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Crazy Rhythms

These suburban guitar geeks nailed their sound in 1980 with Crazy Rhythms' "Raised Eyebrows": two post-punk guitars chopping up a jagged surf riff, weird percussion clatter, tension building until it all explodes into a climactic power-strum rave with three dudes yelping, "The glory, glory, oh,...

2009 RS: 4.5of 5 Stars

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Among the formal breakthroughs accomplished by the Velvet Underground was something called the drone strum. As perfected by Lou Reed, this strum didn't syncopate to emphasize the backbeat the way rock rhythm guitar usually did -- in fact, it barely syncopated at all, tending more toward chopped, evenly accented eighth notes dropped squarely on the beat. And it was this nervous chink-chink-chink-ch...

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