This list consists of the Rolling Stone / Time Life compilation, Sounds of the Eighties. Overall the series is pretty good. It is a bit pricey at $100, but it's definately cheaper than the normal, cruddier, Sounds Of The Eighties from Time Life. Overall I give the series a 3.5.

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1980-1981, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 74:58
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 5 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Another One Bites The Dust             Queen
Call Me                                Blondie
Centerfold                             J. Geils Band
We Got The Beat                        The Go-Go's
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around          Stevie Nicks w/ Tom Petty
Juke Box Hero                          Foreigner
Almost Saturday Night                  Dave Edmunds
Radio Free Europe                      R.E.M.
Gloria                                 U2
In The Air Tonight                     Phil Collins
Once In A Lifetime                     Talking Heads
Master Blaster [Jammin']               Stevie Wonder
Ashes To Ashes                         David Bowie
Love Will Tear Us Apart                Joy Division
Whip It                                Devo
Private Idaho                          The B-52's
Marie Marie                            The Blasters
I Don't Like Mondays                   The Boomtown Rats
Tempted                                Squeeze
Redemption Song                        Bob Marley and The Wailers

Comments:
        A good disc disc by any standard, lots of big name bands from the
eighties and big hits from them.  The arrangement didn't get too wacky through
the disc like some of the discs from Time Life and the linear notes are actual
interesting to read (and arranged like a booklet instead of a lousy fold out
thing that's impossible to refold like the Sounds of the Eighties). Easily
the best disc in the set.  There's only one song I have any real complaint
with, and that would be the Stevie Wonder song, he had much bigger hits in the
eighties and before, this one is just a little too weak for the disc.  This
also has to be the only eighties compilation I've ever owned with Bob Marley
which is pretty different, and helps round out the disc (instead of making it
strictly one genre).

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1982-1983, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 76:26
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Burning Down The House                 Talking Heads
Let's Dance                            David Bowie
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?         Culture Club
I Confess                              The English Beat
Jack &Diane                           John Cougar
The Look Of Love [Part One]            ABC
Empty Garden [Hey Hey Johnny]          Elton John
Sexual Healing                         Marvin Gaye
Avalon                                 Roxy Music
Sunday Bloody Sunday                   U2
In A Big Country                       Big Country
Back On The Chain Gang                 The Pretenders
Someday, Someway                       Marshall Crenshaw
Rock This Town                         Stray Cats
Atomic Dog                             George Clinton
Photograph                             Def Leppard
Ain't Going Down                       Eric Clapton
Blind Willie McTell                    Bob Dylan

Comments:
        Like the previous disc in this series, lots of big name bands with big
hits from the top 40.  The only exceptions are the "Empty Garden" song by
Elton John and "Ain't Going Down" by Eric Clapton.  Neither one of these songs
were really big, the explanation for them being on the disc is that the Elton
John song was a tribute to John Lennon's assassination, since it was a big
event and the Eric Clapton tune was because it was the first song that was a
hit for him in the eighties.  Both artists had bigger and better songs that
could have been represented here, and the explanations just don't hold for a
disc you're supposed to listen to, not study.  This disc is cool for the fact
that it had George Clinton on here too, whose music I hardly ever see on
compilations.

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1983-1985, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 75:51
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Jump                                   Van Hallen
Sharp Dressed Man                      ZZ Top
Some Guys Have All The Luck            Rod Stewart
What's Love Got To Do With It?         Tina Turner
Don't Come Around Here No More         Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Will The Wolf Survive?                 Los Lobos
Drive                                  The Cars
Go Insane                              Lindsey Buckingham
Rockit                                 Herbie Hancock
Walk Of Life                           Dire Straits
This Charming Man                      The Smiths
Two Tribes                             Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Here Comes The Rain Again              Eurythmics
I Love L.A.                            Randy Newman
Forever Man                            Eric Clapton
Time After Time                        Cyndi Lauper
I Can't Live Without My Radio          L.L. Cool J
Close [To The Edit]                    Art Of Noise

Comments:
        It seems like each of these discs has a least two real clinkers and a
token artist who was just outside the mainstream.  In this case, the clinkers
are the Los Lobos song (their only real hit was their remake of "La Bamba")
and "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman who really never made it that big in the
eighties (more of a 70's artist with "Short People").  The song outside of the
mainstream in this case would be L.L. Cool J's "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
which was on the forefront of the rap music scene of the early eighties.
Personally, I never cared that much for rap music, but it's nice to have for
perspective (plus they put it near the end of the disc so I don't usually
notice it (grin)).

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1986-1987, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 74:22
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 3 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Sledgehammer                           Peter Gabriel
Beds Are Burning                       Midnight Oil
Big Love                               Fleetwood Mac
Higher Love                            Steve Winwood
Father Figure                          George Michael
Right Next Door [Because Of Me]        Robert Cray Band
True Colors                            Cyndi Lauper
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking
 For                                   U2
Keep Your Hands To Yourself            Georgia Satellites
[You Gotta] Fight For Your Right
 [To Party]                            Beastie Boys
Walk Like An Egyptian                  Bangles
If You Were A Priest                   Robin Hitchcock and The Egyptians
I Want Your Sex [Parts 1&2]            George Michael
Bizarre Love Triangle                  New Order
4th Of July                            X
Pretty In Pink                         The Psychedlic Furs
Where The Streets Have No Name         U2

Comments:
        Rolling Stone in the eighties had a thing about making U2 out to be
the biggest gods of pop music in the eighties.  I'm sure most U2 fans would
agree with that assesment, but for me, the Joshua Tree album wasn't a big
defining moment of pop music history, it was just over exposed.  Rolling Stone
though seems to think that one song from the album wasn't good enough, and
went for the gusto and put two songs on there, as well as two songs by George
Michael.  My opinion is that a compilation shouldn't have more than one song
by the same artist, because if you already have the album by them, it's two
songs that you already have (which I do in both cases).  Oh, and following the
formula of the other discs in this series, it has two clinkers, "Right Next
Door" by the Robert Cray Band whom I've never heard before and "If You Were A
Priest" by Robin Hitchcock and The Egyptians which I also have never heard of
before.  Actually, there's no real token artist on this disc that was outside
the mainstream like the last few discs, they just went for a third clunker by
X, "4th of July" which wasn't a big hit for them.

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1987-1988, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 74:18
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 3 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Forever Young                          Rod Stewart
Paper In Fire                          John Cougar Mellencamp
Don't Dream It's Over                  Crowded House
Like The Weather                       10,000 Maniacs
Blood And Roses                        The Smithereens
Can't Hardly Wait                      The Replacements
Take It So Hard                        Keith Richards
Middle Man                             Living Colour
One                                    Metallica
Tall Cool One                          Robert Plant
The One I Love                         R.E.M.
Under The Milky Way                    The Church
Luka                                   Suzanne Vega
Spy In The House Of Love               Was (Not Was)
Colors                                 Ice-T
Fight Like A Brave                     Red Hot Chili Peppers
Had A Dad                              Jane's Addiction
Bring The Noise                        Public Enemy

Comments:
        Rather than get the best songs of the year but the artists listed,
Rolling Stone instead opted for the lesser known, (most likely cheaper songs)
by most of the arists here.  For example, "Spy In The House Of Love" by Was
Not Was instead of "Walk the Dinosaur" or "Middle Man" by Living Colour
instead of "Cult Of Personality" or "Glamour Boys".  There's also two rap
songs on here, which is a little out of the ordinary, but at least they're
big hits for the rap scene of the time, the somewhat forgotten movie about the
Bloods and Crips of LA "Colors" and "Bring The Noise" which was pretty popular
too... Over all though, this disc doesn't have a lot of great music on it like
the previous few.

Title   : Sounds Of The Eighties, 1988-1989, The Rolling Stone Collection
Label   : Time Life
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 69:40
Notes   : A small paragraph about each bands and a few pictures or Rolling Stone covers.
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $17
Rank    : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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Rockin' In The Free World              Neil Young
Turn You Inside-Out                    R.E.M.
Personal Jesus                         Depeche Mode
Hot Hot Hot                            Buster Poindexte &His Banshees of Blue
Free Fallin'                           Tom Petty
Nick Of Time                           Bonnie Rait
Wicked Game                            Chris Isaak
Sweet Jane                             Cowboy Junkies
Wild Thing                             Tone-Loc
My Perrogative                         Bobby Brown
Me, Myself, and I                      De La Soul
Birthday                               The Sugarcubes
Dirty Blvd.                            Lou Reed
You Got It                             Roy Orbison
Drive South                            John Hiatt
Ring Them Bells                        Bob Dylan
A Change Is Gonna Come                 The Neville Brothers

Comments:
        Not the greatest disc in the set, but certainly not the worst.  It's
nice to see one of Neil Young's best songs from the eighties on here, and Roy
Orbinson's last hit (as a solo artist). The only real clinkers on the disc are
the last two songs and the Bonnie Rait song "Nick Of Time", all these artists
had better songs than the ones listed here.  Nice to see the group Bjork was
in during the eighties here, the Sugarcubes, they weren't as popular as Bjork
seems to be as a soloist, but they were certainly influential in the eighties.

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