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Now That's What I Call Music 1989

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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

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!

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.

Well,the 1980's came to an end in 1989.And this was the music that was going about at the time.Kylie Minogue sort of spawned a generation of the all looks-no actual talent former soap stars,who,having appeared in soaps ,automatically think they have what it takes to sing.Hand On Your Heart went and became a corny classic,and there's also the equally corny but not so classic Americanos by Holly Johnson.Just over a decade after Heart of Glass was released ,Blondie lead vocalist Debbie Harry released the engrossing I Want That Man,and,hailing originally from the '50's,Tina Turner belts out Simply The Best.This compilation also features De La Soul's haunting Eye Know,and the captivating dance rhythm Lambada by Kaoma.Other highlights include Phil Collins' outstanding Another Day In Paradise and attitude filled 'homegirl' Neneh Cherry's Manchild,not forgetting Inner City's sweeping dance floor anthem Good Life and Paula Abdul's incredibly funky Straight Up.The downpoint being the dreadful Fine Young Cannibals with their appalling She Drives Me Crazy.

They removed "Eternal Flame" and other gems from this edition. I am wondering why, and also the reason the reasons for adding some non-hits onto this new edition.

They removed "Eternal Flame" and other gems from this edition. I am wondering why, and also the reason the reasons for adding some non-hits onto this new edition.

I owned this CD two years ago and I HATED, I will never buy anything like that ever again.