 | Test Pattern (CD & DVD)
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by Calliope
Audio CD
(22 June, 2004)
(3 reviews) 
Customer Review: Just can't stop: I've been listening to this album almost non-stop since I got it. I was privileged to hear Sonia Dada do many of these songs at a festival in Chicago a few weeks ago, |
 | The B-52's
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: This record shook up the snoozing world of rock in 1979, becoming a truly classic disc, one full of landmark moments and heavy with possibilities. Most "real" rockers in the late '70s tried hard to ignore the Sex Pistols and the Clash, |
 | The Best Of 1980-1990 [Limited Edition]
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by Interscope Records
Audio CD
(26 March, 2002)
(257 reviews) 
Editorial Review: One need hear only the first notes of this collection--the Edge's ringing guitar notes ushering in "Pride (In the Name of Love)"--to be taken back to 1984: Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher rule the Western world, |
 | The Best of Berlin 1979-1988
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by Geffen Records
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(24 reviews)
Editorial Review: Like Blondie, Berlin is a female-fronted new wave band with a lead singer (Terri Nunn) who can really belt, although Nunn is more in-your-face than Debbie Harry. Their music is submerged new wave synth-pop that is varied most successfully by Nunn's agile vocal arrangements. |
 | The Best of Howard Jones
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(29 June, 1993)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is the only Howard Jones album you'll ever need. HoJo was a founder of early '80s synth-pop, which was as easy to sing to as it was to dance to. The rhythms on this record pop like new wave corn kernels in heated oil, |
 | The Best of INXS
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(15 October, 2002)
(13 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Helmed by the unabashed rock-god vocal sass of frontman Michael Hutchence and powered by a club-pub musical ethos rooted in the '70's funk and R&B of Chic and others, Australia's INXS became international superstars by cutting against the grain of '80s new wave and '90s post-punk. |
 | The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary
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by Capitol
Audio CD
(08 September, 1992)
(17 reviews)
Editorial Review: Released in 1992 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, this two-disc set still stands as the ultimate Bond music collection. Disc one includes all of the hit songs from the Bond films, |
 | The Best of New Order
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(14 March, 1995)
(47 reviews)
Editorial Review: Manchester's pivotal post-punk quartet offer a 16-track opus that skips obscurities and early material in favor of their greatest singles. Highlights include "Blue Monday," "Thieves Like Us" and "The Perfect Kiss" and sparkling Stephen Hague remixes of "True Faith" and "Bizarre Love Triangle." |
 | The Best of Simple Minds
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by Virgin Records
Audio CD
(04 June, 2002)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: It is a chronology: "best of simple minds" is an effective double cd collection that covers all of band's most important tracks up to around year 1999. |
 | The Best of Talking Heads
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(17 August, 2004)
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 | The Brat Pack Years
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Audio CD
(06 November, 2001)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: This blindingly garish, tossed-together compilation betrays little affection for the movies it supposedly celebrates. Worse, The Brat Pack Years omits many songs that fans of those flicks--many of them John Hughes touchstones--associate with their most romantic and thrilling moments. |
 | The Complete Adventures of the Style Council
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by Polygram Int'l
Audio CD
(19 October, 1998)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: It's In The Mail!: I haven't yet even received my copy of this anthology, and I'm already beside myself! As someone who lived through their musical journey, |
 | The Cure - Greatest Hits (Limited Edition with Bonus Disc)
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(13 November, 2001)
(80 reviews)
Editorial Review: As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of"Lovecats"--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangentialexercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of theweightier studiousness of those early albums. |
 | The Cure [Deluxe Edition w/ Bonus DVD]
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by Geffen Records
Audio CD
(29 June, 2004)
(120 reviews)
Editorial Review: Having threatened to enter into retirement after 2000's bleak goodbye letter, Bloodflowers, weathered British goth idols the Cure turned around only to discover their sound being commandeered by the likes of the Rapture, |
 | The Cure
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by Geffen Records
Audio CD
(29 June, 2004)
(105 reviews) 
Customer Review: Growing Pains: The most recent of the Cure's endeavors has produced an album that requires more than one listen for fair judgement. |
 | The Edge of Christmas
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by Oglio Records
Audio CD
(15 August, 1995)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: A middle-of-the-road rock and pop assortment, The Edge of Christmas repackages chestnuts such as Bing and Bowie crooning "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" and Dave Edmunds's version of Chuck Berry's classic "Run Run Rudolph." |
 | The Hurting [UK Bonus Tracks]
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by Universal
Audio CD
(13 March, 2001)
(22 reviews)
Customer Review: My Pale Shelter: It's madness indeed when this album, one of the best debut's that I can recall, has been essentially relegated to early '80s obscurity. |
 | The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(17 August, 2004)
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 | The Police - Greatest Hits
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by Polygram Int'l
Audio CD
(28 September, 1992)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: The Police Rock!: The Police where one of the greatest acts of the late 1970's and the 80's. The music is characterised by a strongly accentuated subsidiary beat with a distinct reggae resemblance. |
 | The Pretenders - Greatest Hits
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by Wea International
Audio CD
(03 October, 2000)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: The best Pretenders collection: If you like the Pretenders this is the collection for you. |
 | The Pretenders Greatest Hits
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by Wea International
Audio CD
(21 November, 2000)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Three songs short of five stars!: I finally received The Pretenders Greatest Hits as a gift a month ago. I absolutely love this collection of tunes, |
 | The Psychedelic Furs - Greatest Hits
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Audio CD
(30 January, 2001)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: Most great rock has embraced the influences of the past with a contemporary urgency and seldom an eye on the future. And if Richard Butler and the Psychedelic Furs took critical heat for fusing the pulsing darkness of the Velvet Underground with Iggy Pop edginess and a few mid-'70s U.K |
 | The Singles 1986-1995
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by Capitol Records
Audio CD
(02 November, 2004)
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 | The Singles 86>98
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(06 October, 1998)
(137 reviews)
Editorial Review: So Depeche Mode releases a singles compilation featuring only one previously unreleased song ("Only When I Lose Myself") in anticipation of a major tour. Sound suspiciously like a shameless cash-in? Sure. |
 | The Singles
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Ignoring the "Precious" side of Chrissie Hynde's rocking and writing, The Singles still captures a good bit of what was special about her in the '80s. Bopping assertions of strength ("Brass in Pocket"), |
 | The Unforgettable Fire
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by Polygram Records
Audio CD
(15 June, 1990)
(138 reviews)
Editorial Review: An appreciable leap forward in almost every fashion from the group's first trio of albums, The Unforgettable Fire is its first with the production team of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. And while they take a strong hand in wrestling U2's music out of the mainstream and into a more individualistic area, |
 | The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates
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Audio CD
(23 January, 2001)
(35 reviews)
Editorial Review: Hall and Oates often enlivened '70s and '80s radio with sharp pop concoctions that drew on a wellspring of R&B influences picked up in their hometown of Philadelphia. They scored frequently enough, in fact, that this 20-track collection--intended to supplement or replace the earlier Rock 'n Soul, Part 1 with post-'83 winners--doesn't capture all their finest moments. |
 | The Very Best of Elvis Costello
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(17 April, 2001)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: The debate over whether he is punk or new wave is long over; today Elvis Costello is less likely to be found on a list with Strummer and Scabies than he is with Bacharach and David and Jimmy Webb. Lauded initially for his energetic and literate attacks on the social ills of Thatcher's England, |
 | The Very Best of... Sting & the Police
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by A&M Records
Audio CD
(01 October, 2002)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: "one of the most popular bands ever ~ Sting & the Police": UTV Records brings to the table an all-star line up of songs ~ "The Very Best of Sting & |
 | The Wedding Singer Volume 2: More Music From The Motion Picture
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(21 July, 1998)
(35 reviews)
Editorial Review: Is it forgivable that the second volume of songs from Adam Sandler's mid-'80s-revival comedy begins with Kajagoogoo's famously limp "Too Shy"? Not really, but the rest of the disc does a good job of recapitulating worthy memories from the era of torn-sweatshirt necks and mulletheads--not just with new-wave novelties but with Madonna and Hall & |
 | The Wedding Singer: Music From The Motion Picture
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(03 February, 1998)
(43 reviews)
Editorial Review: Sounding like a flashback of the first few years of MTV, the soundtrack of The Wedding Singer starts as an intended goof and ends up quite listenable, thanks. While a couple of these songs (Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" in particular) had already fallen off the cultural radar by 1985, |
 | They Might Be Giants
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by Restless Records
Audio CD
(01 July, 1993)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: The self-titled debut from alternative music's favorite dork-rockers launched a career based on absurd lyrics planted in wildly diverse musical garden. Songs like "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" and the New-Wavish tributary "Youth Culture Killed My Dog," |
 | This Year's Model (With Bonus Disc)
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(19 February, 2002)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: Only months after his initial conquest with My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello delivered an even fiercer diatribe. His first record with the long-running Attractions, 1978's This Year's Model remains one of that blistering rock year's most indelible albums. |
 | Thompson Twins - Greatest Hits
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by Arista
Audio CD
(01 October, 1996)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: Good, but hardly a complete collection.: I think I speak for many Thompson Twins fans when I scream, "I want a Box Set!" There are simply too many "Hits" collections for the Thompson Twins that have songs missing from what fans would choose; |
 | Three Imaginary Boys (Dlx) (Dig)
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(07 December, 2004)
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 | Three Imaginary Boys
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by Polygram Int'l
Audio CD
(23 April, 1990)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: Auspicious Debut by Cult Giants: While not a landmark album, except that it is the Cure's debut, '3IB' was a creative mixture of punk and post-punk, |
 | Time Capsule: Songs For A Future Generation
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(26 May, 1998)
(52 reviews)
Editorial Review: Taken in one concentrated best-of dose, it becomes evident what a coup the B-52's pulled off when they turned their own concentrated craziness into genuine hits. This is some of the weirdest stuff ever to make the charts, |
 | Top
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by Polygram Int'l
Audio CD
(11 July, 1984)
(36 reviews)
Customer Review: Top is an explosion of Smith's brilliance: In what might be the closest fans of The Cure will ever see to a Robert Smith solo album, |
 | U2 - The Best of 1990-2000
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by Interscope Records
Audio CD
(12 November, 2002)
(60 reviews)
Editorial Review: U2's second decade often seemed as preoccupied with the band's burgeoning superstardom--and how to confront/confound it--as it did with creating music. The band managed only four albums during the era (only half of its '80s output), |
 | Ultimate Collection
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Audio CD
(09 November, 1999)
(14 reviews)
Editorial Review: Long before the idiom "talk to the hand" entered public discourse, Cy Curnin was singing to his, a melodramatic tic that made Fixx videos and live shows seem pretentious, or at least odd. But beyond their frontman's Bowie affectations, |
 | Under a Blood Red Sky
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by Island
Audio CD
(15 June, 1990)
(54 reviews)
Editorial Review: There seem to be two major camps of U2 fans now: Those who dig the early albums (good and sensible people), and those who only like the ones from the '90s, putting everything previous down as "classic rock." |
 | Upstairs at Eric's
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by Warner Brothers
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(44 reviews)
Editorial Review: There was a time when you couldn't step into a dance club without hearing at least part of this recording booming over the sound system. The often over-played hit, "Situation," was a bubbling caldron of nasally synth noodlings, |
 | Valley Girl: Music From The Soundtrack
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(22 February, 1994)
(22 reviews)
Editorial Review: Martha Coolidge's 1983 directorial debut--based loosely on the Frank (and Moon) Zappa (who weren't involved with the film) novelty hit of the previous year--carried a budget so low that it didn't even generate a soundtrack album when it was released. |
 | VH-1 Behind the Music: Go-Go's Collection
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by Interscope Records
Audio CD
(23 May, 2000)
(21 reviews)
Editorial Review: "America's sweethearts," Rolling Stone once dubbed the Go-Go's, and it was certainly as true as it could've been in any post-'50s milieu. The surf-tinged New Wavers sold more than 2 million copies of their 1981 debut, |
 | Violent Femmes [Deluxe Edition]
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(18 June, 2002)
(4 reviews)
Editorial Review: Emerging, literally, from the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they gained notoriety through busking, this strange trio led by guitarist-vocalist Gordon Gano became a cult favorite with their self-titled debut album in 1983. |
 | Violent Femmes
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(17 October, 2000)
(34 reviews)
Customer Review: One of the eighties best!: What can I say about the Femmes! I was ten years old when I first bought this album only to have it confiscated when my parents heard the infamous "Add it up". |
 | Wide Awake in America
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by Island
Audio CD
(15 June, 1990)
(37 reviews)
Editorial Review: The defining moment of 1985's Live Aid music festival was U2's pulsing, magical performance of "Bad," where Bono climbed down into the audience and danced with a young woman while millions watched, for almost 20 minutes. |
 | Wig in a Box
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by Off Records
Audio CD
(28 October, 2003)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: The artists are inaccurate: The track list for this album is actually:1. The Origin of Love by Rufus Wainwright2. Angry Inch by Sleater-Kinney & |
 | Wish
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(21 April, 1992)
(59 reviews)
Editorial Review: Another brilliant set of obsessive musings pried from Robert Smith's fuzzy navel. Epic elegies ("From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea") and tuneful romps ("Friday I'm In Love") are classic Cure cuts--Jeff |
 | World Without Tears
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by Lost Highway
Audio CD
(08 April, 2003)
(130 reviews)
Editorial Review: Most artists who appeal to adult listeners tend to settle into a comfortable niche, but Lucinda Williams refuses to play it safe. Instead, her music stings like an open wound, as she continues to strip away the protective layers from her art's emotional core. |
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