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NOW – YEARBOOK EXTRA 1983/ NOW – YEARBOOK EXTRA 1984/ NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL ELECTRONIC/NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL PUNK & NEW WAVE
NOW
★★★★★/★★★★★/★★★★★/
Introduced this year, the Yearbook imprint has been a brilliant addition to the NOW brand. The 1984 version summarised the first full year of NOW while the 1983 version was even better, for showcasing what an ideal NOW disc would have looked like at the time. The latest incarnation is equally simple and just as effective: Yearbook Extra, budget-priced 3CD sets for all the other great songs of each year that the original Yearbook couldn’t find room for. This means half the tunes are actually the more interesting tracks from the margins which weren’t mainstream hits: Spandau