Best of the 80's with DVD
Long Distance Voyager | Hong Kong, China | 10/24/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"An UK complilation of some of the best 80's pop hits. What makes this compilation precious is that it has a bonus DVD with all the videos of the songs. Some of the videos masterpiece of the 80's are included, David Bowie's "China Girl", Dire Strait's "Money for nothing, Robert Palmer's "Addicted to love" Genesis' "Lands of confusion", Duran Duran's "Rio" and Herbie Hancock's "Rock it" etc. Bear in mind that these are videos shot 20 odd years ago, even though the quality of some of these videos are not up to today's standard(as compared with high definition TV and blue ray or HD DVD), most of them are not available in the market in other format, they should be treated as a record of Pop Music History and the bonus DVD is already worth the price of this set and you get all the songs on CDs too. My final words for this collection is, "BEST BUY OF 2004".
**Updated Jan 2008, most of the videos in the DVD are still not seperately available**"
Rewind: best of the 80's
cool j | elkhart, indiana United States | 02/09/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"ITS A 2 CD SET PLUS MUSIC VIDEO DVD OF 32 CLASSICS. THE 2 CD'S ARE WORTH 5 STARS. VERY EXCELLENT SOUND QUALITY. I NEVER HEARD THE SONGS SOUND SO GOOD. I HAD TO GIVE IT 4 STARS. THE MUSIC VIDEOS WERE TRANSFERED FROM VHS TAPES. SOME ARE OLD WITH DOTS IN THE PICTURE. THE FIRST 2 VIDEOS HAD JUMPING AND TRACKING ADJUSTMENT. THE AUDIO WAS TERRABLE IN VIDEOS LIKE CLOUDBUSTING- KATE BUSH, NOTHING COMPARES 2 U-SINEAD O' CONNOR, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME-CULTURE CLUB AND VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR-THE BUGGLES. ALL ARE FULL FRAME, EXCEPT 2 VIDEOS (WIDESCREEN)."