Now That's What I Call Music! 52 by Various Artists
Now That's What I Call Music! 52 by Various Artists
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Track Listing:
Disc 11. Ronan Keating - If Tomorrow Never Comes
2. Liberty X - Just A Little
3. George Michael - Freeek!
4. Sugababes - Freak Like Me
5. Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
6. Enrique Iglesias – Escape
7. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Get Over
8. S Club Juniors - One Step Closer
9. Nigel & Marvin - Follow Da Leader
10. Scooter - The Logical
11. Dee Dee – Forever
12. Flip & Fill - Shooting Star
13. Paffendorf - Be Cool
14. Kelly Llorenna - Tell It To My Heart
15. Shy FX & T-Power feat. Di - Shake UR Body
16. Tim Deluxe feat. Sam Obernik - It Just Won’t Do
17. Shakedown - At Night
18. Moony - Dove (I’ll Be Loving You)
19. Intenso Project - Luv Da Sunshine
20. 4 Strings - (Take Me Away) Into The Night
21. Mad’House - Like A Prayer (Almighty Radio Edit)
Disc 2
1. Atomic Kitten - It’s OK!
2. Britney Spears - I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
3. Ashanti - Foolish
4. Mary J Blige - No More Drama
5. *Nsync - Girlfriend (Album Version)
6. Christina Milian - When You Look At Me
7. Nelly feat. Dani Stevenson - Hot In Herre
8. Ms. Dynamite - It Takes More
9. Omero Mumba - Lil’ Big Man
10. Aaliyah - Rock The Boat
11. The Reelists - Freak Mode
12. 1 Giant Leap - My Culture
13. Amy Studt - Just A Little Girl
14. Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
15. Doves – Pounding
16. The Space Cowboy - I Would Die 4 U
17. Idlewild - American English
18. Puddle Of Mudd – Blurry
19. Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars
20. Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Reviews of Now That's What I Call Music! 52:
Now 52
Top tunes of 2002 including if tomorrow never comes, freak, hot in here, & many more.
The best 'NOW' summer edition in years!
Looking through the last 10 years, and being focused on the summer versions of the "NOW That's What I Call Music!" series, I realized that this the best!
With a perfect tracklisting on Disc One, and an almost excellent selection for the Disc Two, the volume 52 of the most successful compilation series of all time fits perfectly on my CD player.
We start Disc One with the excellent No1 by Ronan Keating "If Tomorrow Never Comes", which in my opinion, is the best ballad of the year. The CD moves to a totally different sound, with the perfect sound of "Just A Little" by Liberty X, which also made No1 and is a cover.
George Michael's "Freeek!" (UK No7) is a very sexy/dance track which would be better on NOW 51, but appears here as a good classic of the year. Returning to the chart-toppers, the Sugababes' "Freak Like Me" kicks off with this electric tune!
A returning artist, Kylie Minogue, makes her welcome-back with this excellent piece of dance. I think this deserved the top spot, but though Elvis' "A Little Less Conversation" came at No1 the same week, "Love At First Sight" managed to make and excellent No2 position.
Travelling through Disc One, and now we find Enrique Iglesias, who followed the successive No1 "Hero" with this top ten "Escape".
Next to Enrique is the mighty Sophie Ellis-Bextor, with the No3 hit "Get Over You"; and the S Club Juniors, which are fast following the footsteps of their 'older brothers'. They appear here with their debut No2 "One Step Closer".
After this pop hits, the Disc One is filled with excellent dance hits, including Scooter's No2 "The Logical Song", Flip & Fill's No3 "Shooting Star", Shakedown's No6 "At Night" and Mad'House No3 cover of Madonna "Like A Prayer".
Disc One finishes with S Club 7's early 2002 No2 hit "You".
Disc Two starts with mid-tempo hits "It's OK!", Atomic Kitten's No3 hit-single (No3), Britney Spears' No2 "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" from the movie Crossroads and Ashanti's R&B "Foolish". Mary J. Blige continues the R&B style with "No More Drama" followed by *N Sync's biggest hit (of their whole career) "Girlfriend" (Album Version) which made No2 in April.
Christina Milian appears with this excellent follow up of "AM To PM", the No3 "When You Look At Me". Then comes Nelly with "Hot In Herre", a good Ms. Dynamite hit, Samantha Mumba's little brother (Omero) with his own material and Aalyiah's "Rock The Boat" concluding the R&B stuff of Disc Two.
Then the CD moves to a more rock status, with The Reelists, 1 Giant Leap, Amy Studt's debut, Sheryl Crow's undersold, but excellent top twenty summer hit "Soak Up The Sun", and more excellent rock tracks.
Finishing the CD, are Moby with No11 "We Are All Made Of Stars" and Oasis' No2 "Stop Crying Your Heart Out".
This CD is a must buy for any summer music lover, is the best NOW in ages and it worth every penny.
"Now" you not only have to buy this but Hits 53 as well...
There are few things in life you can depend on but the "Now" set is always one - however it is a different ballgame in the days a.c. (After Cowell). The Now series has had its authority challenged in recent times by the rival "Hits" series (BMG's answer to EMI/Virgin's established compilation). So you don't get Will'n'Gareth here but you do get the Sugababes, and Kylie, and the mighty Sophie E-B and my own personal recommendations - Moony, Space Cowboy and Doves - but these days to be a chart completist you not only have to buy this but also "Hits" as well - however "Now" is still the benchmark against which all chart compilations must be measured, so therefore I give it 4 stars even if some of the tracks here also turn up on its "Hits" counterpart.
Quality rather than Pop Idols
Okay so it may not have the biggest tracks of the last third of the year, notable missing people, include the Pop Idols, Eminem, Elvis, H & Claire, Mis-Teeq and Shakira.
Skip Ronan, and every track is fine on Disc 1, which includes many dance hits, Scooter, Flip & Fill and Moony are fantastic tracks and finishing up with the inspired cover of Mad'House and the surely an impossibility, S Club 7's "You" manages to be even more cheesy than "Reach".
Disc 2, although doesn't contain many big charting artists, you only need to look at the quality. The sultry Aaliyah, laid-back Reelists and the exquisite "Just A Little Girl" by Amy Studt, which is surely the best song on the album. Some indie music rounds it off including the low-charting but superb Doves track "Pounding". Well worth a buy and if you get Hits 53 as well, you've got everything.
My review of Now 51 was the most read, so thanks you guys.
Nowty Mix!
Well, what can I say? I have the album playing in the background now (actually, the volume's turned up pretty high!) and I am extremely pleased with my purchase! Although I'm not a big fan of chart music compilation albums, but this CD just keeps dishing out track after track of good music. OK, so it's let down (in my opinion) by the likes of cheese-meisters Ronan, S-Club 7 and Spear's woeful ballad 'Not a girl, Not yet a Woman' but the rest is excellent. CD1 was my fave with Liberty-X and top dance tracks seeing me all the way through the second half of the disc. What's more, you don't get any of the annoying remixes or too-long intros that you get with many dance compilation albums. The second CD has some excellent RnB, throws in the brilliant Daft Punkesque track 'I would die for You' by Space Cowboy and finales on the amazing new song by Oasis 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' which I could listen to over and over again. On albums like this you often find you have to keep one finger on the remote to skip past the tracks you don't like, but this is rarely necessary here if you're a multi-genre music lover.
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