The cover art of Graceland has changed! Is there a new version of Graceland?
On 22 April 1997, a new version of Graceland was released. This new version is an ECD (enhanced CD), featuring multimedia enhancements which can be viewed on a PC or Mac. The “enhanced” portion of the disc includes video footage, lyrics, commentary, and other goodies, all of which can been viewed on a PC (486/66DX or better for the Intel crowd, 68040 or PowerPC for the MacOS people). The quality of the new audio, video and graphics is first-rate. The “regular” portion of the CD is unchanged from the original Graceland issue – there was no 20-bit remastering, as I had hoped. Still, the album is quite a treat. You may still want to hold on to your original CD, though, as the liner notes have changed. Gone are Paul’s analyses of the songs from Graceland (most of these are now part of the multimedia “enhancement”); in is a new, “ten years after” essay by noted critic Timothy White.
