Rockin' USA

[@elijahmoses5675]

Original Airdate: August 18, 1993 on USA Network

[@hanifismail805]

80s 90s rocking USA hits.

[@TheFunkywhiteboy63]

'Cause nothing says USA more than Down Under....

[@collectingmythoughts991]

The origin of Tim & Eric's awesome show humor.

[@wolphintv]

FYI, young people, this is what life was like before you could buy the MP3 file of your favorite songs a la carte for about a buck or two.

[@sgillman16]

I wish I had known the digital age was coming, so I wouldn't have 20,000 cds scattered around my house today. Lmao

[@coolcupcake145]

I'm sort of one of those young people and I still get CDs of my favorite bands and artists. I love collecting them. It's like collecting vinyls but more modern.

[@mfbfreak]

Back in those days, i'd just borrow the CD at the library for a few gulden, then rip the CD or copy it to cassette. They had quite a decent selection in my city. Before CDs, they had vinyl records.

[@officialsquadrilogystudio]

People who used Lime wire: You guys Pay for music.

[@misteroldschoolguy]

I did order this CD and it's not a bad collection. It's not the best compilation CD but there are some pretty good songs on the album.

[@Jerry-t2l]

😪😭😭😭 i miss 80s

[@marcellusdominguez4936]

Not sold in stores order your today records cassette tapes CD compact disc special television offer rockin USA

[@jennifertrandafir]

Men At Work and Londonbeat...my favorite American rock bands. Lol, Men At Work are Australian (as if "Down Under" isn't obvious enough) and Londonbeat are British (as if their name isn't obvious enough) and they're a dance-pop group. And there are other non-American and/or non-rock bands/artists in there as well.

[@kyliepollert8341]

Kim Wilde is British, I believe, and so are A Flock of Seagulls. This also has some of the same songs as Time Life's "Sounds of the Eighties: The Rockin' Eighties"

[@Metlhd313]

Whitesnake are British (at least, most of the members were).

[@kyliepollert8341]

@@Metlhd313 David Coverdale was also in Deep Purple, who were also British. Billy Ocean is from Trinidad. Howard Jones is British. Time Life's "Sounds of the Eighties" series is much better, personally; it includes the exact same songs, but also liner notes and pictures of the artists included in each volume

[@ajthefunkmonster4767]

"Yes" are British as well

[@Metlhd313]

Also, the Great White song is a cover of an Ian Hunter (also British) song.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

were some off those re recorddedd?

[@Metlhd313]

While a lot of these are good songs, it seems like they just grabbed a bunch of 80s/early 90s hits and threw them on the album, considering how much of these are from very different genres (were most zz top fans into wilson phillips?).

[@kyliepollert8341]

Or David Lee Roth's remake of "California Girls"?

[@cesareaugusto9677]

It's a very weird compilation with a haphazardly organized mix. To me, putting A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran" with Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" and Londonbeat's "I've Been Thinking About You" don't gel together because of their clashing musical genres

[@kyliepollert8341]

Hmmm... were these compilations made to have something for everybody? "I Ran" is new wave, "Here I Go Again" and "Once Bitten Twice Shy" are hair metal, and "I've Been Thinking About You" is dance pop... is that what these people were thinking? "We want to call this compilation "Rockin' USA", yet we want to include something for everyone who likes a certain genre." Same with "Rock This Way"... it had Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boston and J. Geils mixed in with Poison, Twisted Sister and Alice Cooper (I LOVED that CD when I was growing up!)

[@jennifertrandafir]

@@cesareaugusto9677 And they're not American either.

[@cesareaugusto9677]

@@jennifertrandafir Yeah. We might be reading too much into this. But the marketing behind this album is pretty misleading

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Rockin USA, featuring bands from other countries (but we're pretending otherwise and so should you).

[@patrickmichael3384]

Not all the stuff on “Rockin’ USA” is rockin’ or USA. Kinda misleading title.