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Now That's What I Call Music II Compilation album by various artists
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! colspan="2" |Now That's What I Call Music II
Released: 26 March 1984
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! colspan="2" |Compilation album by various artists<br>[[File:NOW002UKCover.jpg|200px|center]]
Genre: Pop
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!Released
Length: 1:00:55
|26 March 1984
 
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Label: Virgin / EMI
!Genre
 
|Pop
|-
!Length
|1:00:55
|-
!Label
|Virgin / EMI
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! colspan="2" |Series chronology
|-
| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable"
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music (original UK album)|Now 1]]'' (1983)
|'''''Now 2''''' (1984)
|''[[Now That's What I Call Music 3 (UK series)|Now 3]]'' (1984)
|}
|}


'''''Now That's What I Call Music II''''' or '''''Now 2''''' was released on 26 March 1984. The album is the second edition of the (UK) Now! series. It was released on LP & audio cassette. ''Now 2'' debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart and then climbed to number one a week later, staying there for five weeks.
'''''Now That's What I Call Music II''''' or '''''Now 2''''' was released on 26 March 1984. The album is the second edition of the (UK) Now! series. It was released on LP & audio cassette. ''Now 2'' debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart and then climbed to number one a week later, staying there for five weeks.
== Contents ==
* 1 Track listing
** 1.1 Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1)
** 1.2 Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2)
** 1.3 Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3)
** 1.4 Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4)
* 2 VHS release
* 3 Charts
* 4 References
* 5 External links


== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==


=== Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1) ===
=== Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1) ===
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|-style="background-color: #DDDDDD;" |
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!Title
!style="width:60%" | Title
!Artist
!style="width:40%" | Artist
!Length
!Length
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|Queen
|Queen
|5:43
|5:43
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|2.
|"Wouldn't It Be Good"
|"Wouldn't It Be Good"
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|Thompson Twins
|Thompson Twins
|4:38
|4:38
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|4.
|"Get Out of Your Lazy Bed"
|"Get Out of Your Lazy Bed"
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|Carmel
|Carmel
|3:08
|3:08
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|6.
|"Michael Caine"
|"Michael Caine"
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=== Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2) ===
=== Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2) ===
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|Nena
|Nena
|3:51
|3:51
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|2.
|"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
|"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
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|Tracey Ullman
|Tracey Ullman
|3:01
|3:01
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|4.
|"Break My Stride"
|"Break My Stride"
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|Julia & Company
|Julia & Company
|3:09
|3:09
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|6.
|"That's Livin' Alright"
|"That's Livin' Alright"
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|Hot Chocolate
|Hot Chocolate
|3:39
|3:39
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|8.
|"Bird of Paradise"
|"Bird of Paradise"
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=== Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3) ===
=== Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3) ===
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!Title
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|Frankie Goes to Hollywood
|Frankie Goes to Hollywood
|3:55
|3:55
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|2.
|2.
|"Here Comes the Rain Again"
|"Here Comes the Rain Again"
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|Howard Jones
|Howard Jones
|3:40
|3:40
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|4.
|"What Difference Does It Make?"
|"What Difference Does It Make?"
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|Fiction Factory
|Fiction Factory
|3:30
|3:30
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|6.
|"The Politics of Dancing"
|"The Politics of Dancing"
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|Thomas Dolby
|Thomas Dolby
|4:15
|4:15
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|8.
|8.
|"Wishful Thinking"
|"Wishful Thinking"
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=== Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4) ===
=== Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4) ===
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|David Bowie
|David Bowie
|3:59
|3:59
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|2.
|2.
|"It's a Miracle"
|"It's a Miracle"
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|The Rolling Stones
|The Rolling Stones
|4:33
|4:33
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|4.
|4.
|"Wonderland"
|"Wonderland"
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|Slade
|Slade
|3:44
|3:44
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|-style="background-color: #EEEEEE;" |
|6.
|6.
|"New Moon on Monday"
|"New Moon on Monday"

Revision as of 20:32, 11 July 2022

Now That's What I Call Music II
Compilation album by various artists
NOW002UKCover.jpg
Released 26 March 1984
Genre Pop
Length 1:00:55
Label Virgin / EMI
Series chronology
Now 1 (1983) Now 2 (1984) Now 3 (1984)

Now That's What I Call Music II or Now 2 was released on 26 March 1984. The album is the second edition of the (UK) Now! series. It was released on LP & audio cassette. Now 2 debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart and then climbed to number one a week later, staying there for five weeks.

Track listing

Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1)

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Radio Ga Ga" Queen 5:43
2. "Wouldn't It Be Good" Nik Kershaw 4:28
3. "Hold Me Now" Thompson Twins 4:38
4. "Get Out of Your Lazy Bed" Matt Bianco 3:24
5. "More, More, More" Carmel 3:08
6. "Michael Caine" Madness 3:39
7. "Only You" The Flying Pickets 3:21

Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2)

No. Title Artist Length
1. "99 Red Balloons" Nena 3:51
2. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" Cyndi Lauper 3:31
3. "My Guy's Mad at Me" Tracey Ullman 3:01
4. "Break My Stride" Matthew Wilder 2:58
5. "Breaking Down" Julia & Company 3:09
6. "That's Livin' Alright" Joe Fagin 3:04
7. "I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I)" Hot Chocolate 3:39
8. "Bird of Paradise" Snowy White 4:21

Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3)

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Relax" Frankie Goes to Hollywood 3:55
2. "Here Comes the Rain Again" Eurythmics 5:01
3. "What Is Love?" Howard Jones 3:40
4. "What Difference Does It Make?" The Smiths 3:48
5. "(Feels Like) Heaven" Fiction Factory 3:30
6. "The Politics of Dancing" Re-Flex 3:17
7. "Hyperactive!" Thomas Dolby 4:15
8. "Wishful Thinking" China Crisis 4:12

Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4)

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Modern Love" David Bowie 3:59
2. "It's a Miracle" Culture Club 3:24
3. "Undercover of the Night" The Rolling Stones 4:33
4. "Wonderland" Big Country 3:56
5. "Run Runaway" Slade 3:44
6. "New Moon on Monday" Duran Duran 4:16
7. "Pipes of Peace" Paul McCartney 3:54

VHS release

A video selection was also released featuring selected tracks from the main album, one track that previously featured on Volume I of the series, one that later featured on Volume IV and seven which did not appear on any Now album.

  1. Nik Kershaw : "Wouldn't It Be Good"
  2. Thompson Twins : "Doctor! Doctor!" ††
  3. Howard Jones : "What is Love?"
  4. Duran Duran : "New Moon on Monday"
  5. China Crisis : "Wishful Thinking"
  6. Tina Turner : "Help" †
  7. Status Quo : "Marguerita Time" †
  8. Carmel : "More, More, More"
  9. Shannon : "Let the Music Play" †
  10. The Icicle Works : "Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)" †
  11. Bourgie Bourgie : "Breaking Point" †
  12. Re-Flex : "The Politics of Dancing"
  13. Thomas Dolby : "Hyperactive"
  14. Matt Bianco : "Get Out of Your Lazy Bed"
  15. Big Country : "Wonderland"
  16. Marilyn : "Cry and Be Free" †
  17. Snowy White : "Bird of Paradise"
  18. The Flying Pickets : "Only You"
  19. Kajagoogoo : "The Lion's Mouth" †
  20. Culture Club : "Victims" †††

† Never appeared on any NOW album.

†† Later appeared on NOW 4.

††† Previously appeared on NOW 1.

Charts

Chart (1984) Peak position UK Albums Chart 1

Now That's What I Call Music! UK albums

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