Quiet storm gets a freaky sci-fi makeover on the Diplo-produced "Climax," which sets Usher’s plaintively pleading falsetto atop a shape-shifting landscape of clicks, hisses, whooshes and bass-y synth gurgles. The title suggests a booty-call anthem, and while the lush sound might have its uses in the boudoir, this is really a breakup lament. "Where are you now, when I need you around?/I'm on my knees, but it seems we’re going nowhere fast/We've reached the climax," Usher concedes, grieving for a relationship that's passed the point of no return. 

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A foreboding accusation of lies and deception, "I Can See for Miles" was given a psychedelic hard-rock veneer by Pete Townshend's whiplash guitar riffs and Keith Moon's thundering drums. The song helped break the Who as stars in the United States, giving them a Top Ten hit in late 1967. "I swoon when I hear the sound," boasted Townshend in Rolling Stone. "The words, which aging senators have called 'drug oriented,' are about a jealous man with exceptionally good eyesight. Honest."