The Cranberries
    Doors and Windows

    This is one versatile disc. You can use it on an ordinary CD deck, Mac or PC CD-ROM drive or a CD-i player. If your CD-i deck has a MPEG digital video cartridge, you'll get full-screen video on some material.

    Doors and Windows is a Track One title and I tried it on a music CD player, Mac CD-ROM drive and CD-i player and had no problems with any of them.

    The Cranberries - sitting comfortably
    but fairly expensively on Doors and Windows
    The disc has five music tracks from the Irish band, which play for around 20 minutes. The title refers to how to you navigate through the disc. The opening screen has the band members sitting on a couch and behind them are doors and windows you can click on to enter. You can interview the band, watch video footage of the band's performance at Woodstock 94 and look at song lyrics, tour video footage shot by the band and photo albums. There's also a complete discography. The screen shots look great, and every so often a band member magically appears on-screen and makes a remark.

    Every so often, a Cranberries band
    member magically appears on screen
    and makes a remark
    The disc has obviously been made to very high production standards and everything looks and feels classy. Mind you, there's very little in the way of on-screen guidance, and it's really of question of pointing-and-clicking you way around the program. A good way of getting to know the Cranberries from both a personal and musical level.

    Verdict:
    A great concept and a disc that gives you a good idea of what the interactive medium can offer. Cranberries fans will love this disc, but they'll have to pay a fairly high price premium for it.


  • Sarah McLachlan
    The Freedom Sessions
  • EBN
    Telecommunication
  • Various
    Don't Play Track One
  • The Duratti Column
    Sex and Death
  • Mike Oldfield
    The Songs Of Distant Earth
  • Nyack
    11 Track Player
  • The editors choice
  • The technology