Word: hand-clapping
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...bleakness of the refrain and its catchiness, as though Stewart wants listeners to sing, “Dear God, I hate myself,” without realizing quite what they’re saying. Additionally, the title track’s rhythms are thoroughly danceable. An underlying, distorted hand-clap beat, is accompanied by emphatically-strummed guitar. Both occasionally spiral into seemingly extemporaneous electronic interludes, but the base beat always returns. The meter brings to mind the driving compositions of New Order, whose music has been influential on Xiu Xiu’s development...
...hammered out a passionate, uonison-bend heavy solo. The band quickly followed with a commendable rendition of Love’s “Alone Again Or,” with bouncy chords and exuberant trumpets exciting the crowd, who eagerly followed Burns’ lead in providing a hand-clap accompaniment. The explicitly political “All Systems Red” ended with a burst of crash cymbal, driving bass, and squealing guitar, providing a wall of noise that accentuated the frustration of Burns’ lyrics. This somber spirit of protest was countered by an extended version...
Joyous floor traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange celebrated the end of 1988 with a traditional hand-clap ceremony last week as share prices closed at record levels. But their applause could not drown out the rising furor over a stock scandal that has already toppled several of Japan's leading business and political figures. Not since former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was convicted of taking bribes from Lockheed during the mid-'70s have the Japanese been so shaken by disclosures of official wrongdoing. As the scandal spreads, it threatens to tarnish Japan's image abroad and to undermine...
Their own catching, lilting, hand-clap rhythm has helped establish the Grandisons as the freshest gospel-singing group in the land. And despite their switch from churches to liquor-serving clubs, the girls have no regrets. Says Mary Grandison: People in the nightclubs accept the music more than people in the churches. It's more quiet here. It's almost reverent...
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