Earlier this morning I posted news that Now That’s What I Call Music is approaching a milestone – Now 100!
Chances are, if you live in the UK, you will have purchased at least one Now album in your lifetime. This could have been in your youth; it could have been last week. Whatever it was and whenever it was, let me know which was the first Now album you purchased?
Mine was Now That’s What I Call Music 37, which featured the likes of No Doubt’s I’m Just a Girl, Eternal’s I Wanna Be the Only One and The Spice Girls’ Who Do You Think You Are?, amongst others. In my opinion, a fine compilation album!
Here’s the ad that promoted the release (back in July 1997)…
If memory serves, I followed up Now 37 with Now 38 (November ’97) & Now 39 (April ’98) – clearly an awesome trilogy. Well, I say “awesome trilogy”, but if I’m being honest I always felt like Now 38 was a bit crap.
Either way, what was your magic number? What was the first Now album you bought and what were the songs that convinced you this was the compilation CD for you?
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7 Responses to What was your first Now album?
This is going to age me… but mine was NOW 10, on double cassette! It had songs by Pet Shop Boys, T’Pau, Freddie Mercury, Wet Wet Wet, Kiss, and that classic MARRS track “Pump Up The Volume”
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🙂 Now 10 sounds like an awesome release – mostly because of ‘Pump Up The Volume’! I think I only ever owned one double cassette and that was a Smash Hits & Party tape from 1989 – it felt a bit like a poor mans Now. Still, it had some great tracks including Fine Young Cannibals, Paula Abdul and Yazz.
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I picked up a Smash Hits double CD in a charity shop recently, from 1990 – it’s awesome!
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I’m gonna say I feel ancient, I’m from the era of vinyl, cassettes were new to me at the time in my youth. I can’t remember which now cassette I bought first, but, I know I bought a few.
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Vinyl is all the rage again now, so ma the cassettes will make a come back!
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I will have to check and see how many now cds I have and yes I have moved on.
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Can’t part with my vinyls. Last time I went in HMV they had a stack of vinyls, they were good then and still are. Memories….
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