The key to the song are the two ringing guitar chords in the chorus, which are a reveille calling out to God and to the disciple who’s lost faith. 41. “Luminous Times (Hold Onto Love),” B-side to “With or Without You” single Dominated by piano and percussion, it’s another...
t make total sense to everyone hearing it for the first time in 1989: critics back then seemed thrown for a loop by the contrast between its verses’ grab-bag of syncopated, synthesized blip-pops (and frontman Roland Gift’s airy falsetto) with the chorus’ chunky guitar power chords and ...
“Grand Central,” one of two Trane originals on the album, gives us the feeling of being in the middle of the train station with the minor key melody which plays in parallel fourths between the horns. Adderley leads off with a fiery solo that explores the scaffolding that the chords build...
It’s not a “Love on Top” karaoke session if you’re not continuing to add extra key changes even once the song is over. — K.D. The Experts Say:“That’s five key changes. That’s five. Key. Changes. And so if I’m hearing struggling on the first part, I’m like ‘Oh,...
I chose three examples of where history has failed us and politicians have lapped it up. I have written short prose pieces to demonstrate the point.Example 1. The denazification of German society after WW2. It was actually a very half-hearted attempt. Germany has dealt with its history but...
Finally, last week at the pet store nearest my house, I lucked upon a young, healthy, handsome male bunny with a pedigree of paternity and very large feet. I am now ready to cross over. And I know in my heart, that when the four-year life span of my next incarnation ends, I ...
Chimes, bells, and guitar plucks drift over brusque kick drums like spirits over water; dulled gongs and chords echo into chasms of rumbling bass. As Ghost Dog stoically carries out his masterful hits, the score voices his inner peace. His life is a loop but it is not a bore. The ...
Producer Bangladesh loopedthe opening chords from Gladys Knight and the Pips’ “Don’t Burn Down the Bridge,” then segued to a drill-like volley of trap drums. He gave the beat to his friend Shanell — a onetime R&B singer on Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment — to pass along. Way...
In them, he introduced "edgy, aggressive, loud, and fast" blues solos to the prevailing chords-and-riffs format of early rock guitar. These instrumentals raised the bar for rock guitar proficiency, energized the electric guitar's rise to the top of rock soloing instruments, and soon became ...
They opted for speed rather than complexity, they aspired to be the Beach Boys, Alice Cooper and the Bay City Rollers, and their rotational three chords and headlong lunge kept them skidding through the simpleton catchphrases of their singalongs. The Ramones were pure, unadulterated — and hardl...