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Instead, Damon Albarn and the boys continue to experiment (as on 1995’s Blur and 1997’s 13) with moody alt-dance and indie rock compositions on Think Tank...
...Think Tank even features production from Norman Cook (a.k.a big-beat pioneer Fatboy Slim), never fully replacing Graham Coxon’s missing axe. The emphasis here is clearly on sound and atmospherics rather than songwriting, and catchy guitar hooks are all but completely absent. Instead, they are replaced by winding synths that are every bit as infectious, yet sound unmistakably modern. Fatboy Slim’s production exposes new sides of Blur that were probably kept in check by Coxon’s conservative presence in the band...
...stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris Hughes called on his TOWs to silence the enemy guns. The TOW is a wire guided anti-tank missile with a powerful blast, and those available to LTC Hughes' forces are fitted with the new ITAS sites that allow the user to see an enemy's trigger finger 3,000 meters away in the dark...
...Next morning, the commander ordered his five tanks up the road towards An Najaf. The anti-mine blade on the lead tank detonated three mines as it advanced and engineers later cleared 66 more. Before the infantry started to advance, Hughes had the artillery fire a smoke screen in front of the suspected enemy positions. This was the last straw for a dozen of them, who promptly started waving white flags and walking towards American lines. A few minutes later the infantry began a cautious advance. There was no enemy fire and Hughes said, "We broke their back last night...
...When the fighting was over, 1st Battalion counted 44 enemy dead and had captured 3,000 automatic weapons, hundreds of mortars and anti-tank weapons along with thousands of cases of ammunition...