Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music consumers, we're accustomed to living with some sour notes. Enticed by a hit single, we buy a compact disc only to find the rest of the album filled with moody self-indulgence. We have millions of vinyl records and eight-track tapes taking up space in our closets because electronics makers sold us on a digital future with no way to bring our analog past along for the ride. And speaking of rides, can't those gadget wizards replace our waning (in some climates, melting) cassette tapes with truly portable CDs that won't skip when...
...recording and -delivery technologies are poised to give us more control over what we hear, where we hear it and even how much we pay for the privilege. Philips Electronics is selling a music CD recorder for about $600 that lets you copy an entire CD (or any other album) onto a new CD, produce your own greatest-hits collections from several albums or just bring those old LPs and cassette tapes into the digital age. Pioneer and Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony and Sharp are spearheading an effort to revive the MiniDisc format, which records...
...radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold by September. The writer noted that after an initial boost from pay-for-play, Limp Bizkit's album sank to the bottom quarter of the Billboard Top 200. By early August, however, it had reached No. 132 and is on the rise. Also, the group is not from Southern California, as you said, but from Jacksonville, Fla. Flip Records does not rely on radio or music videos...
COURTNEY "GIMME" LOVE AGE: 33 OCCUPATION: Singer, glamorized grungess BEST PUNCH: Said it was "silly and sexist" that Billy Corgan was being given so much credit for his work on her band Hole's latest album, Celebrity Skin...
...shipyard. He was an altar boy who busted loose, discovering girls and guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker and novelist Tom McGuane...