Looking good but gutted I Will Come To You didn’t make it.

No Angel Of Mine or Stand By Me either.

Edited Thursday at 14:222 days by T Boy

Oh yes, Angel Of Mine is a surprising one to miss, although I did love all three of Eternal's '97 singles so I'm happy to see Don't You Love Me.

In my opinion Closer than Close and As Long As You Love Me should have been on the main album (I appreciate BSB had another song but this is a classic too).

Stand By Me is a surprising miss, maybe Oasis are only going to give songs to the main albums and not 'Extra'.

Lots of big hits missing overall from the '97 albums - Candle In The Wind '97, Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!, Men In Black, Tubthumping, I'll Be Missing You and I Believe I Can Fly (both fair though), Freed From Desire, Don't Speak, Time To Say Goodbye, the other Sash! No.2s Ecuador and Stay, the two big Verve singles Bittersweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work. It all makes for one of the most poorly compiled years in terms of the big hitters, even if it's nice to have access to some overlooked gems and smaller hits.

A lot of these songs belong on the vault. With Eternal, Don’t You Love Me may have charted higher than Angel Of Mine but the latter outsold the former. That explains why Drop Dead Gorgeous is on extra with Ready To Go on main

Edited Thursday at 15:362 days by Hadji

I’ve bought ‘97 and saw the tracklist for this one and I have to say, this year is a weak year for the Yearbook series. Does anyone else feel this way? What are the major omissions from these releases and what could be the reason?

I understand that these releases individually are somewhat affordable but at the moment it feels like NOW are reaching into their bargain bin of licensing and slapping any old cheap track on here.

P.S. I’m specifically upset about the Teletubbies not making the cut.

Not a bad tracklist, i remember the ABC single i bought it.

I am surprised Paul Young's final Top 40 hit - I Wish You Love wasn't on there though.

List of omissions

Oasis - Stand By Me

Texas - Black Eyed Boy

Texas - Halo

Sash! featuring Rodriguez - Ecuador

Sash! featuring La Trec - Stay

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Gala - Freed From Desire

Eternal - Angel Of Mine

Bellini - Samba De Janeiro

Gary Barlow - Open Road

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (fingers crossed it ends up on one of the 1996 yearbooks)

Vanilla - No Way No Way

The Seahorses - Blinded By The Sun

Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

Monaco - What Do You Want From Me?

Cast - Guiding Star

Fun Lovin’ Criminals - Scooby Snacks

Livin’ Joy - Where Can I Find Love

Edited Thursday at 23:002 days by Hadji

98 definitely did a better job covering the hits. There were still some big ones missing but it didn’t feel as glaring as this.

3 hours ago, Tylky said:

P.S. I’m specifically upset about the Teletubbies not making the cut.

Lol. Same.

2 hours ago, T Boy said:

98 definitely did a better job covering the hits. There were still some big ones missing but it didn’t feel as glaring as this.

Agreed, I was thinking earlier how much I thoroughly enjoyed both the main and Extra for 98 despite many missing hits.

I could live without a lot of this 97 Extra. My biggest gripe though is why has dance been wiped out of the equation apart from Roise Gaines and a few of the more famous critcially acclaimed dance acts on Disc 2 - it was a big year for it. Sash, Bellini, Smoke City, BBE, The Course, Todd Terry, PF Project, Mr President? I can't believe these were all unlicensable.

43 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Sash, Bellini, Smoke City, BBE, The Course, Todd Terry, PF Project, Mr President? I can't believe these were all unlicensable.

Not all of them are unlicensable. It’s just Now chose not to include them

I was about to rant about Suzanne Vega but then listened to the song as I didn't know it and it's great, ha. Still, a No.40 one week hit is scraping a bit, it makes me wonder if they will even do The Vault series for the 90s or if it's just an 80s concern.

3 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I was about to rant about Suzanne Vega but then listened to the song as I didn't know it and it's great, ha. Still, a No.40 one week hit is scraping a bit, it makes me wonder if they will even do The Vault series for the 90s or if it's just an 80s concern.

What's the highest charting song to appear on a Vault release? I'm just wondering the chances for some of the omitted Top 10 hits from this year.

Assuming too there will be a Final Chapter but that's only happened so far for one half of a decade and it feels like a long time ago now.

6 minutes ago, awardinary said:

What's the highest charting song to appear on a Vault release?

Young Parisians by Adam & The Ants peaked at number 9 and appeared on vault 1981

Edited Thursday at 23:012 days by Hadji

13 minutes ago, awardinary said:

What's the highest charting song to appear on a Vault release? I'm just wondering the chances for some of the omitted Top 10 hits from this year.

Assuming too there will be a Final Chapter but that's only happened so far for one half of a decade and it feels like a long time ago now.

True although I would imagine the 1985-89 Final Chapter is imminent as they love to rinse the 80s and the main Yearbooks and Extras are done.

16 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Agreed, I was thinking earlier how much I thoroughly enjoyed both the main and Extra for 98 despite many missing hits.

I could live without a lot of this 97 Extra. My biggest gripe though is why has dance been wiped out of the equation apart from Roise Gaines and a few of the more famous critcially acclaimed dance acts on Disc 2 - it was a big year for it. Sash, Bellini, Smoke City, BBE, The Course, Todd Terry, PF Project, Mr President? I can't believe these were all unlicensable.

Agreed. There were big dance numbers that year and a lot were missed. Such a shame.

15 hours ago, gooddelta said:

I was about to rant about Suzanne Vega but then listened to the song as I didn't know it and it's great, ha. Still, a No.40 one week hit is scraping a bit, it makes me wonder if they will even do The Vault series for the 90s or if it's just an 80s concern.

I don’t understand NOWs obsession with Suzanne Vega, or David Sylvian for that matter.

1997 has become the sixth yearbook after 1982, 1980-1984, 1973, 1990 and 1998 to miss the number 1 spot on the compilation chart

For the next Yearbook, they should probably do a '70s one, most possibly either 1975 or 1976.

What are your predictions?

2 hours ago, WazzupMyBoyz said:

For the next Yearbook, they should probably do a '70s one, most possibly either 1975 or 1976.

What are your predictions?

I think they will do 70s next. We haven’t had one since November last year. I want it to be 1975 or 1976 but I reckon it’ll be between 1970 and 1972 so they can balance out the 70s yearbooks with 3 a piece; 3 from the first half of the 70s and 3 from the second half of the 70s and then make 1995 the next 90s yearbook for that same reason. I hope and expect to get at least one yearbook this year ending with a 5 seeing as we had one last year ending with a 4, one in 2023 ending with a 3 and one in 2022 ending with a 2

Edited 14 hours ago14 hr by Hadji

I’d like to see a 70’s Yearbook next. I honestly don’t mind which, but they do need to bring the attention back to the 70’s, even if for one year.

I’m curious, and this may seem a while out if it does happen but, do you think they’ll do the 60’s? It could really make the Yearbook collection worth something if they expand into that decade.