Now That’s What I Call Music 6 – Re-election day
Christmas 1985 would see NOW reclaim its crown, in some style. Not only did NOW 6 indicate a return to form, but they also had the trump card of the Now Christmas Album. I’ll discuss…
Month: March 2013
Now That’s What I Call Music 5 – Harold Faltermeyer is 5 foot 11 inches tall
After losing Christmas 1984 to The Hits Album, NOW! took a short sabbatical in the new year. Clearly they were no longer the only game in town and things were going to have to change.…
Now That’s What I Call Music 4 – Hello, is it twee you’re looking for?
Whilst NOW 3 may have given us the wonderful NOW! balls logo, it also gave us another, less welcome taste of 80s design: wacky, wavy neon lines. So 80s, so Max Headroom, so The Roxy,…
Now! That’s What I Call Music 3 – Can U Pig It?
NOW! continued its first full year in the summer of 1984, with the release of NOW 3. And it's a porker! It's the pig one! Compilations don't get much pigger than this! It's so…
Now! That’s What I Call Music II – More, more, more
Almost four months to the day since it had crashed its way through the charts and teenage bedrooms of the UK, NOW! would launch a second onslaught on the nation. And whilst at first glance…
NOW! That’s What I Call Music – Total Eclipse of the Charts
And lo, it came to pass that on the 28th day of the 11th month of the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Three, that Lord Richard of Branson did declare "Let…
Is There Something I Should Know?… a brief introduction to NOW!
This rather odd picture looked pretty incongruous on the back of the first NOW! album, when it was released in 1983. Alongside the names of such huge contemporary stars like Duran Duran, Tina Turner, Madness…
Now That’s What I Call a Playlist!
In preparation for the mammoth task ahead of my I decided to conduct a quick experiment which ended up taking me 3 days to complete. I basically wanted to compile a list of best tracks…
Every Day I Love You less and Less – Falling out of love with pop
I fell out of love with pop long ago. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it was, but it was fell somewhere between the discovery of the Indie Chart on The Chart Show, my big…