While singles such as “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,”“Holiday,”“Wake Me Up When September Ends,”“American Idiot” and “Jesus of Suburbia” all saw the punk icons breach the mainstream like never before, they still remained true to the genre’s aesthetics through their lyrics. A Perfect...
Mr. Scarzone had hidden the polo mallet in my garage. Bastard! I sawed it up into one-foot pieces, and burned it in my back yard. Fu*k everybody. Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu). A Trope is available on Amazon in paperback under the title of The ...
As history, it’s well known that I objected to a couple of chord sequences during the making of the record, and [producer] Bob Ezrin wrote some pieces for “The Trial”, and I wrote some new songs. I’d sort of dragged us kicking and screaming into new ways of doing things since...
They called their label Ahead of Our Time, and Coldcut spent 1987 proving the slogan was no idle boast. The second of their four stone cold cut-and-paste classics that year was ‘Beats & Pieces’, its title likely a nod to the ‘Bits & Pieces’ series of mix 12"s released by vario...