Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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/ Ideas come fast to Joshua Redman. On The Deserving Many, a song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a...
On 1981's "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?", Bad Religion's lead singer, Greg Graffin, proclaimed "some people they say I'm no good/ because I don't play the things that I should." The "some people" Graffin referred to may have been Meatloaf fans whose votes had the...
Perhaps the best song on Recipe is"Kerosene." The song opens with a short burst ofopen throttle guitar noise which quickly gives wayto Bobby Schayer's relentlessly aggressive drumwork. From there, Graffin's raspy singing and Mr.Brett's sloppy guitar take over. The melody of"Kerosene" is understated but irrepressible...
While The Black Rider does lag in somepoints--the melody in "Just the Right Bullets" isalmost identical to the theme for Night onEarth, and this sense of deja vu is especiallypresent on the rather one-dimensionalinstrumentals--the album is definitely a treat. Nomatter how much you're heard Waits, hissemi...
The songs take chord structures simpler, even, than Lois Maffeo's--simpler than anything; sometimes only two chords will do for a whole song, switching back and forth in sinuously uneven rhythms like the ghosts of hobo-laden freight trains switching tracks. There are no guitar "pyrotechnics" allowed, or even...