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NOW Yearbook 1991

4CD and 3LP

By Paul Sinclair

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NOW Music have announced 1991 as the next year in the now long-running Yearbook series.

It features 78 tracks across four CDs and there’s the usual deluxe and standard variants (with the former offering deluxe hardback book packaging with a 28-page booklet containing track-by-track notes). A 3LP version pressed on yellow vinyl offers 43 songs.

The first CD starts with George Michael and Elton John (you can guess the song) and includes massive hits from the one and only Chesney Hawkes, Seal (‘Crazy’), R.E.M. (‘Shiny Happy People’), Simply Red (‘Stars’), Cathy Dennis (Touch Me (All Night Long)) and more. Pet Shop Boys make two appearances on Yearbook 1991 with ‘Jealousy’ (the fourth and final single from Behaviour) on this first disc and later on CD 4 with their ‘Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)’ mash-up

Disc 2 includes The KLF’s ‘3am Eternal’, more Seal (his version of ‘Killer’), and a load of crossover club hits from acts including C+C Music Factory, Rozalla, K-Klass, Utah Saints, Oceanic, as well as Brothers In Rhythm. This disc also includes Crystal Waters‘ irritating, but annoyingly catchy, ‘Gyspy Woman (She’s Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da)’, A Tribe Called Quest’s excellent ‘Can I Kick It?’ before ending with Color Me Badd’s ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’.

The 4CD deluxe edition of Yearbook ’91

CD 3 includes Sting’s All This Time, Robert Palmer’s Marvin Gaye twofer ‘Mercy Mercy Me/IWant You’, The Waterboys’ ‘The Whole of the Moon’, The Stone Roses’ I Wanna Be Adored and Crowded House’s ‘Fall at Your Feet’. The last two tracks are grouped together beautifully with ‘More Than Words’ from Extreme followed by ‘Wind of Change’ by the Scorpions.

The KLF are back on disc four with Tammy Wynette ‘Justified and Ancient’ (make mine a 99, why don’t you?) and reminds us that Boy George had a hit with ‘Bow Down Mister’ under the Jesus Loves You moniker. My memory tells me this was big hit but “reality” points out that it actually peaked at a lowly No. 27 in the UK. Amy Grant’s brilliant ‘Baby Baby’ features here as does Kylie Minogue’s ‘Shocked’, sister Danni’s ‘Jump to the Beat’, Lisa Stansfield’s ‘Change’ and the weird historical artefact that is The Grease Megamix which stitches all those John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John hits together 12 years after the movie. This just makes me think about how they got away with “pussy wagon” on tea time television. Yearbook 1991 ends with another ‘Crazy’ but not Seal this time, it’s Patsy Cline singing the Willie Nelson classic.

NOW Yearbook 1991 will be released on 31 October 2025.

Tracklisting

NOW Yearbook 1991 Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. George Michael and Elton John – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
      2. Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only
      3. Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)
      4. Roxette – Joyride
      5. R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People
      6. Seal – Crazy
      7. Simply Red – Stars
      8. Martika – Love…Thy Will Be Done
      9. Paula Abdul – Rush Rush
      10. Beverley Craven – Promise Me
      11. Oleta Adams – Get Here
      12. Pet Shop Boys – Jealousy
      13. Marc Almond – Jacky
      14. Kylie Minogue – What Do I Have To Do?
      15. Bananarama – Preacher Man
      16. Cathy Dennis – Touch Me (All Night Long)
      17. Belinda Carlisle – Live Your Life Be Free
      18. Voice Of The Beehive – I Think I Love You
      19. Divinyls – I Touch Myself
      20. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
    • CD 2
      1. The KLF – 3AM ETERNAL (Live At The S.S.L.)
      2. Seal – Killer
      3. Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
      4. Moby – Go
      5. The Prodigy – Charly
      6. C+C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
      7. Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good Feeling
      8. Rozalla – Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)
      9. K-Klass – Rhythm Is A Mystery
      10. Utah Saints – What Can You Do For Me
      11. Oceanic – Insanity
      12. Cola Boy – 7 Ways to Love
      13. Zoë – Sunshine On a Rainy Day
      14. Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da)
      15. Dina Carroll & Quartz – It’s Too Late
      16. Bomb The Bass – Winter in July
      17. A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?
      18. Heavy D & The Boyz & Aaron Hall – Now That We Found Love
      19. Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up
    • CD 3
      1. The Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon
      2. Deacon Blue – Twist and Shout
      3. The Railway Children – Every Beat Of The Heart
      4. Simple Minds – Let There Be Love
      5. The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
      6. James – Sit Down
      7. Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy
      8. Living Colour – Love Rears Its Ugly Head
      9. Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
      10. Robert Palmer – Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You (Medley)
      11. T’Pau – Whenever You Need Me
      12. Michael Bolton – Time, Love and Tenderness
      13. Cher – Love And Understanding
      14. Belinda Carlisle – Summer Rain
      15. Sting – All This Time
      16. Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis
      17. Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
      18. Extreme – More Than Words
      19. Scorpions – Wind Of Change
    • CD 4
      1. Pet Shop Boys – Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
      2. The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient
      3. Jesus Loves You – Bow Down Mister
      4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Sailing On The Seven Seas
      5. Amy Grant – Baby Baby
      6. Gloria Estefan – Coming Out of the Dark
      7. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do – From “Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
      8. Zucchero & Paul Young – Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman)
      9. Roxette – Spending My Time
      10. Kylie Minogue – Shocked
      11. Cathy Dennis – Just Another Dream
      12. Dannii Minogue – Jump To The Beat
      13. Sonia – Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
      14. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – The Grease Megamix
      15. Kenny Thomas – Thinking About Your Love
      16. Lisa Stansfield – Change
      17. Tina Turner – Way Of The World
      18. Whitney Houston – All the Man That I Need
      19. Stevie B – Because I Love You (The Postman Song)
      20. Patsy Cline – Crazy

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