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...overreaches. Most High, a rocker that's meant to evoke the sounds of the Middle East, lacks a focus. And the album's finale, the raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess. The disc was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini--he also worked on Nirvana's album In Utero--and his personal love for noise rock comes through too strongly here. Page and Plant are better off when they follow their own, time-tested instincts...
...course, the holy grail for new media pioneers in Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley has been the so-called idea of "convergence," the marriage between television and the Internet. Content providers see this as digital nirvana, a chance to draw in viewers by making their experience more interactive--increasing interest and viewership at the same time...
Spiritual Nirvana. A beautiful wife and five-year-old son. Twenty-million-dollar paydays. Four homes, three jets, cool cars. Not bad for a guy whose movies went straight to video less than seven years ago. The only thing that would give him more power might be, well, politics. Is the world ready for Candidate Travolta? "Only doing this movie did it ever dawn on me," he says. "I don't have a natural or innate desire to run, so it would be a job someone would have to force me into." We can see it now: Super Tuesday Night...
...just as soon as Bush's popularity dove with the post-war recession of the early '90s, so too did arena rock fall off the map. Nirvana stormed the music scene in 1991, bringing Seattle grunge to the rest of the country and making alternative suddenly mainstream. By 1993, Winger, Damn Yankees and Bad English had disbanded, and Warrant, Poison and Nelson had fallen off the map entirely. Pushing them aside were bands like Pearl Jam, the Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and the Smashing Pumpkins, turning the airwaves from a place of possibility and power--where our average triumphs were...
Powers has it only partly right. Some of us young middle-class males could surely share Nirvana's frustrations; being 15 only made the alternative explosion more relevant. But at the same time, arena rock had held out the possibility of transcendence--of rising above confusion and bleakness to a more emotionally simple plane. Its disappearance was thus as much a loss for us as for the working-class men who identified with Jon Bon Jovi...