I've got my copy just now and I've noticed in the song credits, Doja Cat's Streets is labelled as the "(Clean Version)" even though its the only one with those brackets.

Edited March 26, 20214 yr by IdentFan101

With Willow Sage Hart’s appearance on NOW 108 at 9 years old, she surpasses Willow Smith as the youngest artist to ever appear on a numbered NOW

Bought the NOW 8 CD today and here's the run times for each track

 

CD 1

 

1. Duran Duran - Notorious 3:59

2. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia 4:03

3. Run-DMC vs Aerosmith - Walk This Way 3:38

4. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris - Don't Leave Me This Way 4:30

5. Swing Out Sister - Breakout 3:46

6. Steve Winwood - Higher Love 4:11

7. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - (Forever) Live And Die 3:37

8. Genesis - In Too Deep 4:57

9. Cameo - Word Up! 4:20

10. Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You) 3:57

11. Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend) 3:35

12. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off 4:03

13. Jaki Graham - Step Right Up 4:02

14. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 3:33

15. Human League - Human 3:46

16. Boris Gardiner - I Wanna Wake Up With You 3:58

 

Total running time: 63:55

 

CD 2

 

1. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up 5:56

2. The Housemartins - Think For A Minute 3:29

3. Madness - (Waiting For) The Ghost Train 3:43

4. Status Quo - In The Army Now 3:53

5. Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You 4:27

6. Big Country - One Great Thing 4:02

7. Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette 3:31

8. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms 4:39

9. Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On 4:16

10. It Bites - Calling All The Heroes 4:03

11. Doctor & The Medics & Roy Wood - Waterloo 3:24

12. Debbie Harry - French Kissin' In The USA 4:10

13. Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On 3:44

14. Paul Hardcastle - The Wizard 3:23

15. Gwen Guthrie - (They Long To Be) Close To You 3:48

16. Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins 3:11

 

Total running time: 63:39

My copies of Now 108 and Now 8 have just arrived. Nice to see Aerosmith credited on the CD of Now 8, this is the first time they have been in the main series (I think the original was just credited as Run DMC.)

‘Now Thats What I Call Eurovision’ is coming on the 30th April.

 

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Yass! :o

 

Ok this is instantly their best spin-off since the Forgotten series, especially since they don't tend to put Eurovision entries on the main series, maybe they treat them like Christmas songs :lol:

 

Scooch and Lindsay D getting that official Now outing *.*

 

Disc 2 is like the Melodifestivalen special, I adore it.

Definitely getting that *.*

 

LorQueen <3

It’s missing Céline Dion Switzerland 1988 and Jemini UK 2003

Edited March 30, 20214 yr by Hadji

I don’t think anyone will be missing Jemini.

So many good songs. And I love that they included the bops from the cancelled show last year. Instant pre-order for me.

Yeah. I actually think they've captured it all pretty well! Very impressed :wub:

The only omission I was really surprised at was Cliff.

 

Would have been nice to see The Common Linnets too but you can’t have it all.

I like it, I wouldn’t have minded if Javine or Daz Sampson were added, those were a couple of songs I remember from that time period.

Just listened to the NOW 8 CD in full and nothing has been changed compared to the vinyl

A few errors spotted elsewhere

 

 

Now 8 errors (4 out of 32)

Genesis – In Too Deep (Album version used instead of 7″ mix which was on Now 8 LP and CD)

Grace Jones – I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect For You) (Album version used instead of 7″ mix which was on Now 8 LP and CD)

Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Lately? (LP Edit from Design Of Decade used instead of 7″ mix which was on Now 8 LP)

Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up (The version included here is 5:57 which is shorter than both the LP and 12″ mixes but longer than the 5:41 7″ mix that was on Now 8 LP and CD - apparently from the Shaking The Tree compilation)

Precious UK 1999 are also missing, despite appearing on NOW 43

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Now Eurovision?! :w00t:

 

I tweeted them last year to release a Eurovision themed collection - so happy! As a superfan, it’s a little disappointing that there aren’t some more obscure tracks on there, but it’s understandable and expected as it’s more aimed for the “locals” who still think Making Your Mind Up would win today :lol: There are plenty of older compilations out there with the more niche entries on them!

The only omission I was really surprised at was Cliff.

 

Would have been nice to see The Common Linnets too but you can’t have it all.

Tbh they could have easily done (well providing they had rights to the songs etc..) a 100 hits type ESC disc (not that many of them are hits lol) and had one disc full of UK entries and the other 4 going across the Decades.

It's wrong what Now are doing to Cliff. He wasn't convicted of any crime yet is boycotted by them now. His Christmas songs are no longer on Now Christmas. Congratulations should definitely be there.

 

Disc1 easily the best. I'd hardly play Disc 2. You can see the titles better on Twitter and enlarge it.

It's wrong what Now are doing to Cliff. He wasn't convicted of any crime yet is boycotted by them now. His Christmas songs are no longer on Now Christmas. Congratulations should definitely be there.

 

Disc1 easily the best. I'd hardly play Disc 2. You can see the titles better on Twitter and enlarge it.

Both his Christmas songs are on last years edition of NOW 100 Hits Christmas