She was over the moon with it and said it was really nicely presented as thought all the cds would be attached but they were all nicely in individual holders inside the main box and the songs are lots that she knows too. The original Now Dance series began in 1985 and has been released in a variety of titles, formats, and release frequency. They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982. Track sound quality is generally good to excellent, (with the notable exception of Under Your Thumb by Godley And Creme which sounds muffled and noise-gated to hell) but volume level between one track and another is very inconsistent - and it's not just due to mastering either.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is hard to think now that a rock track would get to Number 1 these days, but Europe did it with 'The Final Countdown' in 1986, and Survivor did too with 'Eye of the Tiger'. In February 2023, 12" mixes all taken from the first three Now Dance compilations, originally released in 1985, 1986 and 1989, were collected on a special 4CD and 3LP set, Now Dance: The 80s, with artwork inspired by the original Now Dance 86. Now 100 Nows · Now 100 80s · Now 100 Power Ballads · Now 100 Forgotten 80s · Now 100 Classic Rock · Now 100 Car Songs · Now 100 Movies · Now 100 Forgotten 90s · Now 100 Christmas · Now 100 Even More Forgotten 80s · Now 100 Sing-A-Long · Now 100 Party · Now 100 Forgotten 70s · Now 100 Country · Now 100 Forgotten 60s · Now 100 70s · Now 100 Summer · Now 100 Dance · Now 100 80s No.The Special Editions series includes a wide range of Now anniversary collections, different music genres, eras, and decades, as well as commercial tie-ins with Smash Hits, Disney, Eurovision, HMV and the Official Chart Company. An earlier compilation tie-in with Smash Hits from 1987 did, however, include tracks from those years. Each release is issued as a limited edition mini-hardback book, with the CDs in sleeves forming the pages of the ' yearbook' which contains an introductory overview of the year, original 7" single artwork, trivia, chart positions and a quiz. 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.

The Yearbook series are 4-CD and 3-LP vinyl sets, each representing a year of music, which launched in June 2021. The tie-in television programmes are a month by month video playlist of tracks, from one year previously featured on a Now Yearbook album, with Bruno Brookes presenting. was a vintage year for pop music as witnessed here with 'Tainted Love' by Soft Cell and 'Don’t You Want Me' from The Human League. The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs.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. Another strand of the Now Yearbook series, in August 2022, is the somewhat experimental release of a limited edition, extended play, 7" vinyl single, containing 2 tracks each from the 1983 and 1984 Yearbooks. I still think there's plenty more mileage in Now's Forgotten 80s series but it seems to have stalled after two releases. Some of them have unique track listings and are not related to similarly themed collections already issued on compact disc, however, more recent releases have been 'selections' taken from a larger CD collection (Rock, for example).

I could make my own cds because I already own 95% of these songs and download the rest, but some are versions I don't have on cd and I don't feel like ripping vinyl.A standard 4-CD version is also issued in a gatefold "wallet" design, which retails cheaper than the mini-hardback books.

Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart". A triple-CD only release, Yearbook Extra: The Collectors Edition, is issued a few weeks later; these include lesser known tracks and more songs by big artists included on the main album and they are released only in standard gatefold wallet packaging. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I was 11 in 1980 so my teenage\formulative years were music wise heavily influenced by this period of my life particularly 1983-1986, I have loads of these collections along with complete sets of release by many 80's artists.