While there is a lot of music on this site I wouldn't want, I have had a great time exploring and I have found some great lesser known artists who may or may not one day "make it" but are very talented and have some great original or personal sounds to their art. You have to search out and look and evaluate.
There are not any of the now popular artist on this site. I'm highly, HUGELY disappointed and I intend to disable and discountinue my accout here. All stupid, non-original artists here on this site. What a let down!!!!
One of the seemingly thousands of compilations of non-original versions on emusic. These should be clearly marked as such. What is that horrible version of "Walking in L.A."??
I cannot believe they call this ladies of the 80's because most of these aren't even the original artists. This compilation sucks and I would not purchase it without sampling the whole thing! Horrible!
This has a nice selection if your looking to stroll down memory lane. Yet I find it very disturbing Emusic would sell something which has the audio equivalent of AM radio.
I signed up to this site expecting it to be full of succesful artists. What I have found is rubbish. I'm disappointed to say the least.
Preview the tracks before downloading !! This is a MUST do, most of these tracks really suck, but if you search and listen you will find some that will bring back memories of watching them on MTV when it was really music tv, doing their acoustic and live versions which really rocked. I admit, most of them sound like bad karaoke, but keep searchin and you'll find some good ones ! I think Night Ranger and Lita Ford sound the best out of the 80's albums available here, that's about it so far...
... but every bad Re-Make-Compilation got hit's pearls. Ofra Haza sings Madonna (very rare even in Istanbul!) and Sheila E.(A Love Bizarre) sings the ShoopShoop-Song! I'm just missing Samantha Fox with "like a prayer"! lol
If you are looking for these to sound like you remember in your head, listen carefully. Some are just like you heard on the radio. Some are truly original . . . like you've never heard them quite this way. Not what I wanted at all.
ohh.. i see the problem-- you can't find any songs u like. Huh... well that's pretty amazing. you should just listen to the fm radio im sure they're playing what you're looking for right now.
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