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12" 80S Alternative [Box set]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (15 Aug 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: UMC
  • ASIN: B0055SIFOU
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 74,132 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Blue MondayNew Order 7:28£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Welcome To The Pleasuredome (An Alternative To Reality)Frankie Goes To Hollywood 9:39Album Only
Listen  3. MemorabiliaSoft Cell 7:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Suffer The ChildrenTears For Fears 4:20£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Nowhere GirlB. Movie 6:29£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Every Lover's SignThe Lover Speaks 5:52£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Brilliant MindFurniture 7:00£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. AbsoluteScritti Politti 6:12£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Living In Another WorldTalk Talk 8:57Album Only
Listen10. The First Picture Of YouLotus Eaters 5:29£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. NightporterJapan 6:46Album Only


Disc 2:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Bela Lugosi's DeadBauhaus 9:32Album Only
Listen  2. Love Like BloodKilling Joke 6:41Album Only
Listen  3. EloiseThe Damned 9:31£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. WastelandThe Mission UK 7:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Lucretia My ReflectionThe Sisters Of Mercy 9:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Cities In DustSiouxsie And The Banshees 6:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Every AngelAll About Eve 5:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. April SkiesThe Jesus And Mary Chain 3:59£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Liberatorspear of destiny 5:17£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Telephone ThingThe Fall 4:19£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Hot Hot Hot!!!The Cure 7:03£0.89  Buy MP3 


Disc 3:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Up On The CatwalkSimple Minds 7:36Album Only
Listen  2. Bring On The Dancing HorsesEcho And The Bunnymen 5:47£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. In A Big CountryBig Country 6:19£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Faron YoungPrefab Sprout 4:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Cut Me DownLloyd Cole And The Commotions 6:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. The Greatness And Perfection Of LoveJulian Cope 3:23£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. HeartbeatThe Psychedelic Furs 8:15£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Frequency 7Visage 5:03£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Bostich (N'est-Ce Pas)Yello 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. How Much Are They?Jah Wobble 4:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Our DarknessAnne Clark 6:25Album Only
Listen12. YasharCabaret Voltaire 7:29Album Only
Listen13. P: MachineryPropaganda 9:23Album Only

Product Description

BBC Review

This three-CD set celebrates the alternative side of popular music in the 1980s, covering a trio of broad genres: new wave, goth and indie. The usual suspects are rounded up, and the songs selected are - as the title so accurately conveys - 12" mixes. So the listener gets over seven minutes of Simple Minds' Up on the Catwalk, almost a full 10 minutes of Propaganda's P: Machinery, and lengthy versions of Frankie's Welcome to the Pleasuredome and Talk Talk's Living in Another World.

Iconic offerings rub shoulders with significantly rarer numbers. Kicking off everything is the original 1983 cut of New Order's Blue Monday, still the biggest-selling 12" of all time. Its crystalline beats are as perfectly sharp today as they were almost 30 years ago. Closing the same CD - disc one, with synths dominating proceedings - is the extended remix of Japan's Nightporter, a hardly-heard version of the Catford-born band's 1982 hit. Between these points are fantastic tracks from Soft Cell (Memorabilia), The Lotus Eaters (1983's top 20 single The First Picture of You), and Scritti Politti (another top 20 success, 1984's Absolute).

The goth disc begins with Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead - the influential Northamptonshire gloom-rockers' debut single of 1979 is showing its age a bit, but remains a nostalgic treasure. Post-punk combo Killing Joke follow with Love Like Blood, which - some 27 years after its original release - is probably still their best-known number. The Sisters of Mercy and Siouxsie and the Banshees are expectedly included, with Lucretia My Reflection and Cities in Dust respectively (the latter being its makers' debut single release in the US), and the 11-track CD two closes with The Cure's Hot Hot Hot!!! - something of a flop for such a successful band, having peaked at 45 in the UK, but a highlight of the band's excellent 1987 LP Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (which reached number six).

Disc three collects tracks by Big Country, Julian Cope, Visage, Yello, Echo & The Bunnymen and Prefab Sprout; each number is a classic of a kind, albeit not always representative of the band's commercial peak. Prefab Sprout's Faron Young, for example, missed the UK top 40 by some distance, even though it does open their fine album of 1985, Steve McQueen. To these ears it's the least essential of this release's discs, but personal taste will obviously determine which one enjoys the most spins. And there's certainly enough variety and quality across these 35 songs to appeal to the widest possible audience.

--Mike Diver

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bring it on!! 17 Aug 2011
By B. Smith
Format:MP3 Download
So good to finally have these all on three cd's. Some Ihave been after for a long time. If you are a fan of the 12"/80's series and of 80's electronica and indie you won't be dissapointed. Some of these I had never heard before such as The Fall's Telephone Thing and I have to ask myself how come I never heard this at the time? I would have loved it even more than now.

The only things I would have changed about it is having The Cure's 12" of Let's Go to Bed or Love Cats as I already have Hot Hot Hot on their Mixed Up album.

Perfect Kiss instead of Blue Monday and as the other reviewer mentioned The Cult, or prehaps Sister's of Mercy's 10 minute plus version of the Dominion. But let's wait and see there's always teh chance of 12"/80s vol 2.

note: it mentions there's a FB group to discuss it. Just checked doesn't seem to exist. shame because It would be good to hear other people thoughts and ideas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ahhhhhhhh...... 16 Dec 2011
By tpbstu
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Just brilliant. This is music from the era when you wanted to listen to the extended version of songs and this is a superb compilation of tracks that you just don't get when the 80's get revisited. If you grew up in the 80's and liked your music this has to be a must buy
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The 80s are back...Again!! 15 Aug 2011
By J. Milner
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Have to agree with the previous reviewer - this is a killer collection and of huge interest to those of us who remember and bought the singles when they were released. I always tried to buy the 12 inch version of a single, not only because 7 inch singles tended to wear out quicker but because I really felt I was getting great value. The formula was always pretty basic - repeat choruses, loop certain parts of the mix and play around with the vocals. Nothing mindblowing but an alternative to the 3 minute single version. There's some great stuff here - I have to admit to having a preference for CD3 which is categorised as the guitar disc. But that's not to take anything away from discs 1 and 2. Many of the tracks are unfamiliar to me but that makes the package superb value. With getting on for 4 hours music this is the finest foray yet into the era of the extended remix. With a stagnant and predictable music industry obsessed with autotuned pretty boys, girls dressed like slappers and hideous (c)rap music this is a welcome nostalgia trip.
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