Now That’s What I Call Music! 1983

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 You Can't Hurry Love
Phil Collins 4.3 2:51
2 Red Red Wine
UB40 4 3:02
3 Down Under
Men at Work 4.4 3:37
4 Is There Something I Should Know?
Duran Duran 2 4:08
5 I'm Still Standing
Elton John 3.5 3:01
6 Bad Boys
Wham! 3:20
7 Wings of a Dove
Madness 3:00
8 Don't Talk to Me About Love
Altered Images 3:47
9 Speak Like a Child
The Style Council 3:17
10 True
Spandau Ballet 3.8 5:29
11 Only You
The Flying Pickets 3:22
12 Every Breath You Take
The Police 4.1 4:11
13 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics 3:32
14 Let's Stay Together
Tina Turner 2.5 3:38
15 New Year's Day
U2 4.5 4:18
16 Mama
Genesis 6:40
17 Moonlight Shadow
Mike Oldfield 4.8 3:37
18 Africa
Toto 3.75 4:53
19 Up Where We Belong
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes 3 3:52
20 Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler 5 4:27
▼ CD 2
# Title Artist Rating Length
1 Karma Chameleon
Culture Club 4.5 3:59
2 Give It Up
KC and The Sunshine Band 5 4:10
3 Temptation
Heaven 17 3 3:07
4 I.O.U.
Freeez 5 3:49
5 The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)
Level 42 3:42
6 Love Town
Booker Newberry III 3:26
7 Candy Girl
New Edition 3:34
8 Too Shy
Kajagoogoo 4.65 3:43
9 New Song
Howard Jones 4 4:15
10 They Don't Know
Tracey Ullman 3:01
11 (Keep Feeling) Fascination
The Human League 5 3:43
12 Nobody's Diary
Yazoo 5 4:29
13 Steppin' Out
Joe Jackson 3:46
14 Waterfront
Simple Minds 4:41
15 Beat Surrender
The Jam 3:24
16 The Walk
The Cure 3.5 3:26
17 Dear Prudence
Siouxsie and the Banshees 4.75 3:47
18 Everything Counts
Depeche Mode 4.2 3:57
19 Never Never
The Assembly 3:43
20 Hold Me Now
Thompson Twins 5 4:44

Credits

CD 1

acoustic guitar:
Timothy B. Schmit (track 18)
acoustic guitar, electric guitar and synthesizer:
Mike Oldfield (track 17)
electric bass guitar:
Dee Murray (track 5)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 12)
drumset:
Nigel Olsson (track 5)
Jeffrey Porcaro (track 18)
bass guitar:
Phil Spalding (track 17)
gong:
Jeffrey Porcaro (track 18)
glockenspiel:
Peter Robinson (track 1)
drums:
Leon Ndugu Chancler (track 19)
Phil Collins (of Genesis) (track 1)
Stewart Copeland (track 12)
Zeke Manyika (track 9)
Simon Phillips (rock drummer) (track 17)
recorder:
Jim Horn (track 18)
tambourine:
Phil Collins (of Genesis) (track 1)
synthesizer:
Elton John (track 5)
Steve Porcaro (track 18)
guitar:
Louie Shelton (track 19)
Daryl Stuermer (track 1)
bass:
John Giblin (track 1)
David Hungate (track 18)
vibraphone:
Peter Robinson (track 1)
electric guitar:
Davey Johnstone (track 5)
Andy Summers (track 12)
Steve Lukather (track 18)
percussion:
Lenny Castro (track 18)
Paulinho da Costa (track 19)
Joe Porcaro (track 18)
keyboard:
Robbie Buchanan (track 19)
Bobby Lyle (track 19)
Mick Talbot (track 9)
keyboard and piano:
D. Paich (track 18)
piano:
Elton John (track 5)
Peter Robinson (track 1)
marimba:
Joe Porcaro (track 18)
congas:
Lenny Castro (track 18)
guitar family:
Paul Weller (track 9)
guitar family and synthesizer:
Mike Oldfield (track 17)
assistant engineer:
Howard (Double Plug) Gray (track 1)
assistant producer:
Hugh Padgham (track 1)
background vocals:
D. Paich (track 18)
Timothy B. Schmit (track 18)
Bobby Kimball (track 18)
Steve Lukather (track 18)
Tracie Young (Tracie Young) (track 9)
co-producer:
Duran Duran (English rock band) (track 4)
Ian Little (track 4)
George Michael (track 6)
composer:
Bono (singer of U2) (track 15)
Adam Clayton (track 15)
Lamont Dozier (track 1)
The Edge (U2 guitarist David Evans) (track 15)
Al Green (track 14)
Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T & The MGs drummer) (track 14)
Elton John (track 5)
Gary Kemp (track 10)
George Michael (track 6)
Willie Mitchell (US soul/R&B & funk producer, trumpeter & singer) (track 14)
Larry Mullen, Jr. (track 15)
Jack Nitzsche (track 19)
Mike Oldfield (track 17)
Buffy Sainte-Marie (track 19)
Ron Strykert (track 3)
Paul Weller (track 9)
Vince Clarke (songwriter) (tracks 11, 11)
Colin Hay (track 3)
Brian Holland (US motown producer & songwriter) (track 1)
Jim Steinman (track 20)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 12)
Neil Diamond (1967) (track 2)
engineer:
Hugh Padgham (track 1)
Paul Thomas (Engineer) (track 15)
Paul Gomersall (track 1)
guest drums:
Simon Phillips (rock drummer) (track 17)
guest bass:
Phil Spalding (track 17)
guest vocals:
Maggie Reilly (track 17)
lead vocals:
Phil Collins (of Genesis) (track 1)
Elton John (track 5)
D. Paich (track 18)
Paul Weller (track 9)
Joe Cocker (track 19)
Bobby Kimball (track 18)
Jennifer Warnes (track 19)
lyricist:
Bono (singer of U2) (track 15)
Lamont Dozier (track 1)
Al Green (track 14)
Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T & The MGs drummer) (track 14)
Gary Kemp (track 10)
George Michael (track 6)
Willie Mitchell (US soul/R&B & funk producer, trumpeter & singer) (track 14)
Mike Oldfield (track 17)
Paul Weller (track 9)
Vince Clarke (songwriter) (tracks 11, 11)
Colin Hay (track 3)
Brian Holland (US motown producer & songwriter) (track 1)
Edward Holland, Jr. (Motown songwriter) (track 1)
Will Jennings (track 19)
Jim Steinman (track 20)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 12)
Bernie Taupin (track 5)
Neil Diamond (1967) (track 2)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (track 12)
mixer:
Ian Little (track 4)
Robert Colby (live sound engineer & producer, notably for Phil Collins) (track 1)
Paul Gomersall (track 1)
Alex Sadkin (track 4)
performer:
Rory Dodd (track 20)
The Flying Pickets (track 11)
Maggie Reilly (track 17)
Spandau Ballet (track 10)
phonographic copyright by:
Mike Oldfield (2013) (track 17)
producer:
Steve Brown (engineer/music producer) (track 6)
Phil Collins (of Genesis) (track 1)
Duran Duran (English rock band) (track 4)
Ray “Pablo” Falconer (track 2)
The Flying Pickets (track 11)
Genesis (English rock band) (track 16)
Steve Jolley (track 10)
Clive Langer (track 7)
Stewart Levine (track 19)
Steve Lillywhite (track 15)
Ian Little (track 4)
George Michael (track 6)
Mike Oldfield (track 17)
Hugh Padgham (tracks 12, 16)
Simon Phillips (rock drummer) (track 17)
The Police (British rock band) (track 12)
John Sherry (track 11)
Spandau Ballet (track 10)
Tony Swain (track 10)
Chris Thomas (UK record producer / remixer) (track 5)
Toto (American rock group) (track 18)
UB40 (track 2)
Greg Walsh (track 14)
Martyn Ware (track 14)
Paul Weller (track 9)
Peter Wilson (UK Producer) (track 9)
Alan Winstanley (track 7)
Robert Colby (live sound engineer & producer, notably for Phil Collins) (track 1)
recording engineer:
Bill Price (UK producer/engineer) (track 5)
Al Schmitt (track 18)
vocals:
Maggie Reilly (track 17)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 12)
Bonnie Tyler (track 20)
writer:
Tony Banks (track 16)
Phil Collins (of Genesis) (track 16)
Clare Grogan (track 8)
Simon Le Bon (Singer for Duran Duran) (track 4)
Annie Lennox (track 13)
Stephen Lironi (track 8)
Tony McDaid (track 8)
Johnny McElhone (track 8)
Graham McPherson (track 7)
D. Paich (track 18)
Jeffrey Porcaro (track 18)
Nick Rhodes (track 4)
Mike Rutherford (track 16)
Carl Smyth (track 7)
Dave Stewart (UK guitarist/singer for Eurythmics) (track 13)
Andy Taylor (of Duran Duran) (track 4)
John Taylor (UK bassist for Duran Duran) (track 4)
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer) (track 4)
phonographic copyright by:
WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US) (1982 –) (track 1)
CBS, Inc. (US broadcasting company; file no releases here!) (1982) (track 3)
A&M Records (1983) (track 12)
Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use! pre-Aug 2004 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.) (1983) (track 20)
A&M Records (2016) (track 12)
publisher:
Al Green Music Inc. (track 14)
Al Jackson Jr. Music (track 14)
Anthony Banks Ltd. (track 16)
Blue Mountain Music Ltd (track 15)
Burlington Music Co., Ltd. (track 14)
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (track 12)
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (track 7)
EMI Virgin Music Ltd. (do not use this as a release label!) (track 20)
Hit & Run Music (Publishing) Ltd (track 16)
Hudmar Publishing Co. Inc. (track 18)
Irving Music, Inc. (track 14)
Michael Rutherford Ltd. (track 16)
Mother Music (track 15)
Reformation Publishing Co. Ltd. (track 10)
Rising Storm Music (track 18)
Stone Agate Music Division (track 1)
Universal Music - MGB Songs (track 13)
Universal Music Publishing B.V. (Benelux subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group) (track 15)
Bang Records (US disco) (1968) (track 2)
mixed at:
AIR Studios (located at Oxford Street 1970–1991, Lyndhurst Hall 1991–present) in Hampstead, Camden, London, United Kingdom (track 5)
recorded at:
AIR Studios Montserrat in Montserrat (track 5)
mash-ups:
Stand By Me by ccc (track 12)
Total Eclipse of the DRILL by Triple-Q (track 20)
remixes:
Every Breath You Take (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 12)
sampled by:
Anything by JoJo (track 18)
Hella Touch by The Kleptones (track 11)
I'm Still Standing (standing, hips, general) by Lulu (track 5)
I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy & the Family feat. Faith Evans & 112 (track 12)
Man in the Rain by Mike Oldfield (track 17)
Murder Reigns by Ja Rule (track 18)
New World by Nas (track 18)
PSR41 by New Dreams Ltd. Initiation Tape (track 18)
The Hard One by The Beta Band (track 20)
[untitled] by Chuck Person (track 18)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 84) (track 12)
cover recording of:
Let’s Stay Together (track 14)
Only You (track 11)
Red Red Wine (track 2)
You Can’t Hurry Love (track 1)
later parody versions:
Every Step to Take (track 12)
Outnumbered (ApologetiX song) (track 3)
Sweet Jesus Made a Whip (track 13)
Tervetuloa länteen Andrej (track 3)
later translated parody versions:
Dummi Du (Only You) (tracks 11, 11)
Humppaleski 45 (track 12)
Sua vartioin (track 12)
later translated versions:
Das schönste Lied kennt Guildo Horn (track 19)
Eclipse total del amor (track 20)
Eclissi del cuore (track 20)
Gråt allians av vårt hat (track 20)
Nacht voll Schatten (track 17)
Si demain... (Turn Around) (track 20)
Zatmění (track 20)
月影 (track 17)
袛有你 (tracks 11, 11)
later versions:
Totale Finsternis (track 20)
Une fille et des fleurs (track 1)
recording of:
Africa (track 18)
Bad Boys (track 6)
Don't Talk to Me About Love (track 8)
Down Under (Men at Work song, “Do you come from a land down under?”) (track 3)
Is There Something I Should Know? (track 4)
I’m Still Standing (track 5)
Mama (track 16)
Moonlight Shadow (track 17)
New Year’s Day (track 15)
Only You (track 11)
Speak Like a Child (track 9)
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (track 13)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (track 20)
True (track 10)
Up Where We Belong (track 19)
Wings of a Dove (track 7)
Every Breath You Take (1983) (track 12)
referred to in medleys:
4 Chords (Unicante 2013 version) (tracks 3, 18)
Wham! U.K. Mega Mix (track 6)
Summer Fun Mega Mix (track 6)
Polkas on 45 (track 12)

CD 2

recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (1983) (track 4)
acoustic guitar:
Perry Bamonte (track 16)
Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure) (track 16)
acoustic bass guitar:
Simon Gallup (track 16)
trumpet:
Martin Drover (track 15)
Luke Tunney (track 15)
harmonica:
Judd Lander (track 1)
piano:
Roger O’Donnell (track 16)
background vocals:
Afrodiziac (track 15)
Claudia Fontaine (track 15)
Helen Terry (track 1)
Tracie (Tracie Young) (track 15)
composer:
Joe Jackson (English musician) (track 13)
Michael Jonzun (track 7)
Alison Moyet (track 12)
Maurice Starr (track 7)
Laurence Tolhurst (track 16)
Vince Clarke (songwriter) (track 19)
Martin L. Gore (track 18)
Howard Jones (English singer, songwriter) (track 9)
Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure) (track 16)
Paul Weller (track 15)
engineer:
Gareth Jones (UK producer/engineer) (track 18)
guest keyboard:
Phil Pickett (track 1)
lyricist:
Joe Jackson (English musician) (track 13)
Vince Clarke (songwriter) (track 19)
Martin L. Gore (track 18)
Howard Jones (English singer, songwriter) (track 9)
Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure) (track 16)
Paul Weller (track 15)
mixer:
Steve Levine (track 1)
Jon Moss (track 1)
Phil Thornalley (track 20)
orchestrator:
Martin L. Gore (track 18)
performer:
Freeez (1983) (track 4)
producer:
The Assembly (track 19)
B.E.F. (track 3)
Thomas Alexander Bailey (Thompson Twins) (track 20)
Arthur Baker (track 4)
Peter Collins (producer) (track 10)
Depeche Mode (track 18)
Larry Dunn (track 5)
Eli (Producer) (track 6)
Mike Hedges (UK producer/recording engineer) (track 17)
Joe Jackson (English musician) (track 13)
Michael Jonzun (track 7)
David Kershenbaum (track 13)
Steve Levine (track 1)
Steve Lillywhite (track 14)
Daniel Miller (founder of Mute Records) (tracks 12, 18)
Steve Nye (track 16)
Park Place Productions (track 6)
Eric Radcliffe (track 12)
Nick Rhodes (track 8)
Martin Rushent (track 11)
Alex Sadkin (track 20)
Siouxsie and the Banshees (track 17)
Maurice Starr (track 7)
Colin Thurston (tracks 8–9)
Greg Walsh (track 3)
Verdine White (track 5)
Peter Wilson (UK Producer) (track 15)
Yazoo (80s British synthpop duo, aka Yaz) (track 12)
remixer:
Steve Lillywhite (track 14)
Chris Thomas (UK record producer / remixer) (track 11)
vocals:
Carol Kenyon (track 3)
Feargal Sharkey (track 19)
Robert Smith (UK guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for The Cure) (track 16)
Caron Wheeler (track 15)
writer:
Steve Askew (track 8)
Thomas Alexander Bailey (Thompson Twins) (track 20)
Arthur Baker (track 4)
Len Barry (track 6)
Nick Beggs (track 8)
George O’Dowd (track 1)
Charlie Burchill (track 14)
Jo Callis (track 11)
Deborah Carter (track 2)
Harry Wayne Casey (track 2)
Mikey Craig (track 1)
Alannah Joy Currie (track 20)
Bobby Eli (track 6)
Derek Forbes (track 14)
Mel Gaynor (track 14)
Glenn Gregory (track 3)
Christopher Hamill (track 8)
Roy Hay (Member of Culture Club and composer for film and television) (track 1)
Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds) (track 14)
Joseph Martin Leeway (track 20)
John Lennon (Beatle) (track 17)
Michael MacNeil (track 14)
Ian Craig Marsh (track 3)
Paul McCartney (track 17)
Jon Moss (track 1)
Stuart Croxford Neale (track 8)
Philip Oakey (track 11)
Phil Pickett (track 1)
John Robie (track 4)
Jez Strode (track 8)
Martyn Ware (track 3)
phonographic copyright by:
Polydor Ltd. (UK) (not for release label use! aka Polydor Ltd. or Polydor Ltd. (London), fka Polydor Records Ltd.) (track 15)
Virgin Records Ltd. (not for release label use!) (1983) (track 1)
Virgin Records Ltd. (not for release label use!) (2003) (track 1)
publisher:
APB Music Co. (track 16)
BMG Music Publishing Ltd. (track 20)
BMG Songs, Inc. (track 20)
EMI Music Publishing Germany (GmbH & Co. KG) (track 18)
EMI Publishing Ltd. (track 14)
Northern Songs Ltd. (track 17)
Notting Hill Music (UK) Ltd. (track 15)
Point Music (publisher) (track 20)
Stylist Music Ltd. (track 15)
BMG VM Music Ltd. (2013-05 –) (track 1)
recorded at:
Phonogram Studios in London, England, United Kingdom (1982-10) (track 15)
Unique Recording Studios in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (1983) (track 4)
music videos:
(Keep Feeling) Fascination by The Human League (track 11)
remix of:
Waterfront by Simple Minds (track 14)
remixes:
League Leader Mix by The Human League (track 11)
sampled by:
Escape to the Stars by Cinema Bizarre (track 18)
part of:
Anti-Hit List: March 18, 1996 (number: 9) (track 9)
cover recording of:
Dear Prudence (track 17)
later parody versions:
Dear Derpy (track 17)
Moldy Now (track 20)
later translated versions:
Ti prusa (Dear Prudence) (track 17)
live recording of:
The Walk (track 16)
recording of:
(Keep Feeling) Fascination (track 11)
Candy Girl (track 7)
Everything Counts (track 18)
Give It Up (track 2)
Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins song) (track 20)
I.O.U. (track 4)
Karma Chameleon (track 1)
Love Town (track 6)
Never Never (track 19)
New Song (track 9)
Nobody's Diary (track 12)
Steppin' Out (track 13)
Temptation (track 3)
Too Shy (track 8)
Waterfront (track 14)
Beat Surrender (1982-10) (track 15)
referred to in medleys:
Come Together / Dear Prudence / Cry Baby Cry (Love version) (track 17)

Release Group

part of: Now That's What I Call Music! 10th Anniversary Series (UK) (number: 1983)