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It’s the most inevitable irony: the people behind NOW That’s What I Call Music! have finally compiled a set devoted to the 1990s – the very decade U.S. buyers started getting their own versions of the long-running pop compilation series.

The first NOW volume hit stores in England in 1983, but it didn’t catch on until 1998 in the States. Three dozen standard volumes later (NOW 36 is due November 9), the latest special title in the series is NOW That’s What I Call the 1990s, to be released the same day. Do note that the set is subtitled “An Alternative Pop Collection,” so this isn’t going to be full of teen pop tunes. (If you want such a set, you can get the U.K. NOW That’s What I Call the ’90s, released last year – or the what’s-your-hurry set NOW That’s What I Call the ’00s, released in England back in February.)

Check out the track list for the compilation after the jump (no Amazon link exists just yet), and do try hard not to cringe at the passage of time between the original release of these songs and this set.

Various Artists, NOW That’s What I Call the 1990s (Capitol 50999 917802 2 5, 2010)

1. You Get What You Give – New Radicals
2. Two Princes – Spin Doctors
3. One Week – Barenaked Ladies
4. Bitch – Meredith Brooks
5. If It Makes You Happy – Sheryl Crow
6. One of Us – Joan Osborne
7. Stay (I Missed You) – Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
8. You Gotta Be – Des’ree
9. Ordinary World – Duran Duran
10. Lullabye – Shawn Mullins
11. I’ll Be – Edwin McCain
12. If You Could Only See – Tonic
13. Everything You Want – Vertical Horizon
14. Father of Mine – Everclear
15. I Alone – Live
16. Shine – Collective Soul
17. No Rain – Blind Melon
18. What I Got – Sublime

Track 1 from Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (MCA, 1998)
Track 2 from Pocket Full of Kryptonite (Epic, 1991)
Track 3 from Stunt (Reprise, 1998)
Track 4 from Blurring the Edges (Capitol, 1997)
Track 5 from Sheryl Crow (A&M, 1996)
Track 6 from Relish (Blue Gorilla/Mercury, 1995)
Track 7 from Reality Bites: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (RCA, 1994)
Track 8 from I Ain’t Movin’ (Epic, 1994)
Track 9 from Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (Capitol, 1993)
Track 10 from Soul’s Core (Columbia, 1998)
Track 11 from Misguided Roses (Lava, 1997)
Track 12 from Lemon Parade (Polydor, 1996)
Track 13 from Everything You Want (RCA, 1999)
Track 14 from So Much for the Afterglow (Capitol, 1997)
Track 15 from Throwing Copper (Radioactive, 1994)
Track 16 from Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid (Atlantic, 1993)
Track 17 from Blind Melon (Capitol, 1992)
Track 18 from Sublime (MCA, 1996)