VA - Living In Oblivion (Vol. 1-5) [mp3-vbr] (eighties hits) *rykker*

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Track Listing Volume 1

1. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
2. Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
3. Talk Talk - Talk Talk (Remix)
4. Kids in America - Kim Wilde
5. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
6. The Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex
7. 19 - Paul Hardcastle
8. Homicide - 999
9. Romanticide - Combo Audio
10. Guilty - Classix Nouveaux
11. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
12. 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
13. C30, C60, C90, Go! - Bow Wow Wow
14. (She's) Sexy + 17 - Stray Cats
15. She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby
16. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet
17. I Eat Cannibals, Pt. 1 - Toto Coelo
18. Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee

Track Listing Volume 2

1. Mickey - Toni Basil
2. Get It on (Bang a Gong) - The Power Station
3. Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
4. Let Me Go - Heaven 17
5. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
6. Heart and Soul - T'Pau
7. Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers
8. It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) - Fun Boy Three & Bananarama
9. The Jam Was Moving - Debbie Harry
10. Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
11. 88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails
12. Only the Lonely - The Motels
13. Living in a Box - Living in a Box
14. Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
15. Running up That Hill - Kate Bush
16. Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
17. Destination Unknown - Missing Persons
18. Never Ending Story - Limahl
19. Mickey - Toni Basil (Spanish version)

Track Listing Volume 3

1. (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
2. Perfect Way - Scritti Politti
3. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
4. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
5. Election Day - Arcadia
6. Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
7. Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
8. The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
9. Make a Circuit With Me - The Polecats
10. Rock This Town - Stray Cats
11. Sidewalk Talk - Jellybean
12. It's My Life - Talk Talk
13. (I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
14. Hanging on a Heart Attack - Device
15. Poison Arrow - ABC
16. Aeiou Sometimes Y - Ebn Ozn
17. Are You Sure - So
18. The Way You Are - Tears for Fears (previously unreleased)
19. What Do All the People Know - The Monroes

Track Listing Volume 4

1. Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
2. One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
3. True - Spandau Ballet
4. Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
5. Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
6. Sister of Mercy - Thompson Twins
7. Under the Milky Way - The Church
8. Lean on Me - Red Box
9. Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade
10. You Don't Know - Scarlett & Black
11. Some People - Belouis Some
12. Shock - The Motels (Single Remix)
13. Belly of the Whale - Burning Sensations
14. Tenderness - General Public
15. Get Out of London - Intaferon
16. Go! - Tones on Tail
17. Slang Teacher - Wide Boy Awake
18. Lawnchairs - Our Daughters Wedding
19. Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo

Track Listing Volume 5

1. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
2. Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
3. Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes
4. Promise, The - When in Rome
5. Vienna - Ultravox
6. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
7. King in a Catholic Style (Wake up) - China Crisis
8. Steady - Jules Shear
9. Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three
10. Pleasure and Pain - The Divinyls
11. Birds Fly, (Whisper to Scream) - Icicle Works
12. The Honeythief - Hipsway
13. Souvenir - Rubber Rodeo
14. I Wanna Be a Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry
15. Captain of Her Heart, The - Double
16. When Your Heart Is Weak - Cock Robin
17. Love Changes (Everything) - Climie Fisher
18. More Than Physical - Bananarama (single remix)
19. Vanity Kills - ABC (USA single remix)
20. We Close Our Eyes - Go West

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For me, this was radio in the mid-eighties. I owned a lot of this already when I bought it, but I loved the way they didn't overload with obvious top 40 hits, but more what the adventurous stations and maybe a few college radio stations were playing. If you were lucky enough to catch KROQ-type radio in the 80's (shout out to '80-era 91X), this was your soundtrack.