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.
Side one
- Duran Duran : “Notorious”
- Pet Shop Boys : “Suburbia”
- Run D.M.C. : “Walk This Way”
- Communards : “Don’t Leave Me This Way”
- Swing Out Sister : “Breakout”
- Steve Winwood : “Higher Love”
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : “(Forever) Live And Die”
- Genesis : “In Too Deep”
Side two
- Cameo : “Word Up”
- Grace Jones : “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect For You)”
- Mel & Kim : “Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)”
- Jermaine Stewart : “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off”
- Jaki Graham : “Step Right Up”
- Janet Jackson : “What Have You Done for Me Lately”
- Human League : “Human”
- Boris Gardiner : “I Wanna Wake Up With You”
Side three
- Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush : “Don’t Give Up”
- The Housemartins : “Think for a Minute”
- Madness : “(Waiting For) The Ghost Train”
- Status Quo : “In the Army Now”
- Huey Lewis and the News : “Stuck with You”
- Big Country : “One Great Thing”
- Billy Bragg : “Greetings to the New Brunette”
- Cutting Crew : “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”
Side four
- Kim Wilde : “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
- It Bites : “Calling All the Heroes”
- Doctor & The Medics : “Waterloo”
- Debbie Harry : “French Kissin’ in the USA”
- Robert Palmer : “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On”
- Paul Hardcastle : “The Wizard”
- Gwen Guthrie : “(They Long to Be) Close To You”
- Nick Berry : “Every Loser Wins”
Info gleaned from Wikipedia
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