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…
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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 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…
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…
Now That’s What I Call Music 7 – Let’s make lots of money
To talk about NOW 7, you have to have a copy to hand. And I don't mean a digital copy, or a playlist made from the track listing. You have to have an actual…
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…