5 comments about Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 5.

1. Nope, in fact it was one of the songs that I hated the first time I heard it and can still gather up a load of revulsion for today. The oddball tune that drags this collection up to the .500 line is Pete Shelley's "Homo Sapien". Funny, catchy and just plain clever, but I worry about Pete. Other than that volume 5 barely trips the meter. Welcome to the middle of the new wave road.



2. My biggest complaint about this particular album is the inclusion of "Hold onto Something" by Great Buildings. Many of these songs define my days in high school, but for the life of me I can't remember ever hearing of this band. However, I do remember hearing this song...or one very much like it -- Joe Jackson's incredibly popular song titled, "I'm the Man," from his album, "I'm the Man" (1979), which was hugely popular through the early eighties.

   Re-mixing this album with the correct song would help this album's rating a lot.




3. The best entry in Rhino's awesome "New Wave Hits" series.(Volume 1 which covers the late 70's is also excellent).All 16 songs are culled from 1982 which was indeed a very good year for pop music. Haircut One Hundred's "Love Plus One" and Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" were anthems of the(then) young MTV Generation. These quirky video darlings raged like a hurricane of fresh air in the face of bland corporate schlock which hogged the airwaves. Songs like the Go Go's "Vacation" and Tommy Tutone's "867-5309" were not only pure fun-- they were also well-crafted 3-minute pop gems. In fact, nearly every tune on volume 5 is cut from the same intelligent pop mold. Other standouts from this set include the vastly underrated Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday Someway", The Jam's "A Town Called Malice" and Soft Cell's absurdly humorous "Sex Dwarf". The only weak cuts are Gang of Four's "Man in Uniform" and the truly horrible "Art of Parties" by Japan. Overall, this is a fantastic collection which harkens back to a truly innovative time in pop music-- a brief time when catchy Hit Singles ruled and all possibilities seemed endless.



4. This is my favorite of the series. Actually there are only two cuts that I consider weak ("Kids in America" and "Mickey"). ALl the rest are great little slices of the variety and creativeness of 80's new wave rock. Good c.d. to have.



5. I have 8 of the cd's in this series, and plan on getting the rest. This one is one of my favorite of the series. The song "Love Plus One" by Haircut One Hundred is a fabulous song. There are many other gems as well, such as "I Want Candy", "Someday, Someway" and "I Ran (So Far Away)". There are many obscure songs on here, so don't expect to know them all, unless you had an unbelievable vinyl collection in the 80's. The music hear can fit almost any mood you may be feeling. Pick it up and enjoy.

4 comments about KCRW: Morning Becomes Eclectic.

1. The simple performance of Lyle Lovett and his guitar doing
   Steven Fromholz' "Bears" written in 1974 is why I bought this CD
   after hearing it on the air at KCRW. Great energy, in a
   special knowing way ! The other music is great too, by far
   KCRW's best compilation. Stunningly good studio quality recordings
   for live radio show performances, which they all are. You'll love it !



2. Of the 5 CDs released by KCRW, this is my favorite. They are all very good, but "Morning Becomes Eclectic" has more of my favorite music. The covers by Mehldau and Martyn are amazing, as is PJ Harvey's performance. I was also pleasantly surprised by "All I Need." And for those of you who prefer something a little more firmiliar, Semisonic and Sixpence None The Richer add their two cents. All together this is a great record. If there is one flaw, it is that the songs are all on the soft side, which means there is always the risk of being lulled to sleep or into some kind of trance. Not that that's a bad thing -- and considering all of this music was recorded on a morning show, it's understandable. I highly reccomend the whole series.



3. I purchased the disc mainly for the Air song (which is great) - standout tracks are by Beth Orton, Cake, PJ Harvey (real good version of Is This Desire?), Brad Mehldau and Morcheeba. A nice treat is the song 'Glory Box' sung by John Martyn - the song is a cover of the Portishead tune by the same name. Get it when you are craving a new disc - it will suffice.



4. It has so many different songs that truely make it an eclectic blend! It's definitly is one of the best CD's that collect varios artists. It's probably the only CD of my collection that I can play any time of the day; any day of the week.

5 comments about Sub Pop 200.

1. This is a pretty good cd and homage to northwest "grunge" music via sub pop records, one of the biggest little labels at the time. What can I say, it opens with Tad, google image them. (Very Large Man)



2. This record is alright. I skipped some of the tracks, while others I played over and over until i could stand them no more and then played them one more time. Some of the highlights are Spank Through, The Rose and a few others I can't remember while the absolute best songs on the album are Green river's Hangin Tree and the Fastbacks' cover of Green River's Swallow My Pride. It's a good album to have around if you're a fan of Sub Pop.



3. I like this cd, I owned it before but broke it so I bought it again and decided to do a review. I think it is a good buy for someone unfamiliar with what 'grunge' was. This cd helps you to see some undiscovered artists that didn't really hit it big...The Trees are great, soft but still great Lanegan had the best vocals in the scene imo. Don't get this for the Nirvana song. And if you are expecting cheap Nirvana remakes, don't waste your time. The bands have unique sounds and this cd covers a pretty good variety of the different aspects of the Seattle rock scene.



4. all i have tooo say is that this is music. if You don't like It, You should. SubPop are true artists



5. A great compilation that gives the listener a chance to return to the glory days of late '80's/early 90's Seattle. Many of the bands here I had never heard of - much less heard - but was pleasantly surprised by the discs' overall quality.
   
   If you're a fan of Nirvana, Mudhoney, Melvins, Screaming Trees, Beat Happening, etc, you'll enjoy this set, re-issued in an attractive mini faux leather box with a cool booklet. Photos by Seattle scenester Charles Peterson. Excellent; should never have been out-of-print.

5 comments about Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us.

1. Sorry, but all the songs sound alike. One song even sounds like they were trying to copy Madonna. I really did not like the CD. Nothing aganist Lesbians.



2. I absolutely love the variety of artist and songs chosen for this cd.
   It is an awesome selection of some of the greatest female musicians who support the lesbian lifestyle.



3. i love this cd. has some of the best songs ever made for lesbians...hence the title. best song on the whole album is the last one...spent my last ten dollars on birth control and beer. that is one of the funniest songs ive ever heard. you gotta hear it. other great ones are i'll be your shelter,(sing it to my lover all the time) in or out, i kissed a girl, etc. but i think it should have had other really great ones like "perfect by doria roberts" "constant craving" kd lang "drive" by melissa ferrick...so many others i didnt mention but are much better than some of the songs on here. oh well...hopefully theyll have a volume two and well see those songs. if youre a lesbian then buy this album you need it. its really good.



4. AWESOME MUSIC, VERY RELAXING, LOVE THE ALTERNATIVE SELECTION THAT HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR INDIVIDUALS LIKE ME WHO LOVE MUSIC...



5. This is a horrible CD! It was like nails on a chalkboard listening to it then I finally had enough and took it out of my player and threw it away.
   
   There may have been 3 songs on this CD that were actually OK, but the rest of it were these obscure songs that came from under a rock somewhere.

5 comments about Give 'em the Boot, Vol.3.

1. This cd is the best compilation i own. It has a devils brigade song called vampire girl. devils brigade is a psychobilly band which is everyone in rancid except for lars. it also has good tracks from tiger army, lars and the bastards, nekromantix, rancid, distillers,agnostic front, dropkick murphys and some other this compilation is awesome but at the end theres some ska i dont enjoy too much. this cd also contains 2 videos you can watch on your computer. one is dropkick murphys - spicy mchaggis jig and the other is tiger army - cupids victim. this is a very good compilation its well worth 5-6 bucks.i hope they come out with give em the boot 4.



2. give em the boot 2 had a lot of reggae & ska on it & this one is more punk rock, which is good. the bands on it were really good and i pretty much liked every song (the joe strummer one was kind of weird...not like the clash at all). i would recommend it especially since it's so cheap.



3. Hellcat Records has turned out another great compilation. I must say that it sounds a little harder, the music a little less melodic and more hardcore. That's just fine by me. The music videos are a nice touch. "The Spicy McHaggis Jig" video is one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.

   Good work, Tim!




4. I was excited when I saw that their was a new Give em the boot compilation out, as Give em the boot 2, is one of my favorite cd's ever. Although when I played this cd I was sad to hear that the reggae and ska sounds that where on Give em the boot 2 have been substituted for a straight ahead punk compilation. Not to mention that the quality of songs on this album, are nowhere as good as the tracks selected for the two previous Give em the boot cd's. If you are going to get a Give em the Boot cd, buy the second installment, it is much better...



5. Give 'Em The Boots I and II are punk-rock neccessities. Sprinkled with ska, reggae and rocksteady, they were truly palatable for those of us with eclectic tastes. Sadly, Give 'Em The Boot III purifies itself of most of the reggae and ska from it's two previous outings, leaving us with a punk rock wasteland. The songs here just simply aren't up to Hellcat's high standars. There are a few good moments (The Slackers' BRILLIANT "Information Error", the Tiger Army video) but that is outweighed by a parade of messy and talentless punk rock. Even the Rancid track is anemic.

   Although, for [the money], "Give 'Em The Boot III" isn't much of a gamble. Still, it's been three years since Vol. II, and III frankly falls flat on it's body-pierced face.

5 comments about Punk Goes 90's.

1. Punk goes Pop is my favorite album, so my expectations were way high for this one. It was such a disappointment. This music just didn't do it for me which is sad because 90s music is my favorite.



2. I was very disappointed by this CD. First of all, most of the songs that are covered had no business being punk-i-fied in the first place. Second, most of the songs are nearly identical to the originals. Third, some of the songs are so slow, the word "punk" sticks in my throat when I try to say it. The bands had an opportunity to amp up some balladish songs and failed. Here's my opinion on the songs:
   
   1. March of the Pigs: 2/5 Sounds good, similar to NIN, Mae didn't add too much to me.
   2. Song 2: 3/5 Why, why, why would they do a punk cover of an already fun, punkish-pop song? Sounds exactly the first, but since the first version is really good, hence the 3 stars.
   3. Under The Bridge: 4/5 The more you listen to this cover it is actually good. The Gym Class Heroes add enough to make it different but don't ruin the original amazing song. But punk? Not sure about that.
   4. Black Hole Sun: 1/5 Should have stayed in the hole. Is slower than the original with none of the rock sound. Disappointing.
   5. Hey Jealousy: 2/5 OK, but sounds a lot like the first one. Hard to do much with an already good song.
   6. All I Want: 1/5 Slower (if possible) than the Toad version. Huh?
   7. Losing My Religion: 5/5 The album's saving grace. It ROCKS! It's catchy and hardcore, and definitely does not sound like REM. This is the type of song I expected for the rest of the album.
   8. Wonderwall: 1/5 Adds a slight kick to the original but not enough.
   9. You Oughta Know: 4/5 Again, great song to start with and the Killing Moon does a nice job putting a punk spin on it.
   10. Stars: 1/5 A bit better than the 1st, but still kinda boring.
   11. Enjoy the Silence: 4/5 the only other song I really liked in its "punk" version. Awesome song to start with, catchy, techno-ish version.
   12. Beautiful People: 3/5 3 stars because it's a cool song on its own, but the cover added nothing--not that it should or could have.
   13. Big Time Sensuality: Didn't know the 1st one, so it's hard to rate. Not really a fan of this version either.
   14. In Bloom: 3/5 Another song that seems strange to include--what more can you do to a song that already rocks? But the cover band did not ruin it, to their credit.
   15. Jumper: 2/5 I was hoping for a fast, interesting version. Nope. Step off the ledge.
   
   My advice: do NOT waste your money on this CD. Just download the Scary Kids, Scaring Kids "Losing My Religion" if you're an REM fan. Or, buy the albums with the original songs.



3. Fearless Records has been putting these compatibles out for years, having today's up-and-coming artists cover songs that have been populer. But in this release the songs are better left with the original artists. While it features Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy" done by Hit the Lights, Copeland's version of "Black Hole Sun" and "Gym Class Heroes" doing a version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' ballad "Under the Bridge" they all are typical and lacking excitement.
   
   One of the only highlights of the album is Killing Moon's version of Alanis Morisette's "You Oughtta Know" with their male frontman singing about Full Houses' Uncle Joey going down on him a a theater (although I don't like it as much as 1000 Maniacs' version). So They Say's version of Nirvana's "In Bloom" probably has Kurt Cobain turning in his coffin. So, over all, this album, in my opinion, could have been better.



4. I figured this album would be awesome...but the song choices aren't too great. Most of the songs are pretty good and everything but some of the ones they chose aren't even big hits of the 90s. This cd was somewhat of a disappointment to me. I only enjoyed about 1/2 of the cd. Hopefully the next punk goes...isnt horrible. I was actually looking forward to this cd to coming out to.



5. The name of the CD is misleading, the artists performing the covers are not really punk bands. I still enjoy the cd, its different, I've been pretty impressed by all the covers. Hearing each artists way of remaking the songs is pretty cool, and hearing some new twists to some old favorites. So as long as your not looking for a "punk" cd this is actually pretty good.

5 comments about No Alternative.

1. This is simply a compilation. I bought it when it first came out and then just recently bought my replacement. I am so content. Nothing like a great variety of musical artists.



2. When this first appeared, No Alternative was an excellent crash course in the budding genre, from popular acts to lesser known artists and many stuck in between. While new songs from Nirvana and the Pumpkins assured wide distribution, and quite a few notable entries including Breeders and Uncle Tupelo live up to those high compilation standards, a good half of the disc has been relegated to the apathetic-audio category.



3. Most compilations are dodgy affairs, and benefit/charity releases are especially guilty, but this sneak hit in the "Red Hot + ___" series of AIDS-benefit/awareness releases was easily the best of the bunch, and presents a surprisingly freethinking travelogue of the rock underground, circa '94, just as that underground was cruising into mainstream consciousness.
   
   The high points here are many - American Music Club and Pavement contribute songs that rank among their best, and several artists present were right on the brink of major breakthroughs: Sarah MacLachlan (who had been kicking around Halifax since the late 80s, briefly in the industrial group Manufacture), and Soundgarden (who first surfaced on the SST label in the mid-80s). Elsewhere, two of the finest groups to emerge from New Zealand's insanely creative (and prolific) Flying Nun Records: The Straitjacket Fits and The Verlaines - also put in fine appearances. Nirvana, The Beasties, Patti Smith, and (to a lesser extent) Matthew Sweet represent the folks who'd already achieved some major recognition, and their contributions are top-notch as well.
   
   Musically the range is all over the place - not quite as wide open as the local college radio station, but about as close as we'd get from a major label - this is perhaps a little more geared towards that same college radio/zine crowd than any sort of alt-rock mainstream. But that's as it should be, and the fact that Arista/BMG got this to be some kind of a hit at the time was a breakthrough for a multitude of reasons - this is a great collection, and it's good to see it still around.
   
   -David Alston



4. Sorry, this CD just isn't the exact genre that I was thinking. Buying the wrong kind of compilation was my mistake, but with the Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, i thought maybe it was going to be a little heavier than what it was. Turned out to be the light alt-pop bands from the 90's.
   
   This would have gotten three stars, but the song by Pavement that was dissing R.E.M. just threw me over the edge.
   I would recommend Sub Pop 200, or maybe DGC Rarities instead of this, but if you like 90's alt-pop, this is for you. If you want heavier, more like Nirvana, get Sub Pop 200.



5. No Alternative is one of those CDs that you listen to on your way to work for a month straight, finally tire of, forget for a few years, and then remember all over again, listening to it on your way to work for a month straight. The beauty of compilations and soundtracks is that, when they're done right, they're diverse enough to keep your interest far longer than an album by a single artist ever could.
   
   Yet, what makes No Alternative excel as a compilation is the fact that it does manage to maintain some commonality amongst the diversity; enough to keep things fresh and interesting with each successive track, but all while weaving them together with an emotional thread. Urge Overkill's "Take a Walk" and American Music Club's "All Your Jeans Were Too Tight" sound nothing alike, yet somewhere, in the deep emotional core of these songs, there's some commonality. Virtually every song on this album somehow deals with loss at its center. Some are uplifting, some despairing, some jaded, and some treat it with black humor. No two can be confused for one another; no two feel like they're consciously working for this effect. Yet, on a tribute album for an AIDS foundation, each of these songs seem to have taken the underlying cause to heart in a way that makes song transitions often seamless, even when the tone, beat, and volume change abruptly. The one exception to this is Nirvana's hidden track at the end, which (while worthy of inclusion on a Nirvana's Greatest Hits album) seems to have been contributed arbitrarily.
   
   To provide some background (I guess I should have done this first), No Alternative was compiled in 1993, at the height of the Alternative/Independent movement. As the liner notes explain, the duel purpose of the album was to raise money for AIDS research ("there's no alternative") and to dispel the myth that Alternative could be considered a single style of music with distinguishable characteristics ("there's no such thing as Alternative"). This second notion accurately reflects the variety of talent signed on for this album.
   
   No Alternative incorperates the works of nineteen independent artists, most still on the fringe of public awareness at the time of its release. Perhaps this was a gamble by its producers to inexpensively sign artists that had a chance of making it big right before the album hit stores. However, it's more likely that this was simply an attempt to catch a glimpse at the "true" alternative, occuring right outside the music mainstream, in all its diversity. Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Asylum, and The Breeders were already Alternative brand names by the time of NA's release, Sarah McLachlan and Soundgarden's mainstream breakthroughs were still a few years away, and Urge Overkill and Matthew Sweet continued to remain on the fringe of public awareness, even while attracting large fan bases. Patti Smith and The Beastie Boys aside, I've never heard of the rest of the artists that compile this album, and I don't suspect that I ever will.
   
   There are no bad songs on this album, but the truly best and most memorable songs are the intensely introspective "Take a Walk" (Urge Overkill), the dream-weaving, soul affirming "Glynis" (Smashing Pumpkins), and the desperate lament of "Hold On" (tremendously different alternative version by Sarah McLachlan). Nirvana's hidden "Verse Chorus Verse" is among their best work but, as previously stated, does not match the tone of the album. Fans of Patti Smith will be haunted and touched by how her "Memorial Song" differs from anything they've heard from her previously, but non-fans will be likely to scoff at the song (as I once did).
   
   You don't need to be a fan of Alternative to appreciate No Alternative. After all, there is no Alternative. All you need is an open ear, willing to engage and appreciate various distinctive styles. But even if you approach No Alternative without that open ear, some of these songs will open it for you. There's a passion on this album that simply cannot be missed. You may not immediately hear it in Soul Asylum's cover of "Sexual Healing", but, sooner or later, one of the tracks on this album is going to catch you and, if it treats you the way it treated me, it may never let you go.

5 comments about Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1.

1. For Brett Schoffner, thank you for turning reviews on music into a political forum, but since you did. Bush is the worst president we could ever possibly have and 9/11 was his baby. Amazing how the trade center is the only steel building in the world to fall from being hit with a plane. And quite a few actually have. And it fell in only 15 mins. A building much smaller in Spain was hit with a 747, burned for two full days, and still didn't fall. As for the Pentagon. The hole left in the side of the building wasn't nearly big enough to be made from a 747 and amazingly that "plane" was the first plane in the history of the world to completely "vanish" from a crash. Do you have any clue how hot that plane would have had to have been to just burn up like that. Oh and the few pieces of plane they did find, well they didnt even go to a 747.



2. Sorry guys, but many of the reviews are sadly just people "ratifying" the music due to their blind hatred of Bush. The music is good (not great) and Bush has done some things that are excellent, that the blind haters are quick to ignore. How about giving Bush credit for the economy? He rallied our country at a dark time after he inherited a recession and then had 9/11 occur. Nobody talks about that on this thread do they? Get a clue guys and quit being so biased. As marginal as Bush has turned out to be, John Kerry (and Al Gore for that matter) are 50 times worse. The Dems should be blamed for putting up 2 of the all time worst candidates for President, so please stop the Bush-bashing as he was the better choice of available candidates, and some of you have conveniently forgotten that fact.
   
   P.S. Sorry for rant.... the music is solid on this disc, especially Alkaline Trio.



3. If youre a fan of Bush why would you be looking at a cd titled 'rock AGAINST Bush' in the first place? We're not here to hear about how much respect you have for a man whos driving our country into the ground. We want to know about the music, not your delusional loyalty for someone who obviously has no respect for you or this country. If you are here to go on and on about how much you hate this cd because and only because you, for some strange reason, love Bush... get a life. Do you honestly have nothing better to do then go arround on a site bashing anything and everything that goes against your beloved president? Now... onto the music. some of the bands are good. however it does not show in this album. it is a waste of a perfectally good cd.



4. this is a great cd good bands and good music it used to be rock against Regan when I was in high school finally someone speaks out about Bush's horrible term in office



5. I was practically horrified by the complete B.S. being generated by the below review. There are infinite ways in which this "By the Blood" reviewer has gone awry, and I literally quaked in my seat as I read his idiotic rantings. For one thing, he has the nerve to call himself intelligent. Not only is this boastful, it's not true. Anyone who still supports Bush at this point obviously can't be too high on the I.Q. charts. Then of course he says that this compilation is terrible, which any appreciator of rock can quickly prove false if they've listened to Rock Against Bush. By The Blood cannot call himself a music reviewer if he doesn't even classify The Offspring on this CD as punk, for goodness sake. They certainly are punk, and top of the line punk at that. I'm pretty much thinking after having read the majority of the reviews for this item that people are only dissing the music because of their political views. People, it's the melodies that count. You're rating the music, not whether or not the bands share your convictions.
   Then By The Blood continues his preposterous argument by quoting a bunch of scripture, and even going to the length of saying that all liberals are not Christians. Let me tell you somethin', buster, so that your brain has at least ONE credible piece of information to cling onto. BUSH HAS FAILED AS A PRESIDENT! A recluse could figure that out. He led America into a pointless war in Iraq, which has caused hundreds of good American soldiers to die wasted deaths fighting for a war with no direction. There were no weapons of mass destruction, but since Bush is such an apparent genius we stayed in Iraq until only the diehard Republicans would not admit that war in Iraq was a stupid idea! By the Blood seemingly would stay Republican if Bush massacred the Senate, I'd bet. But the fact is, you can be a Democrat and be a Christian. If all Christians were Republicans, we'd get few converts because we'd be supporting a complete idiot and thus casting an appearance of idiocy upon ourselves. It just so happens I am a Christian, I like this music, I am not Anti-God, but I am of course Anti-Bush. How could you not be? He's a fool! He needs to be impeached so badly that I might give up all my possessions to kick'em out of office.
   Anyway, By the Blood is obviously one of those uptight Christians who thinks you must do all good and never sin or your bound for hell. That's not the way it works, and it's this image of Christianity that drives people away.
   Also, (I'll get back to the music soon, but I can't let this By the Blood nonsense go onward without rebuking) By the Blood thinks you have to vote Bush or you're against God. NO! There's nothing Kerry could have done to be anti-God with his Democratic views, even with abortion. I'm anti-abortion actually, but Bush can't do anything about it anyway so there's nothing un-christian about voting democratic.
   And what's BTB talking about Bin Laden and Hussein being linked? This is complete poppycock! Good grief, where do you come up with this garbage?
   Plus, according to BTB if you like this compilation you are quote "giving props to sinful, lying, fornicating, wicked druggie high school drop out hippies who try to say Bush is immoral". Then he calls likers of this music a " Bunch of God Hating, sleep around, party hardy, STD infected, dope head rockers giving me a lecture about morals"
   I ENCOURAGE EVERY SOUL ON EARTH TO DISAGREE WITH THE BELOW REVIEW! It is a imbecilic attack on the virtue of reason!
   This compilation is the best I have ever listened to and it delivers a completely truthful message that all need to hear. IT is good in absolutely every aspect.
   Five stars! Five stars!
   P.S. Bush: 1 star

5 comments about Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 8.

1. Amazing no one ever make any attempt to release the original OXO album. The whole LP was full of great pop songs which made dance a generation in the early 80s in Mar del Plata, Argentina Every DJ in town had a copy of the album. Despite their hit "Whirly Girl", "You make it sound so easy" and "I'll take you back" were on top. Please Rhino help us out!!!!!



2. I doubt the Tubes would want their song "She's a Beauty" lumped together in this package of songs. But you gotta love having access to a copy of OXO's "Whirly Girl". Geez, I can remember buying that album when it was first released in the early 80's! Great song!



3. I've been looking for the song "Kiss Me" from Tin Tin. It's about itme someone re-released it.



4. This compilation CD includes Robert Hazard's obscure, but classic, song "Escalator of Life". That alone makes this great collection of new wave songs worth owning.



5. I have five of the "Just can't get enough" CDs, and this particular collection is one of the best in the series. Some of the other CDs have some tracks which can only be described as horrible, but the songs on this one are consistently decent.

3 comments about Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Vol. 12.

1. I only bought this CD for The Rave-Ups Positively Lost Me. Thank you for including this super rare, out of print song!



2. The heart felt songs of the 80's are well captured in the Just Can't Get Enough series, they did a very good job of finding some of the more obscure songs of the 80's but unfortunately they spread them out to force you to buy the set. Yet still as far as the collection is concerned this is one of the best because of Peter Godwin's Images of Heaven. Play the song for yourself and you'll see why.



3. If you grew up in the Eighties most of these songs will be familiar to you. Some of these are quite good ( Only You, Oblivious, Come Back and Stay ) and hold up nicely after repeated listening. Some do not, unfortunately. And for the record, the version of Our Lips Are Sealed here ( by the Fun Boy Three ) is NOT the original, as stated by the reviewer above. It was recorded after the Go-Gos did it ( although the lead singer of FBT - Terry Hall - co-wrote the song with Jane Weidlin of the Go-Go's). Overall, a fun nostalgia trip.