Do you remember your first Now?

r93kaey5p2izun · 20-07-2018 04:37AM

Now 29 from 1994 on tape. I still have it here. It's a great mix of sh1te like Pato Banton and classics like New Order. Bit of Blur, bit of Oasis, some REM. I still love it.

Irish Guitarist · 20-07-2018 04:56AM

I never bought any of the originals. There wasn't that many chart songs I liked in the eighties so I would rather save up and buy a tape by someone I really liked.

For the tenth anniversary (I think) they released a load of albums named after years. I bought either Now 1983 or Now 1984. For the Millennium they released similar albums (I think they may have had different tracks) and I bought Now 1987. These are the only Now albums I ever bought.

smilerf · 20-07-2018 05:11AM

Now 10.

Irish Guitarist · 20-07-2018 05:30AM

Some of the early Now albums are worth a lot of money. This was apparently the first one on CD and not many were produced.

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/NOW-4-THATS-WHAT-I-CALL-MUSIC-CD-PATENT-PENDING-CASE-EX-SUPER-RARE/163138845186

god's toy · 20-07-2018 06:32AM

blanch152 wrote: »

It is hard for people of today to understand but before Now, we had Top of the Pops

http://topofthepopslps.weebly.com/about-the-albums.html

These were horrendous covers of the originals put into compilations. So what NOW did was to create compilations that included the original singers.

Still goes on today. Some of the covers or 'versions' (even by the same artist) you find on google/itunes/spotify are near perfect 'reproductions' of the radio edit released to get around copyrights restrictions of the artist or album may have.

Bugs me no end...

hairyslug · 20-07-2018 06:36AM

I think it was 1987 which was released in 93, I know it started with "I wanna dance with somebody" but I was sure the last song was Startrekkin but google is saying otherwise.

cbyrd · 20-07-2018 06:59AM

Mine was now 8, I was 12. I also got the cassette player and headphones, I used to play it all the time specially when I was vacuuming. My first santy gift that I knew my parents bought. Loved it.

god's toy · 20-07-2018 07:19AM

Should be called: 'Now! That's what I call 4 chords' ...

_Brian · 20-07-2018 07:31AM

Now that’s what I call music of the 80’s

I think it was a really early one, perhaps before the numbered volumes.

TerrorFirmer · 20-07-2018 07:42AM

Can't remember the number, but it was a double tape with Simply Red 'Fairground' on it. Think it was probably the first music I bought with my own money as well so I listened to it endlessly.

Just looked it up, it was Now 32.

E30i · 20-07-2018 07:48AM

I won the first 6 on LP on a Radio 2 show called Hotline. Prob around mid eighties. I'd say I still have them somewhere if I looked hard enough, despite many house moves in the last 30 odd years.

greenttc · 20-07-2018 08:02AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Can't remember the number, but it was a double tape with Simply Red 'Fairground' on it. Think it was probably the first music I bought with my own money as well so I listened to it endlessly.

Just looked it up, it was Now 32.

That's the first one I bought too, also had roll with it and country house on it, nice bit of blur oasis rivalry!

WildWater · 20-07-2018 08:23AM

I remember when Now 1 came out. Didn't own it though because stuff like that was expensive in the 80's. Oh the joy, a year later, when MT-USA came along (if you could get to watch the telly). Poop old Mick - RIP.

Kids today don't know how good they have.

Cleopatra_ · 20-07-2018 08:32AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Can't remember the number, but it was a double tape with Simply Red 'Fairground' on it. Think it was probably the first music I bought with my own money as well so I listened to it endlessly.

Just looked it up, it was Now 32.

This was my first tape! It also had Shaggy's Boombastic on it.

valoren · 20-07-2018 09:05AM

smilerf wrote: »

Now 10.

Wasn't there a special edition of that version with tracks specially selected by Jimmy Saville?

Now 10, Now 10.

smilerf · 20-07-2018 09:11AM

valoren wrote: »

Wasn't there a special edition of that version with tracks specially selected by Jimmy Saville?

Now 10, Now 10.

hehe

sunbeam · 20-07-2018 03:21PM

Now 1 was also my first proper tape that I hadn't recorded off the radio. Anyone remember the ads: 'home taping is killing music-and it's illegal!'? -D

I asked for it as a Christmas present and wrote the name down for the mammy to give to the staff in the shop so she would be sure to get the right one.

The Hits albums came out the next year and I always thought they had a better selection than the Now series.

Actually, come to think of it, my first proper tape was a recording of the Pope's visit in 79, but I don't think that really counts...

Conall Cernach · 20-07-2018 03:24PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

One of the very first ones, I think it had a pig on the cover.

That's NOW4 "the Pig One". I have it too. Some great stuff on it.

BobMc · 20-07-2018 03:28PM

Have No.1 on Vinyl its over in my parents, have a bunch of them on vinyl, might go visit over the weekend and see If I can find them, not that I've anyway to play em

Rubberlegs · 20-07-2018 03:53PM

sunbeam wrote: »

Now 1 was also my first proper tape that I hadn't recorded off the radio. Anyone remember the ads: 'home taping is killing music-and it's illegal!'? -D

I asked for it as a Christmas present and wrote the name down for the mammy to give to the staff in the shop so she would be sure to get the right one.

The Hits albums came out the next year and I always thought they had a better selection than the Now series.

Actually, come to think of it, my first proper tape was a recording of the Pope's visit in 79, but I don't think that really counts...

I was never really into the Now albums, but still have the very first double Hits album from 1984, age 11 at the time:). Great tunes, ZZ Top, and Meatlof amongst them. I also remember having Hits 6 on cassette, remember Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance with Somebody being on it.

fabvinny · 20-07-2018 04:06PM

had them all from the first up to about 12 or 13 i reckon! on cassette....!

Filmer Paradise · 21-07-2018 01:22AM

Just checked. Have Now 1,2 & 3 in gatefold vinyl in front of me right now.

I'm sure there's plenty more at the 'home place' on cassette or cd. Myself & my siblings bought them in the '80s & '90s.

The only reason I have the 3 editions in front of me now is because my daughter (born 2005) wanted to show them to her class as part of a 'historical exhibition' a few years ago.

God I'm old............

Ursus Horribilis · 21-07-2018 01:43AM

Now 10 on double cassette. The family record player was either broken or thrown away by the time that came along. I regret that now because if I'd bought it on vinyl, I might still own it. I chucked out my cassettes years ago because they sounded like shyte. I can't remember the last "Now" I bought but I loved them back in the day. I used to look forward to seeing the ads for the latest one on TV because they had so many of the songs I liked on them.

Do you remember your first Now?

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