Now That's What I Call Music (Nostalgia)

Fairly decent tracklist to be fair. Amusing to see Diana Ross, Sting and Rod Stewart getting on haha.

 

The Diana Ross, Rod Stewart and Sting tracks - and the Steps track, for that matter - have been performing very well on the Airplay charts, makes sense to skew the tracklisting slightly older if the songs are at least being heard on the radio. Young people aren't buying these albums.

Kylie has been a regular fixture for the last year, I think she was on 107 and 108. Steps have been on recently too, I think.

 

NOW going back to its roots at last. Room for everyone.

 

For me, I always look at what DOESN'T make the track listing but probably should have. The most glaring omissions to me are Camila Cabello and Griff. Still, having put these types of products together myself I know there's only so much space and they're frankly slaves to what they have approved come deadline day.

 

I do like how they've moved away from basing it on chart positions though. Having the Radio 2 "legacy acts" on there is quite sensible given who is probably still buying these.

That Rod Stewart single is a bit of an earworm! His album is going to be huge this Christmas.

 

A new NOW album? Time to update the playlist!

 

I realise I made a “1 song from each now”playlist when Now 90 came out and your post inspired me to update it, although funny how my music taste has changed as I’ve actually gone back and changed various song choices from the older Now albums.

 

Post your revisions!

 

I swapped out:

Now 12 Tiffany for Danny Wilson
Now 14 Duran Duran for Then Jericho
Now 20 Lisa Stansfield for Zoe (Nostalgic reasons)
Now 21 - Opus III for Shakespear’s Sister
Now 24 - Sybil (the love I lost) for Duran Duran
Now 25 - New Order for Sybil (When I’m Good and Ready)
Now 27 - The Cranberries for Enigma
Now 50 Daft Punk for Sophie Ellis Bextor
Now 82 Rita Ora for Cheryl

It doesn’t mean I dislike the songs, it’s just other songs from those albums are more exciting to me at moment after years of overplaying most of them.

 

So the first tracks are the new replacements, or the other way around?

 

The first tracks have been replaced for the second tracks

 

Even better!

 

I only got as far as the first 30 NOWs with that....not sure if I ever posted it. I did turn it into an iTunes playlist, in my NOW folder.

 

It gets trickier with 2010 onwards Nows, especially when trying not to double up on artists.
I’ve added Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart from Now 110, I actually genuinely like that song and it reminds me of my summer hols.

 

I got halfway through making a second playlist a while ago, keep meaning to go back and finish it.

The ones I found the biggest struggle were not the most recent ones but those from around 2016-18. That was genuinely the point where I started feeling my age.

 

Just had a browse through my "best of NOWs 1-30" (one track per volume) and I'd already be changing a few. Although the one I'd want to change for NOW5 is a track the reissue left off!

 

Don't know whether I posted these before.. they're my CD 3 "deluxe editions" of Nows from my favourite era

Now 27

1 Mariah Carey - Without You
2 Take That - Babe
3 Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting - All For Love
4 Toni Braxton - Breathe Again
5 M People - Don't Look Any Further
6 Aretha Franklin - A Deeper Love
7 Saint Etienne - Pale Movie
8 Captain Hollywood Project - Impossible
9 Sasha - Higher Ground
10 Worlds Apart - Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
11 Urban Species - Spiritual Love
12 NKOTB - Dirty Dawg
13 Ice-T - That's How I'm Livin'
14 Pauline Henry - Can't Take Your Love
15 U2 - Stay (Faraway So Close)
16 Suede - Stay Together
17 Texas - So In Love With You
18 Michael Jackson - Gone Too Soon
19 Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson - A Whole New World
20 Mr. Blobby - Mr. Blobby

Now 28

01 PJ & Duncan - Let's Get Ready To Rhumble
02 Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love
03 The Brand New Heavies - Back To Love
04 Loveland - Let The Music (Lift You Up)
05 Take That - Love Ain't Here Anymore
06 Roachford - Lay Your Love On Me
07 Mariah Carey - Anytime You Need A Friend
08 OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down
09 Ice MC - Think About The Way
10 Motiv 8 - Rockin' For Myself
11 Anticappella - Move Your Body
12 Magic Affair - Omen III
13 EYC - Black Book
14 Bad Boys Inc - More To This World
15 Rozalla - This Time I Found Love
16 T-Empo - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
17 D:Ream - Take Me Away
18 Culture Beat - World In Your Hands
19 Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
20 Frances Ruffelle - Lonely Symphony


Now 29

01 Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
02 Bon Jovi - Always
03 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love
04 Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
05 Snap! feat. Summer - Welcome To Tomorrow
06 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
07 Maxx - No More (I Can't Stand It)
08 Rozalla - You Never Love The Same Way Twice
09 Tinman - Eighteen Strings
10 Let Loose - Seventeen
11 PJ & Duncan - Eternal Love
12 East 17 - Steam
13 D:Ream - Blame It On Me
14 Cappella - Move It Up
15 2 Unlimited - No One
16 Wayne Marshall - Ooh Aah (G-Spot)
17 Babyface - When Can I See You
18 Elton John - Circle Of Life
19 The Wonder Stuff - Unbearable
20 Suede - The Wild Ones

Now 30

01 Celine Dion - Think Twice
02 Annie Lennox - No More I Love Yous
03 Wet Wet Wet - Julia Says
04 Kylie Minogue - Put Yourself In My Place
05 Let Loose - One Night Stand
06 Whigfield - Another Day
07 Grace - Not Over Yet
08 Snap! feat. Summer - The First The Last Eternity
09 East 17 - Let It Rain
10 China Black - Almost See You (Somewhere)
11 Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee
12 Carleen Anderson - Let It Last
13 M People - Open Your Heart
14 Ace Of Base - Living In Danger
15 The Grid - Texas Cowboys
16 PJ & Duncan - Our Radio Rocks
17 Donna Allen - Real
18 New Order - Nineteen63
19 Radiohead - High And Dry
20 Terrorvision - Some People Say

Now 31

01 Take That - Back For Good
02 Robson & Jerome - Unchained Melody
03 Bon Jovi - This Ain't A Love Song
04 Tina Arena - Chains
05 Diana King - Shy Guy
06 Amy Grant - Big Yellow Taxi
07 Real McCoy - Love And Devotion
08 Scatman John - Scatman
09 Nightcrawlers - Surrender Your Love
10 A.D.A.M. feat. Amy - Zombie
11 M People - Search For The Hero
12 Ultimate KAOS - Right Here
13 Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
14 REM - Strange Currencies
15 Celine Dion - Only One Road
16 La Bouche - Be My Lover
17 Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro '95
18 Haddaway - Fly Away
19 Let Loose - Best In Me
20 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Now 32

01 Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
02 Take That - Never Forget
03 Mariah Carey - Fantasy
04 TLC - Waterfalls
05 Nick Cave + Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
06 Madonna - You'll See
07 Boyzone - So Good
08 De'Lacy - Hideaway
09 Clock - Everybody
10 Real McCoy - Come And Get Your Love
11 Deuce - On The Bible
12 The Shamen - Destination Eschaton
13 Scatman John - Scatman's World
14 PJ & Duncan - U Krazy Katz
15 Ace Of Base - Lucky Love
16 2 Unlimited - Do What's Good For Me
17 Cappella - Tell Me The Way
18 Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide
19 Moist - Push
20 The Verve - History

 

Looking at the timings for next weeks NOW 1984 yearbook, it's listing David Sylvian's Red Guitar at 4 25 which would make that the single mix, and I am not sure if that has been available before. Unfortunately it's the longer version of Ollie & Jerry on the set though. I forgot to add SOS Band, Just Be Good To Me comes in at 4 07.

 

Yes,I think SDE confirmed it’s the single mix of Red Guitar, but it isn’t the single mix of Warning Sign. Grrr.