As of today, I now own every NOW That's What I Call Music! album ever made
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I've been collecting them for years - I had a couple of the very early ones on cassette back in the day, but lost interest in them. I started buying current ones on CD with Now 70 when my kids were first getting into music as it was a good way of getting all the chart songs they liked cheaply. Then for some reason I decided to go back in time and pick up the older ones when I found them in charity shops - easy at first, but it gets harder when you've got most of them! I used to have to carry a list of which ones I already had so I didn't buy the same ones again. In the last few years it really tailed off - and the very first few (up to Now 7) were never released on CD, only vinyl and cassette, but luckily someone at EMI spotted a gap in the nostalgia market, and starting at the same time as Now 101, they've re-released them in sequence from the first one, now on CD. I've been able to fill in a few gaps that way, bought a few on Ebay (although not at the daft prices some dealers want, not everything old is worth a fortune) and finally...
Today I bought Now 15 - the very last one I didn't have.
There are still a few which I could do with replacing as the copies I have are a bit rough, but apart from that I'll have to find something else to obsessively look for in every charity shop now
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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How many Bros tracks are there in total?
You need to start in it’s sort-of-predecessor, the 70s Top of the Pops albums…
It is actually interesting that the standard proportions of classics/good/forgettable/crap is quite well preserved throughout the whole series though.
I actually bought a reissue one on CD not long ago, out of curiosity - it went back to the charity shop the next week. While the talents of the session musicians who were able to learn and reproduce fairly complex arrangements of chart records accurately at the drop of a hat were astonishing, it was still quite horrific when you're at all familiar with the original records.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm equally happy that I have never bought or owned a single 'NOW That's What I Call Music!' album.
Thankfully, there's enough room here for every opinion to co-exist
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
On the other hand, I'm actually wondering whether I should be more open-minded now I've got the lot, and re-import them from the start and find out if I *really* hate the missing stuff or not... sometimes the passage of time makes me quite like things I couldn't stand back in the day.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Do you have all the derivative now albums like now that's what I call... running/Easy/euro vision etc?
Have to say, I went and checked out some track listings and you are right, it's not quite the cheese fest I remember it being originally. I probably draw the line at Jive Bunny though.
There are too many of the other ones to bother with, and there probably aren't many songs that aren't already on the main ones anyway.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
For my nostalgia hit (with world music) I just visit https://radiooooo.com/