Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wham! - I'm Your Man
2. A-Ha - Take On Me
3. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
4. Adam & The Ants - Goody Two Shoes
5. Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts
6. Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
7. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
8. Altered Images - Happy Birthday
9. Oakey/Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
10. Nick Kamen - Each Time You Break My Heart
11. Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
12. Sinitta - So Macho
13. Go West - We Close Our Eyes
14. Hue & Cry - Labour Of Love
15. Five Star - Rain Or Shine
16. Sister Sledge - Frankie
17. Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
18. Howard Jones - What Is Love?
19. Dollar - Oh L'Amour
20. Prince - Purple Rain

Disc 2:

1. Duran Duran - Rio
2. Bananarama - Venus
3. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
4. Heaven 17 - Temptation
5. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
6. OMD - Enola Gay
7. T'Pau - Heart and Soul
8. UB40 - Red Red Wine
9. Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms
10. Peter Cetera - The Glory Of Love
11. Cars - Drive
12. Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love
13. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
14. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
15. Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love
16. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
17. Shakespear's Sister - You're History
18. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
19. Los Lobos - La Bamba

Disc 3:

1. Bros - When Will I Be Famous
2. Rick Astley - Together Forever
3. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
4. Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
5. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
6. Nena - 99 Red Balloons
7. Living In A Box - Living In A Box
8. Fairground Attraction - Perfect
9. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
10. Blondie - The Tide Is High
11. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
12. New Order - Blue Monday
13. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
14. The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
15. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
16. Climie Fisher - Love Changes
17. Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
18. Ultravox - Vienna

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27537 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Box set

Album Description
Do you remember the times of the perm, shoulder pads, leg warmers and stiletto's, or was your bedroom once plastered with Wham! & Duran Duran posters? Did you look forward to your shiny new copy of Smash Hits every fortnight? Well it's time to take a walk down memory lane with the ultimate 80's experience...it's Smash Hits - The 80s!!

It's been 30 years since pop bible Smash Hits was launched, and what better way to celebrate this than with this superb 3-disc compilation. Ram-packed with the biggest smashes of the eighties, turn up the volume and boogie down to pop scorchers from the likes of Prince, Blondie, Bros and The Human League, right down to infectious numbers from Rick Astley, Ultravox and Adam & The Ants.

Included in this great package will be:-

* Poster booklet packed with 80's Smash Hits covers!
* 4 x Exclusive Kipper Williams cartoon! (the original cartoonist for Smash Hits)
* Black Type answers Readers' Letters!
* Intro with history of Smash Hits

Plus some extra text taken from The Best of Smash Hits `80s Annual Book.

Customer Reviews

Surely the 80s weren't 20 years ago
It only seems like yesterday listening to this fab hits of the 80s. Remember those school discos - my kids think I'm sad and music was rubbish back then !!

If you can remember singing along to Rebel Yell by Billy Idol, or even the classic Vienna by Ultravox then you have gotta get this CD.

For a trip down memory lane, listen to Culture Club (remember Karma Chameleon)?

fabulous!!
fabulous, brilliant collection of 80s music. Couple of good hits on here and I have wanted for a long time, - strawberry switchblade since yesterday and johnny hates jazz shattered dreams. if like me you were an 80s child, you will love this collection. highly recommended a++!!

A must have for all 80s fans!
"Smash Hits - The 80s" is a superb collection of 80s hits but so much more than that, all the extras that you recieve with it are fantastic and you can spend ages enjoying this wonderful collector's item that is sure to delight all thoses who love the best decade of music.
If you are a fan of 1980s and the music from that wonderful area then this collections a must have, if you were around during those 10 years and a reader of "Smash Hits" magazine, you will no doubt enjoy it even more and all the happy memories will all come flooding back to you, I can guarantee it.
Fully recommened, a super release!