NOW That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980-1984
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Release Date: 30/05/2025
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