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Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits

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2012 compilation album by Various artists
Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits
Compilation album by Various artists
ReleasedMay 1, 2012
GenreHard rock, blues rock, progressive rock
Length76:55
LabelEMI
Series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music! 42
(2012)
Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits
(2012)
Now That's What I Call Country Volume 5
(2012)

Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits is one of many genre-themed compilation albums from the Now! series in the United States, this one focusing on popular classic rock songs from the 1970s. It was released on May 1, 2012.

Track listing

No.TitleArtistLength
1."The Boys Are Back in Town"Thin Lizzy4:24
2."Feels Like the First Time"Foreigner3:12
3."Hold the Line"Toto3:31
4."Baby Hold On"Eddie Money3:30
5."Any Way You Want It"Journey3:22
6."Come Sail Away"Styx3:06
7."Locomotive Breath"Jethro Tull4:23
8."Crazy on You"Heart4:17
9."Feel Like Makin' Love"Bad Company5:11
10."Lola"The Kinks4:00
11."25 or 6 to 4"Chicago2:51
12."Take the Money and Run"Steve Miller Band2:50
13."Blinded by the Light"Manfred Mann's Earth Band3:48
14."Paradise by the Dashboard Light"Meat Loaf8:30
15."I Want You to Want Me" (Live)Cheap Trick3:36
16."Do You Feel Like We Do" (Live)Peter Frampton7:17
17."Free Bird"Lynyrd Skynyrd9:07

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

In his review for Allmusic, Gregory Heaney says "the Now series delivers a dose of good ol' classic rock with Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits," which "gathers some of rock's most enduring crossover hits." Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits is "an album that achieves its primary goal of being able to please most of the people most of the time with a wide-ranging selection of hits that should fit into most anyone's definition of classic rock."

References

  1. ^ Heaney, Gregory. Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 3, 2012.

External links

Now That's What I Call Music! albums
United Kingdom
and Ireland
United States
Australia
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