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VH1: The Big 80's Arena Rock ()

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VH1: The Big 80's Arena Rock - Various Artists
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  1. Owner of a Lonely Heart
  2. Urgent
  3. The Reflex
  4. The Stroke
  5. Another One Bites the Dust
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  1. Owner of a Lonely Heart
  2. Urgent
  3. The Reflex
  4. The Stroke
  5. Another One Bites the Dust
  6. Land of Confusion
  7. We Built This City
  8. Rebel Yell
  9. Freeze-Frame
  10. Heartbreaker
  11. Shakin'
  12. Heat of the Moment
  13. Limelight
  14. Too Much Time on My Hands
  15. Hold on Loosely
  16. Sultans of Swing
  17. The Heart of Rock & Roll
  18. Working for the Weekend
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VH1's Big '80s series continues with this volume of Arena Rock, a style that actually peaked in the late '70s, but certainly endured into the MTV era. Some of these artists -- Genesis, Dire Straits, Billy Idol, or Duran Duran, for example -- qualify more as album rock than arena rock, but quibbles over definition aside, this is a pretty good collection of bands who straddled the line between pop/rock and hard rock well enough to capture fans of both styles. It's all very slickly produced, of course, driven by loud guitars ...

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