Word: uptempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's game plan is the most exciting in the Ivy League. Coach Peter Roby has implemented a commitment to uptempo, run n gun, pressure basketball...
Byrne and the band are still looking for laughter and surprise, but the tune is different. Nowadays it has a larky uptempo swing that sounds like a roadhouse Saturday night and goes like this...
...guitar can also run with breakneck speed, as be demonstrates on the two uptempo numbers. "Little Blue Number" and "Fire In The Engine Room." "Number" is a infinitely better played variation on Dylan's trash-blues classic, "Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat." "Engine Room," on the other hand, is built on a careening, dissonant riff that sounds like a madman's rage. The lyrics are similarly out of control, clearly delineated by Thompson's view of his ex-marriage in a single burst of acid: "And you know how uncertainty can linger, with a rattlesnake wrapped around your finger...
What would you do if you and two other guys dyed your hair blond, recorded a few records of slick, uptempo new wave-reggae, and suddenly found yourself a household word in India, Mexico, Japan, England, America, and Antarctica? You'd freak. That's obviously what has happened to the Police this outing...
...drags. A no-holds-barred rock-and-roll opening gives way to a meditative break, as Jeffreys talks of how his father beat him up. "I hated those days," he needlessly comments. The fans (with prompting) chant "Wanna give to you, my body and soul", and then the uptempo returns and Jeffreys declares "Nobody can hit me now, nobody can touch...