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!

The first one that didn't even have a number. I am old.

Now 13 on cassette 🤣

I've still got my Now 27 CD 🤭

Does anyone else remember Neil Tennant (from the Pet Shop Boys) being a journalist for Smash Hits? And the excitement when he made his first appearance on Tops of the Pops!

Now 29, it introduced me to Blur and Oasis.

If you sing along you MUST do it in a Welsh accent (assuming you aren't actually Welsh), it's the law!

3 on tape!

Now 35, Christmas 1996. I got a CD player along with the now album, spice girls spice and no doubt tragic kingdom…my first Christmas as a non-believer and I thought my parents were the coolest parents ever!

I remember when he interviewed Madonna before she was famous. It seemed so unlikely when he became a pop star

Was it the cd player with the tape player at the front and a built in radio? I think everyone in my friendship group got this as their present during one 90s Christmas.

Yep that’s the one…an Argos special I think! I used to listen to Atlantic 252 on the radio when I wasn’t blasting my new cds on it!!

Omg Atlantic 252! I remember it being the station to listen to!

I think it was now 26, on double cassette. I remember constantly pausing the tape deck to write down the lyrics to Two Princes-spin doctors,
To this day, I still haven’t got a bloody clue what they say in the chorus

I used to insist on calling it by its full name 🤣 Longwave Radio, Atlantic 252 🤣

Somewhere round about 40. Absolute bangers looking at the track listings, although interspersed with some 'indie' songs that I didn't appreciate in those days and would always skip!

I was obsessed with Stranded by Lutricia McNeal!

I remember that!

My first Now album was number 4. On LP.

God I'm old 😂

Same!

Now23 - a classic!

My big cousins had Now 6 which I was very impressed by 😁

Two

Also now 23. Had 23 and 24 on tape. 25 onwards on Cd.

Yep, Boyzone always seemed to find themselves there during the mid 90s!

Now 6, double LP, gatefold sleeve.
It was way back when, the biggest selling of the now albums.

Number 1 on vinyl!

Now 14 on tape