K-tel Records Flashback: Axe Attack 1980
Today, the Now That's What I Call Music series is king of the compilation album. But back in the 1970s and early 1980s it was K-tel Records that had the compilation market sewn up.
This playlist revisits one of these classic K-tel compilations. This one, titled Axe Attack, was released in the UK circa 1980 and features a flurry of hard rock and metal tracks.
When you think of the 80s you have to think about metal, and in 1980 the genre was getting ready explode. It would become one of the biggest selling music styles of the decade with bands like Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Poison and Whitesnake pulling in huge audience. The songs in this K-tel compilation are a good look at what laid the groundwork for this to happen -- until grunge sent metal back to fringe genre status.
K-tel Records Flashback: Axe Attack 1980
2. Gillan - White Face City Boy
3. Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
4. Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
6. Girlschool - Race With The Devil
8. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
9. Whitesnake - Ready And Willing
10. Iron Maiden - Running Free
12. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - You Got Living
