Word: drums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afterburner (Warner Brothers) by ZZ Top: ZZ Top has actually managed to make a fun danceable record out of the lumbering mess of the Southern metal, triple guitar/dual drum threat, hard boogie, whisky and chaw genre. The addition of synth drums and poppin' bass help carry the weight of ZZ's infantile subject matter, making it fun instead of sexist. "Velcro Fly" and "Planet of Women" are keg party anthems, inspiring the attitude: "Don't worry, I'll clean up tommorrow." Basically, Afterburner is the party platter the Rolling Stones have been trying to make for the past eight years...
...record itself is permeated with gross misuse and abuse of synthesizers. The fervent pounding of ex-drummer Topper Headon has been replaced on many tracks by ineptly programmed drum machines. The rhythm tracks as a whole are little more than another inept rehash of mainstream British synth-pop. Even Strummer's sharp-edged guitar which figured so prominently on the band's early works, has lost its character, now grinding like a Husker Du album played into a feather pillow. It is generally accepted that Strummer has no vocal talent, and this record provides precious little evidence to the contrary...
...where there's a will, there's a way. Yale junior Brad C. Corrodi says, "We're gonna disguise [a keg] as a drum and maybe waltz it in with the band...
...huge set of percussion instruments originally created for the soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now." The cacophany created through "The Beast" is a showpiece of the Dead's kind of musical power. "It's magic when you can bring 5000 people down to just the sound of your fingertip on a drum and then build it back up again from a whisper to a scream," said Hart in "Playing in the Band," a book by David Gans and Peter Simon...
...Lehrer. A solid achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...