Word: riffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still harness them in a deeper and more soulful voice. "Someone Up There" does not like him, belying the suggestive title. Jackson finds he cannot alter fate, nor find a rational explanation for his girl's departure. But instead of letting the cliched idea and danceable guitar riff carry the song to oblivion, Jackson--the producer (for the first time)--fades out the music and leaves his voice up front, wailing, "Oh no...oh no...oh no." With the same two words, he laments and attacks God's impassivity, and realizes his loss of love...
Beats me. But I can say this: I just Can't Stop It is a landmark album. A good place to start is with their version of the old Smokey Robinson hit, "Tears of a Clown." Just after the grand introductory riff, the Beat pitches a rhythm that is speedy, tense, seemingly out of whack. Is this Motown or is it ska? Is the bass guitar chasing the sax or is it the other way around? With truckloads of scratchy guitar work, snaky bass runs and exotic sax passages, the Beat create a sound that is soulful, dangerous, irresistible...
...shows us the majestic sights, the paralyzing winter, and the ever-present threat of loneliness and boredom that can drive a quiet little clergyman to publish a newsletter containing the sentence, "And what this INSANE crypto-Jewish riff-raff has planned for Homer and its citizens is no less than what the same antichrist Jewish riff-raff did to Russia. "He gives us details like a bar sign reading, "TAKE OFF YOU GODDAMNED BOOTS...
...only veteran from the movie is costume director Sue "Yay Sue!" Blaine. Frank Gregory undulates admirably as Frank N. Furter, but the image of Tim Curry's entrancingly seductive performance remains etched in memory as the real thing; Pendleton Brown plays a fine Riff Raff, Furter's alien sidekick--although his dark hair seems somehow un-Riff Raffish to those accustomed to O'Brien's bald-eagle blond cranium. Rocky fans, who recognize the slightest deviation from the standard film version, will perhaps cringe at each "revisionist" inflection or gesture; but, unless in a savage mood to begin with--distinctly...
...fifteen minutes more of this verbal frolic and I essay a politely inane closing riff. "Well, good luck on your Japan tour. I'm sure it'll be a good shot...