K-Tel's "Hit Express" This Month on Adventures in Vinyl
After a Retro Repeat September, Adventures in Vinyl returns in October with a new episode. This K-Tel selection comes from 1982, a big year for me. It was the year I started high school. Later that year I got my first real computer: a Commodore 64 (which I still have, by the way). It was the year of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial and Poltergeist . It was also the year of Hit Express . This is the second 80s album we have played on Adventures in Vinyl. By the 1980s, K-Tel had changed it's format. Instead of editing songs in order to fit as much as possible on a side, the 1980s saw K-Tel offering more complete songs (at least the radio versions). Therefore, there aren't as many songs on a K-Tel album as there were a decade earlier. This album has fourteen songs; about seven less than a 70's K-Tel. But that's okay. There are some great treasures on this album from the early 80s: Human League Phil Collins Rick Springf...