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Word: buzzsaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...songs are lively and short enough so that they don't have to. "Unlucky in Love," for example, doesn't say much of anything, but its sonic-boom noise and punk/polka rhythm make it great fun. Otherwise, the new Rank and File's hybrid of nasal vocals and buzzsaw guitars sound like uniform drone. Rank and File may catapult the band to MTV stardom (and Rhino Records out from the novelty and oldies bins in record stores), but such success will come at the expense of the band's more interesting elements...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Corporate And Ugly Rock | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...Buzzsaw...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: A Question of Confidence | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...Crimson then ran into a buzzsaw named Boo Bowers, who scored 45 points as American University belted Harvard 108-88. A disappointing loss to Catholic U. in Washington, D.C. and a suffocating Holy Cross zone defense dropped the team's record...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: A Question of Confidence | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...music that trash quality inherent in surf music and early rockabilly. The sound outperforms all contenders in establishing that certain reckless abandon which lay at the heart of the earliest rock and roll. Yet everything is updated for the 1980's, starting with increased speed and ending with atonal, buzzsaw guitar work and demented lyrical concerns...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: The True Trash Aesthetic | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

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