Word: pan
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...religious imagery, neither of which should come as a surprise from the man who used to proclaim his “Sympathy For The Devil” on a nightly basis. And, indeed, “God Gave Me Everything” finds rock’s senior Peter Pan slipping back into his leather jacket (check out his double-jointed pelvis in the video) and breaking out the power-chords, courtesy of the lightning-bolt guitar of the reassuringly retro-styled Kravitz. The lyrics are pure Stonesian Jagger, “God gave me everything I want/Can...
...could find themselves fighting? The U.S. and Europe, says Hanson. He points ominously to "the specter of a pan-European state (that) seems to create unity among its members by collective antagonism and envy of the United States...
...machine, Berlin was a lousy salesman of his music; his ragged vocal and instrumental technique could undermine his best work. In 1934, Fred Astaire and the "Top Hat" production team gathered to hear the numbers Berlin had written for the movie. "And then he would sing the song," Hermes Pan, Astaire's choreographer, told Bergreen, "and we were all asking ourselves, Is this any good? I remember 'Cheek to Cheek' especially: the way he sang and played, it sounded so awful...
Similarly, the work of the Italian Futurists, who loved the frenetic pace, noise and pollution of large cities, was echoed more than 30 years later by the French creators of musique concrete. Pierre Schaeffer assembled “songs” from ready-made noises of jackhammers, traffic, spinning pan covers and locomotives. Edgar Varse combined visual art with musique concrete for his “Pome electronique,” which was commissioned for the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and combined electronic voice manipulation and pulse generation with film projectors, ultra-violet lights and hundreds of fluorescent lamps...
...Just Say Yes,” on the other hand, rejuvenates the headlong, Peter Pan aspect of Smith, the infamously uncrying boy, with one wicked guitar hook surfing the prominent bass lines that are pure Cure, and toying with an array of nouveau rock electric effects. The guest vocalist Saffron spurs Smith to heights worthy of a star-struck 14-year old, as the two of them holler, “Say this is it / Don’t say maybe / Don?...