Very good song selection and order here! (Now That's What I Call Music! 62)

Member Name: pmcds

Product:	Now That's What I Call Music! 62
Date:	07/02/09 (30 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great selction and order

Disadvantages: Only a couple of songs I didn't hugely like

Now 62 was the last Now That's What I Call Music CD released in 2005. I'm quite a fan of this compilation, after not being so enamoured with a number of the previous releases, but this one kept me interested all the way through. There is a good balance of music, incorporating a number of different genres, and the majority of the tracks are highly impressive. Naturally, there are a couple I'm not too fond of, but are still very good tracks.

Disc 1 has 22 tracks on it, and starts off with the catchy Push The Button from the Sugababes, and the lesser known but impressive track Tripping from Robbie Williams. Don't Cha from the Pussycat Dolls and Daniel Powter's Bad Day ensure a strong start for the disc, and it continues on in the same way. There are good tracks on here from McFly, Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand, and Simon Webbe, formerly of boyband Blue, did well with his hit Lay Your Hands. I wasn't massively fond of Elton John's Electricity if I am honest, but I understand he has a huge following and fans will have absolutely loved this track. I was of a similar midset with Westlife's You Raise Me Up. I love Josh Groban singing this song, and felt it was a bit of a cheat when Westlife covered it. They didn't really do anything new to the track. We all know they can sing, and was almost like a lazy offering from them as opposed to giving us a more original hit from them, which I like.

The second disc starts off great with Gorillaz and Dare, and Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl is enough to make most people start clapping and dancing. Coldplay's Fix You is an anthem indeed, and I strangely liked the remixed Doctor Pressure from Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine. It was nice to see Depeche Mode in the mix, although Precious wasn't a great track in my eyes, and similar with Bon Jovi's Have A Nice Day, which ended the compilation. I like the group, but wasn't too enamoured with this track. Good tracks from Amerie and Akon (whose tracks I love but whose voice I can't stand!) go well with the track selection here, and the whole of the CD is actually very good.

Ultimately, what the Now team do very well here is create a good order of play with the tracks on offer. The hits seem to roll on very well from one to another. I quite happily listen to both of these CDs without skipping tracks. Even the ones I have mentioned above are good songs, they just aren't quite as great as their previous tracks or some of the others on these discs. Overall, this is a very good compilation from the Now That's What I Call Music team, and one I happily recommend in amongst a few years of average releases.

Summary: Largely one of the better Now releases