Party Hard 2000 (1999)

About this title: The compilers of Party Hard 2000 must have misheard the directive for an end-of-the-millennium compilation, because the album focuses on a series of end-of-the-decade (the '80s, that is) hits like "Higher Ground" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Unbelievable" by EMF, "Move This" by Technotronic, and "People Everyday" by Arrested Development. There are a few older '80s hits too -- "My Sharona" by the Knack, "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats, "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band -- but as a Y2K compilation, it makes no sense. John ... read more

Tracks:

1. Higher Ground [Wonder]
2. Rock This Town [Edmunds/Setzer]
3. Mony Mony [Bloom/Cordell/Gentr]
4. Heart of Glass [Harry/Stein]
5. Centerfold [Justman]
6. Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) [DeCarlo/Frashuer/Le]
7. People Everyday [Arrested Developmen]
8. Stayin' Alive [Gibb/Gibb/Gibb]
9. Ice Ice Baby [Brown/Vanilla Ice]
10. Wiggle It [Morel/Vargas]
11. Move This [Kamosi/Bogaert]
12. Unbelievable [Atkin/Dench/Foley]
13. Hungry Like the Wolf [LeBon/Rhodes/Taylor]
14. My Sharona [Fieger/Averre]
15. Let's Go All the Way [Cooper]
16. Mean to Me [Finn]
17. Life's What You Make It [Hollis/Friese-Green]
18. The Stroke [Squier]
19. Some Kind of Wonderful [Ellison]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.