Various – Now That's What I Call Music! 14

Now 14 was released in March 1989.

Compact Disc 1

1. Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart: Great duet.
2. Phil Collins - Two Hearts: Great song from 'Buster', not included on the 2023 CD.
3. Erasure - Stop!: Great song from the 'Crackers International' EP.
4. Bananarama/Lananeeneenoonoo - Help!: Great cover of the Beatles, 1989's Comic Relief single.
5. Hue and Cry - Looking For Linda: Great song.
6. Yazz - Fine Time: Great reggae inspired track.
7. Kim Wilde - Four Letter Word: Great track.
8. Sam Brown - Stop: Not the same song as Erasure. Great vocal.
9. Roy Orbison - You Got It: Great posthumous single.
10. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy: Great track.
11. INXS - Need You Tonight: Similar percussion to 'She Drives Me Crazy', great riff, another one not included on the 2023 CD.
12. Status Quo - Burning Bridges (On and Off and On Again): Great track.
13. Then Jerico - Big Area: Great rock track.
14. Morrissey - The Last of the Famous International Playboys: Great song.
15. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Great acoustic track.
16. Simple Minds - Belfast Child: Great folk inspired song.

Compact Disc 2

1. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance: Great dance track.
2. Inner City - Good Life: Great follow up to 'Big Fun'.
3. S'Xpress - Hey Music Lover: Great house track.
4. Living in a Box - Blow the House Down: Great song.
5. The Style Council - Promised Land: Great track.
6. Adeva - Respect: Great cover of Aretha Franklin.
7. Tone Loc - Wild Thing: Great rap track.
8. Natalie Cole - I Live For Your Love: Great song.
9. Robin Beck - First Time: Great song from Coca Cola ad.
10. Paula Abdul - Straight Up: Great track.
11. Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With You: Great cover of Dusty Springfield.
12. Brother Beyond - Be My Twin: Great track.
13. Climie Fisher - Love Like a River: Great song.
14. Duran Duran - All She Wants Is: Great chant along track.
15. Level 42 - Tracie: Another great song from Level 42.
16. Michael Ball - Love Changes Everything: Great musical song.

Another great album, but as always there are some songs that missed out

Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially For You
Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
Holly Johnson - Love Train
Chris De Burgh - Missing You
Angry Anderson - Suddenly
Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number
Bros - Cat Among the Pigeons
Petula Clark - Downtown 88
Four Tops - Loco in Acapulco
Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
George Michael - Kissing a Fool
Yazz - Stand Up For Your Love Rights
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
Bomb the Bass feat. Maureen - Say a Little Prayer
U2 - Angel of Harlem
Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices
Tiffany - Radio Romance
Freiheit - Keeping the Dream Alive

On disc 2, 'Buffalo Stance' is missing the vinyl scratching intro on this reissue, which seems to be a common error on almost all of the versions on Spotify as well.

This 2023 reissue seems to have a few errors/corrections on top of the obvious omission of Phil Collins and INXS. 'Blow the House Down' appears as a slightly longer edit, inserting an extra bar at 1'36" which isn't there in the video or 7" version; 'Straight Up' uses completely the wrong edit, halving the intro and the 'do do you love me' break but with a longer outro than the 1989 edit; 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' reverts to the correct single version rather than the shorter edit used on the 1989 NOW 14; 'Belfast Child' remains in its shorter promo edit version; and the version of 'Be My Twin' presented here is a slightly different mix to the 1989 single (but it's slightly too long to be the album version).

I have just seen a version of this 2 CD issue for sale on E-bay claiming that CD 1 is a mis-pressed and plays as Pink Floyd's The Wall CD 1 even though printed up correctly. Also just can't make out the matrix number on the image shown. Anyone else have this mis-pressed version please?

matrix runout variation:
A side NOW 141 A-3-1-1
B side NOW 141 B-5-1-2