22 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Are those artist names all confirmed by Now's usual mole? I really hope it's This One by Paul McCartney, great track. It's taken a very long time for The Colourfield to appear, I was hoping that would be on Yearbook 1985 or the Extra.

This One recently covered by The Fizz

Now that extra 1985-1989 has been finalised, I thought I’d make a list of songs likely to appear on the upcoming vaults. I also wonder if they’ll ever do vault final chapters?

1985

Elton John & Millie Jackson - Act Of War

Tina Turner - Show Some Respect

'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

Fine Young Cannibals - Blue

ABC - Vanity Kills

Eurythmics - Julia

Pat Benatar - Invincible

Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me

A-Ha - Love Is Reason

Teena Marie - Lovergirl

The Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance

Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love

Corey Hart - Never Surrender

Five Star - RSVP

Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

Paul Hardcastle - Just For Money

1986

Level 42 - World Machine

Eurythmics - The Miracle Of Love

Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly

David Sylvian - Silver Moon

Sting - Moon Over Bourbon Street

The Bangles - If She Knew What She Wants

Kenny Loggins - Playing With The Boys

Cheap Trick - Mighty Wings

Stevie Nicks - I Can’t Wait

Nik Kershaw - Radio Musicola

Doctor & The Medics & Roy Wood - Waterloo

Belinda Carlisle - Mad About You

The Cure - The Blood

Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Peter Cetera & Amy Grant - The Next Time I Fall

Paul Young - Some People

The The - Infected

Heavy D & The Boyz - Mr Big Stuff

The Stranglers - Always The Sun

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - We Love You

Go West - True Colours

Samantha Fox - I’m All You Need

Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square

Cutting Crew - I’ve Been In Love Before

Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time

The Pointer Sisters - Goldmine

Don Johnson - Heartbeat

Five Star - If I Say Yes

Aretha Franklin - Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Howard Jones - All I Want

Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out

Fuzzbox - Rules And Regulations

Talk Talk - Living In Another World

The Outfield - Your Love

Dee C Lee - Come Hell Or Waters High

1987

Level 42 - Children Say

Living In A Box - Scales Of Justice

Tina Turner - Paradise Is Here

Howard Jones - Little Bit Of Snow

The Hooters - Satellite

Bob Seger - Shakedown

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head To Toe

France Gall - Ella Elle L’a

Aswad - Hooked On You

Hue & Cry - Strength To Strength

Eurythmics - Shame

Belinda Carlisle - Dancing In The City

The Pointer Sisters - Be There

Five Star - Somewhere Somebody

Belinda Carlisle - Dancing In The City

Richard Marx - Should’ve Known Better

Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes

Climie Fisher - Keeping The Mystery Alive

Roxette - It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken Hearted)

Fuzzbox - What’s The Point

The Bangles - Following

Mick Karn featuring David Sylvian - Buoy

Boy George - Keep Me In Mind

1988

Level 42 - Take A Look

Climie Fisher - I Won’t Bleed For You

Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights

Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control

Merry Clayton - Yes

Roxette - I Call Your Name

Belinda Carlisle - Love Never Dies

Spandau Ballet - Raw

Human League - Love Is All That Matters

Hue & Cry - Ordinary Angel

Cheap Trick - The Flame

The Bangles - The Real World

Eurythmics - I Need A Man

Annie Lennox & Al Green - Put A Little Love In Your Heart

Five Star - Let Me Be Yours

Johnny Hates Jazz - Don’t Say It’s Love

Breathe - How Can I Fall?

UB40 - Come Out To Play

Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible

Huey Lewis & The News - World To Me

Talk Talk - I Believe In You

Sade - Turn My Back On You

LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali

David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise

Boy George - No Clause 28

1989

Level 42 - Take Care Of Yourself

Howard Jones - Everlasting Love

Richard Marx - Satisfied

Climie Fisher - Facts Of Love

Sharpe & Numan - I’m On Automatic

Kim Wilde - Love In The Natural Way

Transvision Vamp - Born To Be Sold

Wendy & Lisa - Waterfall

Eurythmics - Revival

Spandau Ballet - Empty Spaces

The Beautiful South - I’ll Sail This Ship Alone

The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums

Five Star - With Every Heartbeat

Chicago - Look Away

Elton John - A Word In Spanish

Fuzzbox - Self!

The Bangles - I’ll Set You Free

Sade - Haunt Me

Inner City - Do You Love What You Feel

Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

The Christians - Words

Boy George - Don’t Take My Mind On A Trip

Edited February 19Feb 19 by Hadji

5 minutes ago, Mark said:

This One recently covered by The Fizz

Yes, good cover. I have this album on CD as they never put it up for streaming.

23 hours ago, gooddelta said:

From the Now Collectors Group on FB, not sure of release date.

Highlights for me are as follows:

Swing Out Sister - You On My Mind

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

Gloria Estefan - Get On Your Feet

Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong

I'll be honest here, the ones that haven't been on numbered NOWs in the 80s I'm not really too familiar with (sans the above) but I'll give them a go.

Gutted that there's no Star Trekkin' (The Firm), Jack Your Body (Steve "Silk" Hurley), Midnight Radio (Taffy), Don't Know Much (Linda Ronstadt/Aaron Neville) and Lambada (Kaoma).

Seems there's another vinyl selection too, like they did for 1980-84.

Also due out 27th March for £99.99, I'll give that a miss.

8 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Seems there's another vinyl selection too, like they did for 1980-84.

Also due out 27th March for £99.99, I'll give that a miss.

I'll probably have this for my birthday this year.

I got the 1980-84 one (and the second edition) when they dropped under £50 in the sale as these boxsets often do eventually.

Not having "Jack Your Body" is really weak - is this so difficult to license?

It was on this in 2022:

https://www.discogs.com/release/23085551-Various-Now-Eighties-Dancefloor

But then again, it was also on the Now 9 reissue in 2021, along with Taffy, who has also missed the yearbooks, and the seemingly hard to get Erasure and Genesis (maybe they agree to be on the earlier reissues but not general/new compilations).

Edited February 19Feb 19 by gooddelta

I reckon So Easy will be track 1 on Now 123 whether it hits number 1 or not and Olivia’s label should now focus on getting So Easy to number 1 now that Rein Me In which is already on Now 122 will get it and considering the period between Now 122 and Now 123 has seen one of the fastest turnovers in number 1s recently, it looks like Now 123 is gonna go without a number 1 unless they decide to include Golden or So Easy finally reaches number 1

Edited February 20Feb 20 by Hadji

If not then hopefully Harry will take pity on the compilers and get them out of a hole with a No.1. I can see why he didn't want to license As It Was but it feels like Aperture needs all the ears on it that it can get. Not that I'm expecting him to, although Ed did soften his approach to licensing once he passed his imperial phases.

I'm sure Kylie would be delighted for Now to include XMAS. If we overlook the optics of having a Christmas song on the spring edition 😂

4 hours ago, gooddelta said:

If not then hopefully Harry will take pity on the compilers and get them out of a hole with a No.1. I can see why he didn't want to license As It Was but it feels like Aperture needs all the ears on it that it can get. Not that I'm expecting him to, although Ed did soften his approach to licensing once he passed his imperial phases.

I'm sure Kylie would be delighted for Now to include XMAS. If we overlook the optics of having a Christmas song on the spring edition 😂

Probably not as he seems to not allow any of his music onto compilations, not just the Harry’s House era. With Ed, he wouldn’t license his number 1 singles hence why we had Castle On The Hill on Now 96 instead of Shape Of You. As for Christmas songs appearing on numbered volumes, it would’ve also happened with Now 88 if they class Let It Go as a Christmas song and if we don’t get any old songs on Now 123, then it proves that they are deciding to snub the old songs and only focus on the new songs due to the amount of old songs showing up in the chart lately

Edited February 20Feb 20 by Hadji

I think they might go for the Mall Grab remix of Milky, which counts as new/old at the same time I suppose. But not sure they'll go for the other revivals.

Milky was on Hits 53, but not Now, I can't remember what label the song was on back then.

42 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I think they might go for the Mall Grab remix of Milky, which counts as new/old at the same time I suppose. But not sure they'll go for the other revivals.

Milky was on Hits 53, but not Now, I can't remember what label the song was on back then.

It was something owned by Warner or Sony who back then would not license their songs to Now albums due to the Hits and I reckon they’ll go for the Mall Grab version and shame 1985-1989 yearbook has stalled at number 2 behind Demon Hunters

It was on Multiply Records, owned by Telstar, at the time. Only now do Sony hold the rights to it several years later.

Now that artists are having double appearances on the final chapter yearbooks and extras even, it makes me wonder if artists will start getting double appearances on the vaults? If so, I hope ABC get a double appearance on vault 1985 (Be Near Me and Vanity Kills), David Sylvian gets a double appearance on vault 1986 (Taking The Veil and Silver Moon) and Level 42 get a double appearance on vault 1989 (Tracie and Take Care Of Yourself)

42 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Now that artists are having double appearances on the final chapter yearbooks and extras even, it makes me wonder if artists will start getting double appearances on the vaults? If so, I hope ABC get a double appearance on vault 1985 (Be Near Me and Vanity Kills), David Sylvian gets a double appearance on vault 1986 (Taking The Veil and Silver Moon) and Level 42 get a double appearance on vault 1989 (Tracie and Take Care Of Yourself)

Rest assured we'll likely see David Sylvian on at least one of these Vaults!

3 hours ago, Tylky said:

Rest assured we'll likely see David Sylvian on at least one of these Vaults!

He’ll only be on vault 1986 as a lead artist. Maybe they might include both his songs on vault 1986 and he features on Buoy by Mick Karn which could appear on vault 1987. I’d like to see artists getting double appearances on vaults so we can have both ABC songs on vault 1985 and I’m surprised Sade who they like milking to death missed vault 1984; Hang On To Your Love was released in 1984 but missed vault 1984

Does anyone know when the 90s Year Books normally come out? I assume one will be due in the coming months?

4 hours ago, simonf said:

Does anyone know when the 90s Year Books normally come out? I assume one will be due in the coming months?

We get 5 yearbooks a year. We just had 1985-1989, the next one in April will be 70s meaning that the one after that in June will be 90s