There's some choices on that CD. But on the whole it's very good!

 

Also, I think NOW Halloween is just a Download/Streaming edition which is so upsetting!

They did re-use “Cry Me A River” which was on 55 and 100

 

So they did! At least it was only one.

To be fair to Cry Me A River, Now 55 is hardly a memorable edition :kink: 50 Cent - In Da Club and Benny Benassi - Satisfaction are the only other big memorable songs from it and I'm not sure how well they'd fit here

They probably didn’t wanna use “Ignition”

There's some choices on that CD. But on the whole it's very good!

 

Also, I think NOW Halloween is just a Download/Streaming edition which is so upsetting!

I doubt it will just be only download/streaming. They never do that with their spin-offs. I’m pretty sure we’ll get a physical release

NOW have confirmed on their Facebook that NOW Halloween is download only

Edited September 21, 20186 yr by Hadji

That’s a pretty good list! Not as predictable as I thought it’d be, though they choices for the last 20 don’t feel too inspired, Paloma and Psycho aside. Great to see Maroon 5, Hanson and P!nk make it but I’m mostly excited, oddly enough, to see M People there!

The tracklist for this album is nowhere near as good as I had hoped.

That's a great tracklisting for Now Now.

 

Might put my own together for fun.

Here's how Buzzjack would compile it, according to the results of the competition me and Wardy ran in The Lounge. Matches in bold.

 

1 Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart

2 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax

3 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes

4 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakley – Together In Electric Dreams

5 Katrina And The Waves – Walking On Sunshine

6 Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill

7 Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer

8 Run D.M.C. vs. Aerosmith – Walk This Way

9 Bon Jovi – Livin' On A Prayer

10 The Pogues (feat. Kirsty MacColl) – Fairytale Of New York

11 Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind

12 Salt 'N' Pepa – Push It

13 Erasure – A Little Respect

14 INXS – Need You Tonight

15 Queen – I Want It All

16 Tina Turner – The Best

17 Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence

18 DNA (feat. Suzanne Vega) – Tom's Diner

19 Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy

20 James – Sit Down

21 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

22 Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer

23 The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode

24 Ultravox – Vienna

25 R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts

26 Haddaway – What Is Love

27 The Cranberries – Linger

28 Blur – Girls And Boys

29 The Cranberries – Zombie

30 Strike – U Sure Do

31 Pulp – Common People

32 Coolio (feat. L.V.) – Gangsta's Paradise

33 Oasis – Don't Look Back In Anger

34 Underworld – Born Slippy

35 Faithless – Insomnia

36 No Doubt – Don't Speak

37 The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony

38 Spice Girls – Spice Up Your Life

39 All Saints – Never Ever

40 Spice Girls – Viva Forever

41 The Cardigans – My Favourite Game

42 Cher – Believe

43 Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now

44 Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time

45 Fragma – Toca's Miracle

46 Darude – Sandstorm

47 All Saints – Pure Shores

48 Shaggy (feat. Ricardo "RikRok" Ducent) – It Wasn't Me

49 Roger Sanchez – Another Chance

50 Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out Of My Head

51 Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This

52 Sugababes – Freak Like Me

53 DJ Sammy & Yanou (feat. Do) – Heaven

54 t.A.T.u – All The Things She Said

55 Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River

56 Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) – Crazy In Love

57 Britney Spears – Toxic

58 Anastacia – Left Outside Alone

59 Eric Prydz – Call On Me

60 The Killers – Somebody Told Me

61 Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc

62 Gorillaz – DARE

63 Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On

64 Nelly Furtado – Maneater

65 Snow Parol – Chasing Cars

66 Calvin Harris – Acceptable In The 80's

67 Rihanna (feat. Jay-Z) – Umbrella

68 Robyn with Kleerup – With Every Heartbeat

69 Alphabeat – Fascination

70 Pendulum – Propane Nightmares

71 Coldplay – Viva La Vida

72 Lily Allen – The Fear

73 Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People

74 Muse – Uprising

75 Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

76 Robyn – Dancing On My Own

77 Rihanna – Only Girl (In The World)

78 Chase & Status (feat. Liam Bailey) – Blind Faith

79 Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor

80 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) – We Found Love

81 David Guetta (feat. Sia) – Titanium

82 Loreen – Euphoria

83 Elbow – One Day Like This

84 Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble.

85 Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

86 Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – Summertime Sadness

87 Katy Perry (feat. Juicy J) – Dark Horse

88 Sia – Chandelier

89 Ten Walls – Walking With Elephants

90 Years & Years – King

91 Kygo (feat. Conrad Sewell) – Firestone

92 Calvin Harris & Diciples – How Deep Is Your Love

93 David Bowie – Heroes

94 Ariana Grande – Into You

95 Clean Bandit (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie) – Rockabye

96 The Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) – Starboy

97 Ariana Grande – One Last Time

98 Dua Lipa – New Rules

99 Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still

100 Ariana Grande – No Tears Left To Cry

That’s a great track listing for Now Now! I’m happy they’ve avoided using any of the songs they used on the second disc of Now 100 which is great and has given them the opportunity to use tracks they don’t usually feature on spin offs.

That Buzzjack alternative list is MUCH better

What might have been nicer, to make this special release more engaging with the listeners and long-time fans of the series, would have been a poll or some kind of competition to vote for your favourite song on each volume and then the winner gets included on the special release. To me, that’s a much more better way of giving back to the fans rather than commercialising another compilation CD just for monetary gain and including songs that people don’t want to hear on such a special release as this.

 

This now ends my future involvement in this series, it’s been a good ride, but it is time to give it up and move on as times have changed and the way that I personally consume music isn’t via CD compilations any longer, but of course using streaming services to make my own custom playlists of the current music that I want to hear and in the order I want to play it. So upon finishing the final few Now reviews in the Retro Lounge, that will be my last contribution to this series.

A poll could have been disastrous though-people could take the mick with what they vote for, the same artist could win each poll across several volumes or there may have been little interest from the public when they’re being asked to vote 100 times.

 

The Buzzjack version is ok but do we really need 3 Ariana Grande songs to represent the last 35 years?

 

I think the actual track list is pretty good just because some of the inclusions aren’t obvious ones. I guessed about 10 of them correctly in my prediction earlier this year.

A poll could have been disastrous though-people could take the mick with what they vote for, the same artist could win each poll across several volumes or there may have been little interest from the public when they’re being asked to vote 100 times.

 

The Buzzjack version is ok but do we really need 3 Ariana Grande songs to represent the last 35 years?

 

I think the actual track list is pretty good just because some of the inclusions aren’t obvious ones. I guessed about 10 of them correctly in my prediction earlier this year.

Yes tbh

If, for whatever reason, three songs for Ariana Grande was too many for our compilation, you could just use whichever we voted second. For Now 100 disc 1 replacing No Tears Left To Cry would be Shotgun by George Ezra, or replacing Into You on Now 94 would be This Girl by Kungs vs Cookin' On 3 Burners. Either of which would be a good substitute if it was needed.

 

I've also noticed that there are three from Rihanna, the same procedure would work here. Only Girl (In The World) was the only one that didn't make our final and thus the weakest of the three, and that could be replaced by the second from Now 77 which was Tinie Tempah's Written In The Stars.

Edited September 22, 20186 yr by coi

Looks like Warner decided not to contribute anything to the NOW NOW Spin Off. Explains why things like 'Your Beautiful' is replaced with 'Lonely' and 'Believe' with 'Praise You'. I think 'New Rules' would've been a better choice for NOW 98. I hate music label politics.

Edited September 22, 20186 yr by Spiral

So they did! At least it was only one.

A better choice for the NOW 55 track would’ve been “Loneliness”

Looks like Warner decided not to contribute anything to the NOW NOW Spin Off. Explains why things like 'Your Beautiful' is replaced with 'Lonely' and 'Believe' with 'Praise You'. I think 'New Rules' would've been a better choice for NOW 98. I hate music label politics.

 

But these were both on the second disc of Now 100 so have already been represented.

As I am subscribed to NOW Music on Facebook using the "see first" option, I was quite surprised when they already released the track list for NOW That's What I Call NOW, 7 weeks ahead of its release (if the 9th November release date stays). In fact, I was just about to make a second track list prediction, under the impression that it is going to be an expanded version of NOW 100's second disc - which seems not to be the case, save for one track, Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" (NOW 55, 2003).

 

So, out of the 100 tracks in that album, I got 18 of them correct based on the prediction that I made a few months ago. It's the tracks that represent the NOW volumes 09, 12, 26, 33, 34, 38, 39, 45, 54, 57, 59, 62, 68, 73, 84, 86, 96, and 98.

 

Yes, Robert Miles' "Children" representing NOW 34 (1996)! Or maybe because it was also featured on the recently-released NOW Ibiza spinoff, so it's an easy inclusion.

 

Like some of us here, I was also surprised by the inclusion of Paloma Faith's "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" (NOW 88, 2014), in addition to Little Mix's "Shout Out to My Ex" (NOW 95, 2016). The Paloma Faith track was my jam when it was released, and a total tearjerker, too. :cry:

 

As for "Shout Out to My Ex", I remember someone here in this forum who also predicted that track to represent NOW 95 in order to "sell [the album] to the preteens", but if they had their way, they would've wanted The Chainsmokers' "Closer" or Clean Bandit's "Rockabye".

 

Nice of the compilers to include Avicii's "Wake Me Up" to represent NOW 86 (2013) - I chose that one too as a form of tribute to the late Swedish DJ, who passed away in April of this year.

 

And last, but not least, random fact: two different songs with the same name of "Human" made it in the tracklist, the one by The Killers ("are we human, or are we dancer?") representing NOW 72 (2009), and the one by Rag'n'Bone Man ("I'm only human after all, don't put the blame on me") representing NOW 96 (2017), the latter I predicted correctly.

 

Looking forward to that album!

Edited September 24, 20186 yr by Ken A.

Lol I predicted both Human songs to appear and never even noticed they had the same name.