NOW! 18 – The pompatus of love
In some ways the much-derided (by smart arses like me), and often ignored (by everyone else) re-vamp of the NOW design is nice and simple. No one was calling the albums by their full name,…
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NOW 17 – Just what is it that you want to do?
As the first NOW album of the 90s NOW 17 promises much and delivers little, but it points the way to another world far removed from the Wet Wet Wets, Jellybeans and Johnny Hates Jazzes…
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…
The Hits Albums 1-10 – Two tribes go to war
Batman needs the Joker. Tottenham Hotspur need Arsenal. Jerry needs Tom. But I suspect NOW could have done without the bother of the Hits Album. Having seen EMI and Virgin come together to dominate the…
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…
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 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 – 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…