How Does a Moment Last Forever marks the first collaboration between Menken and Rice in over two decades; the last time they worked together had been in the "Beauty and the Beast" musical. Menken believes that the songs he and Rice had written for the musical would not have translated well to the screen due to the structural differences between the two formats. One of at least nine significant changes made to the film specifically for the remake, "How Does a Moment Last Forever" was conceived to explain Belle's backstory. Her quest to find out her mother's fate serves, in the plot, as a foundation for
Over the Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project from a station called ABS, which closely parodies the Art Bell show. Disc 2 is presented as a "Universal Media Netweb" simulcast, in conjunction with Radio Moscow, to teach the people of Russia the basics of a Free Market economy. Throughout this disc are commercials for Mertz, a Decision-Enhancing Mental Supplement, and a series of recordings from a real botched attempt to do a similar simulcast in the mid 1980s. This album was released in 1994 on Negativland's Seeland label. PART ONE: TIME ZONES EXCHANGE PROJECT 68:47' PART TWO: TESTWAVE 72:10' Over the Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project