Rock 80: K-Tel's Finest Moment?

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I recently reclaimed some ancient vinyl from my mom and this was among them. Classic!

Side One
Cars - Gary Numan
Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders
Driver's Seat - Sniff & The Tears
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Call Me - Blondie

Side Two
Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio - Ramones
My Sharona - The Knack
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
Hold On - Ian Gomm
One Way Or Another - Blondie
We Live For Love - Pat Benatar
Pop Muzik - M

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

My googling turned up a Canadian version with a completely different track listing:

Side One
My Sharona - The Knack
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Paradise Skies - Max Webster
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Armageddon - Prism
Your Place Or Mine - Private Eye
Shapes of Things - FM
Too Bad - Doug and the Slugs

Side Two
Back On My Feet Again - The Babies
White Hot - Red Rider
Just Another Night - Ian Hunter
Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewelery) - B.B. Gabor
Say Hello - April Wine
Only You And Me - UFO
Total Control - Motels
Heart Of Glass - Blondie

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

Gomm with the Wind!

All K-Tel vinyl is great -- K-Tel totally pwns Ronco.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Rock 80" with all tracks dating from 1979.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

Fire the marketing department!

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Rock 80" with all tracks dating from 1979.

Another example of the Tory conspiracy getting in touch with their Neo-Con contacts in the United States to reinforce Thatcher's victory in 1979 and how it changed things FOREVER AND FOR THE BEST.

― Carcello Marlin (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

my dad had this (Rock 80)!

― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

I mention *Rock 80* in my second book (page 7), and always take it along when I'm DJ-ing. What's interesting is how it basically proves how *diverse* new wave was -- how it was musically all over the map.

― xhuxk, Friday, 7 April 2006 14:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

The weird thing is how it all hangs together, though. It's like butter until you hit Mr. Gomm's entry.

I'm getting this urge to lace up rollerskates.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Thank you for posting this!!! I have been trying to recreate this album, through CD & digital purchase... you have made the process so much easier. The other album from K-tel I was trying to recreate was The Rock Album, with the Ramones, Blue Oyster Cult... Excellent stuff!!

― Child of the 70's-80's, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Wow, what can I say, this was the first record I ever bought. I lived in Athens GA, in 1980, and this shit was fucking NEW WAVE for Georgia. I must say this though, Cars by Gary Numan made quite the impression on me, as well as Blondie and the Knack, perhaps this is the crowning achievement in the K-Tel catalog. Funny thing is later in life (2002) I sold a catalog of my work to them, I won't give any titles due to the shame of their content, but wow.

― twentyfourtracks, Saturday, 21 November 2009 21:36 (2 months ago) Permalink

Um, I feel really old now. And by the way how can anyone compare Ronco and K-Tel? Apples to Oranges my friends.

― twentyfourtracks, Saturday, 21 November 2009 21:38 (2 months ago) Permalink

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