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This isn't so much a song that they're doing, by the way, as basically an advert for the latest Now compilation.
The first Now compilation was released in November 1983 on vinyl and cassette, featuring songs including Phil Collins' You Can't Hurry Love, Duran Duran's Is There Something I Should Know and Culture Club's Karma Chameleon.
"Sucking on the berries/Eats us out of house and home... .. It's pop, of a fashion - but pop scripted by the Brothers Grimm, filmed by David Lynch, and never to appear on any Now compilation, lest it freak out children of the future who might wonder what the kids were boshing out in 2009.
Oisin Lunny: The music industry has changed very dramatically since the first NOW compilation in 1983, what are the main ways these changes have impacted the approach behind the series?
Maybe a standard NOW compilation?
For every Pat Nevin, the footballer enjoying a second career as an alternative rock selector, there are jaded CBBC presenters in student unions, ambivalently shuffling through tracks on their latest NOW compilation, trying to summon enough energy to toss t shirts and frisbees into the baying, blue-tongued crowd.
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No sooner had they left arenas across the country covered in silver tickertape and smelling of dry ice, than the news came to us that the bands who were residents of those Now! compilations in the late 1990s were all returning.
Not too many folk artists have appeared on the all-conquering Now compilations, but you can bet that the fiddle-powered "5 Years Time" will be on the one that's out just in time for Christmas.
Now compilations were essential chistmas and Birthday presents" Pillowhead – jive bunny: "My first walkman was a red affair from boots when I was about 7 years old and I got the curiosity killed the cat album with it.
"The Now compilations are easy to digest, reliable guides to a constantly changing pop landscape," he told the BBC.
However, the Now compilations are a joint venture of music industry giants Sony and Universal, who own the majority of the tracks on their playlists, and earn royalties when they are streamed.
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