Now That's What I Call Music (Nostalgia)

Now Yearbook Extra '87 has been unavailable on Amazon for a week or so. I can't believe it's OOP but might be worth picking up if you haven't got it yet.
 
It was on my birthday wishlist and spotted it, I went to HMV too. My guess is they might be be reducing pressing numbers. It's just arrived too, solid comp with some I haven't heard for ages. In fact on cd2, some I doubt I have, Sho' You Right, Boops, Almaz etc.

Grump. It's So Emotional album version. Rhubarb!! The Pettibone 7" is 100x better.
 
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Here is the next NOW due 7th February
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So for the time being we have no Yearbooks for 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997....or 1989...

But let's get people to buy 1998...

(1992 appears to have been a very poor seller, worryingly for the series).
 

Mvnl

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These tracklists always make me wonder (the regular Now's sometimes do but these 'essential' ones even more) whether inclusions like the Gloria/UB40/Culture Club songs feel as out of place to UK people as they do to me.
Like: are they just there because of the artist names or did they genuinely make more of an impact than they did over here? To me disc 1 and 4 are basically classic after classic with then those few random dips.
(Also Catatonia/The Beautiful South/Adam Garcia but with these I can sorta guess 'it's a UK thing')
 
These tracklists always make me wonder (the regular Now's sometimes do but these 'essential' ones even more) whether inclusions like the Gloria/UB40/Culture Club songs feel as out of place to UK people as they do to me.
Like: are they just there because of the artist names or did they genuinely make more of an impact than they did over here? To me disc 1 and 4 are basically classic after classic with then those few random dips.
(Also Catatonia/The Beautiful South/Adam Garcia but with these I can sorta guess 'it's a UK thing')
The Culture Club and UB40 songs were both top 10 hits here and both on CD 1 of Now 41 at the time. The Gloria Estefan song peaked at 17 though, not one I'd have chosen tbh.
 
These tracklists always make me wonder (the regular Now's sometimes do but these 'essential' ones even more) whether inclusions like the Gloria/UB40/Culture Club songs feel as out of place to UK people as they do to me.
Like: are they just there because of the artist names or did they genuinely make more of an impact than they did over here? To me disc 1 and 4 are basically classic after classic with then those few random dips.
(Also Catatonia/The Beautiful South/Adam Garcia but with these I can sorta guess 'it's a UK thing')
Culture Club did relatively well, I remember hearing it a lot at the time and the music video was always on the music channels.
Catatonia were big in 1998, both Mulder and Scully and Road Rage were big hits, and The Beautiful South Perfect 10 was big too.

This tracklist is very strong, I wasn’t expecting to see Hole on here so I’m glad for the inclusion and Tori too!
1998 is one of my favourite years of pop music so I’m excited for this one.
 

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