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Then we get her strange attempt at a Queen anthem, “Hollaback Girl,” complete with a “We Will Rock You”-style stomped intro and a riff and lyric from “Another One Bites the Dust.” Then, Stefani sings lines like “Uh-huh, that’s my shit/all you girls stomp your feet like this” and my favorite line on the album, “the shit is bananas/B-A-N-A-N-A-S...
...Seadrum,” a 23:03 masterpiece, begins sounding like nothing else in the entirety of the Boredom’s formidable oeuvre of music—the first minute or so of the song consists of Yoshimi’s lone voice beautifully singing a wordless jazz riff. Her sustained final note fades into a rising tide of chimes and deep tribal drums that steadily pound away as metallic and organic percussive noise sounds throb in the background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track...
Let’s be honest: University President Lawrence H. Summers and his son during halftime were throwing the ball better out there than Yale was. The most impressive part of Yale’s performance was its halftime show, some kind of postmodern interpretive riff on the James Bond classic Octopussy. And something about a ship...
Kiss & Tell kicks off with the barnstorming “Who Do You Dance For,” and immediately it is clear that the band is setting their charts on New Wave and power-pop glory, snarling with a mid-distortion guitar riff and Maria Andersson’s sweet-but-tough vocals. Two minutes later, as the song fades out to overlapping cries “Every night, every night! Ev-er-y night!” their influences are clear: These Swedes are doing their best Go-Go’s, without looking back for a second...
...couch, sipping a glass of water and at one point sucking on a lemon. Schwartzman’s conversation—when he gets a word in edgewise amidst Russell’s freewheeling monologues—swings wildly from dull stories from the Huckabees set to an extended riff on the legacy of that ’80’s classic, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. His comments are intended to promote Huckabees, but their chaotic nature only serve to underscore the film’s flaws...