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Greatest Ever Alternative 80s presents 3CDs of classic music from the decade when it became OK - even preferable - to be different. From alternative artists like the Sisters Of Mercy, The Cure and Bauhaus to chart-topping art-pop acts like Erasure, when MTV was king and anything was possible. Indulge your inner indie kid, electro kid, grunge kid and even goth kid with this essential 3CD compilation. "Michael Caine" is a song by British band Madness, released on 30 January 1984 as the first single from their album Keep Moving. On its creation, Julianne Regan has said, in an interview on BBC radio, "This song happened by accident when we were recording the first album. "Sign of the Times" is a song by English pop/new wave band The Belle Stars, released as the lead single from the band's only self-titled studio album.

Including a great selection of bona-fide New Wave & Punk Classics along with a few more unusual but equally entertaining selections and a couple of surprisingly hard-to-find on CD selections this is a double album that works well as a listening experience and provides something a bit different. Sure, tracks like 'Teenage Kicks' by The Undertones, the title track song by The Stranglers and Ian Dury's 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' are on virtually every similar compilation but songs like 'Blank Generation' by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. These minor quibbles aside, 'No More Heroes' delivers what it says on the tin and provides its listeners with plenty of great tunes to inspire and bring back happy memories.

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The #1 New Wave Album - 60 classic tracks form the edges of the 70s & 80s all wrapped up in an attractive fold out card pocketpack. Featuring The Clash, The Jam, Iggy Pop, The Cure and many more!

Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s was a new wave compilation released by Rhino honoring the music of the 1980's, and this was the sampler disc for the series, released in 1994. Of interest is the version of A Flock Of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)", which has the ending heard in the video and is different from that in the actual compilation CD series.

Amazon Review by David Sheridan
Lots of good new wave era chestnuts on this compilation. I wonder where perhaps Talking Heads, Echo & the Bunnymen or Graham Parker are, why no Nick Lowe/Dave Edmunds/Rockpile, why no "Girl of My Dreams" by Bram Tchaikovsky, and they definitely seemed to put this together having drawn a somewhat arbitrary line in the sand somewhere between punk and new wave (no Pistols, no Clash, but the Ramones and Sham 69 are here). And then we get the Tubes (almost more musical theatre than new wave) and Hazel O'Connor (wtf?). And they also include whatever a Jilted John is. There's more than a little overlap with some other compilations and box sets out there (although I still know of no proper full sized new wave box set, Rhino, where are you?), but this will send those of us of a certain age nostalgically back to the days of Jimmy Carter in the White House, lining up for 79 cent gallons of gas and skinny ties with the knot a few inches below your collar…remember the first time you heard My Sharona? Maybe in your Ford Maverick while sitting in one of those gas lines…