Release Info

100 Hits begins with some songs that might be termed new romantic, then shifts into non-romantic synth pop, then sophisti-pop, and then, suddenly, it looks more like a compilation more accurately classified as "'80s pop, alternative, and mainstream." Like the other sets in the 100 Hits series from the U.K.'s EMI-funded Demon label, 100 Hits: The New Romantics features 20 songs on each one of its five discs and provides a big chunk of music for a small price. This is ideal for hoarders who care more about obtaining a wide swath of songs on a budget than focused track lists with nice packaging. Most of the tracks were, indeed, hits, new romantic or not. Duran Duran's "Planet Earth," Japan's "Ghosts," the Human League's "Sound of the Crowd," and Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive!" are among the highlights. ~ Andy Kellman

Tracks

1. Love Action (I Believe In Love) - Human League
2. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
3. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
4. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
5. To Cut a Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet
6. Promised You a Miracle - Simple Minds
8. Is It a Dream - Classix Nouveaux
9. Imagination - Some, Belouis
10. (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
11. Ghosts - Japan
12. Turn Back the Clock - Johnny Hates Jazz
13. Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
15. Never Never - Assembly
16. Underpass - Foxx, John
17. I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
18. Labour of Love - Hue & Cry
19. 19 - Hardcastle, Paul
20. Vienna - Ultravox

1. Electric Dreams - Moroder, Giorgio
2. The First Picture of You - Lotus Eaters
3. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
4. Sometimes - Erasure
5. More Than This - Roxy Music
6. Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants
7. Wishful Thinking - China Crisis
8. Kiss Me (1983) - Duffy, Stephen
9. Duel - Propaganda
10. Happy Birthday - Altered Images
11. Dream to Sleep - H2O
12. Slave to Love - Ferry, Bryan
13. Some People - Some, Belouis
14. The King of Wishful Thinking - Go West
15. Forbidden Colours - Sylvian, David
16. Violently - Hue & Cry
17. Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
18. All Cried Out - Moyet, Alison
19. Moments in Love - Art of Noise
20. The Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

1. Girls on Film - Duran Duran
2. Electricity - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
3. The Sound of the Crowd - Human League
5. Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
6. King in a Catholic Style (Wake Up) - China Crisis
7. Looking for Linda - Hue & Cry
9. Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
10. Ooh to Be Ah - Kajagoogoo
11. Cambodia - Wilde, Kim
12. Eyes Without a Face - Idol, Billy
13. Talk Talk - Talk Talk
14. Close But No Cigar - Dolby, Thomas
15. The Circus - Erasure
16. The Wizard, Pt. 1 - Hardcastle, Paul
17. Love Plus One - Haircut 100
18. Einstein a Go-Go - Landscape
19. We Are Detective - Thompson Twins
20. Red Guitar - Sylvian, David

1. Nothing Has Been Proved - Springfield, Dusty
2. Black Man Ray - China Crisis
3. No Regrets - Ure, Midge
4. Radio Heart - Radio Heart
5. Getting Away with It - Electronic
6. Visions of China - Japan
7. She Blinded Me with Science - Dolby, Thomas
8. Guilty - Classix Nouveaux
9. Let It Be with You - Some, Belouis
11. Goodbye Girl - Go West
12. Come Back and Stay - Young, Paul
13. No-One Driving - Foxx, John
14. Icing on the Cake - Duffy, Stephen
15. And She Was - Talking Heads
16. Rise to the Occasion - Climie Fisher
17. Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit
18. Only for Love - Limahl
19. Chequered Love - Wilde, Kim
20. Brother Louie - Modern Talking

1. Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
2. Crushed by the Wheels of Industry - Heaven 17
3. Waterfront - Simple Minds
4. Calling All the Heroes - It Bites
6. If I Was - Ure, Midge
7. Strange Little Girl - Stranglers
8. Love Changes Everything - Climie Fisher
9. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
11. Twenty First Century Boy - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
14. All Stood Still - Ultravox
15. Go Wild in the Country - Bow Wow Wow
16. Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
17. Hyperactive! - Dolby, Thomas
18. You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive
19. To Be a Lover - Idol, Billy
20. Bridge to Your Heart - Wax