| With its visceral tritones and flatted seconds, the band's sound revolved more around the riff than the song. |
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| A guitarist in the corner noodled on the same Spanish riff, over and over, until I wanted to throttle him. |
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| Talk famously steals the riff from Kraftwerk's Computer Love and hearkens in tone to the quirky off centre Whisper. |
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| Track two kicks off with a cutting Wilko Johnson style stabby guitar riff and rolls along with a catchy chorus. |
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| Two years ago, I wrote a little tongue-in-cheek riff on the objectionableness of mudflap art. |
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| Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff. |
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| What an awful nuisance, old boy, to have to spend a good hour of your day blithely deleting the concerns of your riff raff constituents. |
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| He is adept at using short and discontinuous notes to riff the rhythm and create tension. |
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| There's a talent in distinguishing which old-school tune has the bass and catchy guitar riff to place firmly in a rapper's rhyming game. |
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| Every song has a great hook or riff, and Saloman's guitar sears across these lo-fi recordings. |
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| Barely a track begins without an ominous drum roll, or a chugging monster riff. |
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| Its main riff is powered by Perry playing a six string bass, which is why that riff sounds so low down, dirty, and evil. |
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| A lovely pop confection, that whistling riff has been stuck in my head for the last 20 years. |
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| Surely the Boat Race is too important an event to let commercial riff raff like ITV get their grubby mitts on it, she demurred. |
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| Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts. |
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| Christy listened as he pounded out the difficult riff, keeping good time and only slipping once. |
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| The section ends almost whimsically with the band fixating upon a repeated bop riff and then finishing with an extended atonal blast. |
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| But setting his smarminess aside, the accuracy of his riff on Berger is actually apropos of the rest of his remarks. |
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| Yet in this way, we immediately understand the initial discordant keyboard riff. |
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| I don't mean to come down too hard, because they still know how to deliver a good piledriving riff. |
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| The lamb tenderloin, garnished with minted yogurt and cucumbers, was a successful riff on the classic Greek dish. |
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| We'll start with a riff on a guitar, mandolin, bass or drums, and work it up from there. |
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| Before long we get a nice piano riff and lots of ambient weirdness joining it. |
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| Characterised by its undulating electronic bass riff it's one of the strongest tracks of the line-up. |
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| In fact, there is nothing even remotely resembling a new sound, riff or beat. |
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| The opening title track features a winning riff, ringing true through the international language of static and feedback. |
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| In the same way that Twin Peaks was David Lynch riffing on the soap opera genre, so does Kurosawa riff on the family drama in Bright Future. |
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| Now the artist Jason Salavon has produced a set of images that riff wittily on the culture of the centerfold. |
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| That being said, I would like to riff on some of the things I noticed in the film. |
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| From the opening song, with its heavy guitar and upbeat rocky riff, you can see that she loves her fanbase and wants to show it a good time. |
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| If you are not offended by Iowa's pink locker room, it may be because you recognize a joke, a tease, and a riff. |
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| We were demoing the song early last year with just a guitar line when Chris played this little, spacey riff. |
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| These are songs built around a yearning violin, a plucky banjo riff or an accordion sigh. |
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| Hands wave madly in the air as the first grinding guitar riff blasts through the speakers. |
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| A great riff is what makes you make silly guitar noises while playing air guitar when you think no-one is looking. |
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| At any moment he's liable to surprise you with a riff on his trumpet or break out into spontaneous scatting, tapping his foot to a mental rhythm. |
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| When he is in a darker mood Jacobs likes to riff on abstract themes. |
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| Brunton organises his historical riff around a thematics of the commune. |
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| The project does, however, riff on tabloid culture and even, perhaps, such recent fiascos as James Frey and jt Leroy. |
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| The guitar is inspiring, churning out power fuzzes and the odd neat riff. |
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| An anthemic song with a big chorus, and an infectious spring in its step, the number demonstrated Rooster's readiness to have fun with a big riff. |
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| Comedy Stewart Lee Lee's extended riff on his Jerry Springer hounding and poor health is one of the most intelligent pieces of stand-up for years. |
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| Then Harrison keeps the riff going while Lennon plays the solo, one of only a handful he played as a Beatle. |
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| Fans of Syd Matters' more pop sound will find food in the track Hi Life with its a superb, heady piano riff. |
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| Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet. |
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| A lot of times we'd just write one riff and get excited and want to jam it without having a song together. |
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| As you would expect this track has huge stabby leads, massive riff and a cresendo that will without doubt leave your dance floor screaming for more. |
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| It has a simple, hypnotic riff repeated over a wide-open, reverbed-out rhythm section, topped off by some woozy synth strings for a pleasingly spacey effect. |
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| The sunlit reggae riff is impossibly ebullient, yet tender and reflective at the same time. |
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| The track is immediately set apart by the awkward opening sounds of seagulls and a garbage truck in reverse gear, before it launches into a menacing guitar riff. |
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| With a gradual melody at the beginning, the track takes off with the voice of Jon Foreman, which goes with a punchy guitar riff. |
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| At the five-minute mark, the mesmerically building whirrs and tones build are repeatedly interrupted by the sample of a heavy metal riff that is played over and over again. |
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| Patrick was our skipper, and he constructed a wonderful extended riff on what might happen when he went to do the toss with Stoppard. |
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| While another strong contender for best track on the album is Black Mountain, a haunting ballad built around a strong acoustic guitar riff and some heady stabs of violin. |
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| Last year, Australian one-hit-wonders Men at Work were taken to court over the origins of the flute riff in their song Down Under. |
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| In the break, there is a little melody with a psychedelic chained killer riff. |
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| Laura, his most recent project, is a personal riff on film noir, the genre that had its heyday from the mid-forties to the mid-fifties. |
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| It's got a solid bass riff, punchy drums and ear-catching sampled refrains, but could use either a melody or some rapping out front to give it focus. |
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| The cartoons are sometimes cheeky and offensive, and they riff off the Internet meme culture. |
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| Riding on an insistent, rockish riff, it features beautifully agile solos from Dean, Beckett and Skidmore while Tippett's distant celeste adds extra colour. |
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| There was a time in my life when I still believed that a crunchy riff from an overdriven guitar amplifier signified something elemental and fierce. |
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| His riff toward the end when he bragged about winning three times in a blue state just might have been the kindling. |
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| What interested me even more than the headlines was his little riff on the projection of American hegemony. |
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| They played the opening riff for a while, until Rocky tried a solo. |
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| Her conversations are never completed, her ideas left unexplored, and her truths half spoken while Hatanaka indulges in another riff about the story. |
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| Last week's riff on how the coming ubiquity of wireless networks could lead to a new and better form of digital rights management brought out both supporters and detractors. |
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| Your ability to riff on a particular theme with variations, repetition, dynamics and pace reminds me of a modern jazz soloist: Parker, Coltrane, Roger Whittaker. |
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| Tonight, Marr hits a power chord riff, stretches it out and brings it into now. |
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| Notice that the riff on track 4 doesn't loop. |
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| The folky punk goes guitar riff walkabout, ending up more or less where he star ted. |
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| This had been knocking around for a long time, and was first recorded on a cassette by Paul as a 'sketch' but not quite right until Beak came up with the new exciting riff that opens the song. |
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| The architect Peter Pennoyer designed the exhibition's historically appropriate installation, including his own riff on a classic wooden doorway with fluted pilasters and a leaded-glass fanlight. |
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| Their songs bear down: sustain, riff, repeat repeat repeat. |
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| As if to underline the point, Piece Of Mind opens with a tremendous flourish of percussion, which then ignites into the rip-roaring riff from 'Where Eagles Dare', and the start of one of the greatest Maiden albums ever. |
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| Frank Sidebottom, resplendent in a fibreglass head, shuffled onto the 80s pop scene like a postmodern riff on George Formby or Norman Wisdom, full of guileless chatter and novelty tunes. |
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| It's also a pitch-perfect riff on what Lindsay-Abaire does in Good People: writes lines dripping with sarcasm for those who made it, modulated with the speaker's heartrending realisation that they never will. |
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| Musically, 'Virus' is a brilliant masterpiece which begins with soft acoustics and then breaks into a fast and powerful Maiden riff and melody that will stick in your head for days after you first hear it. |
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| For players that may be unfamiliar with guitar-based games, there is a handy tutorial, carefully constructed to guide users through everything from playing simple notes to perfecting that golden riff. |
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| In fact, the three guitarists join the stage together, started up a riff. |
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| God Is Dead The album's longest track, at almost nine minutes, boasts a similar reverse riff to the opener but is a more doomy, gloomy affair. |
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| Kristin Lund. Krissie sounded closer to home and just as beautiful. Krissie Lund. It rolled off the tongue like a balalaika riff. |
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| In recording the guitar riff with the fuzzbox that drives the song, Richards had envisioned it as a scratch track to guide a horn section. |
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| And Jacob is tripping out on a riff he pulled in his solo that made my eyes fill with tears. |
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| The bass guitar is brought to the front on this one with the clanky riff propelling the forward. |
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| It's the sort of place expats riff nostalgically about as if they'd written I Belong Tae Glasgow themselves. |
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| The jokes became a bit too subtle, and the audience seemed to drift off in the middle of a riff about veganism. |
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| Perhaps the most caustic anti-Republican riff came from Al Gore. |
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| All the players are merely pawns, useful instruments that allow Rodriguez the opportunity to riff on his pulpy ideas. |
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| It opens on The Hindu Times, which despite its its guitar riff ripped off from Stereophonics' Same Size Feet, is a great anthem. |
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| Another inspired riff is an attack on the sainted Henry David Thoreau for being a self-involved weirdo. |
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| The band spent long periods working on basic sounds, or a guitar riff. |
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| As the band played the opening riff to the 1980 classic Baggy Trousers, the atmosphere was amazing as beer was thrown in the air and the crowd of 7,000 all started skanking. |
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| Structured around a sludgy riff, it skronks along noisily until about the two-minute mark, when the band veers left with a sudden acoustic interlude. |
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| Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has been named the greatest guitar riff of all time, 41 years after it was recorded, in a poll by website Music Radar. |
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| Crawled Out Of The Sea adds accordion and a snare riff, Tap At My Window is based on a Philip Larkin poem and Night Terror is a stirring call-to-arms. |
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| User-fr is gently layered around the anchoring icy guitar riff, and the build-up to the chorus is signalled with a swooning close harmony cascade. |
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| A crescendo of whirring feedback was broken by a battering ram guitar riff as the Welsh trio kicked-off with a thunderous version of new single Cholla. |
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| A sort of corn soya riff on keema matar had none of the fattiness of the lamb version and, though again deftly spiced, was a touch too dry for my palate. |
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| Somebody throws a rhythm or a riff out, and we start to play around it. |
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| We even get appearances by Riff Raff and the gyro Captain in minor roles. |
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| In the North African Spanish autonomous city of Melilla, Riff Berber is spoken by a significant part of the population. |
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