Word: riffs
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...Mile is also about talent struggling for recognition, with the added wrinkle of the talent being a white artist yearning to be taken seriously in a black genre. Eminem runs with the theme and delivers Lose Yourself. It starts with a dreadful keyboard solo, but then a guitar riff kicks in, a bass drum thumps and Eminem starts telling his - and his character's - story. The song is about working hard, trusting your talent and succeeding against the odds when opportunity presents itself because, hey, there's no other choice. The chorus ("You better lose yourself in the music...
Alas, much of the rest of the album misses at least as often as it hits. “No Way Out” has a jazzy sentiment, courtesy of master drummer Manu Katché and bassist Tony Levin, as well as a solid rock riff. However, “My Head Sounds Like That” is a self-indulgent dirge summed up by its appalling lyrics: “The oil is spitting in the saucepan / I squeeze the sponge and let the cat out / Oh, my head sounds like that.” Gabriel is never boring...
...album kicks into gear from the first lick and maintains its intensity to the last defiant riff. Songs like “Inhuman Creation Station” throb with rebellion against society’s shackles. With disjointed lyrics sketching out a mocking theme (“Work with the team to meet the deadline!!! / A modern man cannot survive / Drowning in formaldehyde”), the song pounds with individualistic energy...
...much tighter since our early days.” Both Gray and Ball disavow any knowledge of the mess of buttons and samplers that sit behind drummer Olly Peacock onstage, from whence come the skittish beat of “Detroit Swing 66” and the manic piano riff of “Army Dub.” But perhaps the most impressive element of the show is the band’s ability to reproduce the rich vocal harmonies from their albums live with near-Beach Boys faithfulness and beauty...
...them. Alex, for instance, is compiling a book that divides the world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people-vs.-cat-people dichotomy. In her narrative Smith acknowledges and dismisses the pop-psychological interpretations that Alex's book invites--"The Mixed-race people see things double theory and the fatherless children seek out restored symmetry [theory]"--but this...