Overall this series is a 4, it's one of the best series of discs to be released yet. The first disc is a must have, and the fourth disc is a great disc if you're a fan of any of the groups since most of the songs are B-sides or live cuts you'll probably only find on vinyl in some flea market. I HIGHLY recomend these discs over just about any other discs, yet's hope they release more than five discs and keep up the quality.

(Available at Amazon)

Title   : Sedated in the Eighties (Available at Amazon)
Label   : The Right Stuff
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 62:08
Notes   : Small description of each group and song
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $12
Rank    : 5 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
-=-=-                                  -=-=-=-=-
I Wanna Be Sedated                     The Ramones
What I Like About You                  The Romantics
Lucky Number                           Lene Lovich
Never Say Never                        Romeo Void
Mexican Radio                          Wall Of Voodoo
People Who Died                        Jim Carroll Band
I Melt With You                        Modern English
Our Lips Are Sealed                    The GoGo's
Sex (I'm A...)                         Berlin
Election Day                           Arcadia
Behind The Wall Of Sleep               The Smithereens
Love My Way                            The Psychedic Furs
Saved By Zero                          The Fixx
Poison Arrow                           ABC
Money                                  Flying Lizards
Free Nelson Mandela                    The Specials

Comments:
        This disc is a great disc to pull out at a party, it has a lot
of truly fun songs to listen to, and while the last two songs of this
album probably don't fit with the rest of the songs but they are still
hard to find and worth having at the very least.

Title   : Sedated In The Eighties No.2 (Available at Amazon)
Label   : The Right Stuff
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 64:48
Notes   : Small description of each group and song
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $10
Rank    : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
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White Wedding (Part I)                 Billy Idol
Los Angeles                            X
Fight Like A Brave                     Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lips Like Sugar                        Echo &The Bunnymen
Heartbreak Beat                        The Psychdelic Furs
Because The Night                      Patti Smith Group
Planet Earth 1988                      The Ramones
Ashes to Ashes                         David Bowie
Pale Shelter                           Tears For Fears
A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary...)  Romeo Void
I Wanna Be Adored                      The Stone Roses
Ring Of Fire                           Wall Of Voodoo
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman       The Kinks
Kiss Off                               Violent Femmes
Love Is The Law                        The Suburbs
I Confess                              The English Beat

Comments:
        This disc is a bit disappointing as at has a lot of groups
that have name recongition on it, but has some songs by those artists that
you wouldn't remember the artist having ever done.  I wouldn't play
this disc at a party, it's good album to listen to in a neutral setting
though, you will probably remember some of the songs on the set, but
not all of them.

Title   : Sedated In The Eighties No. 3 (Available at Amazon)
Label   : The Right Stuff
Medium  : CD
TTime   : 67:21
Notes   : Small description of each group and song
Reviewer: Charles R. Grosvenor Jr.
Paid    : $10
Rank    : 3 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
-=-=-                                  -=-=-=-=-
A Million Miles Away                   The Plimsouls
Still In Hollywood                     Concrete Blonde
Blood And Roses                        The Smithereens
Cuts You Up                            Peter Murphy
Five Foot One                          Iggy Pop
Get Started, Start A Fire              Graham Parker
Avalon                                 Roxy Music
We Care A Lot                          Faith No More
Save It For Later                      The English Beat
Da Da Da                               Trio
I Love A Man In Uniform                Gang Of Four
Enola Gay                              OMD
Remember The Nights                    The Motels
O Superman                             Laurie Anderson
Our House                              Madness
Mental Hopscotch                       Missing Persons

Comments:
        This disc has a few good songs, and a lot of mediocre songs by
groups that had bigger and better songs.  Not really worth buying since
most everything on this set can be found on other compilations.  The only
exception that comes to mind is "Five Foot One" by Iggy Pop which is
probably the only brightest spot on this disc.

Title: Sedated In The Eighties No. 4 (Available at Amazon)
Label: The Right Stuff
TTime: 61:54
Notes: Small description of each group and song
Paid : 12$
Rank : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
-=-=-                                  -=-=-=-=-
Hanging On The Telephone (Live)        Blondie
Why Is It So Hard?                     Talk Talk
Passion Planet                         Thompson Twins
Trading In Gold                        China Crisis
I'm The One                            Missing Persons
Sense The Adventure                    The Fixx
Set The Killing Free                   Aztec Camera
Deeside(Live)                          The Alarm
Satellite                              The Tubes
Blue Period (Acoustic)                 The Smithereens
Killing Time                           The Motels
Pharaohs                               Tears For Fears
A Pleasure (Acoustic)                  The Railway Children
Please Please Please Let Me Get What
 I Want                                The Dream Academy
Private Revolution (Extended Version)  World Party
No More Words (Dance Remix)            Berlin

Comments:
        Normally a disc that hasn't a lot of popular tunes on it, isn't
worth buying.  However, a lot of these songs are very good and very
unknown, even to fans of some groups.  The remixes of some of the popular
songs are also really good, though I personally dislike the live Blondie
song at the start of the disc, overall if you're a fan of even a couple of
these groups, this disc is worth owning.

Title: Sedated In The Eighties No. 5 (Available at Amazon)
Label: The Right Stuff
TTime: 63:54
Notes: Small description of each group and song
Paid : 12$
Rank : 4 out of 5.

Track Listing
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Title                                  Artist(s)
-=-=-                                  -=-=-=-=-
I Want Candy                           Bow Wow Wow
Suspicious Minds                       Fine Young Cannibals
This Beat Goes On                      The Kings
Switchin' To Glide                     The Kings
Girls                                  Dwight Twilley
Caroline                               Concrete Blonde
Dancing Barefoot                       The Patti Smith Group
The Fire Still Burns                   Russ Ballard
Shame                                  The Motels
Pleasure and Pain                      Divinyls
Johnny, Are You Queer?                 Josie Cotton
You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)     Dead or Alive
Don't Sniff Coke                       Pato Banton
Eyes Without a Face                    Billy Idol
Shout                                  Tears For Fears
Something So Strong                    Crowded House

Comments:
  This isn't the mainstream top 40 crap you would find totally choking a
normal 80s compilation to death. It also doesn't just find one or two popular
songs and fill the rest of the disc with crap.  The liner notes are good, with
pictures of some of the album covers that the songs are from. The inclusion of
some hard to find singles like "This Beat Goes On" with it's normal "Switchin'
to Glide" segway is a nice touch.  It's also nice to see songs by groups that
had bigger hits with other songs, since most of those songs are fairly easy
to come by.  A good example would be "Shame" by the Motels, since "Danger"
would be the usual inclusion.  Though, this series does already have two
other Motels singles helps to dull the enthusiam a little by this point.
It was also nice to see "Eyes Without a Face" which is a lesser known Idol
song, but one of the best punk ballads I've ever heard. "Johnny, Are You Queer"
and "Don't Sniff Coke" I could have done without, the former because I have
it on a lot of compilations, and doesn't really fit in here too well and the
later song just doesn't fit in period. I recommend this disc to someone with
a large compilation collection, otherwise you may be a little disappointed if
you don't recognize the songs from their titles.

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