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...Today," a quietly devastating ballad of Cheever-like yearning and betrayal, and "Pack Up Your Sins," a Berlin number that was new to me, and wittier than the songs of his I know from this period (1922). Just reading some of the lyrics, you can feel the rhythm and the revelry: "Pack up your sins and go to the Devil in Hades. / You'll meet the the finest of gentlemen and the finest of ladies; / They'd rather be down below than up above - / Hades is full of thousands of / Joneses and Browns, O'Houlihans, Cohens and Bradys." Whether familiar...
...dared. Thus the campfire dirge Five Hundred Miles becomes a spine-tingling R&B ballad, dripping with anguish. The Beatles' chirpy Can't Buy Me Love is transformed into a complex jazz exercise, incorporating some of the Karnatakan rhythmic phrases of Ponnudorai's South Indian ancestry. The Cascades' saccharine Rhythm of the Rain metamorphoses into the purest Burt Bacharach, with unexpected chord changes and lush melodic lines...
...closer to John Mayer than to John Wayne. His attempt at gangsta swagger doesn't cut it either. There's a weird racial aspect to the goo-suit: it gives Peter not just black impulses but a black (Afro-American) attitude. Bopping down the street to a hip-hop rhythm, he's laughably gauche - a white kid playing at soul man, a good kid who's not very good at being baaad...
...song’s a welcome change after six tracks of ear-piercing electric guitar squealing. The following song, “We’re Not Alone,” goes in a softer direction, blending acoustic guitar along with the electric and shifting into a simple, upbeat rhythm about two minutes in. This track nicely harmonizes the different elements of Dinosaur Jr.’s career, incorporating the heavy elements from their early years, as well as the acoustic, softer side they developed throughout the nineties. “I Got Lost” is another standout...
Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ‘07 is always drumming—literally. Though his other media include a djembe, a table, and his knees, Ogunnaike’s most frequent form of artistic expression might simply be tapping out rhythms on the floor with his feet, as he instinctively does throughout our interview.In addition to his involvement in music, Dam, as friends call him, is a psychology and African studies joint concentrator, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship, which provides students with funding to travel abroad after graduation. Ogunnaike grew...