NOW Thats What I Call Music! 9

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Double CD re-issue coming on July 23, 2021, the track listing has no omissions - I wonder of they will use the "correct" version of "You Sexy Thing? This was a hit again ’cause it had a new remix for its tenth anniversary, though I can’t work out whether it was the original or the remix that was featured on this compilation. Deleting this artist may remove other artists and scrobbles from your library - please handle this with caution!Ben E King‘s ‘Stand By Me’ and and Jackie Wilson‘s ‘Reet Petite’ reminds us of the British public’s penchant for putting old songs at the top of the charts ( Boris Gardener‘s ‘I Want To Wake Up With You’ was on Now 8) and the power of TV/advertising. I should, however, point out that as a professional editor, I absolutely hate that misspelling of ‘my’ in the title. No direct Hits competition meant that the labels behind A-ha (Warners) and Simply Red (WEA) – both part of same group – were happy to licence them out and make some money. Then there’s the Nick Kamen track that nobody remembers – the Four Tops cover – before A-ha’s epic Manhattan Skyline. Solo Freddie can be divided into good [Love Kills, Barcelona], mediocre [Living On My Own] and tosh [The Great Pretender].

Well Now 9 contains ’16 Top 20 hits’; a subtle difference which entails selecting the most of the cream and eschewing the mavericks.backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie had struck out on their own by January; Heartache is a pop classic. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.

The selection is very ‘1987’ and it includes some brilliant pop songs like Simply Red‘s ‘The Right Thing’, Curiosity Killed The Cat‘s ‘Down to Earth’, Erasure‘s ‘Sometimes’, Robbie Nevil‘s ‘C’est La Vie’, Mental As Anything‘s ‘Live It Up’, The Blow Monkeys‘ ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way’, a-ha‘s ‘Manhattan Skyline’, the Pretenders‘ ‘Hymn to Her’ and Berlin‘s ‘Take My Breath Away’, to name but a few. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). The version of " Get the Party Started" is a remix by Rockwilder using elements of the Eurythmics song " Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and featuring rapper Redman, instead of the much more popular original version which was a hit in the United States (and continues to be popular and air on mainstream radio stations to this day). It’s the most forgotten song here [totally undeserved] and could have appeared in any number of US television shows – Remington Steele, Moonlighting, Sledgehammer, Wiseguy etc. years on and my fondness for the selections has grown – so much so that I think it’s skipped past Now 4 in the rankings.Now 9 was actually released as a 15-track, abbreviated, single CD back in the day, but this is the first time it has been available in its entirety across two CDs, and there are no tracks missing! Originally issued in March 1987, the 30-track various artists collection knocked U2‘s mighty The Joshua Tree from the top spot of the UK albums chart and spent five weeks at number one.