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...musician pal of Simon's passed him a bootleg cassette of instrumental music with that intriguing name, subtitled Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II. Simon played it all during the summer of 1984, hearing in its unsprung beat echoes of old rhythm and blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters...
Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA). Arcane Southern California folkways and unsprung rhythms...
Irresistible & Inexhaustible. International Exports, Ltd., a discothèque that opened in Milwaukee last week, is the nation's first full-blown spy nightspot. The fun is in the trappings, and few were left unsprung on opening night. Waitresses dressed in abbreviated black trenchcoats served drinks; red-vested bartenders whipped out fake automatics from their shoulder holsters to light customers' cigarettes. Rooms bore such names as Hari's (for Mata Hari) and M16; the bar was inevitably the Interpol, backed by a mammoth world map with clocks telling the time in Moscow, London and Hong Kong...
...much of what irritates modern man is simply new noise traded in for old. The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley. The whine of rubber tires replaces the bang and screech of unsprung cartwheels on cobblestones; the backfire supplants the ringing hooves of dray horses...
Front-wheel drive is a safer method of power application than rear drive because the vehicle is pulled around corners, not pushed. Another advantage is reduction in below-the-springs weight, prime factor in riding quality. Unsprung weight in the Cord is about 300 lb. less than it would have been with rear drive. The cumbersome gear lever that protruded from the dash on the old Cords has been replaced with pneumatic shifter controlled from the steering column...