Since the release of Now 102 in Easter 2019, the corresponding Now album from 100 volumes ago has been re-compiled and re-issued on 2-CD sets on the same day. Never did it occur to me until right there and then that my voice may not be the smoothest of instruments. Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions. Even the Backstreet Boys' rock-driven song blends very well into the rock section that includes Weezer and Coldplay. Much prefer the version of “Always look on tbe bright side of life” included here to the one on the “Monty Python Sings” album.

Ludacris f/ Bobby Valentino-Pimpin' All Over The World (D-) i usually like Luda, but he was aiming for Radio Disney as his target station when he wrote this song.

It is also the final numbered installment to have its commercial voiced over by David Jensen, who had been voicing the series' ads since Now 8 in 1986. After all, these are albums that shaped my music tastes, so I guess they have to be early on in the collection. first reissued 2009 for the 25th anniversary, then again 20 July 2018 to coincide with Now 100) re-issued on 2CD (gatefold in 2009, jewel case in 2018), audio cassette, and a 2LP vinyl release. on 24 July 2015, the release dates in the UK and Ireland have been the same following the announcement of the Global Release Day campaign by IFPI, which became effective on 10 July 2015. I had to lift the image off Gumtree, so apologies if the seller ever finds this site, but as you can see, it was an Alba jobby.

A further release, The Final Chapter, a deluxe 4-CD and 3-LP set, was issued in December 2022, rounding off the Yearbook years 1980 to 1984.This was pre-social media, and my brothers and I seemed largely innocent to the horrors going on in the world at the time. I haven’t yet reached the stage of early thirties madness where I insist Martine McCutcheon’s “Perfect Moment” – disc one’s ominous opener – wasn’t crud actually, but I am inclined to pontificate on the genius of the Vengaboys if I get a few drinks in me.

Given the prominence of dance music at the time (and my love of the genre), it’s a very un-dancey Now. For the 30th anniversary of Now in 2013 and the release of Now 100 in Summer 2018, the first Now album was re-compiled and re-issued. Pendlebury, Prestwich, Preston, York, Skipton, Scunthorpe, Scarborough-on-Sea, Chester, Chorley, Cheadle, Hulme, Ormskirk, Accrington, Stanley, Leigh, Ossett, Otley, Ilkley Moor, Sheffield, Manchester, Castleford, Skem, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Halifax, Bingley, Bramhall”. When I think of the summer of 1999, I think of the Felicity Shagwell poster on my bedroom ceiling, the brief period in which Mel B was known as Mel G, and the formation of my soul because of Now! The first two volumes were not released on compact disc, and all subsequent releases were either single, double, or triple disc sets.my least fave single next to the annoying, DISCUSTINGLY overplayed and very whiny and b-itchy Unfaithful.

Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all. I did always wonder this, though… “The lyrics, “Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale” refers to Beale Street, an actual street in Memphis. Phil Collins, Heaven 17, Duran Duran, the preposterous Kajagoogoo, the inescapable Men at Work (is there a more insidious Eighties earworm than “Down Under”? UK series, comprising: compact discs (CD), magnetic audio cassettes (AC), vinyl ( LP), VHS tape, DVD, and on other short-lived formats.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.