Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tunes like Lowe's Music for Money, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass and the Lowe-Edmunds Little Hitler have a jagged cutting edge, but the melodies slip them straight into the mainstream, where they are anchored by Edmunds' fire-wheel lead guitar, Lowe's bemused vocals and fast-breaking bass ("I'm never gonna win any awards for my playing"). The sound-straight, uncomplicated, meant to give you a quick hit of euphoria-has its roots in the defunct British group Brinsley Schwarz. Lowe put in a five-year stint with the Brinsleys, while...
...threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words but the sound of it." Gebel-Williams has little use for bears because they don't look you in the face, and chimpanzees because "all the time they have their minds on how to get the upper hand...
...soon to tell whether Glass's music is the sound of the future or merely a lush amalgam of classical and rock traditions. Still, he is undeniably one of the more innovative composers today. In a time of cold experimental music, his sound is both pleasing and powerful. "Something about my repetition and harmony seems to hit people right away," he says. Whatever that something is, it works...
...That's it! We'll start the show with a jet. Turn up the sound real loud, like a real landing-we should be careful, though, this new Sensurround business has actually made the dice jump off the table-and drag the plane onstage with beautiful stewardesses in gold bikinis on the wings...
...keep stored somewhere in the back of our lives. But there was nothing static in the show's evocation of '50s style and slang. It moved, man, to the solid beat of a score that was capable, on occasion, of affectionately parodying the emerging rock sound of that era. Grease was a marvelous entertainment, mostly because it was unpretentiously true to the times it briskly summoned...