About this title: 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 and chorus hooks the size of football stadiums. Although no arena rock ...
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Tracks on this album
Tracks:
- Owner of a Lonely Heart
- Urgent
- The Reflex
- The Stroke
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Land of Confusion
- We Built This City
- Rebel Yell
- Freeze-Frame
- Heartbreaker
- Shakin'
- Heat of the Moment
- Limelight
- Too Much Time on My Hands
- Hold on Loosely
- Sultans of Swing
- The Heart of Rock & Roll
- Working for the Weekend
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.
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