Word: drums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups” starts the album out pleasantly enough, with synthesized strings fluttering around Pink’s echoing vocals, building up a Sunday morning haze that envelops the damp percussion—is it a drum machine or just some dude beatboxing? Lyrically he more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations...
...these laws, you can get ten years in prison and your children will get taken away from you.” A spokesman from the Wisconsin Republican Party called the fliers “appalling” but asked whether Democratic interest groups might be behind them to drum up outrage and turnout...
...Anthony Bozza, is not all killer--in fact there's quite a bit of filler--but the good stuff is as good as the gold in Goldschlger. Lee's account of the four months he spent in solitary confinement--spousal abuse was the charge--conveys genuine suffering. He drums on the bars and talks to the cockroaches and drinks gross prison moonshine. You also have to appreciate the ingenuity of a guy who replaces the windshield detergent in his truck with Jack Daniels and sprays it at passersby and whose life mission is building "retardedly large drum sets...
Knocking on doors, distributing pamphlets and chatting up Granite Staters of all stripes, the students endure a cramped van ride and overcast weather to drum up support and turnout for their candidate of choice, Democratic nominee John F. Kerry...
...those of the Beautiful Girls do not replace any sense of musicality with redundancy or a booming bass. A surprisingly high standard of music is maintained throughout this album, and the emotional lyrics sung by a genuine vocalist provide a much-needed breath of fresh air from the hum drum music of our day. The intermittent raps add a jolt of spice to the already piquant brew, and everything somehow just seems to work for the band...