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Brass in Pocket – Pretenders 03:05
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Jessie's Girl – Rick Springfield 03:13
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Maneater – Daryl Hall & John Oates 04:31
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Super Freak, Pt. 1 – Rick James 03:23
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Down Under – Men at Work 03:42
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Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats 03:16
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Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant 03:30
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I Know What Boys Like – The Waitresses 03:12
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The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats 04:35
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Mr. Telephone Man – New Edition 04:00
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Somebody's Watching Me – Rockwell 03:58
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Whip It – Devo 02:39
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I Ran – A Flock of Seagulls 05:04
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Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran 03:23

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Rebel Yell – Billy Idol 04:46
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We're Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister 03:38
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The Warrior – Scandal, Patty Smyth 03:52
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Drive – The Cars 03:54
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Jeopardy – Greg Kihn 03:49
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Jump (For My Love) – The Pointer Sisters 04:26
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Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) – Billy Ocean 03:42
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Easy Lover – Phil Collins, Philip Bailey 05:01
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Cruel Summer – Bananarama 03:30
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She Blinded Me With Science – Thomas Dolby 03:41
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No More Words – Berlin 03:52
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Major Tom (Coming Home) – Peter Schilling 04:57
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True – Spandau Ballet 05:34
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Broken Wings – Mr. Mister 04:43

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Walking on Sunshine – Katrina & the Waves 03:58
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Miami Vice Theme – Jan Hammer 02:28
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You Belong to the City – Glenn Frey 05:51
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No One Is to Blame – Howard Jones 04:11
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Holding Back the Years – Simply Red 04:29
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Nightshift – Commodores 05:04
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Oh Sheila – Ready for the World 04:03
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Word Up! – Cameo 04:19
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Pump Up the Jam – Technotronic 05:21
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Something About You – Level 42 03:43
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Breakout – Swing Out Sister 03:47
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Walk Like an Egyptian – Bangles 03:23
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth – Belinda Carlisle 04:04
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Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) – Cinderella 05:53

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, Rovi

Genre: Rock, R&B, Electronica
Subgenre: R&B/Soul, Soft Rock, Pop/Rock, Dance, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hard Rock
Category Disco, Funk, Dance-Pop, Album Rock, Soul, Synth Pop, Urban, New Wave, Alternative Pop/Rock
Label: HIP-O RECORDS
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Artist: Hit Me With Your 80's Box
Additional Artist: Swing Out Sister (Performer), Billy Ocean (Performer), Men Without Hats (Performer), Men at Work (Performer), Howard Jones (Performer), Greg Kihn (Performer), Various artists collection, Thomas Dolby (Performer), Duran Duran (Performer), A Flock of Seagulls (Performer), Billy Idol (Performer), The Pointer Sisters (Performer), Simply Red (Performer), Rick Springfield (Performer), Stray Cats (Performer), Technotronic (Performer), Twisted Sister (Performer), Bangles (Performer), Cameo (Performer), Belinda Carlisle (Performer), Philip Bailey (Performer), Bananarama (Performer), The Waitresses (Performer), Katrina & the Waves (Performer), Patty Smyth (Performer), Commodores (Performer), Daryl Hall & John Oates (Performer)

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