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No ’80s comp is complete without "Freak-A-Zoid," and no Midnight Star collection is complete without all the other funky synth-powered delights found on these 1983–86 LPs. The first LP here went double platinum, the second went Top 40 and the third was a hit, too; together, they sent "Freak-A-Zoid," "Wet My Whistle," "No Parking (on the Dance Floor)," "Operator," "Body Snatchers," "Headlines," "Midas Touch" and "Engine No. 9" to the charts. These 2 CDs contain the three complete LPs plus bonus 7" versions of five of those hits (including "Freak-A-Zoid")! Robinsongs.5013929989023 Juvenile-delinquent anthems from the Cramps’ collection, snippets of dialogue from this 1957 cult film about angst-ridden girls with guns…28 B-movie delights! Remastered from original sound sources are "Harlem Nocturne" Viscounts, "Red Headed Woman" Sonny Burgess, "Mean Woman Blues" Jerry Lee Lewis, "Death Letter Blues" Jimmy Yancey, "As Long As I’m Moving" Ruth Brown, "Nag" Halos, "Scorpion" Carnations, "Trouble" Jackie Dee and more. Righteous.5013929989122 This 41-track comp sets out to replicate what a jukebox in Brian Eno’s house might look like: half off-kilter pop, half vintage ambient. Includes songs Eno has covered as well as jazz classics at the root of ambient music: "Ooh! My Soul" Little Richard, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Tokens, "Ectoplasm" Raymond Scott, "All Is Loneliness" Moondog, "Life’s Too Short" Lafayettes, "Lonely Woman" Ornette Coleman, "So What" Miles Davis, "Dream" John Cage, "Ignition" Thomas Dissevelt, "Go Where I Send Thee" Golden Gate Quartet, plus Sam Cooke, Dinah Washington, Jim Reeves, Glenn Miller and more! Righteous.5014797897342 Kirsty used her heavenly voice and great songwriting gifts to create eclectic and utterly uncategorizable albums that were the envy of other artists and still sound fresh and new today, 18 years after her tragic death. By turns witty and wistful, biting and sentimental, "Kite" was one of Kirsty’s shining moments. You’ll find Johnny Marr co-writes and some of MacColl’s most beguiling songs on that 1989 LP, which is here with her 1991 LP "Electric Landlady" (on which Kirsty moves from Latin rhythms to hip-hop beats to electronic music) plus 33 B-sides, 12" mixes and rarities. On the DVD: promo videos for "Free World," "Days," "Innocence," "My Affair," "All I Ever Wanted" and more. On the CDs: her takes on the Kinks’ "Days" and the Smiths’ "You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby," the Johnny Marr co-writes "The End of a Perfect Day," "Walking down Madison" (multiple mixes) and "You and Me Baby," her reunion with the Pogues, "The One and Only," her stellar tunes "Children of the Revolution," "My Affair," "All I Ever Wanted" (co-written with Marshall Crenshaw), "What Do Pretty Girls Do?," "Innocence," "My Affair" (multiple mixes of those last two), "Free World" and more lasting gifts from this late, much-loved UK songstress. Edsel.