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Hit Me With Your 80's Box! is a sequel to Hip-O's previous three-disc compilation, I Want My 80's Box!, released six months earlier, and like its predecessor, it contains 42 pop singles chart entries from the 1980s, most of them released between 1981 and 1986, and all of them familiar to anyone who watched MTV in those years. In its first five years of existence following its premiere on August 1, 1981, MTV, which broadcast music videos pretty much 24 hours a day (as opposed to the varied programming that characterized the network 20 years later), heavily influenced the pop charts, contributing to the success of a raft of videogenic stars such as Duran Duran, Rick Springfield, and Billy Idol, all of whom are featured here. The set is not quite as hit-laden as I Want My 80's Box!, which contained 35 Top Ten hits, among them 15 chart-toppers; the statistics here are 31 Top Tens, of which ten went to number one. But the orientation is still the same -- the trendy dance-pop music of the first half of the '80s. Tracks have been licensed from all of the major labels, overcoming one of the usual problems with compilations. But other typical weaknesses remain. The sequencing makes no particular sense, though it moves in very rough chronological order, such that the early-'80s tracks are on the first disc and the third disc contains a track (Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam") that actually peaked in the charts in early 1990. And the selection consists of recordings that are compiled over and over, the big hits of lots of minor artists rather than big stars. So, this is not a comprehensive collection of the decade's most popular music. But if you grew up in the '80s, there's plenty here to enjoy. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Hit Me with Your 80's Box!
01/29/2002 | Hip-o Records
All Music Guide Review
Track Listing
Credits
- Marco Pirroni
- Producer
- Robert Margouleff
- Producer
- Kurt Munkasci
- Producer
- Rick Nowels
- Producer
- Paul Staveley O'Duffy
- Producer
- John Oates
- Producer
- Keith Olsen
- Producer
- Hugh Padgham
- Producer
- Richard Perry
- Producer
- Armin Sabol
- Producer
- Jeremy Smith
- Associate Producer
- Tony Swain
- Producer
- Colin Thurston
- Producer
- Tom Werman
- Producer
- Peter Wolfe
- Associate Producer
- Richie Zito
- Producer
- Waves
- Producer
- Thomas Morgan
- Producer
- Dolby Robertson
- Producer
- Chris Thomas
- Producer
- Larry Williams
- Photography
- Mike Ragogna
- Compilation Producer
- Katrina
- Producer
- Mike Chapman
- Producer
- Dana Smart
- Compilation
- Kevin Flaherty
- Liner Notes, Essay
- B.C. Kagan
- Photography
- Tony Hayes
- Compilation
- Pat Lawrence
- Producer
- Rhonda Shields
- Compilation
- Robin Schwartz
- Licensing
- Michele Horie
- Production Coordination
- Katrina & the Waves
- Performer
- Jo Bogaert
- Producer
- Keith Forsey
- Producer
- Daryl Hall
- Producer
- Patty Smyth
- Performer
- Larry Blackmon
- Producer
- Spandau Ballet
- Producer
- Allan Blazek
- Producer
- Eric Brittingham
- Producer
- Chris Butler
- Producer
- Pat Collier
- Producer
- Paul DeVilliers
- Producer
- Keith Diamond
- Producer
- Elliott Federman
- Mastering
- Glenn Frey
- Producer
- Mike Howlett
- Producer
- Andy Johns
- Producer
- Steve Jolley
- Producer
- Howard Jones
- Performer
- David Kahne
- Producer
- Tom Keifer
- Producer
- Neil Kernon
- Producer
- Dennis Lambert
- Producer
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- Producer
- Stewart Levine
- Producer
- Scott Litt
- Producer
- Philip Bailey
- Performer
- Wally Badarou
- Producer
- Adam Ant
- Producer
- Bananarama
- Performer
- Bangles
- Performer
- Cameo
- Performer
- Belinda Carlisle
- Performer
- The Cars
- Producer
- Phil Collins
- Producer
- The Commodores
- Performer
- Devo
- Producer
- Thomas Dolby
- Performer
- Duran Duran
- Performer
- Dave Edmunds
- Producer
- A Flock of Seagulls
- Performer
- Hall & Oates
- Performer
- Billy Idol
- Performer
- Rick James
- Producer
- Greg Kihn
- Performer
- Level 42
- Producer
- Men at Work
- Performer
- Men Without Hats
- Performer
- Mr. Mister
- Producer
- Billy Ocean
- Performer
- The Pointer Sisters
- Performer
- Ready for the World
- Producer
- Rockwell
- Producer
- Peter Schilling
- Producer
- Simply Red
- Performer
- Rick Springfield
- Performer
- Stray Cats
- Performer
- Swing Out Sister
- Performer
- Technotronic
- Performer
- Twisted Sister
- Performer
- The Waitresses
- Performer
- Jan Hammer
- Producer
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