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While Hill struggled to find herself, her record label, Sony, tapped its corporate toe, waiting for new music. It can't be thrilled with what it finally got. MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, a rambling two-disc set of new material recorded last July for the MTV series, is surely the strangest second album ever released by a major pop star. For starters, it's already almost a year old, leaving fans to wonder whether the songs represent the best of what Hill can do or merely the best of what Sony has. Then there's Hill's approach. Musically...
...that I was born," she sings, "I tried to hide, behind education and philosophy/ Hopeless explanation to describe a situation, I can't see because the world's on top of me." Hill lifts her game while beating herself down. At the end of the first disc, on the standout I Gotta Find Peace of Mind, she sings, "Please don't be mad with me, I have no identity/All that I've known is gone, all I was building on." Then she breaks down in tears...
...When the first volume of Columbia's multi-LP set "The Lester Young Story" (which Sony, shamefully, has still not put out on compact disc) was released in the late 1970s, a critic enthused that this was "jazz at its most Mozartean," and Daniels' take on this assessment is revealing. "The critics' Eurocentric emphasis - as when they likened Young to Mozart, for example - was also troubling? both in and of itself and because it carried such bald connotations of racial superiority in the suggestion that the saxophonist was worthy of comparison with this or that European master." I'll tell...
...Love of The Disc...
...directly onto an iPod, for one thing; you have to do it via the computer. That said, the iPod's design beats Palm's hands down when it comes to reading text; with the trackwheel you can scroll through any document with one hand. And the iPod's gargantuan disc space, which dwarfs the eight megabytes of most handhelds, can hold just about anything--as CompUSA found out when an iPod owner walked in, hooked his device up to one of the store's Macs and downloaded the entire Microsoft Office suite...