You can get Now 29 onwards for under £3 each on eBay, and 21-28 under £10. It's only really 19 and 20 that you might have to shell out a bit more for.I'm disappointed if they have stopped the retro NOW reissues. I stopped buying them in the early 90s and had planned to collect them all the way through to 2005 when I lost interest in the charts. I've enjoyed collecting these reissues and am glad we got all of the 80s at least as I bought them on cassette at the time.
I love owning these two beauties and my favourite volumes/artwork on CD at last!
Now That's What I Call Music (Nostalgia)
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I remember being so thrilled to find 20, 21, 22 and 23 in a little record store in my home town back in the 90s. They weren't old old by then as I think 25 or 26 was the latest, but you tended not to see the previous ones in stock once the latest one was out. I also don't think they were very expensive either, and I maybe got them for around £5-10 or so when a new one was more like £15.
Does anyone have a list of the missing and incorrect versions of the tracks from the Now re-issue series 1 to 18?
This link covers 1 to 9 in the Now Reissues.
https://apopfansdream.wordpress.com/words/now-cd-errors/
Thanks to nlgbbbblth for the link.
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Beyond NOW 9, I can only say what tracks were omitted as I stopped buying/needing the reissues after that (aside from 14 which is predictably a mess as well).
To be honest I have bought them all mainly for tracks I don't have elsewhere or ones that I want in better sound quality. I would have liked to go up to 20 for completism sake. After that, I felt they became messy and far too full of songs that were reissues, even if they were the hits of the day.
18 is an odd place to finish the reissues.
Yeah in theory Now 16, ending the 80s would have been a good place to stop. But I loved Now 17 so I was glad that was released again.
The NOW reissues are great for the odd track that isn't by a big artist and rarely appears on compilations - in the case of NOW 17 for example I was delighted to get 49ers - Don't You Love Me, Jam Tronik - Another Day In Paradise and E-Zee Possee - Everything Starts With An E.
Shame if they have discontinued the reissues as there would have been loads of obscure 90s dance tracks on these.
Shame if they have discontinued the reissues as there would have been loads of obscure 90s dance tracks on these.
So buy the originals
NOW That’s What I Call 80s Dancefloor: SYNTH (2LP) coming in Dec.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DLMKWJJB/?tag=popjustice-21
Always thought a ‘House and Dance’ would’ve come before this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DLMKWJJB/?tag=popjustice-21
Always thought a ‘House and Dance’ would’ve come before this.
There's scope for an Extra Plus 2CD addendum to the 1977 Yearbook & Extra releases. So here it is.
CD1: 1-22
CD2: 23-46
CD1: 1-22
CD2: 23-46
Here are two recent videos where I talk about my revised Now Yearbook Extra Plus playlists for 1983 and 1984 i.e. post-Vault.
1983 –
1984 –
1983 –
1984 –
Very clever link from East of Eden to Rattlesnakes....you could have gone for Lion's Mouth immediately after with its biblical imagery/message!
Haha yes! Never thought of that
Shame the Trevor Walters hit that has finally appeared online is a vinyl rip. Not too badly done though.
Stuck On You? Been waiting years for that.