that was rich in innovation, great one-hit wonders, oddities, and inexplicable flukes that make it a wonderful cross between the first days of the British Invasion and the peak of AM pop in the early '70s. It was the last great era for pop singles -- the last time that singles really mattered, the last time that something totally unexpected could capture the minds of the public, before radio consolidation meant hits couldn't build in a region, before MTV turned to non-music programming and cut off a national outlet for new music. Like, Omigod! It's the '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) captures that era pretty well. Even if it occasionally succumbs to treating the decade's music as if it was nothing but silly ephemera (which, granted, some of it was -- but it was catchy, well-made silly ephemera), it does do a couple of things right: Namely, it relies on new wave, yet tempers it with soul, hip-hop, hard rock, and soft rock, while realizing that the prime period of the '80s was before 1985, and that the one-hit-wonders and spirit of new wave faded away after that. This box spends about five-and-a-half of its seven discs on that era, with the remaining disc-and-a-half having about a disc's worth of 1986-era hits before quickly wrapping it up as we approach the first Bush era and the height of superstar MTV (the years when only the big guys -- whether it was Michael Jackson, Madonna, Aerosmith, Don Henley, or Steve Winwood -- ruled the prime time MTV airwaves, and the network no longer had to rely on interesting, primarily British, oddities to fill time). That's a good thing, because that was the best time for pop music in the '80s, and this captures much of the giddy feel of that time. The main problem with the box is that its sheer size gives the impression that it's more definitive than it really is. Forget the complaints that there's nothing from critical favorites and heavy-hitters like Elvis Costello, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, R.E.M., U2, Prince, Madonna, Springsteen, etc.; the real crime is that there are numerous great, definitive one-hit wonders and fluke breakthroughs by cult favorites missing. Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You," as good as any single released in the '80s, isn't here; there's nothing from Adam & the Ants, XTC, the B-52's, or the Violent Femmes; "Warm Leatherette" isn't here, nor is M's "Pop Muzik," "88 Lines about 44 Women," or "I Don't Like Mondays"; there's not a single from Squeeze, Split Enz, or the Jam; no "Someday, Someway," no "Mexican Radio," no "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"; no "I Know What Boys Like" or "I Melt With You"; Peter Wolf's "Lights Out," never present on any '80s hits collection, isn't here; "The Safety Dance" is missing; no Flock of Seagulls or Baltimora.