Word: anthemic
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...field, he perenially leads the league in turnovers and his woeful ballhandling skills should be showcased on a bloopers tape of that Nike commercial where everyone dribbles in rhythm. Walker’s dribbling could be put to the soundtrack of Rosanne’s rendition of the National Anthem...
Today, just after 1:05 p.m., Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler will sing the national anthem before Pedro Martinez throws the first pitch of the 2002 Boston Red Sox season. In most years, the anthem would be an afterthought, a brief formality preceding each of the season’s 162 games. But last year, when baseball resumed after Sept. 11, the tension in the air during the anthem was palpable. Especially during the World Series, as military action had begun in Afghanistan, Francis Scott Key’s dramatic lyrics had renewed significance for generations of Americans...
There are thousands more stories of players whose careers and whose lives were cut short defending America. So this year, as American troops are fighting in Afghanistan—and perhaps soon, in Iraq as well—the national anthem, and the sight of the stars and stripes whipping in the fresh spring wind, should remind every fan of the sacrifices others made, and are making to protect the land of the free and the home of the brave...
...Shot Shot,” the opening song and lead single. Harder-edged and more condensed than anything Gomez have previously done, the song runs less than two and half minutes. The insistent three note riff is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “National Anthem,” before Gomez subvert it with a wicked saxophone stab and a blues-flecked chorus...
...album kicks off with the bombastic alarm-like bass-line and trance keyboard effects of the album’s single, “Nothing at All.” It is a rebirth anthem more akin to the dazzling electronics of Madonna’s “Ray of Light” than to the Chemical Brothers. The wondrous textures Slater crafts on “Stars and Heroes” and “Searchin’ for a Dream” are slices of the finest future techno, the sort of stuff one might listen...