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"96 Quite Bitter Beings" has generally been praised by music critics and fans since its original release. In a review of Volume 1 for Slant Magazine, Aaron Scott proposed that the track showcases "CKY sounding their best", offering the following the description of the song: "the guitars stomp on your face, the drums alternately ride on the downbeat and hi-hat on the offbeat, while the vocals ...
[2] [3] Described by Stitched Sound as a "empowering, guitar-heavy release of frustration", [4] "You Don't Own Me" opens with a "gritty chugging guitar" riff that plays over the song's verses. [1] The song then "transition[s] into a punk-pop [chorus] melody, which Avril Lavigne would be proud of".
In December 2019, the song was ranked number three on Guitar World ' s list of the 20 best guitar riffs of the decade. The song has accumulated about two billion streams on Spotify and ranks in the 100 most-streamed songs in the streaming platform's history, and its music video has earned 1.7 billion views on YouTube, and over 2.4 billion ...
Jason Lipshutz of Billboard magazine named "Jealousy" one of the "10 Cool New Pop Songs to Get You Through The Week" and applauded the song's stage-friendly sound: "From the razor-sharp guitar riff to the 'la-la-la' hook to the declaration 'Jealousy’s my best friend!,' Pale Waves' latest is going to sound mighty onstage this season."
"Pressure" is a power pop and pop rock song with contrasting horns and guitars, reminiscent of nerd rock. [1] [2] [3] The song features several interchanging riffs. [4]Prior to the release of the single, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy expressed that the single would be a "straight Muse rock track" [1] and return to the band's "classic" sound, following the release of "Something Human".
In a NME review for the song, writer Tom Skinner described the song previewing the upcoming album as "the swaggering, all-guns-blazing 'Beguiled', which sees the Pumpkins return to their gritty, guitar-led sound." [8] Guitar World writer Michael Astley-Brown said of the track; "Beguiled is a four-to-the-floor riffer that rarely lets up in its ...
In 2003, Q placed the song 68th out of its "1001 Best Songs Ever". Newsweek magazine has called the opening riff "five notes that shook the world". The song and its opening riff are widely considered both iconic and one of the greatest musical hooks of all time.
Riff-driven songs are largely a product of jazz, blues, and post-blues era music (rock and pop). [10] The musical goal of riff-driven songs is akin to the classical continuo effect, but raised to much higher importance (in fact, the repeated riff is used to anchor the song in the ears of the listener). The riff/continuo is brought to the ...