The Compilation: Now Yearbook '91

NOW Music have announced 1991 as the next year in the now long-running Yearbook series. It features 78 tracks across four CDs and there's the usual deluxe and standard variants (with the former offering deluxe hardback book packaging with a 28-page booklet containing track-by-track notes). A 3LP version pressed on yellow vinyl offers 43 songs.

 

The first CD starts with George Michael and Elton John and includes massive hits from the one and only Chesney Hawkes, Seal ‘Crazy’, R.E.M. ‘Shiny Happy People’, Simply Red ‘Stars’, Cathy Dennis Touch Me (All Night Long) and more. Pet Shop Boys make two appearances on Yearbook 1991 with ‘Jealousy’ (the fourth and final single from Behaviour) on this first disc and later on CD 4 with their ‘Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)’ mash-up

CD 2 includes The KLF’s ‘3am Eternal’, more Seal (his version of ‘Killer’), and a load of crossover club hits from acts including C+C Music Factory, Rozalla, K-Klass, Utah Saints, Oceanic, as well as Brothers In Rhythm. This disc also includes Crystal Waters‘ irritating, but annoyingly catchy, ‘Gyspy Woman (She’s Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da)’, A Tribe Called Quest’s excellent ‘Can I Kick It?’ before ending with Color Me Badd’s ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’.

CD 3 includes Sting’s All This Time, Robert Palmer’s Marvin Gaye twofer ‘Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You’, The Waterboys’ ‘The Whole of the Moon’, The Stone Roses’ I Wanna Be Adored and Crowded House’s ‘Fall at Your Feet’. The last two tracks are grouped together beautifully with ‘More Than Words’ from Extreme followed by ‘Wind of Change’ by the Scorpions.

CD 4 has The KLF with Tammy Wynette ‘Justified and Ancient’, Amy Grant’s brilliant ‘Baby Baby’ features here as does Kylie Minogue’s ‘Shocked’, sister Danni’s ‘Jump to the Beat’, Lisa Stansfield’s ‘Change’ and the weird historical artefact that is The Grease Megamix which stitches all those John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John hits together 12 years after the movie. Yearbook 1991 ends with Patsy Cline's ‘Crazy’ singing the Willie Nelson classic.

NOW Yearbook 1991 will be released on 31 October 2025.

Track List: 

CD 1

1. George Michael and Elton John – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me

2. Chesney Hawkes – The One And Only

3. Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)

4. Roxette – Joyride

5. R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People

6. Seal – Crazy

7. Simply Red – Stars

8. Martika – Love…Thy Will Be Done

9. Paula Abdul – Rush Rush

10. Beverley Craven – Promise Me

11. Oleta Adams – Get Here

12. Pet Shop Boys – Jealousy

13. Marc Almond – Jacky

14. Kylie Minogue – What Do I Have To Do?

15. Bananarama – Preacher Man

16. Cathy Dennis – Touch Me (All Night Long)

17. Belinda Carlisle – Live Your Life Be Free

18. Voice Of The Beehive – I Think I Love You

19. Divinyls – I Touch Myself

20. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go

 

CD 2

 

1. The KLF – 3AM ETERNAL (Live At The S.S.L.)

2. Seal – Killer

3. Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart

4. Moby – Go

5. The Prodigy – Charly

6. C+C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

7. Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good FeelingRozalla – Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good)

8. K-Klass – Rhythm Is A Mystery

9. Utah Saints – What Can You Do For Me

10. Oceanic – Insanity

11. Cola Boy – 7 Ways to Love

12. Zoë – Sunshine On a Rainy Day

13. Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da)

14. Dina Carroll & Quartz – It’s Too Late

15. Bomb The Bass – Winter in July

16. A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?

17. Heavy D & The Boyz & Aaron Hall – Now That We Found Love

18. Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up

 

CD 3

 

1. The Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon

2. Deacon Blue – Twist and Shout

3. The Railway Children – Every Beat Of The Heart

4. Simple Minds – Let There Be Love

5. The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored

6. James – Sit Down

7. Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy

8. Living Colour – Love Rears Its Ugly Head

9. Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

10. Robert Palmer – Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You (Medley)

11. T’Pau – Whenever You Need Me

12. Michael Bolton – Time, Love and Tenderness

13. Cher – Love And Understanding

14. Belinda Carlisle – Summer Rain

15. Sting – All This Time

16. Marc Cohn – Walking In Memphis

17. Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet

18. Extreme – More Than Words

19. Scorpions – Wind Of Change

 

CD 4

 

1. Pet Shop Boys – Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)

2. The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette – Justified And Ancient

3. Jesus Loves You – Bow Down Mister

4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Sailing On The Seven Seas

5. Amy Grant – Baby Baby

6. Gloria Estefan – Coming Out of the Dark

7. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do – From “Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”

8. Zucchero & Paul Young – Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman)

9. Roxette – Spending My Time

10. Kylie Minogue – Shocked

11. Cathy Dennis – Just Another Dream

12. Dannii Minogue – Jump To The Beat

13. Sonia – Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy

14. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – The Grease Megamix

15. Kenny Thomas – Thinking About Your Love

16. Lisa Stansfield – Change

17. Tina Turner – Way Of The World

18. Whitney Houston – All the Man That I Need

19. Stevie B – Because I Love You (The Postman Song)

20. Patsy Cline – Crazy