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...Todd Rundgren. In No World Order, the veteran singer and producer (Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad) has created the first do-it-yourself album. Listeners with CD-i players can customize any of the 10 tracks to their tastes. They can change the tempo (between 86 and 132 beats a minute), the mix ("natural," "spacious," "sparse" or "karaoke"), the mood ("bright," "happy," "thoughtful," "sad" or "dark"), even the form ("creative," "standard" or "conservative"). They can hatch new sounds by sampling the 933 snatches of music in the data base. Did you ever want to play the chorus of a favorite...
...step further in their concerts: they program and project their own interactive special effects. Bono (or The Edge) will use a remote control to move a cursor (which can be seen on the two huge screens) that allows him to set a song's instruments and tempo. Then the band joins in. The onstage screen shows the choices he has and the decisions he makes. Between songs Bono can regulate four projections of himself; when he clicks on one of them, it will tell a joke, start singing or talk. "U2 love playing with these new technologies," says their "interactive...
...halftime, we found out that we could score on them," Gilmore said. "They pressed, and picked up the tempo, and we got some easy layups. We played well enough to win--we didn't get many calls our way, and we were on the road, and the big threes hurt...
...drawl. "A lot has to be played for laughs," Midler insists. "I thought she had to be very winning.Otherwise, how could she get all those people to do all those things for her?" Textually, the production is faithful, word for word and as Midler says, note for note and tempo for tempo...
...deity is still Bacchus. Most of the songs are up-tempo exhortations -- anthems for Animal House. The rollicking Everything Louder Than Everything Else has a mantra ("A wasted youth is better by far/ Than a wise and productive old age") that could be the fight song for the University of Wisconsin marching band...