Word: cd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music lovers and electronics manufacturers, digital audio tape represented a terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans...
...hours that night when they are in town for a meeting. When they called, I had nine short hours to undo the damage I had done. I was going to reserve the two days before they came home to clean up everything--the coffee mug-stained tabletop, the disordered CD collection, the dirty master bathroom (no other bathroom...
...support both a military buildup and a high standard of living. Although the Soviets devoted up to twice as much of their (smaller) GNP to the conventional and nuclear arms race, the U.S. could match this expenditure and still have enough "spare GNP" for toasters, cars, VCRs and CD players...
...stand in line in sub-zero weather for opera tickets. We'd rather go out and buy that new Kiri Te Kanawa CD than open up this month's phone bill. We'll stay home to watch a Live from the Met broadcast instead of taking our chances on the new Arnold Schwarzenegger film. And even our beloved Mozart, Wagner and Puccini LP's are showing severe wear and tear...
That kind of black humor and street sass is carried over into Was songs, which David characterizes as "chocolate-covered razor blades." The Dog CD features a startling but ultimately respectful and impassioned reappraisal of the J.F.K. assassination, 11 MPH, set to a heavy funk beat, as well as a barn- burner reworking of Otis Redding's I Can't Turn You Loose. Both do memory proud. The group is working on a brand-new Was (Not Was) album for release this summer. The music will, naturally, be the same (only different). "It's a come-as-you-aren...