Oh. So much for a future CD release of Now 3. A Gary Gl*tter song is included.

A Now 3 CD release is confirmed for July!!


https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-3/

1
The Reflex

Duran Duran

2
I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Nik Kershaw

3
Thinking Of You

Sister Sledge

4
Locomotion

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

5
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Ultravox

6
Pearl In The Shell

Howard Jones

7
Don't Tell Me

Blancmange

8
Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)

Phil Collins

9
Two Tribes

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

10
White Lines (Don't Do It) (Furious Five)

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

11
Nelson Mandela

The Special AKA

12
Love Wars

Womack & Womack

13
You're The Best Thing

The Style Council

14
Smalltown Boy

Bronski Beat

15
I Want To Break Free

Queen

16
Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper

17
Love Resurrection

Alison Moyet

18
Young At Heart

The Bluebells

19
Robert De Niro's Waiting

Bananarama

20
Dr Mabuse

Propaganda

21
What's Love Got To Do With It

Tina Turner

22
When You're Young And In Love

The Flying Pickets

23
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

Wham

24
You Take Me Up

The Thompson Twins

25
It's Raining Men

The Weather Girls

26
Susanna

The Art Company

27
One Better Day

Madness

28
Red Guitar

David Sylvian

It omits tracks by Gary Glitter and Bob Marley.

Quote :

28
Red Guitar
David Sylvian

Carrying on the Now tradition of including one song I've never heard of.

Susanna

The Art Company





Wonder if that's a Cohen cover?

no, it's not.

Sounds 'continental' , and vaguely familiar.

The reissue of Now 5 on CD (and the more up to date Now 105) has been postponed.

Although in fairness I think its release had only officially been announced a few days ago, but some of us had been eagerly waiting for it to be released. I'd think this is one of many releases being delayed.

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— NOW That's What I Call Music (@NOWMusic) March 18, 2020

Now 5 track listing:



1
A View To A Kill

Duran Duran

2
The Word Girl

Scritti Politti

3
Axel F

Harold Faltermeyer

4
Johnny Come Home

Fine Young Cannibals

5
In Too Deep

Dead Or Alive

6
Icing On The Cake

Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy

7
Cherish

Kool & The Gang

8
Every Time You Go Away

Paul Young

9
Kayleigh

Marillion

10
Slave To Love

Bryan Ferry

11
This Is Not America

David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group

12
Don't You (Forget About Me)

Simple Minds

13
Get It On (Bang A Gong)

The Power Station

14
Black Man Ray

China Crisis

15
One More Night

Phil Collins

16
Frankie

Sister Sledge

17
History

Mai Tai

18
Money's Too Tight (To Mention)

Simply Red

19
Feel So Real

Steve Arrington

20
Round And Around

Jaki Graham

21
Turn It Up

The Conway Brothers

22
Magic Touch

Loose Ends

23
N-N-Nineteen Not Out

The Commentators

24
The Unforgettable Fire

U2

25
Walls Come Tumbling Down

The Style Council

26
Walking On Sunshine

Katrina & The Wave

27
Out In The Fields

Gary Moore And Phillip Lynott

28
The Shadow Of Love

The Damned

29
Life In One Day

Howard Jones

30
Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Jimmy Nail

https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-5/

I understand This Is Not America by David Bowie had been removed from this new release and no one really knows why.

He took a song off the reissues of 'Never Let Me down' and no one could work out why.

Sure it was terrible, but on that album…

Now Music is now a Now App.

https://nowmusic.app

40 years ago today the first NOW was released.

Is it a long one? Would a running commentary be appropriate?

https://www.discogs.com/master/72065-Various-Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music

Do you really need to listen to 3/4 of these tracks ever again to know what they sound like?