Now That's What I Call Music 8 (UK series)

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This article describes the 8th album in the UK Now! series. It should not be confused with the 2001 US album of the same name. For more information, see Now That's What I Call Music! 8 (U.S. series).

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 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.

Now That's What I Call Music 8
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	December 6, 1986
Recorded	Various Times
Genre	Pop
Length	1:08 (CD)
Label	Virgin / EMI
Series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music 7 (U.K. series) (1986) Now That's What I Call Music 8 (UK series) (1986) Now That's What I Call Music 9 (U.K. series) (1987)

[edit] Vinyl track listing

[edit] Disc one

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"
9. Cameo : "Word Up"
10. Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)"
11. Mel & Kim : "Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)"
12. Jermaine Stewart : "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"
13. Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
14. Janet Jackson : "What Have You Done for Me Lately"
15. Human League : "Human"
16. Boris Gardiner : "I Wanna Wake Up With You"

[edit] Disc two

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 & 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"
9. Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
10. It Bites : "Calling All the Heroes"
11. Doctor & The Medics : "Waterloo"
12. Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' in the USA"
13. Robert Palmer : "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
14. Paul Hardcastle : "The Wizard"
15. Gwen Guthrie : "(They Long To Be) Close To You"
16. Nick Berry : "Every Loser Wins"

[edit] CD track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. Duran Duran : "Notorious"
2. Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
3. Run DMC : "Walk This Way"
4. Cameo : "Word Up"
5. Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)"
6. Mel & Kim : "Showing Out"
7. Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
8. Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
9. Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
10. It Bites : "Call All the Heroes"
11. Doctor and the Medics : "Waterloo"
12. Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' in the USA"
13. Huey Lewis & The News : "Stuck with You"
14. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush : "Don't Give Up"
15. Madness : "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train"
16. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "(Forever) Live and Die"
17. Genesis : "In Too Deep"

[edit] See also

• Now That's What I Call Music
• List of Now That's What I Call Music! albums
• Now That's What I Call Music! 8 (U.S. series)