Word: riffs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they can flip samples, Kanye sticks his neck out—stretching and fitting them together into sweeping intros, ornate choruses and hooks aplenty (best example: “Family Business”). He makes the art more like a genuine songcraft, for better or worse—no riff or melodic phrase repeats itself for long before it’s quickly interrupted or joined by new instruments...
...underground- music scene has been faster than any London tube-station escalator. Almost unheard of a few months ago, this month Franz Ferdinand found itself on the cover of Britain's tastemaking bible the NME with the headline: this band will change your life. Their second single, a riff-driven disco stomp called Take Me Out, entered the British charts at No. 3, boding well for the release of their first eponymous album on Feb. 9. Why all the hype? Their winning formula is exciting but familiar: a tightly arranged take on late-'70s influences, from Talking Heads...
...Iraq troubles in a fresh burst of soaring rhetoric. But the speech grew out of a trip in June to Aqaba, Jordan, where Bush met with then Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Ariel Sharon. Speaking later to Republican congressional leaders, Bush "went off on a riff," says an official who was there, about the promise for democracy in the embattled region. California Representative Chris Cox issued an invitation on the spot to have Bush reprise his remarks for last week's meeting of a Reagan-inspired group called the National Endowment for Democracy...
...Rope”, the male members of the band sing “Way-Oh, way-oh” over a classic three chord riff, while Brody sings, “I wish you didn’t love me no more...
...Boi’s standout, “Flip Flop Rock”, features a twangy guitar riff and hi-hats that fade out every measure. It’s a beauty of a battle-rap track, no doubt, but what makes the song is Jay-Z’s rhythmically irresistible hook: “Young Hov in the place to be, Big Boi in the place to be / André 3000 … Shout out to public housin’ … I brought the whole hood with me! Yeah! Yeah...