Womack & Womack – Love Wars (Album version used instead of 7″ edit which was on Now 3 LP – nearly 2 minutes longer here) Ultravox – Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Original Now 3 was 4:10 in line with the 7″, this fades early here at 4:04)įrankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (Cowboy & Indians 7″ instead of We Don’t Want To Die 7″ picture disc) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Locomotion (Original Now 3 was 3:53 in line with the 7″, this fades early here at 3:44) Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You (Closer in length to the album version and slightly longer than the 7″ mix used on original Now 3) Nik Kershaw – I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Album version used instead of 7″ mix which was on Now 3 LP) Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (This has longer intro and is the album version) Re-Flex – The Politics Of Dancing (They use a shorter edit) The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make? (Again, album version not the never-on-CD-before 7″ edit) Snowy White – Bird Of Paradise (Too long, not the single mix)įrankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (Come Fighting instead of the original 7″ AKA Move)Įurythmics – Here Comes The Rain Again (It’s the album edit) Joe Fagin – That’s Livin’ Alright (Different take, not the 45) The former has a cardboard vinyl replica sleeve while the later edition comes in a jewel case. The 25th anniversary CD and 2018 reissue are identical in content. Simple Minds – Waterfront (Missing sticks intro that’s from the original single) New Edition – Candy Girl (Album version instead of 7″ mix) Malcolm McLaren – Double Dutch (They use album version rather than 7″ mix which was on the original Now 1) Limahl – Only For Love (20 seconds longer on CD – album version rather than unique edit that was on the original Now 1) So it is nice to sign off this page on a positive note. This bodes well for future projects – such as the Now Yearbook where last month’s 1983 edition was really well done. Thankfully it would appear that the advice & general feedback about taking more care with these CDs seems to have been heeded by the Now team. I always maintained that nobody expected 100% accuracy with these CD releases but the majority of the previous errors could have avoided with a little more attention to detail. Update 25 July 2021: As you will see below, there has been a significant improvement in quality control for Now 8 and Now 9. While impossible to know for sure, these releases could have come in a chunky fatbox, there would have been few or no licensing issues & they probably would have exactly matched the originals. It’s clear that the best time to do this would have been in late 1987 or early 1988 – just after Now 10 came out, the first one to have the same number of tracks on LP, cassette and CD. While it’s great to see these early albums emerge on CD at last, the quality control has been slipshod with numerous mistakes. The purpose of this page is to document the errors with Now That’s What I Call Music 1-9 CD releases.
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