NOW 8

Date : 6 Dec 1986

Now That's What I Call Music 8 or Now 8 was released in 1986. The album is the 8th edition of the (UK) Now! series. This was the second of the series to be released on vinyl, audio cassette and on a single CD. The first being Now 4. It reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart, the fourth consecutive album of the series to do so, and stayed there for six weeks.

Side 1

1. Duran Duran - Notorious
2. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
3. Run D.M.C. - Walk This Way
4. Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
5. Swing Out Sister - Breakout
6. Steve Winwood - Higher Love
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - (Forever) Live And Die
8. Genesis - In Too Deep

Side 2

1. Cameo - Word Up
2. Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)
3. Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)
4. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
5. Jaki Graham - Step Right Up
6. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately
7. The Human League - Human
8. Boris Gardiner - I Want To Wake Up With You

Side 3

1. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
2. The Housemartins - Think For A Minute
3. Madness - (Waiting For) The Ghost Train
4. Status Quo - In The Army Now
5. Huey Lewis And The News - Stuck With You
6. Big Country - One Great Thing
7. Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
8. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms

Side 4

1. Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
2. It Bites - Calling All The Heroes
3. Doctor & The Medics - Waterloo
4. Debbie Harry - French Kissin' In The USA
5. Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
6. Paul Hardcastle - The Wizard
7. Gwen Guthrie - (They Long To Be) Close To You
8. Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins