It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 621,000 copies in its first week, the highest opening week of sales for any U. Simple Minds and Billy Ocean both appear in shorter edits that have appeared in the intervening years. s last single ‘The Edge of Heaven’, Bowie‘s ‘Absolute Beginners’, a-ha‘s ‘Hunting High and Low’, Simply Red‘s ‘Holding Back The Years’ and ‘bonus track’ Queen‘s ‘A Kind of Magic’. We sign off with two smooth soul numbers; Aurra’s magical You And Me Tonight with its dual-interplay and the sweet duet On My Own from Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. Simply Red – Holding Back The Years is the full album mix 4:28, not the Edit 4:04 that was on the original Now 7.

While other countries had started truncated CD releases a couple of years earlier, their selections also could be a little random. first reissued 2009 for the 25th anniversary, then again 20 July 2018 to coincide with Now 100) re-issued on 2CD (gatefold in 2009, jewel case in 2018), audio cassette, and a 2LP vinyl release. and has a ridge around the edge of the labels, this issue has smooth labels with no ridge around the and was pressed by EMI Records. Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait: Great synth riff, more on which later as it was sampled in a track on a later Now! Storch ( producer) publisher: Aint Nuthin' Goin'On But F****' Music, Blackjack Entertainment, Blondie Rockwell Publishing, Dead Game Publishing, Elvismambo Music, Fivecard, Music of Windswept, Scott Storch Music, TVT ( copyright holder, no releases here please) and WB Music Corp.

November 2023) 33 tracks with only Kate Bush and Lil Louis missing, although Lil Louis was just a bonus track on the original CD version and did not appear on the vinyl and magnetic cassette versions.

In February 2023, 12" mixes all taken from the first three Now Dance compilations, originally released in 1985, 1986 and 1989, were collected on a special 4CD and 3LP set, Now Dance: The 80s, with artwork inspired by the original Now Dance 86. There’s also plenty of top quality one-hit-wonders of the era too, such as Owen Paul‘s ‘My Favourite Waste of Time’, Stan Ridgeway‘s ‘Camouflage’, Furniture‘s ‘Brilliant Mind’ and Nu Shooz‘s ‘I Can’t Wait’. Simply Red and Nu Shooz appear in longer album versions than the radio edits that originally appeared.

November 2020) David Bowie, Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, and the Real Roxanne are the tracks that are missing. The first sixteen volumes were all released on the same date, with the final four being issued four months later. album, from June to August in 1993, a series of ten, 40-track yearly collections were released on CD and cassette (but not vinyl), covering the years 1983 to 1992. The first Now album had the whole year to choose from but there was only a limited period of time to compile Now 2 and a more limited pool of tracks. The sleeve and inner labels make no reference to the track; it appears right after Side 3, track 8 [Simply Red’s strong slow set mainstayer Holding Back The Years].

Accordingly there’s quite a few songs that could have been considered or even featured on an extra compilation.assistant recording engineer: Bill Kinsley and Monique Mizrahi recording engineer: Ron Aniello, Neal Avron ( American engineer) and Jim Scott ( US recording engineer and producer) additional engineer: Bob Kearny and Marc Greene ( engineer) assistant engineer: Paul Hayden ( engineer) producer: Ron Aniello assistant mixer: Carl Egsieker and Ryan Williams ( US recording engineer/producer) mixer: Brendan O’Brien ( engineer) additional double bass [string bass]: John Leftwhich ( Jazz bassist) bass guitar: Sergio Andrade drums (drum set): Diff guitar and lead vocals: Jason Wade phonographic copyright (℗) by: Geffen Records(in 2000) and SKG Music L. Disappointing and one presumes we can expect the usual sloppiness, where proper single versions are replaced by album cuts. Genesis came back with a bang in 1986; Invisible Touch is one of the greatest pop albums ever with five smash hits; the title track being the taster. Towards the end of the series, 3-CD digipak sets were issued, but in 2010, the long-running title was retired, and all subsequent dance-themed Now collections have been issued under the Special Editions series. Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions.