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4 CD compilation inside an 8-panel digifile, subtitled Essential Tracks From Iconic Albums.

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LC48653 BIEM/SDRM Made In The EU. CDNNNOW158 / 00198028945325

[Printing differences]:
CDs: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN ERA the albums 1980 > 1984
Cover - front: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN ERA the albums 1980 > 1984 ESSENTIAL TRACKS FROM ICONIC ALBUMS
Cover - spine: NOW That's What I Call An Era: The Albums 1980>1984

Inside the digifile, the following are promoted:
* NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN ERA the albums 1980 > 1984 ESSENTIAL TRACKS FROM ICONIC ALBUMS
SELECTED TRACKS AVAILABLE ON TRIPLE COLOUR VINYL IN A TRIFOLD SLEEVE
* ALSO AVAILABLE ON CD AND TRIPLE VINYL
Now That's What I Call An Era The Sound Of The Suburbs 1977~1980

[Digifile - back: Taken from the album]:
Track 1-1: A Ray Of Sunshine is from Fantastic
Track 1-2: Lemon Firebrigade is from Pelican West
Track 1-3: Show Me is from The Lexicon of Love
Track 1-4: Black Money is from Colour by Numbers
Track 1-5: This City Never Sleeps is from Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Track 1-6: Where Hides Sleep is from Alf
Track 1-7: Frankie's First Affair is from Diamond Life
Track 1-8: The Space Between is from Avalon
Track 1-9: Talking Drum is from Tin Drum
Track 1-10: Anyone Out There is from Duran Duran
Track 1-11: The Things That Dreams Are Made Of is from Dare
Track 1-12: Reformation is from Journeys to Glory
Track 1-13: We Live So Fast is from The Luxury Gap
Track 1-14: New Europeans is from Vienna
Track 1-15: Protection is from Donna Summer
Track 1-16: I Might Have Been Queen is from Private Dancer
Track 1-17: The Ties That Bind is from The River
Track 1-18: Mystery Achievement is from Pretenders

Track 2-1: Heartbeat is from Make It Big
Track 2-2: Secret Life is from Non‐Stop Erotic Cabaret
Track 2-3: Young At Heart is from Deep Sea Skiving
Track 2-4: Bogart is from Human Racing
Track 2-5: The Gap is from Into the Gap
Track 2-6: Equality is from Human’s Lib
Track 2-7: Junk is from The Age of Consent
Track 2-8: Don't Try To Change Me is from Friends
Track 2-9: All Night Loving is from In the Heat of the Night
Track 2-10: Jungles Of Jupiter is from Anthem
Track 2-11: Our Town is from Kim Wilde
Track 2-12: Boy Boy (I'm The Boy) is from Kissing to Be Clever
Track 2-13: Are You There With Another Girl? is from Showpeople
Track 2-14: Tracks Of My Tears is from The Drum Is Everything
Track 2-15: The Paris Match is from Café Bleu
Track 2-16: Hearts And Bones is from Hearts and Bones
Track 2-17: Turn Out The Light is from Me Myself I
Track 2-18: No Parlez is from No Parlez

Track 3-1: The Chauffeur is from Rio
Track 3-2: Taking Islands In Africa is from Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Track 3-3: The Hurting is from The Hurting
Track 3-4: Black Night White Light is from Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Track 3-5: She's Leaving is from Architecture & Morality
Track 3-6: From The Air is from Big Science
Track 3-7: Play For Today is from Seventeen Seconds
Track 3-8: Isolation is from Closer
Track 3-9: Harborcoat is from Reckoning
Track 3-10: President Gas is from Forever Now
Track 3-11: Game Above My Head is from Mange Tout
Track 3-12: Red Sails is from Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It’s Fun to Entertain
Track 3-13: Gloomy Sunday is from Sulk
Track 3-14: Ants Invasion is from Kings of the Wild Frontier
Track 3-15: Second Head is from Kilimanjaro
Track 3-16: Crystal Days is from Ocean Rain
Track 3-17: Man In The Corner Shop is from Sound Affects
Track 3-18: We Could Send Letters is from High Land, Hard Rain
Track 3-19: The Day It Rained Forever is from North of a Miracle

Track 4-1: Age Of Consent is from Power, Corruption & Lies
Track 4-2: Hard Times is from Love and Dancing
Track 4-3: Anvil Night Club School is from The Anvil
Track 4-4: New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) is from New Gold Dream (81‐82‐83‐84)
Track 4-5: The Party's Over is from The Party’s Over
Track 4-6: Reach The Beach is from Reach the Beach
Track 4-7: Nostalgia is from Brilliant Trees
Track 4-8: Almost Blue is from Imperial Bedroom
Track 4-9: Shake Dog Shake is from The Top
Track 4-10: Angels On The Balcony is from Autoamerican
Track 4-11: Tell Me When My Light Turns Green is from Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Track 4-12: Overpowered By Funk is from Combat Rock
Track 4-13: When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around is from Zenyattà Mondatta
Track 4-14: Nightclubbing is from Nightclubbing
Track 4-15: Tyler is from Signing Off
Track 4-16: Too Much Pressure is from Too Much Pressure
Track 4-17: Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) is from More Specials

[Erratum]:
Track 2-12: Culture Club: Boy, Boy, (I'm The Boy) is printed as Boy Boy (I'm The Boy)
Track 2-13: Mari Wilson: Are You There (With Another Girl) is printed as Are You There With Another Girl?
Track 4-3: Visage: Anvil (Night Club School) is printed as Anvil Night Club School
Track 4-4: Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) is printed as New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Other Identifiers
Label Code: LC48653
Rights Society: BIEM / SDRM
Other (CD 1 catalogue number): 00602475862444
Other (CD 2 catalogue number): 00602475862451
Other (CD 3 catalogue number): 00602475862468
Other (CD 4 catalogue number): 00602475862475
Matrix / Runout (CD 1): 58563839/00602475862444 21
Matrix / Runout (CD 2): 58563845/00602475862451 21
Matrix / Runout (CD 3): 58563862/00602475862468 21
Matrix / Runout (CD 4): 58563875/00602475862475 21
Matrix / Runout (CD1 to CD4, Inner mould ring): 4 x UNIVERSAL logo
Mastering SID Code (CD 1): IFPI LP 73
Mastering SID Code (CD 2): IFPI LP 73
Mastering SID Code (CD 3): IFPI LP 73
Mastering SID Code (CD 4): IFPI LP 73
Mould SID Code (CD 1): IFPI 0736
Mould SID Code (CD 2): IFPI 0727
Mould SID Code (CD 3): IFPI 0765
Mould SID Code (CD 4): IFPI 0765

Annotation last modified on 2025-08-06 07:34 UTC.

Tracklist

1CD
2CD
3CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Chauffeur
Duran Duran5:16
2Taking Islands in Africa
Japan5:13
3The Hurting
Tears for Fears4:16
4Black Night White Light
engineer:
Stuart Bruce and Stephen Lipson
additional producer:
Stephen Lipson
producer:
Trevor Horn
bass guitar:
Mark O’Toole (former bassist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
drums (drum set):
Peter Gill (UK drummer for Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
guest keyboard:
Andrew Richards (Strawbs keyboard player/record producer) and Anne Dudley (English score composer)
guest percussion:
Luís Jardim
guitar:
Brian Nash (British guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and songwriter)
lead vocals:
Holly Johnson, Mark O’Toole (former bassist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and Paul Rutherford (member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Zang Tuum Tumb (for copyrights use only; aka Zang Tuum Tumb or Zang Tumb Tuum prior to incorporation ca. 1988) (in 1984)
recording of:
Black Night White Light
writer:
Peter Gill (UK drummer for Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Holly Johnson, Brian Nash (British guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and songwriter) and Mark O’Toole (former bassist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood3.54:07
5She’s Leaving
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark3:28
6From the Air
Laurie Anderson4:32
7Play for Today
recording of:
Play for Today
lyricist:
Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure)
composer:
Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure) and Lol Tolhurst
publisher:
APB Music Co.
The Cure3:39
8Isolation
Joy Division2:54
9Harborcoat
producer:
Don Dixon and Mitch Easter
bass guitar:
Mike Mills (R.E.M. bass player)
drums (drum set):
Bill Berry (R.E.M. drummer)
guitar:
Peter Buck (R.E.M. guitarist)
lead vocals:
Michael Stipe
recorded at:
Reflection Sound Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
recording of:
Harborcoat
writer:
Bill Berry (R.E.M. drummer), Peter Buck (R.E.M. guitarist), Mike Mills (R.E.M. bass player) and Michael Stipe
publisher:
Night Garden Music
R.E.M.43:53
10President Gas
The Psychedelic Furs5:18
11Game Above My Head
producer:
Blancmange and John Williams (English A&R executive, producer, songwriter...)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
The Decca Record Co. Ltd. (The Decca Record Company Limited, not a release label; for copyrights use only) (in 1983)
recording of:
Game Above My Head
writer:
Neil Arthur (singer, songwriter, producer) and Stephen Luscombe
publisher:
Complete Music Ltd.
Blancmange3:59
12Red Sails
China Crisis4:42
13Gloomy Sunday
The Associates4:13
14Ants Invasion
Adam & the Ants3:21
15Second Head
The Teardrop Explodes3:11
16Crystal Days
Echo and the Bunnymen2:24
17Man in the Corner Shop
recording of:
Man in the Corner Shop
lyricist and composer:
Paul Weller (English singer‐songwriter and musician)
publisher:
BMG Music Publishing Ltd., Stylist Music Ltd. and And Son Music Ltd. (from 1980 to present)
The Jam3:13
18We Could Send Letters
Aztec Camera5:45
19The Day It Rained Forever
Nick Heyward4:33
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Release

design:nickchapmanstudio.co.uk
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:Now That's What I Call Music Llp (British holding company)
glass mastered at:Sonopress in Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/34131361 [info]
ASIN:UK: B0F585M7VT [info]