That deep, thoughtful voice-over implies that we simply do not know how to feel if we don’t kick back at the stereo with Tubular Bells Part 1 and the X-Files Theme. The best part is how seriously this commercial takes its product. The commercial aired frequently during children and tween-directed programming, though I doubt any of our parents shelled out the $15.99 via check or money order to bring these pure, unfiltered moods to our doorstep via the United States Postal Service. This commercial played incessantly during the 90s, though you’d be hard pressed to find someone who actually admitted to owning it. I knew it was hiding there somewhere, but it takes that “Ahhhh ay wa oh wa ay waaaah” at the beginning of that commercial to bring it to the surface. Watching this commercial is like taking a brief stroll into the depths of my childhood subconscious. Buying one featuring songs like Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” just isn’t the same experience. The commercials are irritating, sure, but seeing one now gets me a little nostalgic for the NOW!s of years gone by. The franchise has been pumping out album after album, year after year, each time reissuing the season’s most-played pop music tracks. The first US NOW! featured tracks like Aqua’s “Barbie Girl”, KC & Jojo’s “All my Life”, and Hanson’s “MMMBop”. In my case, this was a mix tape-style gold mine. The first US album is chock-full of solid 90s pop hits, which is good or bad depending on your tolerance for cheesy, repetitive music. Sounds easy enough, and the formula clearly stuck–in the UK they’ve reached something like NOW! 438293, though we are lagging a bit behind in the US at a mere 32 albums. By reissuing a track, they could continue to make money off of already-released songs.
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Either way, it’s pretty specific.Įnglish Virgin Records executives conceived these compilation albums as a means of squeezing further revenue out of songs already released on full albums. How can you say no to a product whose name is a full sentence? Well, a one-word exclamation followed by a sentence fragment. They’d been churning these babies out for years in the UK, but we in the US weren’t treated to their compilation glory until 1998. Especially before we held the power to create our our own CDs, we relied heavily on these As Seen on TV products for mix tape-style musical entertainment.
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For the allegedly low low price of just $19.99 plus shipping and handling, we could be the proud owner of a compilation CD guaranteed to satisfy our urge for a varied playlist within a set theme. In the time set squarely between the age of the Mix tape and the era of burnable CDs, the music industry offered us an attractive option. If you were lucky enough to own a dual cassette player, you could sometimes record from one to another, but the whole process was a bit of an ordeal. To create your dream compilation required a great deal of finger dexterity to press the record and stop buttons at just the right time as they came on the radio. We did have the positively prehistoric predecessor of the mixtape, but it was a far more complex affair.
99 cents a song with the goal assembling the ultimate playlist. Once upon a time, in a primitively technological world lightyears from today, we couldn’t just pick and choose the songs on our albums as we pleased.
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