Now That's What I Call a Thread About Now! That's What I Call Music

[Guest]

It's up to 100 now,

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/23/generation-making-now-thats-what-i-call-music

[Fangirl Three]

I never bought any NTWICM albums, but if I had, I'd've bought 7, 8 and 9. (Based on what I taped off the Top 40 instead).

[Guest]

I had 5 when I was young, not 9/10 yrs young as the man in the link said, but young enough.

Or was it 6?



I had it on taaape

I got rid of almost all me taapes

But I bought it again on vinyls!!!

[Guest]

Actually I say that, I can't seem to find it,

[Guest]

It was 6, and just look at the rubbish that was on it!

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-6/release/795274


–Queen One Vision
–Nik Kershaw When A Heart Beats
–Feargal Sharkey A Good Heart
–Eurythmics There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)
–Simple Minds Alive & Kicking
–Bryan Adams & Tina Turner It's Only Love
–Gary Moore Empty Rooms
–Marillion Lavender
–Elton John Nikita
–Kate Bush Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
–Level 42 Something About You
–Tina Turner We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
–UB40 Don't Break My Heart
–Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin Separate Lives
–Cliff Richard She's So Beautiful
–Arcadia (3) Election Day
–UB40 I Got You Babe
–Fine Young Cannibals Blue
–Midge Ure If I Was
–Siouxsie & The Banshees Cities In Dust
–Madness Uncle Sam
–Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Lost Weekend
–The Communards You Are My World
–Paul Hardcastle Just For Money
–Jan Hammer Miami Vice Theme
–Maria Vidal Body Rock
–Baltimora Tarzan Boy
–Mai Tai Body & Soul
–Cameo Single Life
–David Grant & Jaki Graham Mated

Looks contemporary with what their showing in Top of the Pops re-runs,

I liked Alive and Kicking

[Guest]

Last one that came out on vinyl was Now 35, from 1996,



Goes to see how much it goes for these days...

[Guest]

Actually I say that, I can't seem to find it,

I'm just thinking I  got rid of it when I was attempting to downsize my record collection a bit.


That was a mistake… I just bought more to fill the space

[Butterfield]

I've now got almost every NOW on LP or CD, up to and including Now 71, my last one. I refuse to buy any after that.

I recently bought Now 31 CD, which I think completes my 30s.

[Guest]

Wot's the last one you've got on vinyls?

[Butterfield]

Wot's the last one you've got on vinyls?

Errrrm..... NOW 16 I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music_16_(UK_series)

I did once see NOW 20 (the first with the 3D wording still used today) on vinyl in a charity shop for £1, but clever me thought "oh, I've already got this on CD", then I find out it goes for like £25 or something on eBay.

My earliest CD (other than the 2008 re-issue of NOW 1) is NOW 13 - one of only two NOWs to officially use Roman Numerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music_XIII_(UK_series)

[Guest]

Now 16, With:

Cliff Richard : "I Just Don't Have the Heart"



I wonder which is the last with a Cliff Richard track on it?

[Guest]

17, I think.

[Butterfield]

Wasn't The Millennium Prayer on anything?

[Butterfield]

It was released in between NOWs 44 and 45 but doesn't appear on either.

[Butterfield]

1999's Now 44 is the biggest selling Now album of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_Music!_44_(UK_series)

[Butterfield]

Now 100 is almost here!!

The difference being that disc one is the usual 20-odd new tracks, but the second disc features 20 songs selected from previous Now albums!

https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-100/

They totally miss out my original Now-buying years of 1992/93.

[Butterfield]

Word has it that these days with such a low turnover of singles in the charts there aren't enough new songs to fill up two whole discs.

[Fangirl Three]

Now 100 is almost here!!

The difference being that disc one is the usual 20-odd new tracks, but the second disc features 20 songs selected from previous Now albums!

That is not proper. The meta-selection should be on a separate album called Now That's What I Call Now! That's What I Call Music.

[Guest]

Now 100 is almost here!!

The difference being that disc one is the usual 20-odd new tracks, but the second disc features 20 songs selected from previous Now albums!

Any cliff?

[Butterfield]

No.

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