After Monday's post comes another this week for a change.
Last year NOW started a new series of compilations called Now Yearbook kicking off with '84 which as suggested was set of hits from 1984 and these came on cd in a four cd set with an actual book option with disc with various facts included.
Unusually there was a LP version which I declined as I did with the 1983 version simply because I had the original Now That's What I Call Music and HITS series of compilations from that era plus a few original Ronco sets that covered much of the that era.
Yesterday they issued the 1982 edition and again it did come out on vinyl in a reduced three lp package that I did decide to purchase.
1982 was a significant year for me and, more over, some of the compilations I had back then didn't sound so great as they tried to cram ten tracks to a side and were edited so this would potentially be an upgrade.
It comes on coloured vinyl.
As well, it would replace the Overload compilation which did suffer from thin sound which had on it songs like Islands of Lost Souls by Blondie their last hit for a long time and had a good number of songs from earlier that year originally on the Action Trax 1+2 compilation several friends of mine had and played from tape at the time such as Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner.
That was also on their 4 album of 1981 which I bought for my birthday in 1982 so, yeah, this is very much childhood nostalgia connected.
Because I know the text on rear cover is hard to read here's the full track listing:
1.Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It!)
2.Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
3.ABC - The Look Of Love - Pt. 1
4.Spandau Ballet - Instinction
5.Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
6.Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
7.Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
8.Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
9.Elton John - Blue Eyes
10.Lionel Richie - Truly
11.Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
12.Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies
13.Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls
14.Madness - Our House
15.Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
16.Tears For Fears - Mad World
17.The Human League - Mirror Man
18.Visage - The Damned Don't Cry
19.Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle
20.Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind
21.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Maid Of Orleans (The Waltz Joan Of Arc)
22.Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
23.Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
24.Meat Loaf with Cher - Dead Ringer For Love
25.Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
26.Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
27.Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
28.Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
29.Roxy Music - Avalon
30.ABBA - The Day Before You Came
31.Donna Summer - State Of Independence
32.Shalamar - A Night To Remember
33.Irene Cara - Fame
34.Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
35.Rockers Revenge feat. Donnie Calvin - Walking On Sunshine
36.Malcolm McLaren, The World's Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals
37.The Jam - Town Called Malice
38.The Clash - Rock The Casbah
39.Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country
40.New Order - Temptation
41.The Associates - Party Fears Two
42.The Stranglers - Golden Brown
43.Japan - Ghosts
44.Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game
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