Word: riffs
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...ALBUM Funhouse How can a pop album about boys and fame be dignified? Because Pink worries her smarter-than-necessary lyrics to a glossy economy, then gets top producers (here, riff machine Max Martin) to make sure you can dance to them. The result is a thrill that feels far from cheap...
...opens the album, has a lovely melody and a fantastic bassline, with Morello seeming to relish the simplicity of the arrangement. Second song “Whatever It Takes,” the only track on the album to feature electric guitar, is propelled along by a typical Morello riff as he exhorts us to defy our oppressors (“Don’t let them tie you to the stake / Whatever it takes”). This opening pair doesn’t provide much in the way of lyrical specificity, but both tunes are very well-constructed...
...9/11. His most recent campaign contributions went to Giuliani’s presidential campaign.All of this political categorization would be mere speculation if it weren’t for the content of the trailer. In just one minute and 44 seconds there are: two jokes disparaging homosexuals, a longer riff on Muslims, a scene in which Gary Coleman portrays a modern slave, one random shot of Trace Adkins in front of an American flag shouting “This is the greatest country in the whole wide world,” one suicide bomber joke, and two ridiculous quotes from...
...that “Only by the Night” is crafted with much more of an arena-rock feel than anything else the band has released. Many of the songs defy the Kings’ old garage rock sound with a new emphasis on veneer. A gimmicky guitar riff drives album opener “Closer,” and it’s far from enough to get the listener through its dragging four minutes of heartbreak, which feature lyrics like, “You shimmy-shook my boat / Leaving me stranded all in love...
...with, and I’m becoming very afraid. But wait, it’s a fake out! Soon a bearded mystery man arrives to break up the revelry, and the meat of this strange message begins. It all seems so simple and innocent: the sunny Malkmus-style intro riff, the bright multicolored lighting, the stuffed gorilla holding a baseball bat—but I know there’s something evil going on here. Just look at drummer Greg Saunier’s devilish eyes as he viciously hits his cymbal in a downward stabbing motion...