NOW That's What I Call A Decade: 1980's

Love the product and the product is great sounds great and love the songs.

Great CD! Several great songs from the 80's decade!

Good selection of music from the 80s.

It’s like a cd of my past

like new, arrived on time

I love all the songs on this CD. Great value for the price.

If you enjoy listening to the 80's music you will be a fan of this CD im sure you will be ,👍Thank you Amazon and to the delivery person on time!

Why was this CD made? It's 2021, and people are buying vinyl, if anything, if they're buying physical music. I still love CD's and think that they sound better IF they are mastered well. The trend for over 20 years is to make them as loud as possible. So, as I am a sucker for completely random 80's compilations and you don't see George Michael on an 80's CD very much at all, I bought this after I stumbled upon the listing. I'm sure there's only 5 other people who know it exists- what stores are left to stock it?I like the tracklisting, even though it has absolutely no flow to it at all until towards the end. The songs are a mess of 7" versions, album versions, albums versions that are randomly faded early and even a 12" version. Since CD's are a niche item now, I was hoping that Sony/Universal would actually take care and make a consistent and well mastered CD for the few customers that still support the format. At the very least, even if its going to be a loud, compressed modern remaster, the volume levels should be consistent, right? Oh no, no, no...The George Michael track actually sounded pretty good, which bode well for the whole compilation- loud, but not too bad, but then the next track "Sweet Dreams" blasted on, and I knew it was just from the way compressed Eurythmics remasters from several years ago. It seems like whoever compiled this (there is no mastering credit- maybe it was the monkey from track 1?) just took whatever random version of the songs off of Spotify that pulled up first. In fact, anybody could make a better compilation by just making a Spotify playlist that used all modern remasters of the tracks. The Simple Minds 12" actually was lower in volume, sounding almost unremastered and quite crankable, except DON'T do that because the John Mellencamp song that's next will blow your speakers. There is no way to listen to this CD without constantly adjusting the volume from track to track. It's quite irritating. And then the fact that there is no consistency to if the songs are edits or full versions make for a jarring listen. And they seem to have found the lost 1975 Quad version of "Take On Me" because there's extra beats and effects that give it a "swirling" sound.I just don't understand why Sony/Universal would even bother slapping this together as a quick cash grab, when nobody is buying CD's anymore! Why bother at this point? I gave it 3 stars because at least no song cuts off abruptly and I was almost expecting a Spotify commercial in there somewhere, so they paid for a Premium subscription. Kudos!