How many of these did I buy? here's a clue - I never collected 80s / 90s music. Great to see Chris Tarrant in his younger days. That's also him voicing the Greatest Non-Stop Party ad. Some 80s DJs (I do not know them and one of them seems to have done quite a few of these) voicing these - The 80s / Our Price (Now Dance 92) ads sound like Kid Jenson.
The 80's rock! My favourite decade for music by far. I'm predominantly a rock guy but I love all the different genres in the 80s. Oh man, our price records! I loved that store. We had one in our local mall. I used to go in with my grandparents every Saturday and buy some records with my pocket money lol. So sad to know it's no more. Yes! Def leppard is my all time favourite band. My auntie bought me the Hysteria album for Christmas 1987. That now 29 sounded great. Those songs was from my high school/college year's.
Watching this just brought back some great memories. I can still remember seeing these adverts on TV as a kid and into my teen years in the 80s and into the 90's. Especially all those Now ones which were my favourite, featuring the voice of Mark Goodier I believe, or was it Steve Wright, I can't remember now. I had Now 15 on a cassette at one time and I loved it. I played it so much I wore it out in the end I think. But I think it's great to see they have currently been re-releasing all the earlier Now compilations and making them available again for the newer younger fans to enjoy. I love them. Loved all the Smash Hits ones as well. Smash Hits Party 88 was fantastic. Still got it on vinyl. Our Price was a great shop for buying music on vinyl. Bought some of mine in that shop, and Woolworths too. I still miss them believe it or not. If we could pick 2 shops that we would like to see back on the high street my picks would be Woolworths and Our Price. This brought back so many great childhood memories, thank you.
I used to make mix tapes from the Now albums I had (combined with the ones my sister bought). There were always a few tunes on those albums I was a bit meh about.
Philip Schofield doing the voiceover on Smash Hits 88. Funny how Gordon the Gopher never got his chance to make a little extra cash on the side... I guess he just left the little people behind him 😄 Though at least Gordon wasn't only "phone famous", whatever that is.
In order: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - ? Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Rag Doll Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Sherry Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Let's Hang On Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face ? ? ? Grover Hamilton IV - Abilene Grover Hamilton IV - Early Morning Rain Grover Hamilton IV - Canadian Pacific Culture Club - Victims Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together Genesis - That's All Madness - The Sun and the Rain Incantation - Cacharpaya Madness - Our House Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? Modern Romance - Best Years Of Our Lives Queen - I Want It All Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Swing The Mood T.Rex - We Love To Boogie T.Rex - Get It On T.Rex - Hot Love T.Rex - Metal Guru T.Rex - Telegram Sam Paul Hardcastle - 19 Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? Def Leppard - Rocket Def Leppard - Animal Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard - Rocket (again) ? ? Nick Berry - Heartbeat Sandie Shaw - Always Something There To Remind Me The Swinging Blue Jeans - The Hippy Hippy Shake The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night Nick Berry - Heartbeat (again) Jimmy Nail - Country Boy Jimmy Nail - Blue Roses Jimmy Nail - Country Boy (again) Culture Club - Karma Chameleon Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up Yazz - The Only Way Is Up Brother Beyond - The Harder I Try Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories - Stay Michelle Gayle - Sweetness Take That - Sure R Kelly and Public Announcement - Vibe Pato Banton - Baby Come Back The Real McCoy - Another Night Tom Bronwe - Funkin' For Jamaica Shabba Ranks - Mr Loverman Inner Circle - Sweat Lutricia McNeal - Stranded Los Delanteros - Mas Que Nada Arrow - Hot Hot Hot Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This The Adventures of Stevie V - Money Talks Bobby Brown - Every Little Step Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer ? East 17 - It's Alright Gina G - Ooh Aah! Just A Little Bit Louise Redknapp - Naked Ace of Base - All That She Wants Gabrielle - Dreams Inner Circle - Sweat (again) 2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance Utah Saints - Believe In Me Dina Carroll - Express Louchie Lou & Michie One - Shout! Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You (1993 Mix) Strike - U Sure Do The Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want Alanis Morissette - Ironic Alanis Morissette - You Learn Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know Fat Les - Vindaloo Michael Jackson - Thriller The Beatles - Sgt Peppers' Lonely Heart Club Band Pink Floyd - Money Simply Red - Stars
Reminds me of the days when music wasn't throwaway, stood the test of time and was tangible. Nobody owns anything anymore, collections are throwaway streamed music Reminds me of such a better time of music. Even the crap music I now have new found respect for in these days of absolute tripe 😂 Apart from Al Jolson 😬😂 Cheers mate 👍🏻
The lack of ownership thing is a bummer with modern music consumption. I'm in two minds with my feelings on the subject. I occasionally stream music, but mostly I buy CD albums for the pleasure of having it on my shelf, and listening to a set of songs in the creative order intended by the artist. I also like to have MP3 albums, but played AS albums, and with the album art displayed prominently on my electronic device.
@@RetroSteveUK I absolutely get what you mean mate. We can't stand still in the face of progression, but have to try and embrace the future too....or we get left behind I suppose. It's great to have access on demand, but equally, things get watered down, stuff gets churned out and with that I believe we become more passive and throwaway in general as a society. Positives and negatives. However, give me a good cd anyday 👍🏻😂
@ EportChris: I totally get you here, Chris, as I am now finding merit in the songs from my youth I don't like. Unlike today's dross, they at least had lyrics you could understand and melodies you could actually whistle or play.
@@Agnethatheredhairkid You sound like my dad when he used to moan about my 'modern' music, but then I'm also sounding like my dad, when I moan about some of the shite that comes on the radio now. I think we're all becoming our parents! 🤣
@@RetroSteveUK Definitely that, Steve! Reminds me of a comment made in an interview by the Swedish singer Tomas Ledin when he admitted that he had the same arguments with his son John over the length of his hair as he did with his own father over the length of his.
@@theoldham535 I can vouch for that. I phoned a music competition line when I was a kid; answer a question to win an LP. They kept you on for ages before you got to the bit with the question. I phoned it three times and won two albums, which was great until my mum laid into me over the phone bill. I could have bought those albums three times over for the amount the phone calls cost! That was a hard lesson to learn.
Albums were called albums because when records were 78s (and not 33 1/3 LPs) they could hold very little music, so several discs were packaged together in books, or albums, akin to what you might think of when you hear "photo album". The name stuck when LPs came around, and came to be the name for what we mean by a music album today, and what I've been aware of them as my whole life. Weird, then, that some of these adverts seem to suggest some odd middle period where "album" meant only vinyl, and not cassette or CD. Is it just me that finds this odd? (Don't worry, it wouldn't be the first time 😁)
Can someone tell me why the full stop, as the UK calls it, is in the middle of the pounds as it is "floatiing" halfway up the height of the numbers? I bet a lot of Americans don't know Def Leppard is British.
That's what we used to use to represent the decimal point, as distinct from the full stop (or period in USA.) I think its use may have naturally phased out with the rise of typewriter and computer keyboards, which used the full stop as a replacement for the more 'central' decimal point symbol.
I'm sure some Americans did fail to realise. Although it'd be pretty stupid of them as def leppard was nearly always draped in union Jack's, whether that be on posters, t-shirts, or the fact that rick Allen always played in union jack shorts.😂
When music was worth going to a record store and actually buying something..not like today with the likes of Ed Sheeran featuring somebody else etc, ,I've given up with the charts i think
It's mostly ads that are already out there in the public domain; I collect random stuff together into these themed compilations and fix up the picture and sound. Full details are on the About page: th-cam.com/users/RetroSteveUKabout
@@RetroSteveUK" It's a lot of work, but it's a joy to present for the pleasure of viewers, which is motivation enough to keep doing it". Keep doing it my friend, because it is an historical record. I love watching your videos.
I'm sure you've been asked this a million time, but I have to ask, what kind of video capture card do you use to record these? VHS to DVD then PC, a dedicated PCI card or just a USB capture card? Every USB one I've used has been useless and really poor definition, giving it a faux digital look and these look as good as the original analogue format.
The few I capture myself are through a relatively inexpensive S-Video/RCA USB device (ion Video Forever). It does a surprisingly good job, but my VHS player is really good quality (hard to find now) so that helps. I also have an Elgato HD60, but that's for stuff like gaming captures with HDMI input/output. To be honest, most of the ads I use are already uploaded elsewhere - I do improvement work on them before organising them into compilations. All the details are on this channel's About page.
Forgot Jimmy Nail was very popular for a period of time.
Personally, 'Now 29' was the best of the Now compilations. Good memories!
Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ was Number one in 1985? Bloody hell! Seems like a decade ago to me!
I was eleven! 🤯
Still play it today
@@RetroSteveUK just a year ahead of me.
Loved the 80's music, watching this brought back some great memories,
Thank you
Awesome as always Steve 👌
Love these records
How many of these did I buy? here's a clue - I never collected 80s / 90s music.
Great to see Chris Tarrant in his younger days. That's also him voicing the Greatest Non-Stop Party ad.
Some 80s DJs (I do not know them and one of them seems to have done quite a few of these) voicing these - The 80s / Our Price (Now Dance 92) ads sound like Kid Jenson.
The 80's rock!
My favourite decade for music by far. I'm predominantly a rock guy but I love all the different genres in the 80s.
Oh man, our price records! I loved that store. We had one in our local mall. I used to go in with my grandparents every Saturday and buy some records with my pocket money lol. So sad to know it's no more.
Yes! Def leppard is my all time favourite band. My auntie bought me the Hysteria album for Christmas 1987.
That now 29 sounded great. Those songs was from my high school/college year's.
Sadly it's not here. Still an enjoyable watch.
Brilliant!
Watching this just brought back some great memories. I can still remember seeing these adverts on TV as a kid and into my teen years in the 80s and into the 90's. Especially all those Now ones which were my favourite, featuring the voice of Mark Goodier I believe, or was it Steve Wright, I can't remember now. I had Now 15 on a cassette at one time and I loved it. I played it so much I wore it out in the end I think. But I think it's great to see they have currently been re-releasing all the earlier Now compilations and making them available again for the newer younger fans to enjoy. I love them. Loved all the Smash Hits ones as well. Smash Hits Party 88 was fantastic. Still got it on vinyl. Our Price was a great shop for buying music on vinyl. Bought some of mine in that shop, and Woolworths too. I still miss them believe it or not. If we could pick 2 shops that we would like to see back on the high street my picks would be Woolworths and Our Price. This brought back so many great childhood memories, thank you.
I used to make mix tapes from the Now albums I had (combined with the ones my sister bought). There were always a few tunes on those albums I was a bit meh about.
Thanks to all of the 80s compilations I've bought for other songs, I now have more copies of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" than I need.
They do churn 'em out, don't they? 😏
Philip Schofield doing the voiceover on Smash Hits 88. Funny how Gordon the Gopher never got his chance to make a little extra cash on the side... I guess he just left the little people behind him 😄 Though at least Gordon wasn't only "phone famous", whatever that is.
‘Music for pleasure’
In order:
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - ?
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Rag Doll
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Sherry
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Let's Hang On
Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face
?
?
?
Grover Hamilton IV - Abilene
Grover Hamilton IV - Early Morning Rain
Grover Hamilton IV - Canadian Pacific
Culture Club - Victims
Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together
Genesis - That's All
Madness - The Sun and the Rain
Incantation - Cacharpaya
Madness - Our House
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy
Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
Modern Romance - Best Years Of Our Lives
Queen - I Want It All
Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Swing The Mood
T.Rex - We Love To Boogie
T.Rex - Get It On
T.Rex - Hot Love
T.Rex - Metal Guru
T.Rex - Telegram Sam
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Def Leppard - Rocket
Def Leppard - Animal
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Def Leppard - Rocket (again)
?
?
Nick Berry - Heartbeat
Sandie Shaw - Always Something There To Remind Me
The Swinging Blue Jeans - The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
Nick Berry - Heartbeat (again)
Jimmy Nail - Country Boy
Jimmy Nail - Blue Roses
Jimmy Nail - Country Boy (again)
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Yazz - The Only Way Is Up
Brother Beyond - The Harder I Try
Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way
Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds
Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories - Stay
Michelle Gayle - Sweetness
Take That - Sure
R Kelly and Public Announcement - Vibe
Pato Banton - Baby Come Back
The Real McCoy - Another Night
Tom Bronwe - Funkin' For Jamaica
Shabba Ranks - Mr Loverman
Inner Circle - Sweat
Lutricia McNeal - Stranded
Los Delanteros - Mas Que Nada
Arrow - Hot Hot Hot
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
The Adventures of Stevie V - Money Talks
Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer
?
East 17 - It's Alright
Gina G - Ooh Aah! Just A Little Bit
Louise Redknapp - Naked
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Gabrielle - Dreams
Inner Circle - Sweat (again)
2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance
Utah Saints - Believe In Me
Dina Carroll - Express
Louchie Lou & Michie One - Shout!
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You (1993 Mix)
Strike - U Sure Do
The Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop
Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game
Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
Alanis Morissette - You Learn
Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet
Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Fat Les - Vindaloo
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers' Lonely Heart Club Band
Pink Floyd - Money
Simply Red - Stars
Reminds me of the days when music wasn't throwaway, stood the test of time and was tangible. Nobody owns anything anymore, collections are throwaway streamed music Reminds me of such a better time of music. Even the crap music I now have new found respect for in these days of absolute tripe 😂 Apart from Al Jolson 😬😂 Cheers mate 👍🏻
The lack of ownership thing is a bummer with modern music consumption. I'm in two minds with my feelings on the subject. I occasionally stream music, but mostly I buy CD albums for the pleasure of having it on my shelf, and listening to a set of songs in the creative order intended by the artist. I also like to have MP3 albums, but played AS albums, and with the album art displayed prominently on my electronic device.
@@RetroSteveUK I absolutely get what you mean mate. We can't stand still in the face of progression, but have to try and embrace the future too....or we get left behind I suppose. It's great to have access on demand, but equally, things get watered down, stuff gets churned out and with that I believe we become more passive and throwaway in general as a society. Positives and negatives. However, give me a good cd anyday 👍🏻😂
@ EportChris: I totally get you here, Chris, as I am now finding merit in the songs from my youth I don't like. Unlike today's dross, they at least had lyrics you could understand and melodies you could actually whistle or play.
@@Agnethatheredhairkid You sound like my dad when he used to moan about my 'modern' music, but then I'm also sounding like my dad, when I moan about some of the shite that comes on the radio now. I think we're all becoming our parents! 🤣
@@RetroSteveUK Definitely that, Steve! Reminds me of a comment made in an interview by the Swedish singer Tomas Ledin when he admitted that he had the same arguments with his son John over the length of his hair as he did with his own father over the length of his.
The very first Now That's What I Call Music? I wonder how much a mint original copy of that might be valued at now?
Not a lot. I got mine in a charity shop for a quid. 😬
How on earth does my brain remember that Karaoke challenge advert after over 30 years of not seeing it.
Lol! Did you ever phone in?
@@RetroSteveUK 48p a minute?, my mum would have throttled me.
@@theoldham535 I can vouch for that. I phoned a music competition line when I was a kid; answer a question to win an LP. They kept you on for ages before you got to the bit with the question. I phoned it three times and won two albums, which was great until my mum laid into me over the phone bill. I could have bought those albums three times over for the amount the phone calls cost! That was a hard lesson to learn.
Albums were called albums because when records were 78s (and not 33 1/3 LPs) they could hold very little music, so several discs were packaged together in books, or albums, akin to what you might think of when you hear "photo album". The name stuck when LPs came around, and came to be the name for what we mean by a music album today, and what I've been aware of them as my whole life. Weird, then, that some of these adverts seem to suggest some odd middle period where "album" meant only vinyl, and not cassette or CD.
Is it just me that finds this odd? (Don't worry, it wouldn't be the first time 😁)
Evolution of the language. Interesting.
Can someone tell me why the full stop, as the UK calls it, is in the middle of the pounds as it is "floatiing" halfway up the height of the numbers? I bet a lot of Americans don't know Def Leppard is British.
That's what we used to use to represent the decimal point, as distinct from the full stop (or period in USA.) I think its use may have naturally phased out with the rise of typewriter and computer keyboards, which used the full stop as a replacement for the more 'central' decimal point symbol.
I'm sure some Americans did fail to realise. Although it'd be pretty stupid of them as def leppard was nearly always draped in union Jack's, whether that be on posters, t-shirts, or the fact that rick Allen always played in union jack shorts.😂
Ironically, when Hysteria first came out, most British people thought Def Leppard were a new Bon Jovi ripoff
@@TimmyTickle who thought that, the British?
@@TheRetroManRandySavage Yep, the British did
When music was worth going to a record store and actually buying something..not like today with the likes of Ed Sheeran featuring somebody else etc, ,I've given up with the charts i think
@ Steve Dickson: I gave up at the beginning of the 1990s, Steve!
@@AgnethatheredhairkidI don't blame you, it's been going steadily down hill since .
There was ktel and Ronco
Now 15 was sounding quite promising until Jive Bunny 🤮
Where do you get this stuff? Its great, brings back memories.
It's mostly ads that are already out there in the public domain; I collect random stuff together into these themed compilations and fix up the picture and sound. Full details are on the About page: th-cam.com/users/RetroSteveUKabout
@@RetroSteveUK" It's a lot of work, but it's a joy to present for the pleasure of viewers, which is motivation enough to keep doing it". Keep doing it my friend, because it is an historical record. I love watching your videos.
@@johnfogarty91 Thanks, John. It helps to know it's appreciated.
Please someone knows the name of the song that starts at 2:48?
Isn't it a song by Madness?
Yes, that's it! Thank you mate!@@RetroSteveUK
I'm sure you've been asked this a million time, but I have to ask, what kind of video capture card do you use to record these? VHS to DVD then PC, a dedicated PCI card or just a USB capture card? Every USB one I've used has been useless and really poor definition, giving it a faux digital look and these look as good as the original analogue format.
The few I capture myself are through a relatively inexpensive S-Video/RCA USB device (ion Video Forever). It does a surprisingly good job, but my VHS player is really good quality (hard to find now) so that helps. I also have an Elgato HD60, but that's for stuff like gaming captures with HDMI input/output. To be honest, most of the ads I use are already uploaded elsewhere - I do improvement work on them before organising them into compilations. All the details are on this channel's About page.