NOW 16 – Not The Man You Used To Be
NOW 16 signals the end of an era. Not only was it the last NOW album of the 80s, the decade of its birth, but it was also the last NOW album I owned. 1989…
NOW 15 – Cruel Summer
For the second year in a row, NOW’s summer release would take the season as the inspiration for its cover. Sadly the content is about as anti-summer as it’s possible to get. When I think…
NOW 14 – On and off and on again
1989 was a year of major upheaval for NOW. They’d been turfed out of the official album charts into the compilation top 20, a chart no one ever saw, referenced or cared about. It looked…
NOW 13 – Don’t worry, be crappy
Why, in the winter of 1988, it was decided to base a cover of NOW 13 around a charmingly retro spaceship design, I do not know. But it’s a fab design and, even better, features…
NOW 12 – the compilation they forgot to bomb, come, nuclear bombs
So what does summer sound like to you? Maybe it’s some Hi-NRG dance track imported from the med by swathes of hormonal twenty-somethings. Perhaps it’s some cool, magic-hour ballad sung as the sun sets on…
NOW 11 – I know you gonna dig this
Every decade has its game changing year, the year that rocks the music world, the year where, if you'll pardon the cliché, nothing will ever be the same again. It may be the birth of…
We apologise for this break in our scheduled programme…
To the loyal readers of the Now Music Blog (yes, there are a few you cheeky so and so's) you may have noticed I've been a bit quiet of late. Unfortunately I've had 'one of…
Now That’s What I Call Music 10 – Designed to satisfy your soul
Like your first kiss, the first time you got drunk, or the first 18-rated film you see (or X-rated if you're a tad older than me), your first NOW album is special, and never forgotten.…
Now That’s What I Call Music 9 – Taking your breath away
In 1987, for the first time since they had co-existed, NOW released its first compilation of the year in the Spring, leaving Hits 6 to take over for the summer, presumably because it gave NOW…
The Curious Case of NOW ’86
End of year compilations were not NOW's style. They tried it once before, using NOW 4 as a way of hoodwinking the public into buying a compilation that had only a passing resemblance to the…