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  • gooddelta
    gooddelta

    Out on 25th April apparently...

  • Here’s the track list for extra 1998 due for release on 28th March https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXZ355V9

  • SuperWooper
    SuperWooper

    Wow! There's a lot of great stuff on NOW 120! Immediate thoughts: Tracks 1-7 being songs by the Pop Girls! Iconic! Brilliant! It's what we deserve! APT. is here! That follows "Gangam Style", "Gentle

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An AI job, looking at the spelling of the word 'that's', but it's a nice looking cover.
Released today 18 years ago:

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Disc: 1
1 Bob Sinclar & Cutee B feat. Dollarman, Big Ali & Makedah - Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)
2 BeatFreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me
3 David Guetta vs The Egg - Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away)
4 Joey Negro - Make A Move On Me
5 Armand Van Helden feat. Tara McDonald - MyMyMy
6 Chris Lake feat. Laura V - Changes
7 Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
8 Dirty Old Ann - Turn Me On
9 Mousse T vs Dandy Warhols - Horny As A Dandy
10 Jealousy - Lucy
11 Jamelia - Something About You (Linus Loves Remix Radio Edit)
12 Supafly Inc - Moving Too Fast
13 Eric Prydz - Call On Me
14 The Similou - All This Love
15 Solu Music feat. KimBlee - Fade
16 Soul Avengerz feat. Javine - Don't Let The Morning Come
17 Deep Dish feat. Stevie Nicks - Dreams
18 Chocolate Puma - Always And Forever
19 Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
20 Hot Chip - Over And Over
21 Robbie Williams - Rudebox
22 Lily Allen - LDN (Wookie Remix)

Disc: 2
1 The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love
2 Hi_Tack - Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U)
3 Supermode - Tell Me Why
4 Mish Mash - Speechless
5 Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
6 Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
7 Tom Novy feat. Michael Marshall - Your Body
8 Bob Sinclar feat. Steve Edwards - World, Hold On (Children Of The Sky)
9 Kelis feat. Too $hort - Bossy (Braxe & Falke Remix)
10 Blaze pts. UDA feat. Barbara Tucker - Most Precious Love
11 Axwell feat. Steve Edwards - Watch The Sunrise
12 The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme
13 Cassius - Toop Toop
14 Djaimin feat. Crystal Re-Clear - Give You (Jamie Lewis House Cut)
15 Soul Seekerz - Party For The Weekend
16 Till West & DJ Delicious - Same Man
17 Tomcraft - Loneliness
18 Studio B - I See Girls
19 Mr Skillz & His Crazy Girls - I Know U Like Me
20 DHT feat. Edmée - Listen To Your Heart
21 DJ Sammy & Yanou feat. Do - Heaven
22 Dario G - Ring Of Fire
23 Tiësto feat. Maxi Jazz - Dance4Life



At this point the NOW Dance series were struggling a little bit. A lot of the big dance hits would already been snapped up for Clubland, the Ministry of Sound Annual, and NOW 65, but it still has some great of the moment Dance/Pop floofillers. Bob Sinclair, Rogue Traders, Jealousy, Deep Dish with Stevie Nicks, and Oakenfold with Brittany Murphy are still great bangers in my opinion. Like I said though, since it was on its last legs it did have to rely on older tracks to fill up space and therefore not really making it a good "Dance Annual of the Year" - DJ Sammy, Eric Prydz, Tomcraft, and other artists should really be on a "NOW The Very Best of Dance" special than the main NOW Dance album of the year.

What songs from the Clublands/MOS comps of this era should've made it on this album? And what remixes of Pop Hits do you think should've made the cut? For me:
Infernal - From Paris To Berlin/Self Control
Cascada - Every Time We Touch
Dannii Minogue - So Under Pressure/Perfection
Pet Shop Boys - I'm With Stupid
Mickey Modelle V Jessy - Dancing In The Dark

should've made the cut.

I got this cheap recently, didn't bother with it at the time as I preferred Clubland and MOS: Annual at the time and couldn't afford everything full price.

 

I agree with those exclusions you mentioned - all would have made it stronger. Maybe add Incredible by Shapeshifters and I'll Be Ready by Sunblock. Too many older songs taking up space for me.

I got this cheap recently, didn't bother with it at the time as I preferred Clubland and MOS: Annual at the time and couldn't afford everything full price.

 

I agree with those exclusions you mentioned - all would have made it stronger. Maybe add Incredible by Shapeshifters and I'll Be Ready by Sunblock. Too many older songs taking up space for me.

Oh yes! Or even Sensitivity with Chic. Odd they picked the one song from them that wasn't a 2006 single. Loved Sunblock as well! First Time with Robin Beck would've also been a brilliant addition (at least we got in one of the main NOWs).

Just thought as well, September "Satellites" should be on here as well, it was one of my most played songs from 2006! Couldn't get enough of it. And also some Goldfrapp wouldn't have hurt as well.

Just had an je-mail from HMV about Friday's 12" 80s release.

"Due to a delay in receiving stock from our suppliers we have been unable to dispatch this in time for its original release date"

 

My orders are dispatched from HMV Vault in Birmingham.

 

Just had an je-mail from HMV about Friday's 12" 80s release.

"Due to a delay in receiving stock from our suppliers we have been unable to dispatch this in time for its original release date"

 

My orders are dispatched from HMV Vault in Birmingham.

I got mine on Monday. Went to my local Asda where a woman who works there was stocking CDs and I spotted it in the tray

44 songs is not enough and they should stop leaving massive gaps which can easily be filled and as for the re-issues, they should’ve stopped at 9, 10 or 16. Feels strange stopping them at 18

Now 19 is the only one I don't have so was hoping to fill that gap.

 

I wonder if the licensing issues would have been too numerous (not that it's stopped them before). I could see The Source (original isn't on Spotify), Massive (Attack), Chris Isaak and INXS holding out. Maybe Queen too as it wasn't at the start of the album.

 

Now 119 is decent enough considering the material available, there have been so few big hits since the last edition - Espresso and Good Luck, Babe! from Now 118 are still top five now even. Charli XCX is a big omission I guess, someone else on the Facebook group mentioned Tate McRae and Gigi Perez, I'm sure the latter will be on Now 120.

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If they’re not releasing autumn Nows at the usual time, then they can do the same with the spring Nows and I hope Now 120 gets released before Easter as 25th April seems too late to release a spring Now and I hope they fill it up with songs that missed Now 119. I don't understand why the tracklists for the autumn Nows are always a disaster. Now 117 and Now 118 were big improvements but Now 119 is a letdown

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Omg that second half of disc 2 is amaze.

 

Manics getting a second appearance and a debut for Linkin Park?

Look like re-issues stop now 18

 

I think at least one time they didn't post them up at the same time so maybe still to come.

44 songs is not enough and they should stop leaving massive gaps which can easily be filled and as for the re-issues, they should’ve stopped at 9, 10 or 16. Feels strange stopping them at 18

Isn’t 44 songs fairly standard for the Now albums though?

I got mine on Monday. Went to my local Asda where a woman who works there was stocking CDs and I spotted it in the tray

 

Mine just got dispatched

They could’ve at least squeezed more songs on

 

You are literally never happy and it's so bloody tiresome.

 

Have you already worked out the run time of the CDs then? This is a standard number of tracks. 118 had 47 songs and 117 even had 50 but the tracks were very short in run time which allowed for the increased length but even if there was room, you shouldn't just expect extra tracks to be chucked on for the sake of the quality of the CD. Looking at the tracklist, this is a solid set of songs making do with what has been a pretty stagnant time in the charts and they've picked the best of the bunch. I'm not going to investigate the run time of every single track but at face value it doesn't seem like many of them are below 3 minutes anyway.

Isn’t 44 songs fairly standard for the Now albums though?

Back in the day when songs were long then yeah but not now when those gaps could easily be filled

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