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Faith and Courage is one of the best CDs of the year. On her past albums, O'Connor's songs burned with anger. Her new album, for which she recruited a wide range of producers, including hip-hopper Wyclef Jean, radiates forgiveness, and the music is often as sweet and smooth as strawberries and cream. A few tracks, including The Healing Room, beam with sunny reggae rhythms. The album is dedicated to "all Rastafari people." In one song, What Doesn't Belong to Me, O'Connor sings from the perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world...
Forget it. Mental slips like these are a normal part of mid-life. Even teenagers, capable of reeling off entire CDs of rock lyrics, occasionally blank out--though one might be suspicious of instances involving chores requested by parents or teachers. Unless your forgetfulness is accompanied by deeper failures in reasoning and logic, it's nothing to fret about. After all, if being absentminded were a sign of mental disarray, you'd have to write off Einstein, who bungled simple arithmetic even while working on relativity...
Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music. Metallica CDs have been available only from stores, catalogs and online sites, and sold at a price that covers production, marketing, distribution, royalties to the artist and, not least, the markup for record company and retailer. That's why CDs that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week...
...based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...
DVDS FOR ME Wouldn't it be great if you could make mix CDs the same way you make mix tapes? imix.com--formerly known as customdisc.com--isn't the only website to offer this service, but it has by far the best music selection, in part through a partnership with Sony. Last week imix.com raised the stakes by offering DVDs as well, featuring hard-to-find movies and music videos. So far the selection is a bit martial-arts heavy--Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee figure prominently. Life's tough...