21.   That record had Wall Street agitating for the company to do better.

22.   The old Blondie records have some of that, too.

23.   The record has run-of-the-mill tracks and standard production.

24.   The record has a transcontinental battery of guests, including the guitarist Bill Frisell, the keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto and the percussionist Nana Vasconcelos.

25.   The songs are not likely to jump to the top of the charts, but the record has had some success.

26.   The surface records have many gaps and inconsistencies resulting from changing methods of measurement.

27.   The world triple-jump record had his name all over it, he told anyone within earshot.

28.   Thirty-six years later, the record has the comfortable familiarity of a nursery rhyme.

29.   Those records would have to be maintained in the same manner as those of adult offenders.

30.   Whereas the old records had this vibrating wire of energy that was about to snap at any second.