Credit due to Music Brokers: at a time when most labels try to revitalise acts by dragging them kicking and screaming into the present day, this project finds Eighties acts encouraged to stamp non-Eighties songs with the production values of their peak years. The line-up, not unlike a mid-Eighties Now That’s What I Call Music, is impressive – if you like this kind of thing: Curiosity Killed The Cat give The Doobie Brothers’ Long Train Running a slick white soul workover, and Johnny Hates Jazz do the same for Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man, while China Crisis varnish Carole King’s It’s Too Late so nostalgically one can’t help but wonder if it’s one they dug out of their archives pre-prepared. Kim Wilde’s also here to give Captain And Tennille’s Love Will Keep Us Together a Hi- NRG re-rub, and Samantha Fox, God bless her, does much the same for Donna Summer’s Hot Stuff with all the charmingly cheesy panache one could expect from someone who once released a song called (Hurt Me Hurt Me) But The Pants Stay On. The biggest surprises are reserved for Wang Chung, who courageously ape Damon Albarn’s lazy wail on Girls & Boys, highlighting the original’s debt to the era, and ABC’s heavenly High & Dry, of which Thom Yorke is unlikely to approve.
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