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Great compilation of music from 1982!

grundle2600 | Pittsburgh, PA | 07/05/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Entertainment Weekly: Greatest Hits 1982" is one of those relatively rare multi-artist compilatons of 1980s music where the majority of the songs are worth owning. This is a great disc. I was 11 years old in 1982, and that was the first year that I started taking a strong interest in listening to the radio. It was also the year that I started watching MTV.Two of my favorites songs here are "867-5309" and "Don't you Want me." Certainly those are two very different kinds of songs. "867-5309" is a pure rock song, with some wonderful, hard driving, elegant guitar work. This song is a classic. "Don't You Want Me" is on the poppish side, and somewhat influeced by new wave. It is famous as the first #1 hit where 100% of the instruments were synthesizers. It's a very catchy song, and I am glad to have it on this compilation."Maneater" is another one of my favorites on here. Even though I already have the Hall and Oates CD "H2O" from which this song orgianlly comes, it's still nice to hear the song in the context of this compilation."Rock This Town," "Shake It Up," and "Centerfold" are all nice to have. Each of these was a good solid hit, and all three of them have stood the test of time quite well."Gloria" is an excellent song, and Laura Branigan's Voice sounds just as powerful, strong, and lovely as I had remembered it from nearly two decades ago."I Ran" and "Rosanna" aren't exactly among my favorites, but I do find them to be pretty good, and I'm glad that they are on here.There are only three songs here that I really do not enjoy: the Rick Springfield song, the Alan Parson's Project song, and the Olivia Newton-John song. When I programmed my CD player to play the other nine songs, and to skip those three, this disc sounded pretty much perfect. But when I played all twelve songs straight through, those three songs were an annoyibng distraction. So I am giving this CD a rating of four stars."