NOW Thats What I Call Music! 9

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It’s a bit dull, but there’s something I quite like about it, maybe just ’cause it’s been featured on so many ’80s compilations I’ve heard.

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! The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs.

You Sexy Thing was remixed by Ben Liebrand and primarily used to promote The Very Best of Hot Chocolate. All subsequent releases starting from Now 10 onwards would have a full double CD release with all tracks included. The only thing that’s utter “tosh” there is that you claim Living On My Own to be merely mediocre and The Great Pretender to be tosh as if it’s fact. Berlin’s monster ballad Take My Breath Away that continued to feature in slow sets for the remainder of the decade. Hits 2 had stolen a march on 1985 and Hits 4 hoovered up early 1986 but come March 1987 it was the Now mob that vied for my hard-earned cash.

I hear this one regularly every Christmas period due to its status as the 1986 UK Christmas number one. It went head-to-head with the Housemartins’ Caravan Of Love for the all-important Christmas number one.On the 2021 CD Now 9 re-issue, "Jack Your Body" has a strange fade out ending, unlike the "clean" ending on the 1987 Double LP.

Would it maybe be the case that the team behind “Hits” had first dibs on these tracks but the labels involved were happy to licence tracks to EMI/Virgin for inclusion on “Now” as long as there was no Hits albums around at the same time? Erasure moved into second gear and The Circus era with Sometimes while Robbie Nevil’s C’est La Vie remains a soulful jam that caught the January ’87 wave of optimism. Like the previous volume it was given a single CD release which featured a selection of tracks available on the full vinyl/cassette release.The exclusion of Caravan Of Love is most surprising; it may have cleared the home dancefloor but could have just been included at the very end. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. I was just finished my mock exams for the Intermediate Certificate [Irish equivalent of O Levels] so needed some pop relief. The number of tracks had dropped back to 30 [after 33 and 32 on the previous two volumes] but Now 9 contained seven chart toppers.

To the end: two randomers from the final quarter get their day on the shiny disc – Genesis and The Pretenders. 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. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.Then there’s the Nick Kamen track that nobody remembers – the Four Tops cover – before A-ha’s epic Manhattan Skyline. The song was reissued in 1986 following the showing of a clay animation video [directed by Giblets] on BBC’s Arena.