With “One Last Breath,” Creed maximized their potential throughout each phase of the song. From the gentle and alluring opening guitar melody, which projects both whimsy and despair to the dense chords that wash over the calm, it’s all the foundation for Scott Stapp’s words which resonat...
While grunge grabs the headlines, there were already signs of an alt-rock emergence with Jane’s Addiction at the turn of the decade. “Been Caught Stealing” was the third song issued off their sophomore set,Ritual de lo Habitual, showing support for the act of shoplifting while making grea...
It was the perfect storm for Nine Inch Nails’ mastermind Trent Reznor in 1994. Coming off the hugely buzzed aboutPretty Hate Machinedebut, Nine Inch Nails found surprise success with “Closer,” a song that had to be edited for language to play on radio and a video that had to be signi...
fuzzy guitars for which the Pumpkins had become known. It makes its case simply with an undeniable hook, straight-ahead drums and some simple guitar chords — not to mention that ghostly repeated vocalization that waves through the song. And for that, it is The Smashing Pumpkins' biggest mains...
forever asunder. Ernest Hemingway’s favorite chords—battle, manhood, death, doomed love—boom loudly in the background. Certainly, Just is successfully empathetic. Other than a president who sits through his scene like a lump of dough, his title too overwhelming to allow for characterization, ...
Being able to physically morph your vocal chords, and the rest of your respiratory tract, makes it super easy to do spot on impressions every time. “That was so good! Where did you learn to do that?” She asks. “Stick around, and you’ll see how deep the rabbit hole goes.” I ...
American activist Mario Savio's 1964 "Operation of the Machines" lecture kicks off "Wretches and Kings." Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" address is cleverly slowed down to simulate nuclear apocalypse over morose piano chords during "Wisdom, Justice and...
Full disclosure, I have already knocked this one off of my October TBR and I feel kind of meh about it. For some, it struck all the right horror chords, but it just wasn’t the book for me. It overpromised and underdelivered. From the blurb and the first few chapters, I expected ...
Afterward, American activist Mario Savio's 1964 "Operation of the Machines" lecture kicks off "Wretches and Kings." Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" address is cleverly slowed down to simulate nuclear apocalypse over morose piano chords during "Wisdom, ...