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 REVIEW: Now That's What I Call Music! 34, Released 12th August 1996 | 42 Tracks | 4 #1 Singles |
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 Mar 26 2017, 08:40 PM
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Origin: United Kingdom Label: Virgin / EMI / Polygram Format: Double CD, Double Cassette, Vinyl Duration: 2:43:27 (163 minutes 27 seconds) Tracks: 42 #1’s: 4 Chart Peak: #1 (7 weeks) Sales: 800,000 (3x Platinum)
2. Robbie Williams – Freedom 4:13 {2} 3. Peter Andre feat. Bubbler Ranx – Mysterious Girl 3:22 {2} 4. Dodgy – Good Enough 3:49 {4} 5. Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train 3:08 {4} 6. Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton – Theme From Mission: Impossible 3:28 {7} 7. Underworld – Born Slippy 4:15 {2} 8. JX – There's Nothing I Won't Do 4:27 {4} 9. Gina G – Ooh...Aah Just A Little Bit 3:15 {1} 10. Pianoman – Blurred 3:50 {6} 11. Livin' Joy – Don't Stop Movin' 3:32 {5} 12. Louise – Naked 3:32 {5} 13. Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack 3:28 {1} 14. 2 Pac feat. Dr. Dre – California Love 4:01 {6} 15. Pato Banton – Groovin' 3:42 {14} 16. Reel To Real – Jazz It Up 3:25 {7} 17. Maxi Priest feat. Shaggy – That Girl 3:52 {15} 18. Los Del Mar – Macarena 3:48 {43} 19. Umboza – Sunshine 2:33 {14} 20. Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness 3:36 {7} 21. Todd Terry feat. Martha Wash and Jocelyn Brown – Keep On Jumpin' 3:04 {5} 22. Robert Miles – Children 3:49 {2} 23. George Michael – Jesus To A Child 6:51 {1} 24. Oasis – Wonderwall 4:13 {2} 25. Bluetones – Slight Return 3:15 {2} 26. Paul Weller – Peacock Suit 3:04 {5} 27. Bon Jovi – Hey God 4:44 {13} 28. Bryan Adams – The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You 3:18 {6} 29. Belinda Carlisle – In Too Deep 3:57 {6} 30. Suggs – Cecilia 2:57 {4} 31. Blur – Charmless Man 3:32 {5} 32. Suede – Trash 3:56 {3} 33. Joan Osborne – One Of Us 4:16 {6} 34. Crowded House – Instinct 3:03 {12} 35. Lighthouse Family – Ocean Drive 3:44 {11} 36. Tina Turner – On Silent Wings 4:12 {13} 37. Everything But The Girl – Wrong 3:51 {8} 38. OMC – How Bizarre 3:44 {5} 39. OMD – Walking On The Milky Way 4:03 {17} 40. Space – Female Of The Species 3:18 {14} 41. Cast – Walkaway 3:34 {9} 42. Boyzone – Coming Home Now 3:40 {4} Key Tracks highlighted red were official UK #1’s. Tracks with an asterisk (*) next to their title have also been included in special releases from the series. The track duration has been highlighted cyan. Bracketed numbers refer to highest chart position reached.
Lowest Charting Track: Los Del Mar – Macarena {43} Longest Song: George Michael – Jesus To A Child 6:51 Shortest Song: Umboza – Sunshine 2:33 Edited Tracks: Unknown Unedited Tracks: Unknown Inlay Mistakes: None Other Facts: N/A
Wikipedia Everyhit Now 34 Rate This post has been edited by award♀nary: Apr 3 2017, 10:50 AM |
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Mar 27 2017, 10:44 PM
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Wannabe [guilty pleasure. "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last forever, friendship never ends"] Good Enough The Day We Caught The Train Born Slippy ["Drive boy, dog boy, dirty numb angel boy, in the doorway boy, she was a lipstick, she was a beautiful boy, and tears boy, and all in your innerspace boy". Nice to hear this on Trainspotting ("Choose life, choose your future, choose a job, choose a family, choose a f**king big television...")] There's Nothing I Won't Do Mission Impossible Theme Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit [the last Eurovision song to reach Number 1 in the UK Charts] Blurred Don't Stop Moving Return Of The Mack California Love ["California knows how to party"] Macarena Higher State Of Consciousness Keep On Jumpin' Children [The memorable piano riff has been sampled by Angel City, Dot Rotten and Tyga] Jesus To A Child Wonderwall ["Today is gonna be the day when they're gonna throw it back to you"] Slight Return [(D major guitar strum) "Where did you go?" (short guitar phrase) "When things went wrong for you, when the knives came out for you?"] Peacock Suit The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You In Too Deep Charmless Man Trash (My 2nd favourite from Suede [along with Beautiful Ones ("high on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine" my #1 favourite), So Young, Filmstar and Animal Nitrate]) What If God Was One Of Us Wrong How Bizarre Walking On The Milky Way Female Of The Species Walkaway So many favourites, should have put my overall rating as 9/10 instead of 8 Fun Fact: The next NOW album you'll be reviewing is the final NOW album to be released on vinyl This post has been edited by DalekTurret32: Mar 27 2017, 10:46 PM |
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Mar 28 2017, 01:08 AM
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Artwork: 5/10 kinda weak
Disc 1: Spice Girls - Wannabe my birthday number one so loads of mwmories! Disc 2: Oasis: Wonderwall - again loads of memories Overall 9/10 So many great tunes! |
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Mar 28 2017, 06:23 PM
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Easily one of the best Now albums - a summer classic from 96!
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Mar 28 2017, 07:19 PM
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Love this album, I voted for Gina G on Disc 1, definitely the UK's finest ever Eurovision entry imo...8th place, pah. Crappy juries.
It was a toss-up between The Bluetones and OMC on Disc 2 but I went for the former, Slight Return is genius <3 |
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Mar 29 2017, 12:53 PM
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Voted Umboza and Bon Jovi. though loads of other tracks I like aswell
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Mar 29 2017, 12:54 PM
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QUOTE(Jester @ Mar 28 2017, 07:23 PM)  Easily one of the best Now albums - a summer classic from 96! ditto |
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Mar 29 2017, 06:47 PM
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Best songs:
Born Slippy Higher State Of Consciousness How Bizarre Walking On The Milky Way Female Of The Species |
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Mar 31 2017, 10:27 PM
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It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
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Easily the best Now album incredible list of tracks there.
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Apr 2 2017, 05:22 PM
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What an iconic edition this is, some definitive songs of the decade on this.
Obviously Wannabe is one of the most recognisable pop songs of all time & of course had to be album opener. Huge guilty pleasures on Disc 1 in Peter Andre, Gina G & Los Del Mar - I actually prefer this version to the more successful Los Del Rio one! Without any question on this edition it's the first Disc which is far superior. Some of the most popular dance songs of the 90s - Born Slippy fresh off the back of Trainspotting, There's Nothing I Won't Do - again, a song where I prefer an alternative version this time being the Special D cover several years later. Josh Wink was such a unique Now track & of course what a sublime end to the side with the sensational Children  Having said all that my fave track on the whole edition has to be Don't Stop Movin'  for me just as incredible as Dreamer & in fact probably more influential, that deep house revival in 2014 saw numerous songs sample its bassline. Add to that Mark Morrison & 2Pac, literally almost every song on the side is well-known.So yeah... Disc 2 is the letdown here, other than Wonderwall (which is actually among my least fave Oasis tracks anyway due to sheer overexposure), there's genuinely not one song I return to, nothing more to add here! The thirtees have given us some cracking artworks & this edition is no exception! 7/10 from me. Hard to rate this overall, couldn't be more of a contrast between the 2 sides, just for sheer brilliance of Disc 1 I'll lock in a 7/10 for overall rating too. And of course, the Rate results compiled by gavindeejay at the start of 2015: 1. Spice Girls - Wannabe / 8.76 2. Oasis - Wonderwall / 8.41 3. Livin' Joy - Don't Stop Movin' / 8.33 4. Underworld - Born Slippy / 8.02 5. JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do / 8.00 6. Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness / 7.70 7. Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit / 7.68 8. Robert Miles - Children / 7.64 9. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack / 7.35 10. Suede - Trash / 7.25 11. Joan Osbourne - One Of Us / 7.14 12. Space - Female Of The Species / 7.00 13. 2Pac - California Love / 6.87 14. Dodgy - Good Enough / 6.87 15. Everything But The Girl - Wrong / 6.75 16. Todd Terry - Keep On Jumpin' / 6.53 17. Bluetones - Slight Return / 6.45 18. Blur - Charmless Man / 6.43 19. Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive / 6.38 20. Pianoman - Blurred / 6.23 21. Cast - Walkaway / 6.22 22. George Michael - Jesus To A Child / 6.06 23. Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl / 6.00 24. Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train / 6.00 25. Larry Mullen & Adam Clayton - Theme From Mission: Impossible / 6.00 26. Suggs - Cecilia / 5.66 27. Louise - Naked / 5.58 28. Robbie Williams - Freedom / 5.53 29. OMD - Walking On The Milky Way / 5.45 30. Belinda Carlisle - In Too Deep / 5.14 31. Tina Turner - On Silent Wings / 4.82 32. Paul Weller - Peacock Suit / 4.83 33. OMC - How Bizzare / 4.75 34. Reel 2 Reel - Jass It Up / 4.50 35. Maxi Priest - That Girl / 4.04 36. Bryan Adams The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You / 3.90 37. Crowded House - Instinct / 3.77 38. Pato Banton - Groovin' / 3.72 39. Los Del Mar - Macarena / 3.68 40. Bon Jovi - Hey God / 3.67 41. Umbozo - Sunshine / 3.44 42. Boyzone - Coming Home Now / 2.83 |
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Apr 3 2017, 12:48 PM
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Now 34 contains 5 UK #1 singles, but there were a few #1 omissions including The Prodigy – Firestarter, Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds – Three Lions (although a remix of this song does feature on Now 40 two years later), The Fugees – Killing Me Softly and Gary Barlow – Forever Love. Other noteworthy omissions include Mark Snow – The X Files {2}, Celine Dion – Because You Love Me {3}, The Tony Rich Project – Nobody Knows {4} and Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life {2} as well as the official version of Macarena by Los Del Rio which was a UK #2 hit. Just a few one hit wonders to make mention of, which never featured in the series again include Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton, Joan Osborne, Pianoman, Umboza, Los Del Mar and OMC. Artwork Rating: 7/10 Very Good Very summery. Nice use of yellow, orange and brown shades to create a fresh design, relatively simple in theme, and one which doesn't show a landscape image in the background. The water-dripped logo, above a swirling pool, worked very well for another well remembered 90's cover. Disc 1 Favourite: Spice Girls – Wannabe Zig-a-zig-ah! This easily is head and shoulders above the rest. Spice Girl, demonstrating their girl power, became one of the most successful British girl bands ever and their legacy lives on to this day. Here is where it all began for the 5-piece group. Disc 2 Favourite: Oasis – Wonderwall Oasis continued success during the 90's was only getting stronger and stronger and by the time they released Wonderwall they had already become a household name. This would become one of the bands most recognised hits ever. Overall Rating: 9/10 Amazing It's actually really hard to rate this any lower than a 9. There is just so much quality throughout the 2 discs, and so many personal memories for me hearing many of these songs on a bus going to my Year 6 school camp before joining secondary school. Definitely one of my favourite Now volumes ever! Andrew's Best 5 (as of April 2017) 1. Spice Girls – Wannabe 2. Underworld – Born Slippy 3. Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack 4. Los Del Mar – Macarena 5. Oasis – Wonderwall Andrew's Worst 5 (as of April 2017) 1. OMC – How Bizarre 2. Crowded House – Instinct 3. Paul Weller – Peacock Suit 4. Maxi Priest feat. Shaggy – That Girl 5. Tina Turner – On Silent Wings |
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Apr 3 2017, 02:54 PM
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Disc One: Robert Miles - Children
(a lot of songs here I wish I could've voted for, this disc looks very good)Disc Two: Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive |
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