Word: up-tempo
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...Fingers" concludes the album much in the way "Wind-Up" did on Aqualung. By and large, it's a pretty pessimistic conclusion, portraying us well as Aqualungs on the final day of judgement. "Two Fingers" is musically very similar to "Wind-Up" although greater emphasis is placed on its up-tempo portions...
With the passage of time the music these groups play has become broad in its appeal. The up-tempo songs have become a general expression of joy and enthusiasm, the blues one of sadness in the abstract. When jazz began, its emotions seemed more specific, even functional, engendered by the saloons on the New Orleans waterfront and the brothels in the Storyville district and the people found in either. Whites and middle-class blacks hated the music, just as they despised the life it represented...
...song plugger on Tin Pan Alley -then as now a mythical street on the tattered fringe of Broadway. Hired by Sunbeam Music, Diamond sometimes felt like a tailor, sitting in a tiny cubicle and fitting songs to the needs of assorted Grade B singers. "Gloria wants an up-tempo ballad like that Patti Page thing," the boss would say. "And while you're at it, throw in some bongos...
...signs of this new rock is its emphasis on intricate rhythmic patterns of voices. The Family Stone manage to carry these off on both fast and slow songs but Chaka was successful mainly on the up-tempo numbers. Gilbert Moses on lead guitar contributes deft Cropper-like touches, and the band generally held together well--particularly on a superb sliding easy version of "My Girl." This new city-soul sound is, of course, heavily influenced by Booker T., and Chaka showed this in its obvious delight and skill at playing "funky instrumentals...
Perched behind the massive console in the audio booth of NBC's Studio No. 4 in Burbank, Calif., Sound Engineer Bill Cole looked a little like an octopus playing the organ. As Singer Andy Williams eased into the opening bars of an up-tempo number, Cole scanned a bewildering battery of gauges and began twiddling and tweaking some of the console's 250 multicolored knobs and switches that are linked to a forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra...