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Interstate '76, a new CD-ROM game from Activision, doesn't exactly recall the most seductive parts of the disco decade, but it does offer a great laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe...
...President of Ecuador? Be like Lorena Gallo. President Abdala Bucaram told the Ecuadorean-born Gallo, known in the U.S. by her married name, Lorena Bobbitt, that meeting her was "an extremely high honor." He added, "You look prettier than you do on television." He also gave her his CD, A Madman in Love...
ABDALA BUCARAM Ecuador's President draws thousands as he dances and belts out tunes from his new CD...
After Cobain's death, his music snapped into focus, his lyrics now sounding like lines from a suicide note. One gets the same impression listening to this CD, as Cobain sings, "I'm worse at what I do best" on a frantic version of Smells Like Teen Spirit, or when he howls, "Love you so much/ It makes me sick" on a jagged yet controlled rendition of Aneurysm. Performed live, the hurt is more apparent--affection is an affliction, talent a curse, and the crowd roars with every howl of pain. Alternative rock was meant to be a refutation...
...course, not all music invites analysis. There's no need to parse the meaning of Sheryl Crow's song Love Is a Good Thing (the point, it's pretty clear, is that love is a good thing). Muddy Banks, however, is more complex. It's a raw, fast, loud CD that starts with a scream and ends with the roar of a crowd--fitting bookends for Nirvana's too-brief career...