they're gonna throw it back to you

into the shop the other day walked a man who has based his entire life around the now! that's what i call music series. he was born the year the series was, in 1983, and has every single record on vinyl or cd. his opening line, when he approached the counter, was 'oh, i do love my pop music!'. whatever birthdate and year combination we threw at him, he could tell us the day of the week and the number one single on that day.

once i'd overcome my awe, i came home and dug out the few now! cds in my own collection. did you know that the bestselling to date is number 44? my littlesister owns that one. sob. but regardless, the last couple of days have been very, very nineties for me.

i think mainly it was nice to have some sort of justification for my own current obsession with the latest now! cds. such teenage joy! so many exclamation marks! and i've discovered that i can now, after over a decade, finally bear listening to oasis, although this might have more to do with my love for the ryan adams cover of wonderwall than the assault of time on my usual good taste...