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...first band on stage was the Hungarian Horntails, who appeared to be three seven or eight-year-olds, all of whom sang and one of whom played guitar. The first number, heavy on the screaming and vicious guitar riffs, reminiscent of the early Ramones. But as the second song, and third, fourth, and so on sounded the same, the crowd’s mood shifted from delight to confusion...
This changed when I came to America. At first I was too busy jamming to the guitar band at my parish to notice; I even joined the tambourine section. Eventually, though, the newly comprehensible sermons began to sink in. I clearly remember one involving a newborn baby left in a Dumpster that somehow in the end advocated against laws allowing abortion. There was that time you beseeched us, Father, to write letters of protest to a Senator who supported stem-cell research. Not long ago, your homily excoriated divorce. You used as your rhetorical cornerstone the 1998 Lindsay Lohan vehicle...
...says Rock Drilon, founder of Manila's influential live venue Mag:net Café. Adds Andrew de Castro, program director of MTV Philippines, "When everyone else was doing rock, [the band] came out with fresh electronic-based neo-soul, with a drum-and-bass rhythm section and an ambient guitar sound...
...machine had the Tories on the run. Effective in opposition, his techniques produced what Jon Snow, the chief anchor for the prime-time Channel 4 News, describes as a virtual tabloid newspaper: "There was something for everyone - glamour, sport, Blair bouncing a ball on his head or holding a guitar. It took a long time to discover that it was more about presentation than content." This discovery provoked a backlash, but Snow thinks that's unfair. "People condemn Campbell and Blair for a wasted opportunity," he says, "but they underestimate how badly Britain needed them. Britain was a gray, disappointed...
...opener, Don't Make Me a Target, is a duel between an optimistic piano and a guitar strummed with such tension that each chord cuts like a serrated tooth on a very long knife. It yields to the euphoric You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb, which like a lot of Daniel songs--he's the chief melody writer, guitarist and lyricist--is about a breakup. But rather than get pinned down by regret ("We lost it long ago, you and me"), Daniel's vocal diverts a few abstract lines in the chorus ("Blow out that cherry bomb...