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This imaginative budget collection brings together massive radio hits by the Human League, Spandau Ballet, and the Thompson Twins, and complements them with singles much less well known stateside. The Jam's "Bitterest Pill" is one of Paul Weller's most convincing forays into true soul music, while the Teardrop Explodes reached their full swoon potential with "Passionate Friend." Annie Lennox fans will be curious to hear the Lover Speaks' original version of her hit "No More 'I Love Yous.'" Finally, can even the most happily betrothed survivor of the skinny-tie period refrain from empathizing when ABC's Martin Fry murmurs yearningly through the spoken bit of "The Look of Love"? --Rickey Wright