80s Compilation CDs

_____80'S COMPILATION CDs__________________________________________________________ 288 songs and over 20 hours of mp3s on two CDs(600MB/ea) - please do not bitch about tags, bitrates, or otherwise - they are good quality. i spent enough time putting these discs together and normalizing the volume throughout. most, if not all, should ring familiar with everyone. these are some of the most popular songs from the 80s out there... that was then - i was there! there are 100MB of space left for you to play with on each disc... i know that there are definitely some more that could be here and some may think that a few should not. these DO cover a fairly wide range - ENJOY ___________________________________________________________________________________ (CD1)Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes Aha - Take On Me Alan Parsons Project - I Can Read Your Mind Bananarama - Cruel Summer Bananarama - Venus Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Belinda Carlisle - I Get Weak Big Country - In A Big Country Bobby McFerrin - Dont Worry Be Happy Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy Buster Poindexter - Feeling Hot Hot Hot Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Christopher Cross - Sailing Christopher Cross - Think Of Laura Corey Heart - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night Crowded House - Dont Dream Its Over Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Culture Club - Karma Chameleon Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Cyndi Lauper - True Colors David Bowie - Lets Dance Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence Depeche Mode - Everything Counts Depeche Mode - Its No Good Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode - People are People Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Depeche Mode - Somebody Depeche Mode - Try Walking In My Shoes Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes Devo - Whip It! Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Don Henley - End of the Innocence Don Henley - The Boys of Summer Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town Dream Academy - Please Let Me Get What I Want Duran Duran - A View To A Kill Duran Duran - Come Undone Duran Duran - Falling Down Duran Duran - Girls On Film Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf Duran Duran - Ordinary World Duran Duran - Rio Duran Duran - Save A Prayer Duran Duran - The Reflex Duran Duran - Wild Boys Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue El DeBarge - Who's Johnny Erasure - A Little Respect Erasure - Oh L'amour Erasure - Take A Chance On Me Escape Club - Wild Wild West Eurhythmics - Would I Lie To You Eurithmics - There Must Be An Angel Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again Eurythmics - Sweet dreams Eurythmics - Why Falco - Der Kommissar Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Ferris Bueller - Oh Yeah! Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere Fleetwood Mac - Tell Me Lies Fleetwood Mac - You Can Go Your Own Way Fleetwood Mac - You Make Lovin' Fun Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon Flock Of Seaguls - And I Ran Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is Frankie Goes2 Hollywood - Relax Gary Numan - Cars Genesis - Throwing it All Away George Harrison - I've Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Faith George Michael - I Want Your Sex George Michael Wham - Everything She Wants Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List Hall & Oates - Private Eyes Hall & Oates - She's A Man Eater Hall and Oats - Out of Touch Herbie Hancock - Rock It Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better Huey Lewis & The News - Do You Believe In Love Huey Lewis & The News - Happy to be Stuck With You Huey Lewis & The News - Heart And Soul Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart of Rock and Roll Huey Lewis & The News - Working For a Living Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby Human League - I'm Only Human Human League - You're My Obsession INXS - Devil Inside INXS - I Need You Tonight INXS - New Sensation J Giles Band - Angel is a Centerfold Jackson & McCartney - Say Say Say Jackson & McCartney - The Girl Is Mine Joan Jett - Crimson And Clover Joan Jett - Do You Wanna Touch Me Joan Jett - I Hate Myself for Loving You Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll Joan Jett - Wild thing Jody Watley - I'm Looking For A New Love John Cougar Mellancamp - Pink Houses John Cougar Mellancamp - Jack and Diane John Waite - I Aint Missing You Juice Newton - Queen of Hearts Juice Newton - Total Eclipse Of The Heart Kajagoogoo - Too Shy Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Kim Wilde - Kids In America Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hanging On Kool and the Gang - Celebration Kylie Minogue - Locomotion Laura Branigan - Gloria Laura Branigan - What a Feeling Level 42 - Something About You Lionel Richie - All Night Long Lisa Lisa& The Cult Jam - Head to Toe Lisa Lisa& The Cult Jam - Lost In Emotion Living In A Box - Living In A Box Loverboy - Everybody's Working For The Weekend M - Pop Musik Madonna - Borderline Madonna - Cherish Madonna - Crazy For You Madonna - Get Into The Groove Madonna - Holiday Madonna - Lucky Star Madonna - True Blue Martika - Toy Soldiers Men At Work - Land Down Under Men At Work - Overkill Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Micheal Jackson - Human Nature Micheal Jackson - Rock With You Mr. Mister - Broken Wings Mr.Mister - Kyrie Musical Youth - Pass The Duchie Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (CD2)Nena - 99 Red Balloons Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance New Order - True Faith Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party OMD - If You Leave Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot Pat Benatar - I Am The Warrior Pat Benatar - We Are Young Pat Benatar - We Belong P.McCartney & M.Jackson - Say,Say, Say P.McCartney & M.Jackson - The Girl Is Mine P.McCartney & S.Wonder - Ebony And Ivory Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This Peter Gabriel - Big Time Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang Pretenders - Brass In Pocket Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong Pretenders - I'll Stand By You Pretty Poison - Catch Me Now I'm Falling Prince - I Would Die 4 U Prince - Kiss Prince - Let's Go Crazy Prince - Little Red Corvette Prince - Purple Rain Prince - Raspberry Beret Prince - When Doves Cry Real Life - Send Me An Angel REM - End Of The World REM - Orange Crush REM - Stand REM - To The One I Love Rick Springfield - Human Touch Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl Rick Springfield - You Better Love Somebody Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistable Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep Rupert Holmes - If You Like Pina Coladas Sade - Smooth Operator Sade - The Sweetest Taboo Salt and Pepper - Salt N Pepa - Push It Scritti Politti - Perfect Way Selena - I Could Fall In Love Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me Sly Fox - Lets Go All the Way Smiths - I Am the Sun, I Am the Air Smokey Robinson - Crusin' Smokey Robinson - One Heartbeat Smokey Robinson - The Tears Of A Clown Soft Cell - Tainted Love Soho - Hippy Chick Spandau Ballet - True Stacy Q - Two Of Hearts Steve Winwood - Roll With It Steve Winwood - Valerie Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You Styxx - Mr.Roboto Swing Out Sister - Breakout Taco - Putting On The Ritz Talking Heads - As The Days Go By Talking Heads - Burning Down The House Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels Tears For Fears - Mad World Tears For Fears - Shout Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love Terence Trent Darby - Wishing Well The Bangles - Eternal Flame The Bangles - Manic Monday The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter The Cars - Drive The Cars - I Like the Night Life The Cars - Just What I Needed The Cars - Let The Good Times Roll The Cars - Magic The Cars - Moving In Stereo The Cars - My Best Friends Girlfriend The Cars - Shake It Up The Cars - You Might Think I'm Crazy The Clash - I Fought the Law The Clash - Rock the Casbah The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go The Cure - Friday I'm In Love The Cure - I'll Stop the World and Melt With You The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me The Police - Every Breath You Take The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic The Police - King of Pain The Police - Roxanne The Ramones - Hey Ho, Lets Go The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones - Rock N Roll High School The Romantics - That's What I Like About You The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want The Soup Dragons - I'm Free The Vapors - Turning Japanese The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love Thompson Twins - King For A Day Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands On Me Thompson Twins - Promises Promises Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now Tommy Tutone - Jenny Toni Basil - Hey Mickey Toto - Africa Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 - In The Name Of Love U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name U2 - With or Without You UB40 - Here I am baby UB40 - Red Red Wine UB40 - The Way You Do The Things You Do Van Halen - Jump Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wham - Careless Whisper Wham - I Dont Want Your Freedom Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Whitney Houston - How Will I Know Whitney Houston - I Get So Emotional Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody Yes - Owner of a Lonely Hear Ziggy Marley - Tomorrow people ZZ Top - Legs ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man ___________________________________________________________________________________ IF YOU LIKE IT, PLEASE SEED IT!

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stylishirish (2008-11-09)

ok ok ok... so there are a few minor chronological errors - if you catch 'em you know your music. but, in my defense, fleetwood mac really didnt become as well known as they are until the 'best of' album IN the 80s... and who is going to knock the late great selenas getting hers in here! ... i reckon i shoulda put in a little journey and def leppard though. oh well... there are 100megs before you burn to put whatever you like on them.
if you want to go WAY back check out this torrent:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4471345/
cheers

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

i didnt try to slide blondie up in there... and she was totally 80s - just slightly before her time =]

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

listen to coast to coast?
download this torrent ;)

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

too young to remember the 80s?
by the time you listen all of this music you will have become a bonafide authority on 80s pop culture :)
if you DO remember the 80s... i think nothing speaks to the memory like the music that your generation grew up to... and the 80s music speaks for itself extremely well - even after 20-30 years
to old to remember the 80s? live a little -- listen to this and you will be out buying white stripes and kings of leon in no time......
CLINICAL STUDIES SHOW: listening to 80s music makes you look and feel significantly younger -- and far less mature

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

sorry about the double up on the michael jackson and mccartney... as well as those that are mispelled -thought i did better editing :(

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

rick springfield - human touch
its fucked... too far into seeding to fix it
...and not his best song anyway -sorry

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

ill make up for that with pointless trivia
prince wrote 'manic monday' for the bangles
and that dreamtheater instrumental is the song that cameron trips on the painting during in ferris buellers day off -- why they couldnt use it in the family guy spoof of that scene with stewie and brian.... lucas and star wars but no art scene song? hmmm

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

i would be remiss to go without mention that that dreamtheater song used in ferris bueller is in fact a smiths song - included as well in the torrent for your listening pleasure :)

stylishirish (2008-11-09)

you may be surprised to see all the original songs that have been covered throughout the years....
eminiem - toy soldier by maritka
incubus - turning japanese .... and so on...

stylishirish (2008-11-22)

someone always complains about free shit
crappy? i have decent speakers and they sound great... some songs are better than others and some are less...
in any event its a large collection... increasing the bitrate into something that would satisfy snobs would turn this into a 4 to 6 cd set instead of just two.... for the car or what not...
and um... its the 80s... i would see your point if it was a new release or something
i challenge you then to go find all this music and upload some flac files or something...
but you will probably jsut stick to shoulder-riding.... whatever THE FUCK that shit is all about... strange

retuor (2008-11-24)

wow, this kicks ass! thnx!

retuor (2008-11-25)

this kicks ass

stylishirish (2008-11-29)

by what do you guage this?
when greatest hits was released and a little more exposure when mtv hit... well... it only stands to reason that they did in fact become better known after... additionally, they were very CLOSE yearwise... and, frankly, i think that they sound ahead of their time anyway and are quite fitting in the mix.... so...
and, no, i am older than the 18-20yo range...thank you

stylishirish (2008-11-29)

...but you can still go and fuck yourself

tharkban (2008-12-01)

I made a perl script that adds id3 tags to the files based on the file names (and fixes some of the typos in the files). Place all the files in one directory and run this script over them. You need id3v2 and id3ed to have this script work. Only tested in linux.
#!/usr/bin/perl -W
use strict;
my $flagChangeName = 0;
while(glob '*') {
$_ =~ s/\'/\'\\\'\'/g;
my $filename = $_;
my ($a,$t);
unless(($a,$t) = /^(.*?)(?: -|- | - )(.*?)\.[mM][pP]3(?:\.[mM][pP]3)?$/) {
print "skipping '$filename'\n";
next;
}
$a =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
$t =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
my $mvfilename;
if($flagChangeName) {
my $aa = $a;
$aa =~ s/&/and/g;
$aa =~ s/[ -]/_/g;
$aa =~ s/'\\''//g;
$aa =~ s/[,.!]//g;
$aa = lc($aa);
my $tt = $t;
$tt =~ s/&/and/g;
$tt =~ s/[ -]/_/g;
$tt =~ s/'\\''//g;
$tt =~ s/[,.!]//g;
$tt = lc($tt);
$mvfilename = "$aa-$tt.mp3";
} else {
$mvfilename = "$a - $t.mp3";
}
print "processing '$filename'\n";
system "id3v2 -D '$filename' > /dev/null";
system "id3v2 -a '$a' -t '$t' -c '80s Compilation' '$filename' > /dev/null";
system "id3ed -n '$a' -s '$t' -c '80s Compilation' -qq '$filename'";
if($filename ne $mvfilename) {
system "mv '$filename' '$mvfilename'";
}
}

stylishirish (2008-12-01)

@ tharkban... thank you very much! i have used helium in the past, but even though it will extract song/artist from a non-verbose filename, that still means clicking a few times on each and every song individually :)

Euph0ria (2008-12-06)

No, seriously. If you're going to post a torrent, if the quality is crap, it doesn't matter how good the compilation is. Just because you're among the many deaf people who can't hear the encoding artifacts in 128k mp3 doesn't mean there aren't many of us who can actually hear and can definitely tell the difference. It doesn't matter how much time you spent normalizing, or carefully picking out songs - posting poor quality is a waste of everyone's time and bandwidth. Don't bother. Or At *LEAST* include the fact that the encode quality is crap so people can avoid wasting their time and bandwidth.

stylishirish (2008-12-07)

No... seriously... IF you are so smart you could put 2 and 2 together and realize that 288 songs and 20 hours at just over one gig is obviously compressed and therefore not perfect quality
yes.... there is a 128 bitrate and it could be 320 or even flac.... but... there was a time when people listened to the very best their day had to offer on a vinyl record...or cassette tape... i know people who wont watch a movie unless its in HD... next it will be if it is not in HD holography... or just streamed into the occiptital lobe directly....
my point is this - just because something better is most always available does not mean you cannot be happy with what you have - grass greener type of thing?
im sorry you feel like you wasted your bandwidth... perhaps a faster connection would ease your pain and suffering.
the other option is to download all of this at 320kb/s or... flac.... or just go out and buy them on cd - you arrogant fuck
people that complain about free shit are pointless. there is right reason to complain about fake torrents...or HORRIBLE quality... such as a few videos ive downloaded where the sound was muffled and snapped and popped and the video was grainy.... but i never complained
AN NO SERIOUSLY... it is ALWAYS you FUCKHEADS with nothing to share and no torrents uploaded that complain like whiney little BITCHES.... good thing you can hide behind your screen.... i would slap the shit of you... but i dont blame you - i blame the parents

xmenox (2008-12-07)

All my digital music is in 128 k FUCK those who complain about the quality if you like the song and you want the absolute best quality BUY THE CD!!!! otherwise those of us born in the 80's will do fine after all I still listen to tapes and vinyls.

stylishirish (2008-12-07)

thx! when i was a little kid i pulled out my dads beatles records and was thrilled to hear them on the crappy speakers i had.... then i remember playing my cassettes in boom box... no mp3 players... and not those boom boxes of today that look like small military assault weapons with an arsenal of launch tubes.... with no tape players :)
all im saying is that i have thx cert speakers hooked up to higher end laptop and i am happy. but its like anything else... some songs sound crisper and clearer because of the original recording and some less... regardless of bit rate... i have heard really clear hard to tell its not a cd sound from 128.... likewise i have heard dissapointing sounds from flac or cd... anyway... it is what it is.
i have given some thought now to putting the same songlists i have made back together with flac... it just means larger files

Fwteinos (2008-12-09)

I FUCKING LOVE YOU.

 80zforever (2008-12-11)

Stylish, thx for the time and effort you put into this. I'd like to see what those whinners have offered to the TPB users, if any. You don't happen to like the 128 kbs BR, then don't download it. Not everyone is an audiophile. Want a better quality?? see if a better BR of the song exist and if not, crack your wallet for it. no point in complaining. beggars can't be choosers.

patchiethepirate1 (2008-12-31)

wow,what a great thing you have done here,stylishirish .
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

BurnQueen (2009-01-04)

I won't bitch like some of the other reviewers. I'll just say thanks for the time and effort you put into this. It's a nice collection representing a broad cross section of 80's hits. I know, I was there too.
Yeah 128kbps ain't so hot, but who bitches about free stuff? Assholes, that's who.
One thing...sorry to disagree but Fleetwood Mac was HUGE in the 70's. "Rumours" was the #1 album of 1977 (see Billboard). They also won Favorite Band and Favorite Album at the annual American Music Awards in January of '78.

stylishirish (2009-01-05)

i concede with regards to fleetwood mac... that should have been in a 70s collection... my bad :)

AC2SURF (2009-01-11)

dude i know how long it takes to do this, gr8 job m8

weshwee53 (2009-01-21)

AWESOME COLLECTION-thanks so much!!!!

annetta97 (2009-01-26)

just want to say THANK YOU! brings back alot of old memories the 80' were a great time for me.

DarkDex1984 (2009-01-28)

GET OUT OF MY MIND!
Just about all my favorites! Thanks for the hard work!

390joe (2009-06-08)

good job and fuck all the haters

thundernaked (2009-06-13)

Gr8 collection ...thanks buddy

miakolee (2009-08-31)

awesome

JOR23 (2010-10-27)

great job thank you very much!!