To inagurate Bugtunez, it seems as though god decided that the best way to start would be with something that has an ungodly amount of tracks to it. As one does, I suppose!

Some of ya'll might have noticed the 11 on the top right corner of the packaging. Well, this compilation had cost about 11 dollars. 11 dollars for 100 songs? I'd say that would be a steal.

Lacking in grammatical cohesion in comparison to other NOWs such as "Now That's What I Call Music", "Now That's What I Call a Musical", and "Apocalypse NOW", NOW 100 HITS FORGOTTEN 80s is all about the tracks that were probably popular in the 80s on old car radios, but were forgotten to time as all things sometimes are; all packed on 5 CDs.

I'm not sure what they do to determine what goes into these kind've collections honestly, though i'm going to guess they went up to a bunch of boomers and asked what their favorite song was, then picked anything that sounded relatively obscure in comparison to anything else.

Now, the first thing I want to bring attention to: The digifold for this shows a list of what's on each disc in this compilation. I dunno whether someone was feeling cheeky with it, but:

The first track on here is titled "Too Good To Be Forgotten". No further words needed here. I suppose it's not wrong, so Amazulu here has nothing to worry about with that.

what the fuck is NOW

Now That's What I Call Music, more commonly shortened to NOW, is basically what happens when a mister Stephen Navin and Jon Webster (no relation to the dictionary) in the UK-based Virgin Records got fed up with others making money off of their shit and decided "Fuck it we'll do it ourselves" and then started making their own compilation albums. Now NOW is a household staple of sorts where if you want to find out about new music without subjecting yourself to the algorithms, you can buy one of their CDs.

Of course in the case of what I have in my hands right now, they make various other compilations that aren't specifically the top whatevers going on. It's less like having a modern day listing of whatever tracks the newer generation of kids listen to in between laughing at skibidi toilet and 67 memes, and more like sitting by the radio while getting ready to rewatch a movie on VHS and laughing at...

uh.

Whatever people in the 80s laughed at, idk i never grew up in the 80s. hell i didn't even grow up in the 90s, i was born at like the tail end of that. So what you have is someone who's like several decades removed from the 80s listening to music all the way back in the 80s when everyone was fucking or something.

This'll be a ride lol. If you want to listen to these songs with me, you can find them in this youtube playlist here!

DISC ONE:

For each Disc I will show the tracklist. Lets get started with Disc 1!

20 Tracks per disc.

... if it wasn't obvious, this is gonna take a while. Get yourselves settled in, we're going in deep. Feel free to take breaks. Lord knows I'm going to have to.

Starting off with Amazulu's Too Good To Be Forgotten, we have a decent start right now with... a song about someone falling in love with a guy who is 'Too Good To Be Forgotten'. Really nice sounding, joyous and all that, not a bad start I would say. Interestingly, this is actually a cover, the song was originally made by a band known as The Chi-Lites back in the 70s; though in the original one the song was about a girl the singer met. Personally I would've made the song about a girl finding another girl too good to be forgotten but that's just me. Either way, Amazulu, you certainly are too good to be forgotten!

After that is Words by F.R. David; a very synthy, poppy kind've beat going on about the singer going on, talking about how their words aren't easy for them, making it hard for them to confess their love and as such they sing about their struggle with it. Not too bad, very good For Real David.

Next up is orientalism with Japanese Boy by Aneka, where she sings about how she misses her lover who had up and left her one day. Also the boy happened to be Japanese. I guess. Not a bad song, sounds pretty good and has more of the synth pop affair going on; so it's pretty standard though we're 3 for 3 right now with songs about lovers and what-not. The interesting thing about this song to me though is more the history about it, involving the singer, who is a scottish folk singer by the name of Mary Sandeman. She and another person pulled out a name from a telephone directory that would become her stage name Aneka.

There's also the fact that, between this song's popularity and her live shows involving her wearing a kimono, she would become known for just this song and eventually left pop behind to do scottish folk music before eventually retiring. She only released one album according to Wikipedia.

After that is something that's rather rockin' with Baby I Don't Care by Transvision Vamp. A Pop Rock kind've ditty that's honestly not too bad. With a name like Tranvision Vamp though it makes me wonde about the name. Is there a Vamp that's transgender and also on the television? Is it just the television? Transvision? Like, transgender visions or transgender televisions? Maybe I'm thinking too much on the name. Anyhow, I think this one's about the singer saying to their lover that they don't have to do anything to show their love and they don't care what they do or something. I think.

Finally freeing us from the love song pit that we've been in for four songs straight is Crash by The Primitives, seen most prominently in the soundtrack for the movie Dumb & Dumber (albeit with additional instruments that weren't preformed by the band according to the wikipedia page??? Weird). Never watched that movie so I can't quote on that, but hey, this song's pretty good, pretty rocking and popping.

Of course, because my brain has been rotted by memes and stupid jokes that can never leave my skull, anytime I hear the singer say "You're gonna crash", all I see in my head is this:

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