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As you guys know I’ve been doing a lot of my own versions of the late 80s/very early 90s versions of Now’s. Not you guys as you all seem to be positive about the Now’s even nowadays, but a lot of people on Facebook and X, complain about omissions and how Now is “coming to an end”, but if you look back on Now 1-19 in particular, so many songs were omitted and there was barely over 30 tracks per album. And that’s the START of the series that became so massive. They survived then and they should survive now. Unfortunately, most people including myself look back on Now 60-109 (maybe) as the prime of now’s where most big tracks were included. For a generation where most people listen to music digitally I’m just fortunate that these albums are still going.

And is it just me or does the last “2” on the artwork look out of proportion with the other numbers?

Just realised the pig is absent from the front cover but is on the back cover!

I love that artwork and the colour theme used!🩷💜🌙 I had a feeling they’d change it up a bit after three consecutive years of similar dark themes for the winter volumes. I like the flow of the tracklist, and glad they included most of the songs I predicted. Gutted about HUNTR/X but I was expecting Golden to be omitted. I’m not complaining that only 41 tracks have been included, as I do believe that less is more with Now’s, but it’s surprising to think that only just over a year ago it was the norm to have 50 tracks or just under!

Thank you. I 100% agree with you there, same for Whitney Houston too.

Now 12

I’ve started to upload my versions of Now 10-19 onto YouTube. Now 14: (S-Express - Hey Music Lover is missing) Disc 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKEddzt_bDyjlt652NBgHPyCebdkmNXv&si=oi_ydsvhisk-yEue Disc 2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKEddzt_bDw0ZEsUjp5XA3YPfoFnDRUv&si=cg2vwBY_Li4A7ye1 Now 15: Disc 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKEddzt_bDxDRajCY-KDFa5bM1cIwIbe&si=fZeLPn3FIk6gitos Disc 2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKEddzt_bDzRyFH97hXqV-XvjzRa1lGU&si=a-_PJAvIBddIcgh-

Now 13

I just need to type the back covers up and I’ll post 10-13 all in one later.

Apologises for the spam, this is the last one for a while. Here's my Now 19, please let me know what you think.

Here's my Now 18, probably the one I like the most out of the lot I made.

Here's my Now 17. The pixelated logo on the original I have tried to recreate.

I do agree that the Now 54 artwork is possibly one of the worst in the series, especially on the CD. It doesn't look as bad on the cassette version.

Here's my Now 16, the last of three 1989 editions and the last volume of the 80s. Due to the number of omissions included, quite a large number of tracks from the original Now 16 I have taken off. I would love to know your thoughts on my versions of Now 14, Now 15 and Now 16 and see which of the three you all prefer :)

Here's my Now 15, sorry the quality isn't as great on the back cover for this one.

Thank you, much appreciated. I've done Now 10-19 so far, will also start working on 1-9 when I've finished burning the tracks onto my laptop 🙂

Not sure if anybody would be interested in these but I’ve made fanmade versions of Now 10-19 with the familiar Now artwork, taken from the US editions, including notable omissions. Here is my version of Now 14 that I listen to frequently.