Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
2. Wake Me Up Before You Go - Wham
3. I'm Still Standing - Elton John
4. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
5. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
6. That's Entertainment - The Jam
7. Take On Me - A-ha
8. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
9. Stand And Deliver - Adam & The Ants
10. Rock The Casbah - The Clash
11. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
12. Baby I Don't Care - Transvision Vamp
13. Love Cats - Cure
14. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
15. We Close Our Eyes - Go West
16. Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
17. The Only Way Is Up - Yazz
18. The Look Of Love - ABC
19. Frankie - Sister Sledge
20. Centerfold - J Geils Band
21. Break My Stride - Mathew Wilder
22. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Disc 2:

1. Tide Is High - Blondie
2. Thru The Barracade - Spandau Ballet
3. Vienna - Ultravox
4. Fade To Grey - Visage
5. Wishing I Was Lucky - Wet Wet Wet
6. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
7. Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
8. There She Goes - The La's
9. What Is Love - Howard Jones
10. Eternal Flame - Bangles
11. If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
12. Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
13. Wonderful Life - Black
14. Labelled With Love - Squeeze
15. I Won't Let You Down - PHD
16. Closest Thing To Heaven - Kane Gang
17. Joanna - Kool & The Gang
18. Move Closer - Phylis Nelson
19. Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
20. Stand By Me - Ben E King

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63272 in Music
• Released on: 2003-01-27
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 164 minutes

Customer Reviews

42 tracks of pure 80s nostalgia!
I bought this double CD on the strength of two tracks: Mathew Wilder's 'Break My Stride' (one of my all time favourite pop songs) and the Kane Gang's 'Closest Thing to Heaven', which, as far as I know, is the only track available on CD by this sadly forgotten band. Despite already having at least 26 of the tracks I can't stop playing this wonderful collection. Every track is a 80's pop classic (with the exception of the mundane J Geils Band's ‘Centrefold’ and Sister Sledge's ‘Frankie’).

The selection of and sequencing of the tracks is excellent. There is a good variety of 80s pop styles ie. 'New Wave/Post Punk' (Blondie, the Clash), 'Pure Pop' (Ph.D, Bangles), 'Modern Romantic' (ABC, Soft Cell, Duran Duran), and 'Quality pop' (Simply Red, Elton John, Communards).

On the down-side: 'The Look of Love' fades out before the end thus depriving us of it's dramatic ending! (Was the chopping really necessary for the sake of a few seconds?) I would have preferred some information about each track to have been provided on the sleeve, and I find the inclusion of adverts for ring tones (for 'only' £3.75) somewhat tasteless.

These gripes apart, 'FriendsReunited from the 80s' makes for great home listening and has to be a winner at parties. The songs sum up for me 80s pop. Nearly all tracks contain great vocals. In summary: Nostalgia which still sounds fresh and vibrant today!

Not one for the late eighties
This album is a great nostalgia trip bringing back many school disco memories but my only complaint is that there are not enough track from the late 1980's.
I have 2 older brothers so I was brought up with this music but for anyone who can't remember Spandau Ballet or Adam and the Ants
there is not as much to entertain.
There are 5 tracks form the late eighties including 'Baby I Don't Care' by Transvision Vamp and 'Never Gonna Give You Up' By Rick Astley.
Where are the boy bands from this era , Bros and Brother Beyond?
Despite this there are still enough good tracks and only a few that make you reach for the 'skip' button on the CD player.
All together this album is worth a listen to even if you have already got some of the tracks ion other Cds.I hope they soon bring out a 90s version.

Bit of an oddity...
.....A website inspired/produced album.....

Odd provenance notwithstanding, this does exactly what it says on the tin...For those of us who were at school in the 80's, this takes you back to those cheesy discos and thinking you were "It" if you could breakdance or do that "Thing" with your arms...

For those who weren't at school in the 80's. buy this anyway - as a compilation of some of the decade-defining toons, you could do a lot worse...an awful lot worse....