Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits

2012 compilation album by Various artists

Compilation album by

Various artists

Released

May 1, 2012

Genre

Hard rock, blues rock, progressive rock

Length

76:55^[1]

Label

EMI

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.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"The Boys Are Back in Town"	Thin Lizzy	4:24
2.	"Feels Like the First Time"	Foreigner	3:12
3.	"Hold the Line"	Toto	3:31
4.	"Baby Hold On"	Eddie Money	3:30
5.	"Any Way You Want It"	Journey	3:22
6.	"Come Sail Away"	Styx	3:06
7.	"Locomotive Breath"	Jethro Tull	4:23
8.	"Crazy on You"	Heart	4:17
9.	"Feel Like Makin' Love"	Bad Company	5:11
10.	"Lola"	The Kinks	4:00
11.	"25 or 6 to 4"	Chicago	2:51
12.	"Take the Money and Run"	Steve Miller Band	2:50
13.	"Blinded by the Light"	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	3:48
14.	"Paradise by the Dashboard Light"	Meat Loaf	8:30
15.	"I Want You to Want Me" (Live)	Cheap Trick	3:36
16.	"Do You Feel Like We Do" (Live)	Peter Frampton	7:17
17.	"Free Bird"	Lynyrd Skynyrd	9:07

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

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."^[1]