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| Billboard Top Hits: 1989 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 152933
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227164423
EAN: 0081227164423
ASIN: B00000339G
Release Date: April 19, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | When I See You Smile - Bad English | | • | Eternal Flame - Bangles | | • | Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears | | • | Toy Soldiers - Martika | | • | Heaven - Warrant | | • | Don't Wanna Lose You - Gloria Estefan | | • | Soldier Of Love - Donny Osmond | | • | Hangin' Tough - New Kids On The Block | | • | Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx | | • | Lost In Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 "Cheesy"? How About Great! February 3, 2008
I don't understand what is so "cheesy" about the '89 Billboard CD songs, as the previous posters suggest! These were among the big hits of the day! I have fond memories of the year, back when I was young grade-school aged and humming to all these songs while in the back seat of my family's van. Though, there are three popular songs missing that a review of 1989 should, in my opinion, include: Roxette's "The Look," Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy." These must have been top hits---at least among the Top 3 for a week or two, given how ofen I heard them. I used to love these songs. Why, I still do!
great 80s CD February 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great CD and has 10 wonderful tracks. It's a must for any true 80s music fan.
 A pretty good representation of 1989 April 6, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I admit I love the '80s for all the cheesy music that came out of that decade. I loved everything from hair metal to some insipid pop music. There was a lot of good music that came out of the '80s (like Depeche Mode and Erasure) and then there was garbage (New Kids on the Block and Tiffany). I bought "Billboard Top Hits: 1989" primarily for the Martika song "Toy Soldier". "Toy Soldier" really helped defined the cheesiness of the '80s, along with Debbie Gibson's "Lost in Your Eyes" and Warrant's "Heaven". I was a big Debbie Gibson fan back in the '80s. She was the only teen pop artist that I liked, everyone else was just noise to my ears. Warrant was definitely not one of my favorite hair metal bands but I did love "Heaven". It is a beautiful and sappy ballad. I so loathe New Kids On the Block, especially "Hangin' Tough" but listening to the song on this compilation makes me laugh because it is so bad. I thought that Bad English's "When I See You Smile" ranked right up there on the cheese-o-meter with Journey's "Open Arms", vomit-inducing at best. I love "Eternal Flame", definitely one of my favorite ballads from The Bangles who I think helped personify the '80s with their catchy pop/rock music. Tears For Fears' "Sowing the Seeds of Love" was certainly not one of the band's best songs. It isn't awful but I didn't think it was anything as good as "Shout" or "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". I can't stand Donny Osmond. He is by far the worst artist on this compilation. He wasn't good in the '70s, he wasn't good in the '80s. I so loathe this guy's attempt at being a serious rock musician. He is too darn cheesy for my tastes. I have to admit that I actually like "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx. Big guilty pleasure. I kinda like Gloria Estefan's "Don't Wanna Lose You" but I prefer her more uptempo songs over her ballads. Listening to this cd brings back memories when I had no taste in music whatsoever. LOL!
The Best One Yet February 1, 2003
I've had this CD for a few years now, and I continue to listen to it. I love it! I have checked out of the other "billboard" CDs, but this one is the best in my opinion. I think it has a good mix of songs form 1989. I don't hear many of them anymore. I highly suggest this CD!
1989 is a little uneven August 10, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
'89 was somewhat of a dull year, at least represented by this collection. Strangely, many of the other volumes had one-hit wonders or artists with only a couple good songs. This one has the opposite, good artists with not so good songs. The pop-vocal ballad "Eternal Flame" showed the Bangles were running out of steam, as did Tears for Fears' "Seeds of Love." Otherwise great Pop/Soft-rocker Richard Marx does okay with the love song "Right Here Waiting", and cutie Debbie Gibson sounds less inspired with the ballad "Lost In Your Eyes" (though I've gotta give her credit for expanding). Unlike today's teen stars, she wrote her own material, thank God. Things pick up with John Waite fronted band Bad English's Power ballad "When I see You Smile", one of 2 on here. The other being Hair-Metal band Warrant's catchy "Heaven." Interestingly, the version on their album is more accoustic sounding and very boring. This is the one that gets played on the radio, so that's worth having this for. Boy Band New Kids' "Hangin' Tough" and Donnie Osmond's "Soldier of Love" are embarrasing. Gloria Estefan's "Don't Wanna Lose You" is listenable and Martika's "Toy Soldiers" is surprisingly good. This is what alot of early '90s dance-pop would sound like. Could've been better, but not a bad way to end the wonderful 'decade of escess.'
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