CHOOSE 1985 - VARIOUS - Vinyl LP - Festival - 1984 - VG FREE POSTAGE (3315)
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CHOOSE 1985 - VARIOUS - Vinyl LP - Festival - 1984 - VG FREE POSTAGE (3315)

🎵 Choose 1985

Various Artists — Festival / EMI / RCA — RML‑50006 (Australia, 1984)

Choose 1985 is one of the most iconic Australian compilation albums of the 1980s. Released in November 1984, it collected the biggest hits of late ’84 and became a massive bestseller, spending nine weeks at No. 1 on the Australian albums chart and becoming the best‑selling compilation album of the entire decade.

It was a joint venture between Festival Records, EMI, and RCA, and issued with two different sleeves: white and pink.

📀 Album Details

  • Label: Festival Records / EMI / RCA

  • Catalogue: RML‑50006

  • Format: Vinyl LP, Compilation

  • Country: Australia

  • Released: November 1984

  • Genre: Pop, Rock, Synth‑Pop, Funk/Soul

  • Sleeves: White or Pink (both official variants)

🎼 Track Listing

(Verified from Discogs)

Side A

  1. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters

  2. Corey Hart – Sunglasses at Night

  3. U2 – Pride (In the Name of Love)

  4. John Waite – Missing You

  5. Machinations – No Say in It

  6. Divine – You Think You’re a Man

  7. Jermaine Jackson – Dynamite

  8. Hazell Dean – Searchin’ (I Gotta Find a Man)

  9. Tina Turner – What’s Love Got to Do with It

Side B

  1. Hall & Oates – Out of Touch

  2. Dynamic Hepnotics – Soul Kind of Feeling

  3. Pointer Sisters – Jump (For My Love)

  4. Billy Idol – Flesh for Fantasy

  5. Jimmy Barnes – No Second Prize

  6. Non Stop Dancers – Shake This City

  7. Split Enz – I Walk Away

  8. Uncanny X‑Men – Everybody Wants to Work

  9. Black Lace – Agadoo

🎶 Style & Notes

  • A perfect snapshot of 1984 Australian radio.

  • Mixes international chart‑toppers with major local acts (Split Enz, Jimmy Barnes, Dynamic Hepnotics).

  • Includes some of the decade’s biggest hits:

    • Ghostbusters

    • What’s Love Got to Do with It

    • Pride

    • Jump

  • Hugely popular and widely remembered by Australian listeners.

📚 Collector Notes

  • Very common but highly collectible, especially clean white‑sleeve copies.

  • Pink sleeve variant is slightly less common.

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