If you used to buy the Now albums what number was your first one?

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33 for me, brought on double cassette from good old Woolies.

I know they are viewed by many as being deeply uncool but individual albums were way too expensive for me as a pre-teen. I think they featured on all my teen Xmas lists too and I remember the adverts with Mark Goodier doing the voice over.

I still have a very soft spot for them, even though when I occasionally pick one up for a nosy at I have no idea who 99% of the tracklists are, but I don't think I'm their target audience anymore anyway!

No 2 on vinyl, then No 9 on cassette, then I got practically all of them between 22 and 38 I think on cassette or CD (my teenage years)

Oh also, not read the whole thread but Now 23 is the best Now of all time, no contest.

Just posted about this - but this was the BEST one.

Now 4, Christmas 84 I think

Anyone else here whose first was in single figures - are you feeling really old this morning reading replies from people whose first one was a Now thirty-something? 😂

Just wondering if anyone else had this:

No, but I had Hits 6, which I got as a freebie when I bought my first personal stereo (a really cheap Boots own brand one).

Yes, I still have it!

Freebies - I had volume 1 of this - sadly couldn't neck down enough Twixes to get vol 2 😃

I can only apologise for my dyslexic self and endeavour to do better.

Now 44. Purple cover.

It did! It's is still one of my absolute favourites and even now if I hear mmmbop it brings back incredible memories of the long hot summer holidays of 1997.

Yes 😂

Sorry 😂 but I have to admit I am a bit relieved, when I started the threat I did worry it would be full of children younger poster saying Now 89 or something and make me feel ancient!

I have just impulse bought this on your recommendation!

@Sethera and as my nan always says... you are not old, you are just retro 😊

17 I think

The last one I bought was Now 14 so it seems amazing that they're currently in the 100s on Now numbers. Once I went to sixth form college I started fancying myself as a bit of a goth and spending my money on Bauhaus albums on green vinyl and the like 😳.

Thankfully now I am middle-aged such pretensions are long behind me and my radio is tuned to Absolute 80s!

Now That's What I Call Music 2! On cassette tape. When I hear some of the songs on the radio can still remember what the next one would have been after it 😆

Not sure it was Now 2 you had as this is the track listing for it

Now TWICM2

@Sethera I used to sit there with my finger hovering over the record button waiting for the dj to stop talking.
Also the little glitches on songs from a recording onto tape or a slightly scratched vinyl record, and expecting to hear the same when you hear it on the radio

I used to collect the free cds on various music mags, mainly Q magazine. I've got quite a few I still listen to now. Very much indie stuff but so good.

6

8

Had to Google but I think it was 34. I was very much a Spice Girls girl...

I do that too!! Thought it was just me 😁.

Wannabe, track number 1!