Erstwhile Funkmaster Phil pointed his jaunty finger at play.com a while back, gesturing me towards the latest emission from the Now That’s What I Call… A Cash Cow franchise:

I’m not really sure what I’m trying to achieve, but I had the urge to list out the tracklisting while greying out the ones I reckon aren’t any good.  Here it is – argue about it in the comments if you like.

Disc 1

1. Ace Of Base – All That She Wants
2. Adamski – Killer
3. Aqua – Barbie Girl
4. Babylon Zoo – Spaceman
5. Backstreet Boys – I Believe I Can Fly
6. Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
7. Blur – Country House
8. Boyz II Men – End Of The Road
9. Boyzone – No Matter What
10. Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time
11. Bryan Adams – Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
12. Charles & Eddie – Would I Lie To You
13. Cher – The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)
14. Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
15. Coolio Feat. LV – Gangsters Paradise
16. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
17. East 17 – Stay Another Day
18. Elton John – Candle In The Wind ‘97
19. Elton John – Sacrifice
20. Enigma – Sadness (Part 1)

Disc 2

1. Erasure – Lay All Your Love On Me
2. Eternal Feat. Bebe Winans – I Wanna Be The Only One
3. Five – Keep On Movin’
4. Gabrielle – Dreams
5. George Michael – Fastlove
6. Hanson – Mmmmbop
7. Jason Donovan – Any Dream Will Do
8. KLF – 3AM Eternal
9. Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
10. Livin’ Joy – Dreamer
11. Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven
12. Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
13. Michael Jackson – Black Or White
14. No Doubt – Don’t Speak
15. Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (…shame this doesn’t go any greyer. -Ed.)
    
16. Pato Banton Feat. Robin & Ali Campbell – Baby Come Back
17. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans Feat. 112 – I’ll Be Missing You
18. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
19. R Kelly – I Believe I Can Fly
20. Robbie Williams – She’s The One

Disc 3

1. Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
2. S Club 7 – Bring It All Back
3. Shaggy – Boombastic
4. Shakespears Sister – Stay
5. Simply Red – Fairground
6. Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
7. Snap – Rythm Is A Dancer
8. Spice Girls – Wannabe
9. Steve Miller Band – The Joker
10. Take That – Back For Good
11. Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite
12. The Beautiful South – A Little Time
13. The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
14. The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
15. The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
16. U2 – Discotheque
17. UB40 – (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You
18. Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy
19. Wet Wet Wet – Love Is All Around
20. White Town – Your Woman
21. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
22. Will Smith – Men In Black

So it’s official: The 90s were 47% crap.