When David Byrne was with the Talking Heads, he was determined that the band always be ahead of their time. But there was one occasion when the band was too far ahead.
The 1988 album Naked was released “graphics ready.” This meant that if you were to buy a CD player with a special decoder, you could watch the lyrics of the songs pass by in real-time on your television. You could also watch a list of which instruments were playing when.
Unfortunately, these special CD players were not available in 1988—and many people have totally forgotten about this. And come to think of it, technology and technological standards have changed so much since then.
Today, there might not be a piece of consumer electronics anywhere that can properly decode this part of the Talking Heads disc.
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