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Morning all.

The iconic music compilation is the big 40 today!

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I remember that Now album coming out. You'd have thought compilation albums had just been invented, the way they went on about it. "Killed" the single, until downloads brought it back and streaming killed it again.
 
octophone said:
I remember that Now album coming out. You'd have thought compilation albums had just been invented, the way they went on about it. "Killed" the single, until downloads brought it back and streaming killed it again.
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It was back well before downloads! Cheap CD singles brought them back...

Now 3 was my first Now. I was also a HITS girl, as they had Madonna, Whitney et al...
 
I suppose...I was a sucker for buying both CD singles for b-sides etc.
 
Oh, I hated it when the OCC insisted that one of the CD singles could only have two songs. DVD singles were a messy thing; only had a few of those. I was strangely keen on getting the video on a CD-Rom tho' - nothing like watching the latest Britney vid on a computer screen in a window the size of a postage stamp!
 
octophone said:
I remember that Now album coming out. You'd have thought compilation albums had just been invented, the way they went on about it. "Killed" the single, until downloads brought it back and streaming killed it again.
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Didn't the Now series also start around the time that they really tightened up the rules around all the free gifts that record companies used to give away with singles? That probably made them a lot less attractive as well.

I remember my mother having lots of K-Tel compilations in the 70s. 20 Original Hits! 20 Original Stars!, but the Now Series felt ALL MINE. I guess largely a timing thing - I was probably never more into music than I was for my teenage years, had started doing paper rounds and glass collecting or sticking up in the local social club, so had my own money for the first time and so the means to buy them.

So was Now revolutionary (because it definitely felt like it) because they were multi label affairs produced by those labels themselves, and happened so quickly at the time? A lot of Now tracks had only very recently been big hits or were still in the chart when the album was released.

I assume labels like K-Tel had to negotiate with different labels to get the rights to tracks and so they couldn't be anywhere near so dynamic.
 
My brother was in the Now club from the beginning but had outgrown them by the time I started at number 8. I seem to remember I could only get either a Now or a Hits (never both) and only ever at Christmas.
 
I listen to new Now albums whenever one comes out as an attempt to keep up with the UK charts and I love the chaotic recent tracklists that are often made up of genuine hits, a bunch of fan-interest-only singles by whatever legacy acts are releasing that quarter, and the occasional track from a recently dead legend to fill space pay loving tribute

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NOW Music is pleased to announce the latest addition to the numbered series – NOW That’s What I Call Music! 116 – Out November 17th!47 huge tracks across 2CDs - the hottest hits from recent sales and airplay charts. Disc 1 kicks off with the second smash hit collaboration - ‘Desire’ - from...
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Tina Turner only had two deathbed wishes - to be remembered as the Queen of Rock & Roll, and to be included as track 24 on CD 2 of Now 115
 
lolly said:
Didn't the Now series also start around the time that they really tightened up the rules around all the free gifts that record companies used to give away with singles? That probably made them a lot less attractive as well.

I remember my mother having lots of K-Tel compilations in the 70s. 20 Original Hits! 20 Original Stars!, but the Now Series felt ALL MINE. I guess largely a timing thing - I was probably never more into music than I was for my teenage years, had started doing paper rounds and glass collecting or sticking up in the local social club, so had my own money for the first time and so the means to buy them.

So was Now revolutionary (because it definitely felt like it) because they were multi label affairs produced by those labels themselves, and happened so quickly at the time? A lot of Now tracks had only very recently been big hits or were still in the chart when the album was released.

I assume labels like K-Tel had to negotiate with different labels to get the rights to tracks and so they couldn't be anywhere near so dynamic.
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Yes! I remember Rod Stewart gave an adidas t-shirt with Baby Jane and HMV were reporting that people took the t-shirt and left the single on the counter.

IIRC, the thing with NOW was how current the selections were - compilations tended to be songs that had been out a good few years before this and, if you wanted current stuff, you only had the Top Of The Pops albums of session-player cover versions. So it was marketed as being like the Top Of The Pops albums but with the actual original artists and, sure enough, the Top Of The Pops albums died soon afterwards.
 
Yes, it was definitely the immediacy of them. And the value which couldn't be denied. I can't remember exactly how much singles were back in 1983/4, but I'm guessing £1 to £1.50. I remember buying Now or Hits double album compilations for £7.99.

I think back then they had about 30 tracks on them, but to a chart music geek, you could guarantee I'd properly love at least a third of them, happily play around half, and there were probably only one or two I'd actively dislike.

I'd only ever really buy singles again for my very favourite acts, or if it was an act I liked enough to buy their albums, and they used to give us new b-sides. Otherwise, what was the point? Wait a couple of months and you could have it on the next Now or Hits compilation. And after only a few of each you could guess pretty much the majority of the next tracklist.
 
I'm shocked to discover that the old TOTP albums went on as late as 1985. The only one I can specifically remember having at home was 1978, with Summer Nights, Rivers Of Babylon, Take A Chance On Me and Figaro on it. Although I was only 7 then, I was very into Brotherhood Of Man and had their album with Figaro on it as a birthday or Christmas present. I simply COULD NOT UNDERSTAND why the version on my mum's TOTP album sounded so different, but knew I didn't like it.

I think I'd have guessed they ended in around '80 or '81.
 
I had one with a version of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic". I remember nothing else about it as it was a gift and as soon as I realised it wasn't actually The Police, I think, it was...erm..."filed away".
 
I've just been for my tetanus injection where the nurse petrified me about going to South Africa because it's so dangerous for two women :(

Now waiting for my eye test.

Thrilling day.
 
I DO NOT know what to do.

I had an extremely vivid dream last night I bought a MacBook. I do have a laptop but it’s shit, old and barely works, beyond streaming stuff.

On said MacBook I was playing The Sims 😞

Is this a sign?!?!?! (I’d be financing the fuck out of it, as I have 1k to just drop…)
 
Rachey said:
I've just been for my tetanus injection where the nurse petrified me about going to South Africa because it's so dangerous for two women :(

Now waiting for my eye test.

Thrilling day.
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If you're driving in SA, don't stop the car. Anyone flagging you down is up to something.
 
I was definitely Team Hits for the first few years - I think I started with Now 12 in 1988. That was a GREAT album.

Hits 1 is probably the best ever compilation album though.
 
octophone said:
If you're driving in SA, don't stop the car. Anyone flagging you down is up to something.
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We're not driving, we're on some organised tours and some sorting out selves out...it's the sorting our selves out I'm worried about 😬
 
Eye test done, and my prescription has changed which I knew it had. £550 later and I have new glasses and sunglasses on order.

Pretty sure I could have got it cheaper at somewhere like Specsavers...but...my little opticians is so cute and friendly I couldn't not buy from them.
 
I'm sick :( But that means I can be here for the ASFM results and listen to some 80s Now albums :(:D:disco:
 
Indie said:
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Star doesn't work on the Isle of Wight :(

I don't know if this was expensive or not but I had the eye test, Ted Baker glasses and Ray Ban sunglasses with the anti glare. I don't know what I'd pay in somewhere like Specsavers.
 
Rachey said:
Star doesn't work on the Isle of Wight :(

I don't know if this was expensive or not but I had the eye test, Ted Baker glasses and Ray Ban sunglasses with the anti glare. I don't know what I'd pay in somewhere like Specsavers.
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Last time Mr F got glasses from Specsavers he insisted that he absolutely had to have the Hugo Boss frames despite them costing over £600 and not having a proper prescription for his left eye because "it doesn't focus properly" and even the NHS couldn't work out what's wrong with it. So £550 seems very reasonable for an independent optician.
 
big ron said:
I miss the days of b-side. Especially when bands would put out some genuinely amazing music as them. Oasis and OCS are two examples.
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Suede and Blur were the kings of that castle for me. Blur occasionally used live stuff but Suede almost always gave you two new songs per format. Manics gave good VFM too, in that regard.
 
I'm always horrified by how much Mr L's glasses cost. The last time he ordered two pairs, with various lens coatings and one pair being reactolite (is it still called that?), he didn't get much change from £1000, and that was some form of special offer on the second pair.
 
floppet said:
Last time Mr F got glasses from Specsavers he insisted that he absolutely had to have the Hugo Boss frames despite them costing over £600 and not having a proper prescription for his left eye because "it doesn't focus properly" and even the NHS couldn't work out what's wrong with it. So £550 seems very reasonable for an independent optician.
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Ok that makes me feel better. This was for two pairs of glasses as well.

What Is wrong with his left eye 🤔
 
I actually like wearing glasses. Does that make me odd?
 
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