I'm starting to think Keith's been put on these albums not for popular songs but just so a default country artist could be there. This House was a moody yet haunting effort from Alison Moyet while Marc Cohen’s Walking In Memphis still packs a punch. also delivered my first tastes of both US hip-hop and UK garage, from Outkast’s immortal “Ms Jackson” to DJ Pied Piper’s No 1 smash “Do You Really Like It? There I was, sat on my own on a long-haul bus, hair parted in the middle, plugged blissfully into a chunky, bright yellow Walkman. They are also notable as being the first time a Now series had released a compilation of hits from the years 1980 to 1982.

with some of the older kids dancing around to this, complete with cardboard “washing machine” props.This may sound incredibly geeky but another reason was to be able to see the running length of songs. I’d warm down to the wind-tunnel riffs of “These Dreams” by Heart, pressing my nose into my knee while Ann Wilson conjured images of misty moonlit woodlands. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions.

A simple formula: a list of towns and cities in the North of England set to a pounding industrial techno beat and percussion that sounds like steam whistles.

And with Universal coming on board in 1986, expanding the chart-topping caches even further, each new Now! While the song suite was superb in itself [Sound And Vision, Always Crashing In The Same Car, Be My Wife], it was the instrumentals that won it; utterly gorgeous and spacious. The tie-in television programmes are a month by month video playlist of tracks, from one year previously featured on a Now Yearbook album, with Bruno Brookes presenting. And if that wasn’t enough, we end with the longest song ever to appear on a Now album – Don McLean’s American Pie.

The first sixteen volumes were all released on the same date, with the final four being issued four months later.At some point during this hi-fi’s life, we switched over from incandescent light bulbs to the early compact fluorescents. Maybe Britannia went bust, maybe they ran out of copies of Bat of Hell, but soon enough we were ushering in the mini-epoch of double cassettes.

Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart". This would have been a perfect tune to finish this side on, as it fades to therelaxing sound of birdsong, but no, they stuck “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” on the end of it. The two track cassette single that played the same tracks [Master Mix / Smoothed Out Mix] on both sides. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me.S Club 7 refused to stop moving, a post-“Millennium” Robbie Williams was crooning about “Eternity”, and Atomic Kitten were nursing an “Eternal Flame”. I haven’t yet reached the stage of early thirties madness where I insist Martine McCutcheon’s “Perfect Moment” – disc one’s ominous opener – wasn’t crud actually, but I am inclined to pontificate on the genius of the Vengaboys if I get a few drinks in me. The original Rough Trade single from June ’89 was a failure but Flood’s remix of Come Home and a rebooted Gold Mother album finally saw success come their way.