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

Now That's What I Call Music 8 or Now 8 was released in 1986. The album is the eighth edition of the (UK) Now! series. The album was re-released on double CD in 2021.

The track listing shown is for the vinyl and audio cassette releases.

Side 1

 * 1) Duran Duran : "Notorious"
 * 2) Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
 * 3) Run DMC feat. Aerosmith : "Walk This Way"
 * 4) The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris : "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"

Side 2

 * 1) Cameo : "Word Up!"
 * 2) Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Prefect for You)"
 * 3) Mel & Kim : "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
 * 4) Jermaine Stewart : "We Don't Have to..."
 * 5) Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
 * 6) Janet Jackson : "What Have You Done for Me Lately"
 * 7) The Human League : "Human"
 * 8) Boris Gardiner : "I Wanna Wake Up with You"

Side 1

 * 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"

Side 2

 * 1) Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
 * 2) It Bites : "Calling All the Heroes"
 * 3) Doctor & The Medics with Roy Wood : "Waterloo"
 * 4) Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' (In the USA)"
 * 5) Robert Palmer : "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
 * 6) Paul Hardcastle : "The Wizard, Part 1"
 * 7) Gwen Guthrie : "(They Long to be) Close to You"
 * 8) Nick Berry : "Every Loser Wins"

Video Selection
A video selection was also released featuring selected tracks from the main album and some which did not appear on any Now album.


 * 1) Duran Duran : "Notorious"
 * 2) Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
 * 3) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : "Forever Live and Die"
 * 4) Erasure : "Sometimes"
 * 5) The Communards : "Don't Leave Me This Way"
 * 6) Mel & Kim : "Showing Out"
 * 7) Bananarama : "Venus"
 * 8) Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
 * 9) Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
 * 10) The Housemartins : "Think for a Minute"
 * 11) Madness : "Waiting for the Ghost Train"
 * 12) The Damned : "Anything"
 * 13) Big Country : "One Great Thing"
 * 14) Ultravox : "All Fall Down"
 * 15) Status Quo : "In the Army Now"
 * 16) Glass Tiger : "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"
 * 17) Frankie Goes to Hollywood : "Warriors of the Wasteland"
 * 18) Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
 * 19) Boris Gardiner : "I Wanna Wake Up with You"

Single CD Track Listing

 * 1) Duran Duran : "Notorious"
 * 2) Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
 * 3) Run DMC feat. Aerosmith : "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 (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
 * 7) Jaki Graham : "Step Right Up"
 * 8) Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
 * 9) Kim Wilde : "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
 * 10) It Bites : "Calling All the Heroes"
 * 11) Doctor & The Medics with Roy Wood : "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"

2021 Double CD Re-release
The album was re-released on double CD in 2021. No tracks were omitted from the original release.

CD 1

 * 1) Duran Duran : "Notorious" (Single Mix)
 * 2) Pet Shop Boys : "Suburbia"
 * 3) Run DMC feat. Aerosmith : "Walk This Way"
 * 4) The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris : "Don't Leave Me This Way"
 * 5) Swing Out Sister : "Breakout"
 * 6) Steve Winwood : "Higher Love" (Single Version)
 * 7) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : "(Forever) Live and Die" (Remastered 2019)
 * 8) Genesis : "In Too Deep"
 * 9) Cameo : "Word Up!" (Single Version)
 * 10) Grace Jones : "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Prefect 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" (Single Version)
 * 15) The Human League : "Human"
 * 16) Boris Gardiner : "I Wanna Wake Up with You"

CD 2

 * 1) Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush : "Don't Give Up"
 * 2) The Housemartins : "Think for a Minute" (Single Version)
 * 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" (7" Version)
 * 11) Doctor & The Medics with Roy Wood : "Waterloo"
 * 12) Debbie Harry : "French Kissin' (In the USA)" (Edit)
 * 13) Robert Palmer : "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (Album Version)
 * 14) Paul Hardcastle : "The Wizard, Part 1"
 * 15) Gwen Guthrie : "(They Long to be) Close to You"
 * 16) Nick Berry : "Every Loser Wins"