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Our Now! Comps Have So Much Growing Up To Do [Now That's What I Call Listmaking]
Posted on August 29, 2008
Britain's The Independent celebrates the 70th incarnation of the pop-comp series Now! with an extensive list of the hits and misses among the compilation's selections, which number 2,701 songs over the last 25 years. While the quality level of our Stateside counterpart doesn't nearly reach the heights of the original (the first volume of the UK series featured Love Cats, after all), surely I could do the same for the 28 volumes that have shown up on our shores, and in our stores. Before I begin: My process consisted of my taking a glance at each tracklist and making a snap decision. I'm s...
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