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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Rhino
Salesrank: 111356
Released: June 21, 1994 |
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Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 5 Track Listing:
1. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
2. I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses
3. Kids in America - Kim Wilde
4. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
5. Someday, Someway - Marshall Crenshaw
6. Hold on to Something - Great Buildings
7. Town Called Malice - The Jam
8. 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
9. Vacation - The Go-Go's
10. Valley Girl - Frank Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa
11. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls
12. Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell
13. I Love a Man in Uniform - Gang of Four
14. Art of Parties - Japan
15. Homosapien - Pete Shelley
16. Mickey - Toni Basil
Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s, Vol. 5 Reviews:
A Moment In Time 
2009-03-30 -
This is my favorite of the Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's series. I took the opportunity to review a dozen other volumes in the series however Vol. 5 is my favorite for a single reason...the inclusion of Valley Girl by the late Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon. I had this CD but needed to replace it because of a crack. Mickey by Toni Basil and Vacation from the Go-Gos are also in this set but Valley Girl made this a must have and I found it here.
WOW! Was "Mickey" a GREAT song, or what?! 
2004-10-26 - Nope, in fact it was one of the songs that I hated the first time I heard it and can still gather up a load of revulsion for today. The oddball tune that drags this collection up to the .500 line is Pete Shelley's "Homo Sapien". Funny, catchy and just plain clever, but I worry about Pete. Other than that volume 5 barely trips the meter. Welcome to the middle of the new wave road.
Nearly Quintessential...Nearly 
2002-05-24 - My biggest complaint about this particular album is the inclusion of "Hold onto Something" by Great Buildings. Many of these songs define my days in high school, but for the life of me I can't remember ever hearing of this band. However, I do remember hearing this song...or one very much like it -- Joe Jackson's incredibly popular song titled, "I'm the Man," from his album, "I'm the Man" (1979), which was hugely popular through the early eighties.
Re-mixing this album with the correct song would help this album's rating a lot.
Those Were The Days-- Great New Wave Collection!
2001-08-17 - The best entry in Rhino's awesome "New Wave Hits" series.(Volume 1 which covers the late 70's is also excellent).All 16 songs are culled from 1982 which was indeed a very good year for pop music. Haircut One Hundred's "Love Plus One" and Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" were anthems of the(then) young MTV Generation. These quirky video darlings raged like a hurricane of fresh air in the face of bland corporate schlock which hogged the airwaves. Songs like the Go Go's "Vacation" and Tommy Tutone's "867-5309" were not only pure fun-- they were also well-crafted 3-minute pop gems. In fact, nearly every tune on volume 5 is cut from the same intelligent pop mold. Other standouts from this set include the vastly underrated Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday Someway", The Jam's "A Town Called Malice" and Soft Cell's absurdly humorous "Sex Dwarf". The only weak cuts are Gang of Four's "Man in Uniform" and the truly horrible "Art of Parties" by Japan. Overall, this is a fantastic collection which harkens back to a truly innovative time in pop music-- a brief time when catchy Hit Singles ruled and all possibilities seemed endless.
Best In The Series
2001-07-06 - This is my favorite of the series. Actually there are only two cuts that I consider weak ("Kids in America" and "Mickey"). ALl the rest are great little slices of the variety and creativeness of 80's new wave rock. Good c.d. to have.
