Title: Various Artists | Fire & Ice

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, Pop, Pop Rock, Various

Matrix #: OP 1525

Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great (CC)

Cultural Facts:

1. Media Narrative Compilations like this were built for mass retail and mail-order style buyers, packaging familiar hits into lifestyle mood records rather than artist-driven statements.
2. Scene Ecology Warner Special Products specialized in these cross-artist collections, showing how major-label catalogs were being repackaged as consumer products in the early-80s.
3. Notable Myths Records like this often get overlooked as bargain-bin filler now, but they document how labels marketed pop taste before playlists, streaming, or algorithmic recommendations existed.

4/18/2026 CC