These are all late 90's UK imports from a label called 'Crimson Records', but over the years, I've been lucky enough to find them in local stores. Simply wonderful collections of songs all based on the British charts :thumb:

Pop Goes the 80's

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1 Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles
2 Down Under - Men At Work
3 Girls Just Want To Have - Cyndi Lauper
4 Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
5 I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
6 I Owe You Nothing - Bros
7 The Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz
8 Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants
9 Kids In America - Kim Wilde
10 Turning Japanese - The Vapours
11 Crash - The Primitives
12 Rush Hour - Jane Wiedlin
13 Happy Birthday - Altered Images
14 That's The Way (I Like It) - Dead Or Alive
15 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tight Fit
16 If You Let Me Stay - Terence Trent D'Arby
17 Whenever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - Paul Young
18 Crying - Don McLean


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A Kick Up the 80's

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1 Ghost Town - The Specials
2 Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
3 Golden Brown - The Stranglers
4 Cars - Gary Numan
5 Hey Little Girl - Icehouse
6 Love On Your Side - Thompson Twins
7 Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
8 Favourite Shirts - Haircut One Hundred
9 Let Them All Talk - Elvis Costello
10 Boxerbeat - JoBoxers
11 Shout to the Top - Style Council
12 Is Vic There? - Department S
13 Story of the Blues - Mighty Wah
14 The Look of Love - ABC
15 Labelled With Love - Squeeze
16 It's A Mystery - Toyah
17 I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
18 Drowning in Berlin - Mobiles


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Ultimate Eighties

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1 Enola Gay - OMD
2 Tainted Love - Soft Cell
3 (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
4 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
5 Waterfront - Simple Minds
6 Reward - Teardrop Explodes
7 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
8 It's My Life - Talk Talk
9 King in a Catholic Style (Wake Up) - China Crisis
10 Ghosts - Japan
11 True - Spandau Ballet
12 Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
13 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club
14 Mad World - Tears For Fears
15 Poison Arrow - ABC
16 Fade to Grey - Visage
17 Digging Your Scene - Blow Monkeys
18 Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
19 Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox
20 Cars - Gary Numan


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A Kick Up the Eighties

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1 Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2 Mirror Man - Human League
3 Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
4 Beat Surrender - Jam
5 Somewhere In My Heart - Aztec Camera
6 Time (Clock Of The Heart) - Culture Club
7 Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
8 The Look Of Love - ABC
9 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100
10 She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
11 Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
12 Ghost Town - Specials, The
13 Perfect - Fairground Attraction
14 Labelled With Love - Squeeze
15 I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl
16 Too Shy - Kajagoogo
17 The Only Way Is Up - Yazz & The Plastic Population
18 Young At Heart - Bluebells, The
19 You're The Best Thing - Style Council
20 Golden Brown - Stranglers


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Number Ones of the 80's

{couldn't find the CD cover and I have no scanner LOL)

1 Tide Is High - Blondie
2 Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
3 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
4 Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
5 Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
6 I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
7 I Feel for You - Chaka Khan
8 19 - Paul Hardcastle
9 If I Was - Midge Ure
10 Sun Always Shines on T.V. - A-ha
11 Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
12 I Want to Wake up With You - Boris Gardner
13 Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
14 Respectable - Mel & Kim
15 I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue
16 I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
17 Don't Turn Around - Aswad
18 Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart - Marc Almond & Gene Pitney

You'd probably be hard pressed to call Tiffany 'New Wave', but i've seen those compilations around and there's much more 'killer' than 'filler' and a fine way to discover lost gems. :thumb:

They certainly are a good introduction to 80's music for those that missed out when it was actually happening, though I don't tend to bother with them myself as I normally already own most of the tracks they tend to use.

That's one of the perks of being a vinyl junkie for 30 years :D

Of course, i am now going to be awkward and suggest:-

http://www.ktelclassics.com/moderndance.html

A Kick up the 80's sounds like those old gold CD collections which were eclectic and all over the place, but good none the less.