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As someone who just turned 40, I would have absolutely zero interest in any other recent volume of the NOW series (although I actually had the very first one on cassette, which also had '80s songs on it because they were NEW then). However, I decided to give the '80s volumes a try, and this is the first one I have bought so far. The first thing I noticed is that the levels seem to have been jacked up a bit for this release... not too bad, and I can't really tell if there is any compression to lessen the dynamic range, but I wouldn't be surprised. The song selection is okay... I hadn't already had most of the songs, but that's largely because I've been focusing on more obscure tracks. This compilation is largely composed of those songs that make those of us who lived through the '80s yell "YES... I KNOW that song came out in the '80s, but so did a LOT of OTHER songs!!!" They're the ones that so-called '80s shows play over and over again, completely ignoring that great music from the '80s means a lot more than just the top 40 songs that were released in that decade. I was happy to find that the single version of Toy Soldiers was included rather than the longer one I already had, since I always remember it starting with the chorus as on this version rather than the longer (album?) version that begins with Martika's vocal. All in all this collection is worth having I guess, but being a relatively recent release, prices for a new copy are really too high in my opinion. You can get all these songs on older (okay, USED) CDs where the levels haven't been messed with for a lot less, even if you have to buy two or three compilations to get them all. If you can find it cheap or just don't want a whole collection of '80s CDs, go ahead and buy this one -- otherwise, look into the many '80s compilations that came before it.Read full review
I love 80s music and this cd has all the great 80s classics that I grew up listening to. This CD is totally worth buying.
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I love it
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I am a big fan of popular 80s music, and I am building a collection of such CDs to rip. I knew this CD was a definite, so I bought it.
A must for any Child of the 80's!!!!!! Great songs from Rick Astley and Paula Abdul. If it played in your car in 1988 it is probably on this disk.
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