2 hours ago, nowmusic1993 said:

Now 20

My work here is done! Thank you for all the appreciation everyone, I’m glad you’ve all enjoyed these. Who knows if I’ll do another project soon? Time will tell.

I’d have also included

The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow

Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Pandora’s Box

Beverley Craven - Promise Me

R.E.M - The One I Love

Divinyls - I Touch Myself

That Now 20 volume is incredible!

11 minutes ago, Hadji said:

I’d have also included

The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow

Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Pandora’s Box

Beverley Craven - Promise Me

R.E.M - The One I Love

Divinyls - I Touch Myself

I don’t have unlimited space, and one of those songs is included anyway🤷🏻‍♂️

These albums took a lot of effort to create, maybe just say maybe just one good thing about any of them before you criticise?

4 minutes ago, awardinary said:

That Now 20 volume is incredible!

Thank you mate!

4 hours ago, nowmusic1993 said:

Who knows if I’ll do another project soon? Time will tell.

I think you'll do the concepts for NOW 60 onwards sometime soon.

19 minutes ago, WazzupMyBoyz said:

I think you'll do the concepts for NOW 60 onwards sometime soon.

Funnily enough I’m working on it already.

14 hours ago, nowmusic1993 said:

So that’s it! All my artworks from alternative versions of Now 20-59. Which one was your favourite artwork? I’d love to hear the feedback!

These have been such a fabulous thing to read! The time and effort put in all the volumes is just fabulous.

Love the artworks for 23 the most I think. But all the others are such fun covers as well. I get the same amount of excitement for yours as I do the official NOW announcements.

Again good job, @nowmusic1993 ! I’m picking my fave tracks and making a playlist called “NOT NOW”. I’m so excited that you’ll be doing NOW 60 (and hopefully more).

11 hours ago, Harrison FB said:

I’m getting my life to these Dance Editions! They remind me of a mix of the NOW Dance series, Ministry of Sound, Clubland, and Absolute Dance.

If you can, I’d love to see these go back further. I bet the 2010s and 2000s ones would be filled with classics.

6 hours ago, HiyaLuv! said:

Welcome to Hadjiworld.

Anyway, you have done a great job and I wish these were real companion volumes!

I do a good job too you know and here’s my tracklists of what the Nows would’ve been like if the Hits series didn’t exist and we always had 3 Nows a year

 

Now 5 (Spring 1985)

 

CD 1

 

1. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

2. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

3. King - Love & Pride

4. Ashford & Simpson - Solid

5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome

6. Wham! - Everything She Wants

7. The Colourfield - Thinking Of You

8. The Commodores - Nightshift

9. Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover

10. Nik Kershaw - The Riddle

11. Go West - We Close Our Eyes

12. Alison Moyet - That Ole Devil Called Love

13. Loose Ends - Hangin' On A String

14. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark

15. Bryan Adams - Run To You

16. Phil Collins - Sussudio

 

CD 2

 

1. Jim Diamond - I Should Have Known Better

2. James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There

3. Chicago - You're The Inspiration

4. David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America

5. Kirsty MacColl - A New England

6. Stephen 'Tintin' Duffy - Kiss Me

7. Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On

8. Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer

9. Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well

10. Tears For Fears - Shout

11. Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit)

12. David Cassidy - The Last Kiss

13. The Power Station - Some Like It Hot

14. Sharpe & Numan - Change Your Mind

15. Jermaine Jackson - Do What You Do

16. Kool & The Gang - Fresh

 

Now 8 (Spring 1986)

 

CD 1

 

1. A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV

2. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

3. Diana Ross - Chain Reaction

4. Dire Straits - Walk Of Life

5. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

6. Jim Diamond - Hi Ho Silver

7. The Bangles - Manic Monday

8. David Bowie - Absolute Beginners

9. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

10. Wham! - I'm Your Man

11. Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat

12. Mr Mister - Broken Wings

13. Paul Hardcastle featuring Carol Kenyon - Don't Waste My Time

14. The Damned - Eloise

15. Belouis Some - Imagination

16. Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)

 

CD 2

 

1. Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You

2. Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers

3. Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief

4. Hipsway - The Honeythief

5. James Brown - Living In America

6. Survivor - Burning Heart

7. Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It

8. Double - The Captain Of Her Heart

9. Sophia George - Girlie Girlie

10. Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper

11. Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight

12. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11

13. Whistle - (Nothing Serious) Just Buggin'

14. Culture Club - Move Away

15. Public Image Limited - Rise

16. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

 

Now 12 (Summer 1987)

 

CD 1

 

1. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

2. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

3. Bruce Willis - Under The Boardwalk

4. Erasure - Victim Of Love

5. Club Nouveau - Lean On Me

6. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

7. George Michael - I Want Your Sex

8. Janet Jackson - Let's Wait A While

9. Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin

10. Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams

11. Living In A Box - Living In A Box

12. Wet Wet Wet - Wishing I Was Lucky

13. ABC - When Smokey Sings

14. A-Ha - Manhattan Skyline

15. Samantha Fox - Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now

16. John Farnham - You're The Voice

 

CD 2

 

1. Mel & Kim - Respectable

2. Terence Trent D'Arby - If You Let Me Stay

3. Alison Moyet - Weak In The Presence Of Beauty

4. Pepsi & Shirlie - Goodbye Stranger

5. Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love

6. Marillion - Incommunicado

7. Cliff Richard - My Pretty One

8. Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong

9. The Firm - Star Trekkin'

10. Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

11. Judy Boucher - Can't Be With You Tonight

12. Heart - Alone

13. Whitesnake - Is This Love

14. Level 42 - To Be With You Again

15. Curiosity Killed The Cat - Ordinary Day

16. Johnny Logan - Hold Me Now

 

Now 21 (Summer 1990)

 

CD 1

 

1. Elton John - Sacrifice

2. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

3. Wilson Phillips - Hold On

4. David A Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here

5. Kylie Minogue - Better The Devil You Know

6. MC Tunes vs 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites

7. Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven

8. Adventures Of Stevie V - Dirty Cash (Money Talks)

9. Snap! - Oops Up

10. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

11. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

12. Maxi Priest - Close To You

13. Mantronix featuring Wondress - Take Your Time

14. Phil Collins - Something Happened On The Way To Heaven

15. Talk Talk - It's My Life

16. Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

 

CD 2

 

1. England New Order - World In Motion

2. Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

3. Was (Not Was) - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

4. Betty Boo - Doin' The Do

5. Don Pablo's Animals - Venus

6. Soul II Soul - A Dream's Dream

7. En Vogue - Hold On

8. Erasure - Star

9. Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power

10. New Kids On The Block - Step By Step

11. Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Mona

12. The Chimes - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

13. Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)

14. The B-52's - Roam

15. The Stone Roses - One Love

16. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

 

Now 24 (Summer 1991)

 

CD 1

 

1. Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)

2. Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

3. Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only

4. Extreme - More Than Words

5. James - Sit Down

6. Roxette - Joyride

7. Blur - There's No Other Way

8. The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow

9. Mike + The Mechanics - Word Of Mouth

10. Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do

11. Paula Abdul - Rush Rush

12. Amy Grant - Baby Baby

13. Kenny Thomas - Thinking About Your Love

14. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas

15. Erasure - Chorus

16. Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

17. Zucchero & Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman)

18. R.E.M - Shiny Happy People

19. Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)

 

CD 2

 

1. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up

2. Salt-N-Pepa - Do You Want Me

3. Kylie Minogue - Shocked

4. Dannii Minogue - Success

5. C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....

6. Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long)

7. The Shamen - Move Any Mountain

8. Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives

9. K-Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery

10. Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

11. Technotronic - Move That Body

12. N-Joi - Anthem

13. Quartz featuring Dina Carroll - It's Too Late

14. Beverley Craven - Promise Me

15. Omar - There's Nothing Like This

16. Living Colour - Love Rears Its Ugly Head

17. Divinyls - I Touch Myself

18. The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon

19. Bette Midler - From A Distance

Thanks so much for all sharing your work on these.

@nowmusic1993 yours have had such fun artwork ideas, well executed design (they look like official products), and very well researched tracklists. A lot of songs I'd forgotten about that deserved their place on compilations of the era.

The dance ones from @Harrison FB are such a great idea too. If only Now Dance still existed (although they wouldn't be half as good).

Hadji's alternative albums also look decent there.

21 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Hadji's alternative albums also look decent there.

Thanks and if I can, I’ll probably redo them with 20-22 tracks on each disc and do the current early ones what they would’ve been like

FYI I'm probably going to begin moving posts from the Now thread into this one later on to keep things in one place. It will be a big process but I want to keep things orderly.

3 minutes ago, awardinary said:

FYI I'm probably going to begin moving posts from the Now thread into this one later on to keep things in one place. It will be a big process but I want to keep things orderly.

Just so long as any discussions regarding upcoming and current Now albums whether it’s the official tracklist stay in that thread

3 hours ago, SuperWooper said:

These have been such a fabulous thing to read! The time and effort put in all the volumes is just fabulous.

Love the artworks for 23 the most I think. But all the others are such fun covers as well. I get the same amount of excitement for yours as I do the official NOW announcements.

Again good job, @nowmusic1993 ! I’m picking my fave tracks and making a playlist called “NOT NOW”. I’m so excited that you’ll be doing NOW 60 (and hopefully more).

Thank you so much mate! I could tell you were really enjoying this series, and it’s the positive comments that have encouraged me to do Now 60 onwards. I think there’s a lot of 2000s nostalgia on this thread too so hopefully you’ll all like them just as much as the others😁

7 minutes ago, awardinary said:

FYI I'm probably going to begin moving posts from the Now thread into this one later on to keep things in one place. It will be a big process but I want to keep things orderly.

Do you know of any way I can list my albums I’ve made with a link that takes them to the artwork and tracklisting?

It is also about making it easier to find some of these great personal tracklists and artwork rather then scrolling through pages of the Now thread to find them.

I hope @nowmusic1993 you're ok with me moving your posts in here soon.

Just now, nowmusic1993 said:

Do you know of any way I can list my albums I’ve made with a link that takes them to the artwork and tracklisting?

Yes that's what I am certainly hoping to achieve!

Notice how I did this for the very first page on the Now thread, linking all the main volumes artwork and hyperlinks to review threads made in the past. Perhaps something like this is what I'd like to do using your artwork and the links to each tracklist reveal!

Yeah of course! It’ll be so much easier for me to find them too.

And yeah that’s a good idea, I’ll work out how to do it later today.

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

The dance ones from @Harrison FB are such a great idea too. If only Now Dance still existed (although they wouldn't be half as good).

Thank you for that! But let's face it, not EVERY album would be half as good, but I always tend to do my best with my own!

Now 60

Edited April 16Apr 16 by nowmusic1993