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Despite reports to the contrary, don't count out the enhanced CD just yet. Sure, the genre faltered as it struggled to find its place on CD-ROM and music shelves. But now some new releases may transform the ECD from mere novelty to viable entertainment.

The Barenaked Ladies follow up their playful Born on a Pirate Ship with ROCK SPECTACLE (Reprise, $16.98), a live recording from the Canuck quintet's 1996 tour. Designed as a menu of boob-tube programs, their BNL TV offers 10 channels of witty and weird shows, like Abs of Lard and drummer Tyler Stewart's Living.

Her Majesty the Baby, San Francisco's Elastica/Enya hybrid, take an artsy-but-not-fartsy spin with MARY (nu.millennia, $14.98), utilizing mesmerizing collage animations for each of the 11 songs on their engaging debut.

On Holly Cole's fourth album, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Metro Blue, $11.98), a striking and spare multimedia design echoes the cool Canadian jazz-pop chanteuse's stripped-down style, with revelatory interviews (on percussionist Dougie Bowne's penchant for drumming pizza boxes) and six videos (like a sexy and haunting rendition of Tom Waits' ''Train Song''). All titles: A


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Posted Dec 13, 1996
 

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