Do they butcher the songs to make them fit on these year book editions?

 

Sorry if that's a stupid question.

Don’t think so. They squeeze on as many songs as they can on one disc

Thanks.

Leaving Me Now!

 

AMAZING

My Heart Goes Bang. I think it’s the second time we’ve seen it on a compilation as it’s also set to appear on one of the budget compilations titled The #1 80s Synth Pop Album. I’m not counting its appearance on NOW 12" 80s Extended as it’s an extended version. Shame it never appeared on Out Now 2, Hits 3 or NOW 6

Edited December 7, 20222 yr by Hadji

"Conga" should be credited to just Miami Sound Machine though as the group became Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine from the Anything For You album.

I’ve noticed that they’re always putting Wham! on track 1 whenever they appear on a compilation

Thanks. Some great stuffs.

My local Asda Living have NOW Yearbook Extra 1985 in stock. I didn’t think it was out until Friday. I wonder if it will debut low on Friday’s compilation chart before having a massive climb the week after?

Edited January 5, 20232 yr by Hadji

I wish mine did, but they only stock the top 24 randomly and it wasn't in there yet.

 

In other news, they're rinsing the early 80s one last time for 'NOW - Yearbook Extra 1980 - 1984: The Final Chapter', release date TBC:

 

Disc: 1

1 Queen - I Want To Break Free

2 The Police - Spirits In The Material World

3 Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Right By Your Side

4 The Smiths - This Charming Man

5 Dexys Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)

6 Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)

7 Tracey Ullman - My Guy

8 The Specials - Do Nothing

9 UB40 - My Way Of Thinking

10 David Sylvian - Pulling Punches

11 Tom Robinson - Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio

12 Elton John - Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year)

13 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - I Wanna Be Loved

14 Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart

15 Pretenders - Middle Of The Road

16 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

17 Slade - Run Runaway

18 Robert Palmer - Some Guys Have All The Luck

19 Daryl Hall and John Oates - Out Of Touch

20 The World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ

21 Debbie Harry - Backfired

22 Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

 

Disc: 2

1 Gary Numan - Music For Chameleons

2 Midge Ure and Mick Karn - After A Fashion

3 The Human League - Boys And Girls

4 Japan - European Son (Steve Nye 7" Remix 1982)

5 Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement

6 Thomas Dolby - Windpower

7 A Flock Of Seagulls - The More You Live, The More You Love

8 Soft Cell - Numbers

9 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Melt

10 The Undertones - Wednesday Week

11 XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)

12 Adam and The Ants - Car Trouble

13 Toyah - Good Morning Universe

14 The Associates - Love Hangover

15 Marilyn - Cry And Be Free

16 Kajagoogoo - Big Apple

17 Nik Kershaw - Dancing Girls

18 Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell

19 Level 42 - Hot Water

20 Shakatak - Easier Said Than Done

21 Working Week - Venceremos

 

Disc: 3

1 Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

2 Kim Wilde - Cambodia

3 Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure

4 Spandau Ballet - Highly Strung

5 Nick Heyward - On A Sunday

6 Thompson Twins - Sister Of Mercy

7 Tina Turner - Help

8 Lionel Richie - Penny Lover

9 Shalamar Over And Over

10 Windjammer - Tossing and Turning

11 Kool and The Gang - (When You Say You Love Somebody) In The Heart

12 Hot Chocolate - Girl Crazy

13 Cliff Richard - Dreamin'

14 Liquid Gold - Substitute

15 Bucks Fizz - If You Can't Stand The Heat

16 The Nolans - Don't Make Waves

17 Belle and The Devotions - Love Games

18 Julio Iglesias - Quiereme Mucho - Yours

19 David Essex - A Winter's Tale

 

A very strong collection overall, as it's leftovers of leftovers. Nice to see The Waitresses and David Essex, as well as the Eurovision entry Love Games.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BRP33JDS?ref_...L1W4SnQpqhByqbc

Edited January 5, 20232 yr by gooddelta

They need to stop rinsing the yearbooks between 1980 and 1984. I hope the next yearbook they release is 1986 but if they release 1978 first, I hope they do it 1978, 1986, 1977, 1987, 1976 and 1988 and so forth in that order

Think the barrel is empty here now. They should really just move on with the Yearbook series now.

As they normally announce them four weeks prior to release, by my reckoning, I reckon it will be released on 3rd February. With the yearbooks, they should’ve done it as a NOW 100 Hits instead of yearbook and extra yearbook. They should stop milking 1980-1984 and move onto 1986 or more 90s and 00s spin-offs oh and genres we’ve never had such as Trance

Edited January 5, 20232 yr by Hadji

It’s basically just them admitting now that they can’t afford to purchase the licenses for music beyond the 80’s because it would simply cost too much to make 90’s yearbooks and extras for all the artists we expect and demand to feature for this era are just not financially viable for a compilation that isn’t going to sell anywhere near what the main series sells with modern hits. So this is all they’ve got to go on to make any sort of profit until the time comes in the near future when the compilation series comes to its expected demise. I’m not surprised, just disappointed in them having no real control over what artists they can select from with 80’s hits from the likes of David Bowie, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley and others inaccessible.

I guessed correct that it’s being released on 3rd February. I can’t wait for them to announce NOW Yearbook 1986. I reckon Queen will be track 1 on there with Wham! being track 1 on NOW Yearbook Extra 1986 or vice versa. I don’t see why they’re doing a Queen with Wham! and always putting them on track 1. Still no Rod Stewart. They can be bothered to plaster Maggie May all over their 70s compilations but they can’t be bothered to include him on any of their 80s compilations

Edited January 7, 20232 yr by Hadji

It’s rumoured amongst some from a Facebook group I follow that Now are lining up a release of Now Dance 80’s or it could be year specific. Again, it’s just more proof if it’s true that they just aren’t prepared to leave this decade alone.

NOW seriously need to let go of the 80s. If they’re doing another dance compilation, they could do with Trance or 00s Dance. There’s a lot of 00s songs which are forgotten as that’s the most slept on decade when it comes to CDs. You have more chance of finding a needle in a haystack than you do of finding a 00s compilation in shops. And what’s the point of re-releasing old spin-offs? If they wanna re-release an old spin-off, they could re-release NOW The Summer Album from 1986 or NOW Smash Hits from 1987. Also, they could also release NOW 114 on vinyl at the end of March as well as CD and download

Edited January 11, 20232 yr by Hadji

Next NOW spin-off and it looks like it’s titled NOW That’s What I Call A Love Song and it’s due for release on 27th January https://www.amazon.co.uk/TBC/dp/B0BS1SHT91/

Here’s the track list

 

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Here’s the track list

 

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Typo on the Roxette song it should be Crash! Boom! Bang!

 

A few of those tracks seem out of place on a love songs compilation.

 

Another NOW spin-off due for release on 17th February titled NOW Dance: The 80s https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BS6QGH41