Word: cd
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...ship is Sun's JavaStation, a sleek, streamlined machine designed to make maximum use of the Java language (which Sun developed) and the vast storage capacity of the Internet (which runs largely on Sun's computer servers). Unlike most PCs, the JavaStation has no hard drive, doesn't play CD-ROMs and takes no floppies. Users are supposed to store their personal files on the servers and download whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time...
Edmonds, a soft-spoken man, downplays such praise: "A genius is Steve Wonder. A genius is Prince. Those kind of artists, they have no choice. They have to write. I'm just a song man." He is that: his easygoing new CD, The Day, contains the most restrained, respectable work he's done as a solo performer...
They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
...Small Repairs (Columbia), Colvin meets the Zeitgeist halfway. The harmonica, the assertive fuzz guitar, the typeface of the lyric sheet are all Morissettish. And if that cozens people to give her CD a necessary second listen, it will be a smart move for both Colvin and her new audience. What's crucial is that the voice hasn't changed; instead of Morissette's sandpaper, Colvin has a silky sound that she wears like sackcloth to suit her pretty dirges. These songs, most of which she wrote with her producer, John Leventhal, still have the swank and cutting edge of Colvin...
...wall...on the corner of First and Insane." In If I Were Brave, Colvin brings the alienation home, to the singer on the stage, "a clown to entertain the happy couples." But these open wounds are swathed in lovely melodies. Colvin may feel isolated in her art, but her CD has the breakthrough goods. She won't be too hip for the big room much longer...