Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
2. Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
3. Mony Mony [Live] - Billy Idol
4. Invisible Touch - Genesis
5. Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby, Bruce Hornsby,
6. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
7. Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner
8. Bamba - Los Lobos
9. Just Another Night - Mick Jagger
10. Life of Illusion - Joe Walsh
11. Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
12. Sleeping Bag - ZZ Top
13. Missing You - John Waite
14. Sea of Love - The Honeydrippers
15. One More Night - Phil Collins

Disc 2:

1. Love Shack - The B-52's,
2. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
3. Need You Tonight - INXS
4. Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
5. Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
6. Fascination Street - The Cure
7. Amanda - Boston
8. Living Years - Mike + the Mechanics,
9. New World Man - Rush
10. She's a Beauty - The Tubes
11. Voice - The Moody Blues
12. 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
13. Love Is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
14. Abracadabra - Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band
15. Downtown Train - Rod Stewart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7978 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-24
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

Rhino Does It Again!
I probably would have not bothered to buy this 2-CD compilation set if it hadn't been released by Rhino. Once again, Rhino puts out quality material!

While there may be a few tracks that seem to be on every 80's compilation there are enough tracks here that don't make the usual cut. There are some tracks here that I don't quite remember but am happy to have in my collection, considering they were hits and may not get as much exposure as the typical 80's songs.

The main reason I gave this collection 5 stars is because of the superb digitally remastering once again by Rhino! It never fails! Every song on here (perhaps with the exception of the live "Mony Mony" track) sounds crisp, bright, and clear!

Unfortunately, Rhino didn't bother to make note of their brilliant remastering by placing a "Remastered In Rhinophonic Authentic Sound" logo on the sleeve (as seen on many previous Rhino releases). As a buyer, I like to see this logo! The logo may be missing, but the sound quality is all there!

Many of the 80's compilations today are just the original recordings transferred to CD from any random source. Rhino takes the extra step of finding the best original master tapes and using the best available technology to restore these recordings. And that's the difference with this collection! While I may have many of these recordings on other 80's compilations or albums, none sound as crisp as on this Billboard hits 2-disc set!

Also I must note that some of these songs are in single edit/version form. Some individuals may complain about edited versions but I can't really complain since I like to hear the original single/edit versions as well.

Perhaps a volume 2 issue, Rhino?

80's Guilt
To be honest with you, there isn't a decade that really hasn't defined music as good as the 1980's. There was just so much that the industry offered, and just so many formats of great music to choose from. The songs were just great and filled with so many guilty pleasures and delights from so many influences and signature tracks. Nevertheless, every 80's compilation really doesn't seem to have every signature song or artist that should be on it, but that is alright. Arguably, when Rhino compiled this collection with Billboard on #1 tracks, they did make some great tracks and styles that truly were signatures to the 1980's. This collection might not define that theory, but it is just a theory of music.

Billboard #1's: The 80's is a 2 disc set of 30 great pop songs from the 80's. There were so many great guilty pleasure tracks of the 80's on here, it just is a compilation for guilt. So many great songs here were compiled from Phil Collins on his own with his 1985 #1 song, One More Night, and his career with Genesis with their only #1 song, Invisible Touch. There are other great 80's tracks, including Pat Benetar on her smash, Love Is A Battlefield, Los Lobos with the only Spanish song to hit #1, La Bamba, and other guilty pleasures. Although this is just like every 80's collection with guilty pleasures like Love Shack from The B-52's, Queen's Another One Bites The Dust, Tommy Tutone's phone number ballad 867-5309 / Jenny, Missing You by John Waite, and the only Grateful Dead Top 10 hit, Touch Of Grey. All in all, just so much here, but more to be longed for.

Although you really don't seem to find 80's revolutionary performers like Whitney Houston, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Huey Lewis & The News, and others to name, many people may consider Billboard #1's: The 80's, as a compiled list of good 80's tracks. Like every 80's collection, none are ever perfect. This is one that should be glanced at and bought for die hard 80's fanatics.

THIS CD IS AWESOME
I LIKE THE 80'S AND I LIKE THESE 80'S CD'S ALL 30 80'S SONGS ALL TWO CD'S BUY THEM