Vinyl Record
Rick Astley - The Best Of Me
Rick Astley - The Best Of Me on LP vinyl. A 2019 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2019
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2019 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
The Best Of Me is Rick Astley in 2019, looking back without pretending the story stopped in 1987. The familiar Stock Aitken Waterman-era singles are here because they have to be: Never Gonna Give You Up, Whenever You Need Somebody, Together Forever, She Wants To Dance With Me, Take Me To Your Heart and Hold Me In Your Arms still carry the bright drum-machine confidence of late-1980s British pop. What makes the set more interesting is the later-career frame around them. By the time this collection appeared, Astley had already returned with the self-made albums 50 and Beautiful Life, and the new song Every One Of Us placed that grown-up, self-produced Rick beside the immaculate early hits. The result is less a nostalgia shortcut than a compact career portrait: youthful dance-pop certainty, early soul-ballad instincts, the long shadow of internet rediscovery, and the calmer voice of an artist who had learned how to inhabit his own catalogue again.
The Best Of Me matters because it catches Rick Astley's catalogue after an unusual second life. In 2019, the hits were no longer only late-1980s pop memories; they had become shared digital culture, while Astley's new work showed he was more than the punchline of his most famous chorus.
For collectors, this LP works as the concise Rick Astley shelf piece: the essential singles, the 2010s comeback context, and a new opening track from the mature self-writing period. It is the practical way to place the big pop moments beside the later voice that reclaimed them.
Glossy British dance-pop and blue-eyed soul with bright programmed rhythms, warm baritone hooks, polished late-1980s production, later acoustic maturity and a clean greatest-hits flow.
Recommended for: Collectors who want Rick Astley's core hits in one vinyl-friendly sequence; Listeners interested in 1980s pop that found a strange second life online; Fans of Never Gonna Give You Up, Together Forever and Cry For Help.
When was The Best Of Me released? The Best Of Me was released in 2019 as a career-spanning Rick Astley collection. Does The Best Of Me include Rick Astley's 1980s hits? Yes. It brings together major hits such as Never Gonna Give You Up, Whenever You Need Somebody, Together Forever and She Wants To Dance With Me. Why is the 2019 timing important for this collection? It arrived after Astley's modern comeback, so the album frames the early pop hits alongside the confidence of his later self-written work.