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Various Artists - NOW That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980-1984

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Number of Discs
4

Release Date
30/05/2025

Artist
Various Artists

format
CD / Album

Label / Studio
NOW

Description

NOW Music is very proud to present the second of our 'Now That's What I Call An Era' releases. 'The Albums 1980 > 1984' celebrates 72 iconic albums that were released between 1980 and 1984, featuring a magnificent track from each - and none of them UK hit singles! Most of the albums being highlighted produced huge hit singles that have become both synonymous with the decade and enduringly popular - but these albums are of such a high quality - forever part of the artist's legacy - that other tracks could have equally become hits - and some have become as well-loved by fans as the singles, and have for many artists always been an established part of their live shows. This 72-track 4CD comes with a 'hardback book' that includes a 28-page booklet featuring a track-by-track guide. 72 fantastic tracks - a sampler of the iconic albums that represent an incredible period of creativity and originality.

Disc 1:
1) A Ray of Sunshine (Fantastic) - Wham! ()
2) Lemon Firebrigade (Pelican West) - Haircut 100 ()
3) Show Me (The Lexicon of Love) - ABC ()
4) Black Money (Colour By Numbers) - Culture Club ()
5) This City Never Sleeps (Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)) - Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart ()
6) Where Hides Sleep (Alf) - Alison Moyet ()
7) Frankie's First Affair (Diamond Life) - Sade ()
8) The Space Between (Avalon) - Roxy Music ()
9) Talking Drum (Tin Drum) - Japan ()
10) Anyone Out There (Duran Duran) - Duran Duran ()
11) The Thins That Dreams Are Made Of (Dare) - The Human League ()
12) Reformation (Journeys to Glory) - Spandau Ballet ()
13) We Live So Fast (The Luxury Gap) - Heaven 17 ()
14) New Europeans (Vienna) - Ultravox ()
15) Protection (Donna Summer) - Donna Summer ()
16) I Might Have Been Queen (Private Dancer) - Tina Turner ()
17) The Ties That Bind (The River) - Bruce Springsteen ()
18) Mystery Achievement (Pretenders) - The Pretenders ()

Disc 2:
1) Heartbeat (Make It Big) - Wham! ()
2) Secret Life (Non-stop Cabaret) - Soft Cell ()
3) Young at Heart (Deep Sea Skiving) - Bananarama ()
4) Bogart (Human Racing) - Nik Kershaw ()
5) The Gap (Into the Gap) - Thompson Twins ()
6) Equality (Human's Lib) - Howard Jones ()
7) Junk (The Age of Consent) - Bronski Beat ()
8) Don't Try to Change Me (Friends) - Shalamar ()
9) All Night Loving (In the Heat of the Night) - Imagination ()
10) Jungles of Jupiter (Anthem) - Toyah ()
11) Our Town (Kim Wilde) - Kim Wilde ()
12) Boy Boy (I'm the Boy) [Kissing to Be Clever] - Culture Club ()
13) Are You There With Another Girl? (Showpeople) - Mari Wilson ()
14) Tracks of My Tears (The Drum Is Everything) - Carmel ()
15) The Paris Match (Feat. Tracey Thorn) [Café Bleu] - The Style Council ()
16) Hearts and Bones (Hearts and Bones) - Paul Simon ()
17) Turn Out the Light (Me Myself I) - Joan Armatrading ()
18) No Parlez (No Parlez) - Paul Young ()

Disc 3:
1) The Chauffeur (Rio) - Duran Duran ()
2) Taking Islands in Africa (Gentlemen Take Polaroids) - Japan ()
3) The Hurting (The Hurting) - Tears for Fears ()
4) Black Night White Light (Welcome to the Pleasuredome) - Frankie Goes to Hollywood ()
5) She's Leaving (Architecture and Morality) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ()
6) From the Air (Big Science) - Laurie Anderson ()
7) Play for Today (Seventeen Seconds) - The Cure ()
8) Isolation (Closer) - Joy Division ()
9) Harborcoat (Reckoning) - R.E.M. ()
10) President Gas (Forever Now) - The Psychedelic Furs ()
11) Game Above My Head (Mange Tout) - Blancmange ()
12) Red Sails (Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms) - China Crisis ()
13) Gloomy Sunday (Sulk) - The Associates ()
14) Ants Invasion (Kings of the Wild Frontier) - Adam & The Ants ()
15) Second Head (Kilimanjaro) - The Teardrop Explodes ()
16) Crystal Days (Ocean Rain) - Echo & the Bunnymen ()
17) Man in the Corner Shop (Sound Affects) - The Jam ()
18) We Could Send Letters (High Land, Hard Rain) - Aztec Camera ()
19) The Day It Rained Forever (North of a Miracle) - Nick Heyward ()

Disc 4:
1) Age of Consent (Power Corruption and Lies) - New Order ()
2) Hard Times (Love and Dancing) - The League Unlimited Orchestra ()
3) Anvil Night Club School (The Anvil) - Visage ()
4) New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) [New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)] - Simple Minds ()
5) The Party's Over (The Party's Over) - Talk Talk ()
6) Reach the Beach (Reach the Beach) - The Fixx ()
7) Nostalgia (Brilliant Trees) - David Sylvian ()
8) Almost Blue (Imperial Bedroom) - Elvis Costello & The Attractions ()
9) Shake Dog Shake (The Top) - The Cure ()
10) Angels On the Balcony (Autoamerican) - Blondie ()
11) Tell Me When My Light Turns Green (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels) - Dexys Midnight Runners ()
12) Overpowered By Funk (Combat Rock) - The Clash ()
13) When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around (Zenyatta Mondatta) - The Police ()
14) Nightclubbing (Nightclubbing) - Grace Jones ()
15) Tyler (Signing Off) - UB40 ()
16) Too Much Pressure (Too Much Pressure) - The Selecter ()
17) Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) [More Specials] - The Specials ()

Album
NOW That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980-1984

Publisher
Universal Music

Main Format
CD

Explicit Lyrics
No

Keyword Index
NOW That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980-1984 | Various Artists

Catalogue Number
CDXNNNOW158

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