Word: backbeats
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Remember “Closing Time”? Those are Slichter’s insistently-shaken maracas in the first verse of the tuneful 1998 hit, his exploding backbeat charging the song from the moment the first chorus hits. Fellow alum and bandmate Daniel D. Wilson ’83, meanwhile, propels the number—which he wrote along with most of Semisonic’s three-album catalog—with his high-pitched earnestness...
...take on late-'70s influences, from Talking Heads to Joy Division with a lyrical sensibility closer to Jarvis Cocker, neatly boiled down to beat-driven guitar tunes you can dance to. And if they also sound a little like the Strokes, well, hey, who can blame them? No, the backbeat to the current clamor is the sound of the British record industry catching up to a band that for once didn't come looking for them. Franz Ferdinand came together around the Glasgow School of Art. (Indeed, drummer Paul Thomson, a former artist's model, has the curious distinction...
...gets my vote for “Most Equal Pop Song” of the year. It’s tricky to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes the song so catchy—the magic is hidden somewhere between the corny backbeat, those southern handclaps and Andre’s delirious vocal fills and grunts. “Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor” may be the best breakdown line yet created. Somewhere, James Brown’s hair is going kinky with jealousy. Even a snob can’t help but appreciate...
...music press (the snob’s Bible), perhaps The Strokes are likely suspects. “12:51,” their new single, shares a lot of the same genetic material as “Hey Ya!”: Handclaps, catchy keyboard-sounding riffs and the backbeat that has been the granddaddy of every rock song since Elvis. Casablancas’ drawl is as bewitching as ever, the perfect combination of bored and earnest...
...Make that 13. Last year the Dutch DJ Junkie XL (Tom Holkenburg) slapped a ferocious backbeat on "A Little Less Conversation," a sassy but obscure Mac Davis-Billy Strange composition that Elvis recorded in 1968. The Presley Estate sharply agreed to let Junkie apply his remix to a Nike commercial, on the Ed Sullivan from-the-waist-up condition he change his name to JXL. The result: a #1 single in 22 countries, and the singer's first chart-topper of the 21st century. The cut is included on "30 #1 Hits," and most Presley fans approve...