Word: cd
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...which contains nine other tunes besides I Just Can't Stop Loving You (or ten, counting a bonus tune on the CD), further compounds the confusion. Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust. The album's first video, a stinging 16-minute dramatic vamp on the title tune directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered in prime time on CBS last week and grabbed a 30 share. Set in a New York City subway station, it was in part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry, a gifted black graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy...
Perhaps that was Jackson's goal, but the title of the last cut (available only on CD) indicates that he will not be taking questions on the subject. Leave Me Alone suggests he is turning away from everything, back again to the desperate comforts of his own impermeable world of fantasy. It is not a fond farewell. "It's the choice that we make/ And this choice you will take/ Who's laughin' baby." The credits for Smooth Criminal read in part "Michael Jackson's heartbeat recording by Dr. Eric Chevlen digitally processed on the Synclavier." The sound of Jackson...
...from the basic 318i ($26,000) to the top of the line M6 ($90,000), is laden with "standard features" that are usually options in Europe or the U.S.: air conditioning, automatic transmission, power windows, sporty hubcaps and, of course, a Sony AM-FM radio complete with tape deck, CD player and four speakers...
Many record companies have been reissuing pre-digital ("analog") recordings in CD form. Many of these old recordings--some date back 50 years--have considerably better sound quality than they did on record format, and the fact that the recordings themselves are being reissued often means that they are high-quality performances. For the time being, though, CDs are still a luxury item, and many college students are waiting for a post-graduation job before buying a CD player...
Price too has inhibited the spread of the discs. Computer CD drives cost about $800, and software publishers are charging up to $50,000 for CD versions of especially valuable data. But strangely enough, audio CDs may be coming to the rescue. Says David Davies of Minnesota's 3M company, which produces about half of the world's compact discs for computers: "Without the CD music market, data CDs would not exist. The hardware would be too expensive." The intense competition to produce music CDs, he explains, will spill over to the CD data field, forcing down the costs...