Now That's What I Call Music 1989 [Import]

Now Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00000JNM1
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,849 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Another Day in Paradise

2. The Living Years

3. If I Could Turn Back Time

4. The Best

5. She Drives Me Crazy

6. When Love Comes to Town

7. Mystify

8. Sowing the Seeds of Love

9. Getting Away With It

10. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Back to Life

2. Manchild

3. Fools Gold

4. It's Alright

5. Good Life

6. Straight Up

7. Americanos

8. Lambada

9. Stop!

10. Pump up the Jam

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be careful as there are 2 different versions of this CD and they are not the same!, February 23, 2010

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Blackiecats (UK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1989 (Audio CD)

The version of this CD I purchased was with the blue cover, which is much better than the newer version (red cover) which emitts songs like 'Eternal Flame' by the Bangles, but includes songs such as 'If I Could Turn Back Time' by Cher. Basically they are not the exact same release and should be treated as 2 seperate items!

The blue cover version was released in 1993 as part of a series to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the First 'NOW' release back in 1983! Ten albums were released (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993)

However in 2000, Emi/Virgin released another series of Now yearly albums they called 'The Millenium Series' While a chunk of the songs are featured on both releases, there are also many replaced by other songs. This could be because of no longer having rights to certain tracks they had the rights to back in 1993.... So if you want the songs on the 10th Anniversary original releases, be very careful and make sure your buying the version you want!

The full track listing for Now 1989 original blue cover released in 1993 is as follows:

Disc 1:

1/If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
2/All Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
3/She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
4/The Best - Tina Turner
5/Loco in Acalpulco - Four Tops
6/This Time I Know It's For Real - Donna Summer
7/Sweet Surrender - Wet Wet Wet
8/Stop - Sam Brown
9/Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole
10/Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville
11/Back To Life (however do you want me) - Soul ll Soul
12/I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan
13/Ride on Time - Black Box
14/Pump Up The Jam - Technotronic featuring Felly
15/My Perogative - Bobby Brown
16/Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
17/Good Life - Inner City
18/Straight Up - Paula Abdul
19/Waiting For A Star To Fall
20/If Only I Could - Sydney Youngblood

Disc 2:

1/Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins
2/Eternal Flame - The Bangles
3/The Living Years - Mike And The Mechanics
4/Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears for Fears
5/Getting Away With It - Electronic
6/Song For Whoever - The Beautiful South
7/I Don't Want A Lover - Texas
8/You Got It - Roy Orbison
9/The Road To Hell (part 2) - Chris Rhea
10/Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
11/Need You Tonight - INXS
12/Leave A Light On - Belinda Carlisle
13/I Want That Man - Deborah Harry
14/Baby I Don't Care - Transvision Vamp
15/The Look - Roxette
16/You're History - Shakespeares Sister
17/Stop! - Erasure
18/Hand On Your Heart - Kylie Minogue
19/Too Many Broken Hearts - Jason Donovan
20/Especially For You - Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT STYLISTIC VARIETY, September 5, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1989 (Audio CD)

This compilation from 1989 includes quite a number of artists from earlier eras or those who were already well established at the time, like Phil Collins, Mike And The Mechanics, Cher, Tina Turner, U2, Dusty Springfield, Debbie Harry, Roy Orbison, Status Quo and Simple Minds. Relatively new ones include Electronic, Technotronic, The Stone Roses and Kaoma. My personal favourites from this year include Kirsty MacColl's beautiful rendition of (Thank You For The) Days, Neneh Cherry's Manchild, The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold and Technotronic's Pump Up The Jam, a blistering dance track. The following are considered classics: The Living Years by Mike And The Mechanics, When Love Comes To Town by U2 and BB King, Americanos by Holly Johnson and of course, the massive hit Lambada by Kaoma. The variety of styles here includes rock (INXS, Mechanics, U2), folk (Kirsty MacColl), soul (Soul II Soul), dance (Technotronic, Paula Abdul, Kaoma), and pop (Cher, Debbie Harry). This album is perfect for a late 80s nostalgia party!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Collection, July 26, 2002

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"gibraud" (Braintree, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now That's What I Call Music 1989 (Audio CD)

This is a great collection of the hits of 1989 and it actually inlcudes most of the hits from 1989 excluding "Eternal Flame" and "Blame it On The Rain". I love "Straight Up" and "My Prerogative" and Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam". I gave this a five star rating because people gave this a bad review for no reason. This is a highly recommended album.