Now That's What I Call Music! 20

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I’m sure I mentioned in here before that Chad taped over the first 30 seconds of this with the “Grease” soundtrack. And the "dip it low and you pick it up slow" from the first verse directly copies from Christina Milian's "Dip it Low". A formidable collaboration between the major music labels of the Eighties birthed this iconic compilation series.

November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing. The year was 2008: George Sampson had just won Britain’s Got Talent; weekends were spent watching Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging on repeat; the aquarium filter on Photo Booth was the hot new thing; and I had just been given Now!What a reminder that, when it came to brain-frying variety, nothing could hold a glow-stick to early 1990s-vintage Now! The slight issue was that they gave off light at the same frequency as the volume up / down control, so you’d turn the light on, and the volume would go right down to none.

Eric Idle recorded alternate lyrics for the radio mix, with the swearing censored, and the comments about the end of the film changed to record. This House” by Alison Moyet was a dreary, forgettable song, instantly followed by “Walking In Memphis” by Marc Cohn. Averaging three albums a year, and now totalling over 100 releases, the series has become a bellwether of mainstream music for pop historians. I’ve mentioned Glass Tiger a few times before [see the Formel Eins series] but My Town is a disappointment – subs-bench Deacon Blue with a Rod Stewart backing vocal. The two track cassette single that played the same tracks [Master Mix / Smoothed Out Mix] on both sides.but those artists "deliver songs that are either tepid retreads or safe compounds of past hits", but it's the songs by the newer artists of the time "that keeps the compilation from being disposable", pointing out tracks by the Pussycat Dolls, Fall Out Boy, and Rihanna as standouts from this volume. As well as being the last one to have a VHS release this is the last one where the track information on the inlay reads “From LP/Tape/CD”. And with Universal coming on board in 1986, expanding the chart-topping caches even further, each new Now! This tracklist – James, Gomez, the otherwise entirely forgotten pop group Precious – is so familiar, so listened-to, that I worry it speaks to a kind of cultural stagnation in me, or at least an inability to let go of the past.