Word: cd
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...that Depeche Mode's (debatable) historical validity has been established, we come to the matter at hand--The Singles 86>98, a recently released compilation of the group's singles of the 80's and 90's. This two-CD set does indeed span twelve years of releases, which is odd considering that the band has been around for eighteen years. There's a good reason for this--Depeche Mode reached an epiphany of sorts around 1986 (didn't we all?). Pre-1986 Depeche Mode was pretty out of control. The band only hit its groove with the release...
...this point, the most unexpected aspect of the entire album occurs: the CD changes from track one to track two without any delineation. "Anthropod" plays continuously, and at an indiscriminate moment, the four-minute quiet interlude becomes "Phantom Limb." There is no silence between songs, nor a change in melody. This is not an anomalous occurrence on the album, as the different tracks are just names given to indistinguishable parts of a single, seemingly interminable song that composes the whole of Experiment Below. Six minutes into the album, Hovercraft demonstrates promising innovations and intricate, sudden and powerful changes in rhythm...
First, Georgia gave you Scarlett O'Hara and debutante balls. Then it was Southern Baptists, sweet tea and grits. Now, from the epicenter of Southern gentility, the very buckle of the Bible Belt, comes Nashville Pussy's latest CD: Let Them Eat Pussy...
Harvard professors are no novelty on Nightline or in The New York Times. Now, one is staking a name in the CD racks at Tower Records, HMV, and Newbury Comics...
Monkeypuzzle, the first nationally released album of the band Baby Ray, will hit store shelves Tuesday. Frontman Erich M. Groat, who wrote the music on the CD, is also an associate in linguistics at the Extension School and a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the City University of New York...