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3LP (45 Tracks)
0198028066617
LP 1 Side A
1.    Heaven 17 - Sunset Now  
2.    ABC - How To Be A Millionaire  
3.    Scritti Politti – Hypnotize  
4.    Bananarama – The Wild Life  
5.    Level 42 - The Chant Has Begun  
6.    Helen Terry - Love Lies Lost  
7.    Soft Cell - Down In The Subway  
8.    Talk Talk - Such a Shame  
 
LP 1 Side B
1.    Teddy Pendergrass - Hold Me – Duet with Whitney Houston
2.    Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further  
3.    John Lennon - Borrowed Time  
4.    M+M - Black Stations/ White Stations  
5.    The Colour Field – The Colour Field  
6.    Tom Robinson - Ricky Don't Lose That Number  
7.    Marillion - Punch and Judy           
 
LP 2 SIDE A
1.    Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops
2.    Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle  
3.    The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
4.    Everything But The Girl – Each An Every One
5.    Malcolm McLaren - Carmen (L’oiseau Rebelle)
6.    The Associates - Those First Impressions 
7.    Blancmange – The Day Before You Came
 
LP 2 SIDE B
1.    Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life, Pt 1           
2.    Divine - I'm So Beautiful   
3.    Evelyn Thomas - Masquerade 
4.    Miquel Brown - He's A Saint, He's A Sinner 
5.    Shalamar - Dancing In The Sheets
6.    Donna Summer - Supernatural Love (Remix)  
7.    Sheena Easton - Strut 
8.    Arrow - Hot Hot Hot  
 
LP 3 SIDE A
1.    Culture Club - Miss Me Blind  
2.    Thompson Twins - The Gap 
3.    The Fixx - Are We Ourselves? 
4.    Go-Go's - Head Over Heels  
5.    The Cars - You Might Think           
6.    The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven 
7.    Visage - Love Glove  
8.    Sparks – With All My Might 
 
LP 3 SIDE B
1.    Pretenders - Show Me 
2.    Daryl Hall & John Oates - Adult Education  
3.    Rick Springfield - Love Somebody  
4.    Bon Jovi - Runaway 
5.    Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane  
6.    Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning 
7.    ZZ Top - TV Dinners

Special Edition 4CD (80 Tracks)
0198028066822
CD 1:
1.    Heaven 17 - Sunset Now  
2.    ABC - How To Be A Millionaire  
3.    Scritti Politti – Hypnotize  
4.    Soft Cell - Down In The Subway  
5.    Bananarama – The Wild Life  
6.    Helen Terry - Love Lies Lost  
7.    Matt Bianco - Sneaking Out The Back Door
8.    Five Star – Hide And Seek
9.    Level 42 - The Chant Has Begun  
10.    Talk Talk - Such A Shame               
11.    Visage - Love Glove  
12.    The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven 
13.    Kim Wilde - The Touch 
14.    Nena - Just A Dream
15.    The Belle Stars - 80's Romance 
16.    Marilyn - You Don't Love Me 
17.    China Crisis - Hanna Hanna  
18.    Fiction Factory - Ghost Of Love 
19.    A Flock Of Seagulls - The More You Live, The More You Love 
20.    Blancmange – The Day Before You Came
21.    Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Never Turn Away 
 
CD 2:
1.    Teddy Pendergrass - Hold Me – Duet with Whitney Houston          
2.    Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further  
3.    Loose Ends - Emergency (Dial 999) 
4.    Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life, Pt. 1          
5.    Shannon - Give Me Tonight  
6.    Shalamar - Dancing In The Sheets
7.    Miquel Brown - He's A Saint, He's A Sinner 
8.    Evelyn Thomas - Masquerade 
9.    Divine - I'm So Beautiful   
10.    Hazell Dean - Evergreen  
11.    Arrow - Hot Hot Hot  
12.    UB40 - Riddle Me 
13.    Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France 
14.    Marillion - Punch And Judy                         
15.    Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
16.    Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning 
17.    Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane  
18.    Meat Loaf - Razor's Edge 
19.    John Lennon - Borrowed Time  
 

CD 3:
1.    Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops
2.    Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle  
3.    The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
4.    Everything But The Girl – Each And Every One
5.    Malcolm McLaren - Carmen (L’oiseau Rebelle)
6.    The Associates - Those First Impressions 
7.    Sparks – With All My Might 
8.    Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See      
9.    M+M - Black Stations/ White Stations  
10.    The Colour Field – The Colour Field  
11.    Tom Robinson - Ricky Don't Lose That Number  
12.    Aztec Camera - All I Need Is Everything    
13.    Julian Cope - The Greatness And Perfection Of Love  
14.    XTC - All You Pretty Girls  
15.    The Boomtown Rats - Drag Me Down 
16.    The Stranglers - No Mercy 
17.    Public Image Limited - Bad Life  
18.    Spear Of Destiny - Prisoner Of Love 
19.    The Sisters Of Mercy - Body and Soul       
20.    Swans Way - Illuminations 
 
CD 4:
1.    Culture Club - Miss Me Blind  
2.    Thompson Twins - The Gap 
3.    Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night 
4.    The Fixx - Are We Ourselves? 
5.    Go-Go's - Head Over Heels  
6.    The Cars - You Might Think           
7.    Pretenders - Show Me 
8.    Daryl Hall & John Oates - Adult Education  
9.    Sheena Easton - Strut 
10.    Donna Summer - Supernatural Love (Remix)  
11.    Mike Reno feat. Ann Wilson - Almost Paradise (Love Theme From "Footloose") 
12.    Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie 
13.    Night Ranger - Sister Christian 
14.    Rick Springfield - Love Somebody (From "Hard to Hold" - Original Soundtrack) 
15.    Bon Jovi - Runaway 
16.    Scandal feat. Patty Smyth - The Warrior 
17.    ZZ Top - TV Dinners          
18.    Yes - Leave It  
19.    Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock & Roll  
20.    “Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat It 

4CD (84 Tracks)
0198028066723
CD 1:
2.    Heaven 17 - Sunset Now  
3.    ABC - How To Be A Millionaire  
4.    Scritti Politti – Hypnotize  
5.    Soft Cell - Down In The Subway  
6.    Bananarama – The Wild Life  
7.    Helen Terry - Love Lies Lost  
8.    Matt Bianco - Sneaking Out The Back Door
9.    Five Star – Hide And Seek
10.    Level 42 - The Chant Has Begun  
11.    Talk Talk - Such A Shame               
12.    Visage - Love Glove  
13.    The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven 
14.    Kim Wilde - The Touch 
15.    Nena - Just A Dream
16.    The Belle Stars - 80's Romance 
17.    Marilyn - You Don't Love Me 
18.    China Crisis - Hanna Hanna  
19.    Fiction Factory - Ghost Of Love 
20.    A Flock Of Seagulls - The More You Live, The More You Love 
21.    Blancmange – The Day Before You Came
22.    Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Never Turn Away 
 
CD 2:
2.    Teddy Pendergrass - Hold Me – Duet with Whitney Houston          
3.    Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further  
4.    Loose Ends - Emergency (Dial 999) 
5.    Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life, Pt. 1          
6.    Shannon - Give Me Tonight  
7.    Shalamar - Dancing In The Sheets
8.    Miquel Brown - He's A Saint, He's A Sinner 
9.    Evelyn Thomas - Masquerade 
10.    Divine - I'm So Beautiful   
11.    Hazell Dean - Evergreen  
12.    Arrow - Hot Hot Hot  
13.    UB40 - Riddle Me 
14.    Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France 
15.    Marillion - Punch And Judy                         
16.    Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
17.    Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning 
18.    Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane  
19.    Meat Loaf - Razor's Edge 
20.    John Lennon - Borrowed Time  
 

CD 3:
2.    Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops
3.    Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle  
4.    The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
5.    Everything But The Girl – Each And Every One
6.    Malcolm McLaren - Carmen (L’oiseau Rebelle)
7.    The Associates - Those First Impressions 
8.    Sparks – With All My Might 
9.    Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See      
10.    M+M - Black Stations/ White Stations  
11.    The Colour Field – The Colour Field  
12.    Tom Robinson - Ricky Don't Lose That Number  
13.    Aztec Camera - All I Need Is Everything    
14.    Julian Cope - The Greatness And Perfection Of Love  
15.    XTC - All You Pretty Girls  
16.    The Boomtown Rats - Drag Me Down 
17.    The Stranglers - No Mercy 
18.    Public Image Limited - Bad Life  
19.    Spear Of Destiny - Prisoner Of Love 
20.    The Sisters Of Mercy - Body and Soul       
21.    Swans Way - Illuminations 
 
CD 4:
2.    Culture Club - Miss Me Blind  
3.    Thompson Twins - The Gap 
4.    Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night 
5.    The Fixx - Are We Ourselves? 
6.    Go-Go's - Head Over Heels  
7.    The Cars - You Might Think           
8.    Pretenders - Show Me 
9.    Daryl Hall & John Oates - Adult Education  
10.    Sheena Easton - Strut 
11.    Donna Summer - Supernatural Love (Remix)  
12.    Mike Reno feat. Ann Wilson - Almost Paradise (Love Theme From "Footloose") 
13.    Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie 
14.    Night Ranger - Sister Christian 
15.    Rick Springfield - Love Somebody (From "Hard to Hold" - Original Soundtrack) 
16.    Bon Jovi - Runaway 
17.    Scandal feat. Patty Smyth - The Warrior 
18.    ZZ Top - TV Dinners          
19.    Yes - Leave It  
20.    Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock & Roll  
21.    “Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat It 
 

NOW Yearbook - The Vault: 1984

Various Artists

NOW
  • limited clear blue 3LP (45 tracks)

    Released: 4th Oct 2024

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1984 was a truly incredible year in pop music, and here's a fabulous selection of tracks on the 1984 Yearbook and the 80-84 Final Chapter as part of Now's appreciation of the year.

Those tracks were generally the bigger hits of the year, with their chart achievement a factor in their inclusion. However, that’s not the whole singles story of the year, and our celebration of 1984 wouldn’t be complete without shining a light on some of the years’ singles that have been compiled much less frequently over the past 40 years… Welcome to THE VAULT for 1984… Some of the tracks included were Top 40 hits, some missed the chart completely. Some were representative of massive selling albums, and some were big hits in the U.S. and not in the U.K…. but all are part of the wonderful pop story of 1984.

3LP

LP1 begins with some pop gems from established artists; Heaven 17, ABC, and Scritti Politti ahead of a U.S. single release from Bananarama. The solo debut from Helen Terry who had sung back-up vocals on the previous years’ massive seller ‘Colour By Numbers’ from Culture Club features along with Level 42, Soft Cell and Talk Talk who close the first side with ‘Such A Shame’. Flip the LP over to enjoy the sumptuous vocal pairings of Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston, and Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett. The side also features the debut from the Colour Field, M+M’s ‘Black Stations/White Stations’ and established artists Tom Robinson and Marillion.

The second disc kicks off with a stunning collection of indie-pop, including Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Icicle Works and the Top 40 debut from Everything But The Girl… plus Malcolm McLaren, The Associates and Blancmange with their cover of ABBA’s ‘The Day Before You Came’, whilst the dance-floor beckons on the other side with electro-dance and Hi-NRG from Sheila E., Divine, Evelyn Thomas, Miquel Brown, and chart regulars Shalamar, Donna Summer and Sheena Easton – with Arrow closing the LP with carnival favourite ‘Hot Hot Hot’.

The final LP focuses on singles that found chart success in the U.S. and opens with Culture Club’s ‘Miss Me Blind’, which didn’t get a single release in the U.K, alongside a selection of U.S. new-wave hits from The Fixx, Go-Go’s and The Cars. Synth-led tracks from The Psychedelic Furs, Visage and Sparks close the side. Pretenders opens the final side with ‘Show Me’, which was a U.S. hit, but not a single in the U.K. Daryl Hall & John Oates, and Rick Springfield continued their run of Stateside hits and Bon Jovi debuted with ‘Runaway’. Scorpions and Judas Priest are up next with rock classics ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’, and ‘Freewheel Burning’… and the final word is given to ZZ Top with ‘TV Dinners’ one of four singles from their massive ‘Eliminator’ album.

4CD Editions

CD1 begins with some pop gems from established artists; Heaven 17, ABC, Scritti Politti and Soft Cell. A U.S. single release from Bananarama features ahead of the solo debut from Helen Terry who had sung back-up vocals on the previous years’ massive seller ‘Colour By Numbers’ from Culture Club. Early singles from Matt Bianco and Five Star follow, plus pop essentials from Level 42, Kim Wilde, Marilyn and Nena’s ‘Just A Dream’, the follow up to their #1 ’99 Red Balloons’. The first disc closes with synth-pop from Fiction Factory, A Flock Of Seagulls, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Blancmange with their cover of ABBA’s ‘The Day Before You Came’.

The second disc opens with the sumptuous vocal pairings of Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston, and Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett. The smooth contemporary soul of Loose Ends leads into electro-dance classics from Sheila E., Shannon and Shalamar, and Hi-NRG floor-fillers from Miquel Brown, Evelyn Thomas and Divine – plus Hazell Dean’s cover of ‘Evergreen’. Following Arrow, UB40, and Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly, tracks from Marillion, Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, Scorpions and Meat Loaf take the disc in a rockier direction…

CD3 kicks off with a stunning collection of indie-pop from a plethora of hugely influential artists, including Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Malcolm McLaren, Sparks and the Top 40 debut from Everything But The Girl. A run of great tracks follow from newer acts including the Colour Field, M+M, Vicious Pink and a solo Julian Cope, alongside established chart stars including Aztec Camera, Tom Robinson, XTC, The Stranglers, Public Image Limited and The Boomtown Rats, before closing with Spear Of Destiny, The Sisters Of Mercy, and Swans Way with ‘Illuminations’, which was following up their hit ‘Soul Train’ from earlier in ’84.

The final disc focuses on singles that found chart success in the U.S. and opens with Culture Club’s ‘Miss Me Blind’, which didn’t get a single release in the U.K. Next up, a selection of U.S. new-wave hits from Corey Hart, The Fixx, Go-Go’s and The Cars. Pretenders ‘Show Me’ was a U.S. hit, but not a single in the U.K, and Daryl Hall & John Oates, Sheena Easton and Donna Summer all continued their run of Stateside hits… and Bon Jovi debuted with ‘Runaway’! Rock radio smashes from Night Ranger, Steve Perry, Rick Springfield and Huey Lewis & The News all feature before the collection is signed off by “Weird Al” Yankovic with his U.S. Top 20 / U.K. Top 40 hit ‘Eat It’.