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...groove on "1999" sounds suspiciously like "Jump".) The other early sound is the still-lingering presence of disco. Prince often verged on club music, but his best work owes more to other commercial styles like hip hop, funk and even rock. And just when the sound of drum machines and synthesizers starts to become tiresome on this album, tracks such as "Sexy M.F." and "Power Fantastic" show how Prince rescued himself by the addition of a horn section, more vocals and live drums-all elements that would have been apparent to any fans who caught a Prince show live, especially...
...hear him trying, perhaps, to drum up business for a vegetable-growing friend. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he says...
...simply use a drum...
...more sounds using refrigerator parts than using a plain, old drum set," said Lamont Washington, 21, Noble's brother and self-proclaimed roadie. "You mix up parts and get all types of beats that you don't get on a drum...
Over the years, Bad Religion has converted many early detractors into fans. BR has developed a substantial cult following, started its own record label and even collaborated with Noam Chomskyon an anti-Gulf War single. The Bad Religion soundis built on the sort of outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion...