Updating the Now's - Alternative 80's

We've looked a bit a Now's, mainly from the Updating the Now's angle as the original Now That's What I Call Music series started in late 1983 so there was a period before of less good compilations and certainly a lack of Year based Greatest Hits sets so we've been going back so far in to 1978.

Now these days is a massive brand when it comes to compilations so there are a few others on compact disc dotted about but on Friday one did come out which does slot well within the vinyl Now collection here.

The transition between the more recent Now Yearbooks and the Original Now's in my collection is 1983 with Now Yearbook '82 being the last one which was topped up around Christmas with Now Yearbook 80-84 and a series of five boxed lps one each for 1980 through 1984 covering tracks not in with the individual yearbooks.

Because of the limits on what would fit the three lp Yearbooks and constraints of the original nows being just Chart Hits some influential songs were missed and this is very true of Alternative Rock.

This release is a double pink vinyl lp set with a graphic cover but it is also available in four cd folding card cover form.

This set does help fill those gaps in vinyl form with tracks by Japan, The Cure, The Cult, the B-52's and Tom Robinson amongst many others.