Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breeze and the distance between us, I could not discern the words and yet something about that melody of monotones and its degenerate animalistic qualities struck a responsive chord deep within me. Where had I heard this droning before? The beastly grunts and yells had a tribal sound like that of a rain dance or perhaps a war dance. The blood in my veins got hot. Did evolution inscribe this primitive melody and rhythym in my mind for some purpose of natural selection? Could it be possible that this responsive chord that I felt when I heard the degenerate chanting...
Chou and two other seniors run a second disco enterprise, which produces parties complete with disc jockey music, a sound system, and a light show...
...slight rise of fall in the land, or any bush over seven inches high, or any other sort of sleeping place. I climbed over a barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
...nasal chorus that backs lead singer Roger Daltrey on most of Who Are You hasn't changed very much since the days when the band dressed up in Union Jacks. It's striking how little else has changed. The Who's sound has remained consistent longer than most groups have remained together...
...their music. Townshend's use of the synthesizer has always been comparatively restrained; if he never explored new frontiers, neither did he emasculate his group's music. This approach pays off on Who Are You, in songs like "The Music Must Change," a thriller in which the sound swells like an electronic tide rising and falling behind the rhythym section...