- Audio CD (21 Jun 1999)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: EMI/Virgin
- ASIN: B00000JNKU
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. I Want To Break Free - Queen | |||
| 2. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2 | |||
| 3. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood | |||
| 4. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol | |||
| 5. The Reflex - Duran Duran | |||
| 6. Together In Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder | |||
| 7. Sex Crime (1984) - Eurythmics | |||
| 8. Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA | |||
| 9. Young At Heart - The Bluebells | |||
| 10. Passengers - Elton John | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) - Phil Collins | |||
| 2. Victims - Culture Club | |||
| 3. I Should Have Known Better - Jim Diamond | |||
| 4. Shout - Tears For Fears | |||
| 5. Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw | |||
| 6. I'll Fly For You - Spandau Ballet | |||
| 7. Waterfront - Simple Minds | |||
| 8. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox | |||
| 9. Locomotion - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | |||
| 10. Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon | |||
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Customer Reviews
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I love everything about this compact disc excepting one thing - it makes me feel REALLY old! I listen to these songs and I can clearly remember when they first came out. I sound like my Dad! The music is brilliant if you like the great sound of the 80s. Queen, U2, Billy Idol, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and many of the other icons of the 80s are well represented. "Passengers" and "Joanna" were a great nostalgic surprise, but the best song on the album has to be Depeche Mode's masterpiece "Master and Servant".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The year of my birth - 1984. The music wasn't as bad as many people say and it certainly had its fair share of 80's classics.
Featuring one of Queen's most memorable songs I Want To Break Free (remember the video) and other huge 80's stars Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Eurythmics and U2 this CD is quite clearly one of the best 80's CD's around.
Many of the artists and songs included on Now 1984 are still popular today which shows their staying power. U2, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Elton John are still churning the hits out and Against All Odds (recently covered badly by Mariah Carey and Westlife) is here in its original version by Phil Collins.
My favourite songs are lesser know songs from Kool and The Gang with the great love song Joanna and Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey (of Human League) with their pop masterpiece Together In Electric Dreams.
But regardless of what is your favourite song on here they are all worh listening to over and over again and this is the quality of this cd that it can be listened to many times and still some great. A great trip to the music when i was born.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is definitely one of the better Now Music compilations, with plenty of amazing songs like U2’s Pride, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Two Tribes, Giorgio Morioder’s Together In Electric Dreams, Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It, Billy Ocean’s Caribbean Queen, Bananarama’s Robert de Niro’s Waiting and UB40’s Cherry O Baby. As usual, all the relevant styles are well represented, for example Rock (Queen), Synthpop (Eurythmics, Depeche Mode), Pop (Culture Club, Tracey Ullman), Dance (Kool And The Gang, Bronski Beat). The following are considered classics: Nelson Mandela by The Special A.K.A., White Lines by Grandmaster Flash, Sex Crime (1984) by Eurythmics and Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It. My favourites also include Billy Idol’s moody Rebel Yell and Move Over Darling by Tracey Ullman. Of course these compilations aren’t exhaustive so there’s always going to be certain important omissions from any given year, but overall this 1984 collection does an excellent job of bringing some of the best tracks together to enable the listener to wallow in nostalgia for a more innocent age.
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