Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70146 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-11-15
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

DVD Description
1. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 2. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 3. Bros - When Will I Be Famous? 4. Duran Duran - The Reflex 5. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 6. Heaven 17 - Temptation 7. Kim Wilde - Kids In America 8. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 9. Erasure - Sometimes 10. Mel & Kim - Showing Out 11. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 12. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off 13. T'pau - China In Your Hand 14. Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight 15. Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 16. John Waite - Missing You 17. Go West - We Close Our Eyes 18. Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound 19. Genesis - Land Of Confusion 20. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian 21. Ub40 And Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe 22. Inner City - Good Life 23. Soul Ii Soul - Back To Life 24. Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract 25. Diana Ross - Chain Reaction 26. Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Synopsis
Features twenty-five tracks, including: Cyndi Lauper - 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun', Culture Club - 'Karma Chameleon', Erasure - 'Sometimes', The Bangles - 'Walk Like An Egyptian', Soul II Soul - 'Back To Life' and Diana Ross - 'Chain Reaction'.

Customer Reviews

A toe-tapping trip down memory lane
This DVD took me right back to my teens!
Hugely entertaining, often hilarious (check out the Rick Astley video!) and wonderfully nostalgic. What's more, most of the artists have all but disappeared since (the DVD has no Madonna or George Michael tracks, for example), making this a real time capsule.
Highly recommended for people who, like me, were teenagers in the 80s.

Great fun for all 80's pop fans
This is an excellent purchase if you love 80's pop music. The DVD contains the videos to some of the best songs from many popular 80's artists including several number 1 hits. Highlights include Cyndi Lauper "Girls just to want to have fun", Kim Wilde "Kids in America", Genesis "Land of confusion", Paula Abdul "Opposites attract" & Soul II Soul "Back to life". Baltimora's dated "Tarzan Boy" is a disappointing choice for the compilation, but you do get a chance to own Cliff Richard's rollerskating performance in "Wired for sound". There are many other enjoyable nostalgic moments here and the good selection of classic hits makes this ideal for a house party.

The 80s remembered
For the full track list see the main Amazon listing.

This DVD made me realise that I've left the 80s firmly behind. Even some of songs I was looking forward to hearing I ended up fastforwarding.

The DVD has the original music videos for 25 hits from the 80s. The songs tend to cover the mid to late 80s. There's a variety of styles Reggae, Pop, etc. so it is unlikely that any one viewer will like all the tracks. As a comment on the times it's brilliant:

You get a sense of fashion then (especially in Girls Just Want To Have Fun), remember that politics was something that once had popular appeal (see Land of Confusion where Genesis tied up with Spitting Image) and be realise that the walkman craze was so large that it motivated a star to write about it (see Wired for Sound).

If you really love 80s music and/or want to reminisce about that period get it. However, if you're unsure, think carefully first.