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Official Tracklisting: 1. Step By Step 2. You Got It (The Right Stuff) 3. I'll Be Loving You (Forever) 4. Cover Girl 5. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind) 6. Please Don't Go Girl 7. Tonight 8. Valentine Girl 9. Let's Try It Again 10. Hangin' Tough 11. If You Go Away 12. Baby, I Believe In You 13. Games 14. My Favorite Girl 15. The Right Combination - (Seiko Featuring Donnie Walhberg) 16. Angel Of Love - (Ana & Jordan Knight) 17. Stay The Same - (Joey McIntyre) 18. 2008 NKOTB Mega Mix

Notice this includes 12 of the 14 tracks from the original Gr Hits. "This One's for the Children" and "Call It What You Want (The C&C Pump-It mix)" are missing but 6 tracks are added!

The New Kids on the Block will return with a 'best of' scheduled by Columbia and Legacy. Ths set will contain 17 cuts and a “NKOTB Mega Mix.” The New Kids on the Block Greatest Hits precedes a new studio album expected for later in 2008. The reunion tour is being mapped out for all of those teenyboppers who adored them during their first run, and who will insist on haunting the concert halls yet once again.

Click reunion to see this isn't an April Fool's joke.
Boston Herald 04/03: The New Kids on the Block reunion - rumored for years - became official this week because holdout Donnie Wahlberg was finally convinced that the ’80s boy band had The Right Stuff to go back on tour.

“I had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material,” said the Dorchester homey, 38, who hits the “Today” stage tomorrow with bandmates Joey McIntyre, Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood.

Whoa. So no “Step By Step?” No “Cover Girl?”

“We absolutely will do the old songs for sure,” the pioneer boy bander-turned-actor told the Track before heading off to last night’s Celtics-Pacers game at the Garden. But Wahlberg said he couldn’t go along with the reunion until NKOTB recorded some contemporary tunes as well.

NKOTB - five Boston teenagers literally picked off the street by music Svengali Maurice Starr - sold 70 million bubble gum records worldwide in the ’80s and ’90s before splitting in ’94. They went back into the studio in August to work on some “up-to-date, contemporary music that reflects who we are,” Wahlberg said.

“We are not pretending to be somebody else. We didn’t go country, no rap, no metal. We are who who we are,” added Donnie, who wrote 80 percent of the new Stuff with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.

“You’ve got to mention Joe and Jordan, because I don’t want them to think I’m hogging the spotlight here,” said the vintage teeny-bopper bad boy.

“The Block” - the name the boys privately hung on themselves, since most of them have Kids of their own - signed a deal with Marky Mark’s old label, Interscope Records. A single will be out this spring followed by the yet-untitled album and a TV show in the summer. And then there’s a worldwide tour in the fall.

Our music biz spies report that Wal-Mart is rumored to have ordered up 2 million copies of the NKOTB album. But Donnie wouldn’t take the bait on that one. And you know how we hate that.

“The fan response to this has been incredible,” said Wahlberg, who like the rest of the boys was beset by throngs of screaming fans during NKOTB’s heyday. “You know when the news got out about the reunion a while back our Web site got 1 million hits?”

So, ah, how’s it been being back with the rest of the Blockheads?

“As far as us working together and collaborating, it’s been seamless, like riding a bike, but eventually we may end up mountain biking and that may get a little crazy,” he laughed.

“Actually, it feels right and the timing feels good,” said Donnie, whose own Kid, Xavier, is in a death metal band. “It serves our agenda instead of some tour promoter or music executive. We want to do something we’re proud of.”

Which can only be done Step by Step . . .
The tour dates that have been announced already:
Sat 9/20/08 Montreal, Quebec (BELL CENTRE)
Sun 9/21/08 Toronto, ON (AIR CANADA CENTER)
Tue 9/23/08 East Rutherford, NJ (IZOD CENTER)
Wed 9/24/08 Uniondale, NY (Nassau VETERANS MEMORIAL Coliseum)
Fri 9/26/08 Boston, MA (TD Banknorth Garden)
Sat 9/27/08 Atlantic City, NJ (Borgata Hotel and Casino Event Center)
Sat 10/4/08 Chicago, IL (Allstate Arena)

MANBREASTS

HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it's been 20 years, Man I remember 1988 so vividly, my blonde hair, glasses, kill em all, let god sort them out T shirt, watching stephanie laying out in the sun with my binoculars, my dad wearing his black speedos in the summer that he would visit Jeff with in a dream, John with his calculator watch. Like Sinatra would say it was a very good year!

mndtrp

This will be a very good year.

chino77

why the hell would anyone go see this group? i understand liking them when you are a 12yr old girl....but an adult? come on!

cungar

There's 45 year old women who still worship the Bay City Rollers.

Rival11

Seriously?

Flashback

And that proves chino's question ... why?

cungar

Uh because some people hold onto their teen idols into adulthood.

Was the analogy that hard to understand?

MANBREASTS

This is an awesome Quote! it sounds just like something my dad would have said to me. You made my morning chinno77. seriously.

My Other Self

They "officially" announced their reunion today. God help us all.

The Bus

S! A! T-U-R! D-A-Y! Night!

DRG

For the same reason grown men buy DVDs of G.I. Joe cartoons, I'd imagine... nostalgia.

nothingfails

curiously... why now?

I think a NKOTB reunion would've been successful had they timed it in the late 90's when Backstreet Boys and N'Sync were on top of the world. Considering NKOTB really weren't that much older (since they were teens in their peak, and most of BSB and N'Sync were already in their 20's), I think the window of opportunity was there and would've been profitable.

But now? Backstreet Boys are playing state fairs and Justin Timberlake would rather be held in front of a firing squad than do a one-off reunion with N'Sync. There's no market for NKOTB in 2008

dadaluholla

I'm definitely buying this new greatest hits disc. I look forward to rocking out with "the Right Stuff" on the way to work.

GuessWho

Why now?

Because they saw the Spice Girls' reunion sell out arenas

MANBREASTS

You took the word's right out of my mouth.

porieux

nothingfails

Spice Girls are still "sexy" and gay men eat their type of music up (a lot of people didn't understand the appeal of why they'd get back together.... but gay men flocked and were glad to see them together).... NKOTB are not the same at all, they're a bunch of guys nearing 40 who are going to be dusting off "Hangin' Tough" and "I'll Be Loving You Forever"

orangecrush

$$$
and because they are totally awesome

nothingfails

they would've made twice the $$$$ if they had done it in the time of BSB and N'Sync, boybands were in vogue again then. Now they're so passe that Justin would rather die than reunite with his N'Sync mates

Rogue588

The "New Kids"..



And a funny blog about their appearance on the Today Show...

Mondo Kane

Quite surprising given that their "Bands Reunited" episode was a flop.

Is that Joey? Or a 54 year-old woman?

GuessWho

If there can be 70 year old Beach Boys, there can be 40 year old New Kids

Ky-Fi

About 15 years ago or so I was coming out of a record shop on Newbury St (trendy street in Boston), and there was a guy standing outside talking to somebody, and he looked familiar. When we walked past, I said to my friend (who was a DIEHARD metalhead) "hey, wasn't that one of the New Kids on the Block?", and my friend, without looking up, just said under his breath (his voice dripping with contempt and derision) "....yesss...."

atlantamoi

I don't get it. They abused radio then and I don't really see the point today.