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1 Song 2 Albarn/Coxon/Rowntr 2:02
2 Viva la Vida Berryman/Buckland/C 3:57
3 Creep Greenwood/Greenwood 4:00
4 You're Beautiful Blunt/Ghost/Skarbek 3:33
5 Dog Days Are Over Summers/Welch 3:18
6 Foundations Epworth/Nash 3:41
7 Rehab Winehouse 3:34
8 Smile Allen/Babalola/Dodd 3:15
9 Pocketful of Sunshine Bedingfield/Brisebo 3:23
10 Soldier of Love Adu/Denman/Hale/Mat 5:59
11 Bleeding Love McCartney/Tedder 4:23
12 Heaven Chegwin/Craze/Sande 4:12
13 Glad You Came Drewett/Hector 3:17
14 Feel so Close Harris 3:26
15 Dynamite Gottwald/Levin 3:20
16 Written in the Stars Bernardo/Mughal/Oko 3:29
17 Domino Cornish/Devlin/Gott 3:52
18 Feel Good Inc Gorillaz/Jolicouer 3:41
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Now That's What I Call British

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Universal Music Group

Style: Dance-Pop

Now That's What I Call British

UPC: 5099946353528

Release Date: 07/17/2012

Original Release Date: 07/17/2012

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Song 2, Viva la Vida, Creep, You're Beautiful, Dog Days Are Over, Foundations, Rehab, Smile, Pocketful of Sunshine, Soldier of Love, Bleeding Love, Heaven, Glad You Came, Feel so Close, Dynamite, Written in the Stars, Domino, Feel Good Inc]
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Now That?s What I Call Music may have overtaken the world, but it began in Britain, so having an American compilation introducing the best of British pop feels a bit like going through the looking glass. Nevertheless, the London Olympics of the summer of 2012 provide a good excuse for Now That?s What I Call British, a hodge-podge of post-Brit-pop singles, some that made it big in the U.S., and many that did not. Now That?s What I Call British is bookended by Damon Albarn, the man who is arguably responsible for the Brit-pop boom of the ?90s, but neither Blur?s ?Song 2? -- a song deliberately designed to sound like American grunge -- nor Gorillaz?s ?Feel Good Inc? sound very Brit-pop. In fact, the sound is generally missing here -- Lily Allen's ?Smile? comes closest -- but there is a lot of distinctly British balladry, pop, dance, and rock, all anchored by Coldplay (?Viva la Vida?), Radiohead (?Creep?), Florence + the Machine (?Dog Days Are Over?), Amy Winehouse (?Rehab?), Leona Lewis (?Bleeding Love?), and Natasha Bedingfield (?Pocketful of Sunshine?). The rest isn?t as noteworthy or well-known but it?s not bad, and it?s all recognizably British if not necessarily the sound that Anglophiles consider quintessential British pop. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi