And I've received my copy of Yearbook: The Vault 1986 this afternoon.

On 17/09/2026 at 16:38, WazzupMyBoyz said:

BRAVO Hits 135 has been revealed:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/various-bravo-hits-vol-135/hnum/12922500

Ooh that cover is not good, looks very AI, maybe it's a tribute to Movin' To The Sun kicking the album off.

I know so few of these songs so lots to discover, nice to see Dagny make the cut.

Dai Dai missing is a shame as it was No.1 for ages in Germany, probably means Now won't get it either.

Edited September 18Sep 18 by gooddelta

#4 for the eras album this week, not bad!

3 hours ago, lewistgreen said:

#4 for the eras album this week, not bad!

That’s bad for an album that’s aimed at the casual market and shame none of the eras albums have topped the compilation chart

4 minutes ago, Hadji said:

That’s bad for an album that’s aimed at the casual market and shame none of the eras albums have topped the compilation chart

What do you mean by "casual market"?

16 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

What do you mean by "casual market"?

Casual buyers. Like those budget compilations. They use the same old same old songs that everyone is familiar with because they’re catering to casual buyers. The people who’d pick the album up in somewhere like a supermarket

1 minute ago, Hadji said:

Casual buyers. Like those budget compilations. They use the same old same old songs that everyone is familiar with because they’re catering to casual buyers. The people who’d pick the album up in somewhere like a supermarket

Well, that's your opinion Mr ASDA x

2 minutes ago, lewistgreen said:

Well, that's your opinion Mr ASDA x

And that’s why I don’t buy those albums. I’d rather buy an album full of songs that I haven’t got than an album full of songs I already have

4 minutes ago, Hadji said:

And that’s why I don’t buy those albums. I’d rather buy an album full of songs that I haven’t got than an album full of songs I already have

Speaking of which, Vault '86 turned up today and it is an education, for me anyway.

The girlband cover version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart caught me off guard.

Liking the song by Wax, which I didn't know already.

I've never heard the original version of No More "I Love You's", I see it's not available to stream.

Candy is by far the most recognisable song on this album, almost unbelievable it wasn't deemed worthy of a place on the Extra or even the main 1986 album, or either of the Final Chapters. Last chance saloon here for such a famous number.

Edited September 18Sep 18 by gooddelta

1 minute ago, gooddelta said:

Speaking of which, Vault '86 turned up today and it is an education, for me anyway.

The girlband cover version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart caught me off guard.

Liking the song by Wax, which I didn't know already.

I've never heard the original version of No More "I Love You's", I see it's not available to stream.

Funnily enough, they put the original version of No More "I Love You’s" next to Eurythmics which was covered by Eurythmics member Annie Lennox. Only Love Can Break Your Heart original is good but slow. A lot of the songs on there, I’m quite familiar with and I wonder if All I Need Is A Miracle '96 will pop up on one of the 1996 yearbooks? If She Knew What She Wants is a great tune but I feel it should’ve been on extra 1986 instead

Royal Mail are having fun with my copy of The Vault 1986, as I don't seem to have it yet. Now that I'm back in work, and with a HMV around the corner from my workplace, I'm just going to pick up future Yearbooks from there. By the sounds of it @gooddelta I have a lot to look forward to, so I'm excited to listen to this release!

Yes I'm enjoying it this morning, lots of quality songs I don't know on here.

Digging further into the Eurythmics chart history after hearing their song on here made me realise how funny their chart peaks are:

They had a hit at every chart place in the top 12 apart from No.7 and never peaked in the same top 20 place twice. Yet had two songs each peak at No.23 (including The Miracle Of Love on this CD, which probably sold reasonably as it was out over Christmas), No.25 and No.26. How odd.

3 hours ago, Tylky said:

Royal Mail are having fun with my copy of The Vault 1986, as I don't seem to have it yet. Now that I'm back in work, and with a HMV around the corner from my workplace, I'm just going to pick up future Yearbooks from there. By the sounds of it @gooddelta I have a lot to look forward to, so I'm excited to listen to this release!

Sounds good, getting them from HMV. I was also going to say, since my Yearbook Extra 1999 incident on the NOW website last month, I've decided to pre-order future NOW albums via HMV (Yearbook Extras, Yearbook Vaults and Eras). However, I'll still be pre-ordering my Yearbooks from the NOW website, since they'll come with exclusive numbered prints. It's like a collector's passion.

My local HMV was playing Now 124 when I was in there earlier today.

Seeing as Now tend to include old songs on the numbered albums lately, I’d love for No Scrubs to appear on Now 125 seeing as it missed Now 43 due to Warner and Sony refusing to license their music to Now albums in those days because of the Hits

Although it wasn’t on the Hits series either in 1999, or any other compilation released in the UK that year. Unpretty was on Hits 2000 though.

I think Come On Home by Everything But The Girl is my favourite discovery so far on Vault 86, quite a stunning production, it sounds like a lost Christmas hit, yet it was released in summer and missed the top 40.

I think we could get both ADÉLA songs on there as Nicole Kidman will probably be forgotten by the time Now 126 is released. I’m hoping for No Scrubs too seeing as it missed Now 43. As for Katy Perry, The One That Got Away is also on Now 81. I hope they do a Zara Larsson with her and include her latest single Watch It Burn instead

Edited Monday at 09:295 days by Hadji

If anyone can drop some intel on the next Yearbook that may get revealed this week, that would be great...

I’m hoping the next yearbook is revealed this week. I hope it’s 1995, I don’t mind if it’s 1996 but I don’t want it to be 1994

6 minutes ago, Hadji said:

I’m hoping the next yearbook is revealed this week. I hope it’s 1995, I don’t mind if it’s 1996 but I don’t want it to be 1994

Don't we have to wait for the next Extra to be released first?