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VA - Just Can't Get Enough, New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 01 - Vol. 15 [1994-1995] (15 x CDs)

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VA - Just Can't Get Enough, New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 01 - Vol. 15 [1994-1995] (15 x CDs)

Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s is a series of compilations issued by Rhino Records, on both CD and audio cassette, featuring various artists from the new wave era 1977-1985. The series contained 15 volumes, each with 16 tracks, covering different aspects and subgenres of new wave music.  The series was released between 1994 and 1995 and aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the new wave movement, which was characterized by diverse styles, experimentation, and synthesizer-based sounds. The series included some songs that were making their first or only CD appearance, as well as some rare or obscure tracks. The series also featured liner notes by various music journalists and critics, providing historical and cultural context for the songs.  (Despite the "New Wave Hits of the '80s" subtitle, Volume 1 actually contains no tracks from the 1980s; tracks from 1980 and later begin appearing midway through Volume 2.)

The series was well-received by fans and critics alike, who praised its selection, sound quality, and packaging. The series was also considered a valuable resource for new wave enthusiasts and collectors, as it showcased many songs that were otherwise hard to find or unavailable on CD. The series was also influential in introducing new wave music to a younger generation of listeners, who may have missed it the first time around. 

However, the series was also criticized for some of its choices and omissions, such as excluding some major new wave artists or songs, or including some songs that were not strictly new wave or from the '80s. The series was also discontinued by Rhino Records due to rights issues and with no plans to re-release them. As a result, the series has become rare and expensive in the secondary market. 

Just Can’t Get Enough, New Wave Hits of the '80s is a series that celebrates and documents one of the most creative and influential musical movements of the late 20th century. It is a series that showcases the diversity, innovation, and fun of new wave music. (B)

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Track lists

CD01

01 Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi 3:01

02 Normal - Warm Leatherette 3:23

03 Blondie - One Way Or Another 3:29

04 Flash And The Pan - Hey, St. Peter 3:54

05 Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind 3:29

06 D-Day - Too Young To Date 2:37

07 Graham Parker - Local Girls 3:42

08 Ramones - Rock 'n' Roll High School 2:22

09 Knack - My Sharona 4:03

10 Dave Edmunds - Girl Talk 3:27

11 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 3:29

12 Tim Curry - I Do The Rock 4:47

13 Inmates - Dirty Water 3:04

14 Tin Huey - I'm A Believer 3:15

15 Suburban Lawns - Gidget Goes To Hell 2:03

16 Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) 2:32


CD02

01 M - Pop Muzik 3:24

02 Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 3:43

03 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:27

04 Human Sexual Response - What Does Sex Mean To Me 4:54

05 Kingbees - My Mistake 2:55

06 Tonio K. - The Funky Western Civilization 4:13

07 Beat - You Won't Be Happy 2:22

08 Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 3:49

09 Split Enz - I Got You 3:31

10 Motels - Danger 3:27

11 Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach 3:38

12 Devo - Whip It 2:41

13 Ultravox - Vienna 4:40

14 Fischer-Z - So Long 5:01

15 Klark Kent - Away From Home 2:57

16 Vapors - Turning Japanese 3:44


CD03

01 Gary Numan - Cars 3:58

02 B-52's - Private Idaho 3:38

03 XTC - Making Plans For Nigel 4:14

04 Rockpile - Teacher Teacher 2:36

05 Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues 4:58

06 Humans - I Live In The City 3:11

07 Pearl Harbor & The Explosions - Drivin' 3:44

08 Romantics - What I Like About You 2:58

09 Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women 4:40

10 Lene Lovich - New Toy 3:19

11 Visage - Fade To Grey 4:04

12 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Stool Pigeon 3:47

13 Squeeze - Tempted 4:02

14 Selecter - Too Much Pressure 3:51

15 Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls 3:55

16 Gleaming Spires - Are You Ready For The Sex Girls? 4:04


CD04

01 Devo - Freedom Of Choice 3:24

02 XTC - Generals And Majors 4:07

03 Kings - Switchin' To Glide 2:36

04 Boomtown Rats - Up All Night 3:38

05 Greg Kihn Band - The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em) 2:51

06 Motors - Love And Loneliness 4:40

07 Magazine - About The Weather 3:27

08 Phil Seymour - Precious To Me 2:52

09 Duran Duran - Girls On Film 3:32

10 Translator - Everywhere That I'm Not 3:51

11 Altered Images - I Could Be Happy 3:33

12 Members - Working Girl 4:10

13 Monroes - What Do All The People Know 3:30

14 Undertones - It's Going To Happen 3:39

15 Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust 3:15

16 Soft Cell - Tainted Love 2:41


CD05

01 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy 2:47

02 Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like 3:15

03 Kim Wilde - Kids In America 3:29

04 Haircut One Hundred - Love Plus One 3:40

05 Marshall Crenshaw - Someday Someway 2:52

06 Great Buildings - Hold On To Something 3:49

07 Jam - Town Called Malice 2:57

08 Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) 3:48

09 Go-Go's - Vacation 3:01

10 Frank And Moon Zappa - Valley Girl 3:50

11 Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) 3:46

12 Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf 5:16

13 Gang Of Four - I Love A Man In A Uniform 3:35

14 Japan - The Art Of Parties 4:12

15 Pete Shelley - Homosapien 3:24

16 Toni Basil - Mickey 3:26


CD06

01 Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now 3:24

02 Golden Earring - Twilight Zone 4:53

03 Talk Talk - Talk Talk 3:25

04 Josie Cotton - Johnny Are You Queer 2:49

05 X - White Girl 3:34

06 Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died 5:02

07 Code Blue - Face To Face 3:05

08 Captain Sensible - Wot 3:20

09 Bongos - Numbers With Wings 4:28

10 Abc - The Look Of Love (Part One) 3:33

11 Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 4:23

12 Romeo Void - Never Say Never 3:29

13 Church - The Unguarded Moment 3:11

14 Any Trouble - Second Choice 3:02

15 A's - A Woman's Got The Power 3:37

16 Sparks - I Predict 2:53


CD07

01 Haircut One Hundred - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) 3:05

02 Josie Cotton - He Could Be The One 2:49

03 Blasters - I'm Shakin' 2:26

04 Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat 3:11

05 Paul Carrack - I Need You 2:49

06 Animal Nightlife - Love Is Just The Great Pretender 4:02

07 Fleshtones - Ride Your Pony 3:20

08 X - Blue Spark 2:11

09 Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie 3:27

10 Bad Manners - Samson And Delilah 2:57

11 Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw 5:19

12 Trio - Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha 3:27

13 Joe King Carrasco And The Crowns - Party Weekend 3:10

14 Fashion - Love Shadow 3:43

15 Bill Nelson - Flaming Desire 4:50

16 Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenet) 8:24


CD08

01 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 4:16

02 Fixx - Red Skies 3:33

03 Missing Persons - Walking In L.A. 3:40

04 Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy 3:50

05 Tubes - She's A Beauty 3:32

06 Bluebells - Cath 3:16

07 Rachel Sweet - Voo Doo 3:42

08 Mental As Anything - If You Leave Me Can I Come Too 3:15

09 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science 3:43

10 Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio 4:00

11 Thompson Twins - Lies 3:14

12 Oxo - Whirly Girl 3:00

13 Tin Tin - Kiss Me 7:32

14 Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang 4:22

15 Robert Hazard - Escalator Of Life 3:38

16 Scandal - Goodbye To You 3:48


CD09

01 Duran Duran - Rio 4:02

02 Modern English - I Melt With You 3:51

03 Sparks And Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places 3:26

04 Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way 3:41

05 English Beat - Save It For Later 3:38

06 Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're On My Mind 3:20

07 Single Bullet Theory - Keep It Tight 2:42

08 Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun 2:26

09 Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter 3:57

10 Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times 2:55

11 Abc - Poison Arrow 3:28

12 Kajagoogoo - Too Shy 3:39

13 Heaven 17 - Let Me Go 4:16

14 Q-Feel - Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop) 3:08

15 Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage 4:13

16 Total Coelo - I Eat Cannibals 3:33


CD10

01 Adam Ant - Desperate But Not Serious 3:57

02 Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna Hold Me 3:14

03 Red Rockers - China 4:02

04 Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination 3:46

05 Jam - Beat Surrender 3:31

06 Call - The Walls Came Down 3:47

07 Rank And File - Amanda Ruth 3:12

08 Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away 3:34

09 Madness - Our House 3:26

10 Bananarama - Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good) 3:17

11 Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) 4:14

12 Naked Eyes - Promises Promises 3:48

13 Roman Holliday - Stand By 2:49

14 Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind 3:44

15 Little Girls - Earthquake Song 2:40

16 Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz 3:25


CD11

01 Big Country - In A Big Country 3:56

02 Nena - 99 Luftballons 3:55

03 Joboxers - Just Got Lucky 3:44

04 Flirts - Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) 3:45

05 Tears For Fears - Change 4:00

06 Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep 3:57

07 DFX2 - Emotion 4:57

08 Slow Children - President Am I 2:50

09 Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another 3:25

10 Felony - The Fanatic 3:36

11 Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny 3:46

12 Dollar - Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) 3:22

13 Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) 3:14

14 Squeeze - Black Coffee In Bed 4:18

15 Real Life - Send Me An Angel 3:56

16 Spandau Ballet - True 5:35


CD12

01 Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 4:08

02 Madness - It Must Be Love 3:26

03 Spandau Ballet - Gold 3:55

04 Paul Young - Come Back And Stay 3:35

05 Aztec Camera - Oblivious 3:13

06 Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know 3:02

07 Rave-Ups - Positively Lost Me 5:09

08 Big Country - Fields Of Fire 3:32

09 Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy And 17 3:15

10 Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns 3:19

11 Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed 2:53

12 Yaz - Only You 3:13

13 Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing 3:58

14 Marilyn - Calling Your Name 4:06

15 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria 3:58

16 Peter Godwin - Images Of Heaven 5:01


CD13

01 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 4:01

02 Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days 4:01

03 Bangles - Hero Takes A Fall 2:55

04 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good 4:14

05 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 4:48

06 Bananarama - Cruel Summer 3:36

07 China Crisis - Working With Fire And Steel 3:40

08 Bus Boys - Cleanin' Up The Town 3:00

09 Dwight Twilley - Girls 3:30

10 Alarm - The Stand 3:17

11 Special Aka - Free Nelson Mandela 4:08

12 General Public - General Public 4:27

13 Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven 3:33

14 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 4:11

15 Icicle Works - Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) 3:48

16 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon 5:46


CD14

01 Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) 3:55

02 General Public - Tenderness 3:38

03 After The Fire - Der Kommissar 4:07

04 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 4:06

05 'til Tuesday - Voices Carry 4:24

06 Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok 4:08

07 Belouis Some - Imagination 3:36

08 Assembly - Never Never 3:47

09 Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night 3:55

10 Untouchables - Free Yourself 3:39

11 Let's Active - Every Word Means No 2:53

12 Truth - Exception Of Love 3:01

13 Colour Field - Can't Get Enough Of You Baby 2:19

14 Miracle Legion - The Backyard 4:03

15 Rubber Rodeo - Anywhere With You 4:02

16 Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes 3:39


CD15

01 Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine 4:00

02 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels 4:19

03 Men At Work - It's A Mistake 4:34

04 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town 4:18

05 Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely 5:18

06 Gary Myrick - Guitar, Talk, Love, & Drums 4:18

07 Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday 2:56

08 Animotion - Obsession 4:04

09 Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Endicott 4:29

10 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way 4:06

11 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love 3:31

12 Arcadia - Election Day 4:34

13 Paul Hardcastle - 19 3:40

14 Bronski Beat - Why? 3:58

15 Belouis Some - Some People 4:01

16 Lords Of The New Church - Like A Virgin 3:49

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12 comments:

  1. Thank you BB. There are hidden gems here, The Backyard, Numbers With Wings ... I'll enjoy it.

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    1. Hi StoneRose.
      It's a set that gets under your skin and more enjoyable with each listen. Have fun!
      Cheers.

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  2. this is a good one thank you B.B.

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  3. Thanks for this, it's a great collection! You wouldn't happen to have the Christmas and Halloween collections too, would you?

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    1. You're welcome, RadioConelrad.
      I do have the others but left them of until Xmas and Halloween.
      Cheers.

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  4. One of Rhino's best series. Too bad it's no longer on the market.There's one flaw thought...The version of The Kings "Switchin' To Glide/This Beat Goes On" is badly edited, only the first half of the song appears. Otherwise its a must have for the rarities.
    (Speaking of which, the first 19 track 1994 PROMO Sampler had discrepancies between five of the tracks on that promo CD and the original versions contained in the commercial series - A Flock Of Seagull's "I Ran (So Far Away)", Toni Basil's "Mickey", Talk Talk's "Talk Talk", Thompson Twin's "Lies" and Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio". There are different versions or edits from the versions released on the retail series mentioned here.

    Don't believe me? Listen here: https://krakenfiles.com/view/Sau7PUnn52/file.html

    Thanks BB!!!

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    1. Thanks Wombat Freddie.
      It's a great series.
      I'll fix that if I can.
      Cheers.

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    2. Just to clarify BB, The Kings track WAS a glitch by Rhino records. For some reason, and it's was not that often done by that company, they were very sloppy with that track. Why the edit no one knows, and to the best of my knowledge, they never fixed it. I hope you didn't mistook that as a critical comment earlier. As for the other tracks mentioned, I notice the different versions of those tracks when I got the sampler. I thought everyone out there would like some more 'bonus tracks'. And Trev, you're not the only one who lost them. **sigh**

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    3. Thanks, WF.
      No, I didn't think you were critical. All good. btw thanks for the link.
      But I did relisten to my set and found the track to be fine. So, I didn't need to change anything.
      Cheers.

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  5. Many thanks for this, Butterboy! Had the CDs years ago, sadly lost them. Ecstatic to have the collection back!

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    1. Hi Trev,
      I always like it when I hear that a post was something that visitors are reunited with.
      I hope you will enjoy this set again.
      Cheers.

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