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, on tape

I was rubbish and mine all had random bits of the DJ, jingles, part of an advert for the local garden centre etc.😃 Sometimes if I hear a song on the radio now that I used to have on a home tape, my brain still expects some 40-year-old advert to cut in at the end!

@Sethera 🤣🤣 that's ace. I think I could probably still do it, with that and my superior knowledge of song lyrics thanks to the Smash Hits lyrics cards it's good to know that my youth wasn't wasted.

Having said that I don't advise you to try and explain the above to anyone under 35 as they will look at you like you are a neanderthal, sadly I speak from bitter experience!

Pretty sure I had the first one - on tape. One of my first albums along with the Grease music and Abbas greatest hits. 🙂

No 1

@Pinkruler all the classics 😊.

I’d forgotten but it was Now 29. Thanks for this thread. I’m away for a listen.

5 and 6 double cassette

Now 36 was my first purchase (although with the earlier Nows I definitely know all the songs 😂)

Now 37. I was 11 years old and it was the first thing I’d ever owned on CD. I’d had a mini hifi system for my bedroom for my birthday a couple of months earlier. I can see it now, it had a gold cover and the first song on CD1 was Mmmbop by Hanson.

11 I think - 1988. I was 10 and got that and a Walkman for my birthday. It was the only album I had for a long while, so it was listened to a lot!

Showing my age - I had the first one - Now That's What I Call Music.

Now 2 I just remember it had Word Up on it.

Now 10

Now 38, I didn't buy it though, it was a christmas gift from my brother.

Bought, not bRought.

I was also 29, also bought from Woolies!

Now11, on double cassette. Chose it for my 8th birthday to go with my new pink ghetto blaster because it had 'I should be so lucky' on it. Only years later did I realise it's actually got a few decent songs on it too!

19 - the only shite was The Stonk, by Hale and Pace. Looking back down the track listing, phenomenal, what a time to be forming musical taste 🤩

Me too. Got it for Christmas 1982 I think. Maybe 1983.

i learned the words to Schiller's Ode To Joy so i can belt out along to Beethoven.

DH just informed me my original Now went the way of a car boot sale years ago

16, Woolworths bought with pick n mix that wiped out my birthday money

This was my first. Belters of tunes