Why I Do This

I was lucky enough to be a teenager through the eighties and I was mad on music, big hair, bad make-up and all that went with being a teenager of the times. All these years later I still have the big hair but now it is "touched" with grey and the bad make-up is gone but the tunes still play loudly in my head and even louder if they grace my radio, tv or mp3player. I will gladly admit to being a"mainstream" fan for the most part but I do have the odd liking for some of the less "played to death" bands of the time. What started all this was a drawer full of slowly decaying cassettes and a fear of losing the music that is on them. So I began to recreate them onto CD and I am loving it and finding some fantastic albums along the way.

I would like to re-dedicate this site to my late husband, he lost his long battle with cancer in 2011, he was a huge 80's fan, possibly even more so than myself. So for you my love.

Download Links

Updated 15th May 2020



Hi All, I am slowly revamping the blog. You won't find any download links on this site but I am only too happy to of supplied the tracklistings to assist you in remembering those long lost gems .Thanks Meggsy



Tuesday, November 11, 2008

All The Hits (1986)


All The Hits 1986

 01 The Cars - Tonight She Comes
 02 Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat
 03 Elton John - Wrap Her Up
 04 A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On Tv
 05 Thompson Twins - King For A Day
 06 The Cure - Close To Me
 07 Pete Townsend - Face The Face
 08 Mr Mister - Broken Wing
 09 Starship - We Built This City
 10 Eurythmics - It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
 11 Dire Straits - Walk Of Life
 12 Clarence Clemmons And Jackson Browne - You're A Friend Of Mine
 13 Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
 14 Eurogliders - Can't Wait To See You
 15 Jennifer Rush - Power Of Love
 16 Dionne Warwick - That's What Friends Are For

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Big Brother Is Alive And Just A Pain In The Arse

Well it seems that my little blog has found itself on the hit list of blogs being targeted and having posts removed for infringemants. So far I have had several posts removed so until I sort out the what and why's I will not be posting anymore links with my posts.
I'd like to at this point give huge thanks to Dan, AusSound, Ozzmosis and all that have contributed to my little blog as well as to all the readers, your support has been just overwhelming.
So stay tuned.  

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Just Hits 85-86

Just Hits 85 - 86

Side 1
01 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
02 Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals
03 In Between Days - The Cure
04 Head Over Heels When You Call Me - The Style Council
05 Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy
06 Endless Road - Time Bandits
07 The City Of Soul - Eurogliders

Side 2
08 ( Billy ) Don't You Lose My Number - Phil Collins
09 Dress You Up - Madonna
10 Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
11 Frankie - Sister Sledge
12 Date With Destiny - Mental As Anything
13 Life In One Day - Howard Jones
14 All You Zombies - Hooters
15 Cherish - Kool And The Gang
***Many Thanks To Mad Danno For This Album***

Thursday, October 9, 2008

The Chosen Few

The Chosen Few
01 - Bad Habits - Billy Field
02 - Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
03 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Cold Chisel
04 - Sailing - Christopher Cross
05 - In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
06 - Mister Sandman - Emmylou Harris
07 - Only For Sheep - Bureau
08 - Love You Like I Never Loved Before - John O'banion
09 - I Love You - Climax Blues Band
10 - I Love A Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
11 - One Day I'll Fly Away - Randy Crawford
12 - Trickle Trickle - Manhattan Transfer
13 - When I Dream - Jack Clement
14 - Whip It - Devo
15 - Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees - Marcia Hines
16 - Shake It And Dance - Hilly Michaels
17 - Passion - Rod Stewart
18 - I Don't Mind - Hitmen

***Many Thanks To Mark For The Covers***

Thru The Roof '83




Thru The Roof 83

01 Pat Wilson - Bop Girl
02 Dragon - Rain
03 Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
04 UB40 - Red Red Wine
05 Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat
06 Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
07 Sharon O'Neill - Maxine
08 Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch
09 Michael Sembello - Maniac
10 Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
11 Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
12 KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
13 Cold Chisel - No Sense
14 Elton John - Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
15 John English - Some People (Have All The Fun)
16 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
17 Blues Brothers, The & Ray Charles - Shake A Tail Feather
18 Austen Tayshus - Australiana
From Wikipedia
Thru The Roof '83 was a various artists "hits" collection album released in Australia in 1983 on the CBS record Label (Cat No. ROOF 1). The album spent 5 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in Dec. 1983 / Jan. 1984.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Women Of Rock


Women Of Rock

Side 1
01 Melissa Manchester - You Should Hear
02 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
03 Toni Basil - Mickey
04 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
05 Bananarama - Shy Boy
06 Sheena Easton - Modern Girl
07 The Waitressess - I Know What Boys Like
08 Motels - Total Control
09 Blondie - Rapture
10 Renee Geyer - Say I Love You
Side 2
11 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N' Roll
12 Frida - I Know There's Something Going On
13 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
14 Kim Wilde - Kids In America
15 Missing Persons - Words
16 Eurogliders - Without You
17 Jo Kennedy - Body And Soul
18 Judy Tzuke - Stay With Me Till Dawn
19 Kate Bush - Babooshka
20 Suzi Quatro - Rock Hard

Many thanks to Mad Danno for insert

Solid R.O.C.K




A bit of a treat, a double cassette which I was able to loan from one of my blog readers' Aaron.  
Many Thanks to you Aaron.
Solid R.O.C.K
Tape 1
01 - Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
02 - Billy Ocean - Carribean Queen
03 - Michael Jacksons & Mick Jagger - State Of Shock
04 - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
05 - James Reyne & Lin Buckfield - R.O.C.K.- Rock
06 - Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
07 - Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
08 - Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
09 - Michael Jackson - Beat It
10 - Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
11 - Eurogliders - Heaven (Must Be There)
12 - Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
13 - Laura Branigan - Solitaire
14 - Ollie & Jerry - There's No Stopping Us
15 - Electric Pandas - Big Girls
Solid R.O.C.K
Tape 2
01 - Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
02 - Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
03 - Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
04 - Shannon - Let The Music Play
05 - Billy Joel - You May Be Right
06 - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
07 - Rick Springfield - Don't Talk To Strangers
08 - The Mighty Wah! - Come Back
09 - Michael Sembello - Maniac
10 - Meatloaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth(Hot Summer Night)
11 - Roxy Music - More Than This
12 - Vicki Sue Robinson - To Sir With Love
13 - Men At Work - Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive
14 - Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind
15 - KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Notes:
Covers Courtesy Of Aaron

Hits Now 89 Volume 2.

Hits Now 89 Volume 2.
01: Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
02: Collette - Ring My Bell
03: The Black Sorrows - Chained To The Wheel
04: Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
05: 1927 - Compulsory Hero
06: Elvis Costello - Veronica
07: Daryl Braithwaite - One Summer
08: The Bangles - Eternal Flame
09: Love And Money - Hallelujah Man
10: Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years
11: Dragon - Young Years
12: Edie Brickell + The New Bohemians - What I Am
13: Gloria Estefan + Miami Sound Machine - Can't Stay Away From You
14: Petula Clark - Downtown '88
15: Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With You
16: Bobby Brown - My Perogative
17: Sam Kinison - Wild Thing
18: Bomb The Bass - Say A Little Prayer

 From Mad Danno, Many Thanks

Gremlins


Hi All,
Have had a bit of work to do since the "Gremlins" have seen fit to pay me a visit. So for the time being I have lost my links list but I am working on it guys, sorry for any problems it causes and please if I haven't re-added
you please let me know!!!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Starcall

STARCALL PRESENTS - 18 ORIGINAL ARTISTS (LP) 1980
TRACKS:
Side One:
01 Shandi - Kiss
02 In Your Car - Dugites
03 Little Jeannie - Elton John
04 The Winner Takes It All - Abba
05 Sooner Or Later - The Innocents
06 Still Sane - Carolyn Mas
07 Whatever You Want - Status Quo
08 After The News - The Reels
09 Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram
Side Two:
10 Moscow - Genghis Khan
11 Little By Little - Jon English
12 I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists
13 Wondering Where The Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn
14 Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills
15 Five Letter Word - The Numbers
16 Portable Radio - Hall & Oates
17 Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke
18 Two Faces Have I - Ol' 55

Now my video clip pick for this album is The Tourists song I Only Want To Be With You. The band features the fabulous Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart who within a year of this song went on of course to form th Eurythmics. Enjoy