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NOW 33 - Spring ‘96: Neil Collins

Oct 24 2024 63 mins

Ideas, experiments, imagination.So, what was the optimum Britpop™️ year? Academics, thinkers and BBC documentary makers have wrestled over this question for many a year. Possibly even as long as it takes to listen to Be Here Now.1993 - Yanks, go home?1994 - Maybe, perhaps definitely?1995 - Different class, I’d suggest?So where were we by the spring of 1996? Three years of evo

NOW Yearbook ‘81: ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK

Sep 16 2024 62 mins

Dylan Jones once described the Eighties as being shaped by ‘a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was only fleeting back in the sixties.’ *Moreso, K.Tel records importantly reminded us that home taping was killing music. So, it’s November 1981, and this young music fan is feverishly taking ownership of two cassettes in his local Woo

NOW - The Summer Album - July ‘86: Tim Worthington

Aug 19 2024 65 mins

We’re going where the sun shines brightly,We’re going where the sea is blue…1986 really was very Cliff. He had celebrated his first No1 of the 80s with the cast of The Young Ones, featured in some devastating billboard action in the (rerun) finale of the aforementioned BBC comedy show, been covered by the TVam rat and gerbil, and even had one of his most famous songs feature

NOW Yearbook ‘84: Ian Wade and Jude Rogers

Jul 15 2024 64 mins

“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back!”If you were really down with the cool kids in 1984, you would have most definitely have been passing around the school prized C90 cassettes featuring much copied Streetsounds compilations. And somewhere in there was Kurtis Blow’s AJ Scratch track with those immortal sampled words from the Jimmy Castor Bunch in 1972. Stra

NOW 15 - Summer ‘89: Matthew Horton

Jun 17 2024 73 mins

August 1989.The final year of ‘the finest pop decade ever’™️ is moving along quite nicely thank you very much. There’s most definitely a change in the air, and we don’t mean the launch of the FOUR channel Sky TV network. Relax everyone, UK Gold and TOTP reruns are coming in three years!No, real change was coming. The second summer of love in 1988 (sorry D

NOW 69 - Spring '08: Justin Lewis

May 21 2024 72 mins

It was the wise prophet and occasional flower impersonator Peter Gabriel that said, ‘I don’t remember, I don’t recall,I have no memory of anything at all.’Do you remember 2008?Yes, it's only (!) 16 years ago, so I’ve no doubt you still have packets in the kitchen cupboard that are older, but do you also remember how the pop landscape of 2008 was mapping out? Ind

NOW 116 - Autumn '23: David Quantick

Apr 15 2024 57 mins

It's November 2023, and the world's most successful compilation series is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Five decades of compiling the latest hits, the occasional miss, but always the songs that soundtracked our lives. Always there, always democratically and expertly sequencing the music that the UK buying (downloading/streaming/swiping) public were grooving to, laughing to, dan

NOW 29 - Autumn ‘94: Anna Doble

Mar 20 2024 79 mins

Confidence, they say, is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as……1994, darlings! And of course, as perceived wisdom now dutifully dictates, we were all completely mad for it, lemon hooch in hand, union jacks draped around our football tops, waving two fingers to those damn yanks. Go home!Except, of course, the truth couldn’t be further away from th

NOW 25 - Summer '93: Niall McMurray

Feb 02 2024 76 mins

Pop. The way that we process everything.So, it's the summer of 1993. According to meteorological 'experts', the UK experienced its lowest maximum temperatures since 1972. Only 4 days were officially classified as 'HOT'.Well, I would argue, pop fans, that is UNLESS you had a swingorilliant copy of NOW, That's What I Call Music 25!(We'll take this quite frankly, cheesy line out in th

NOW 24 - Spring ‘93: Sam Lidicott

Jan 05 2024 71 mins

Welcome to Spring 1993.And, I’m sure you’ll all agree, there was only one phrase on everyone’s lips.I lick-he boom, boom down.(Checks notes)Anyway, more of that later.The legendary NOW compilation series has reached its twenty-fourth volume and is now standing proud as the finest collection of chart hits around.HITS who?And as the fourth year of that craziest of decades ‘Th