polyrhythm

n.

1. A section of music featuring two independent pulses of different speeds playing against each other within the same time frame. For instance, a quarter note triplet in 4/4 meter is a simple polyrhythm in which 3 notes betas take the same time and space of 2 quarter notes of the 4/4 value. Not to be confused with hemiola.
Meshuggah is a band whose music features complex polyrhythms and hemiolas.
by Sommy July 09, 2004
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continental breakfast

n.

1. A small breakfast consisting of coffee and a roll or bran muffin, named so not for continental airlines (as popularly believed), but rather, because coffee coupled with a bran muffin tend to make one have to defecate, close to the point of <i>incontinence</i>.
The continental breakfast they offered really made me have to crap.
by Sommy September 08, 2004
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meshuggah

n.

1. A metal band from Sweden whose music features many dizzingly complex polyrhythms and hemiolas characteristic of free jazz and African drumming.

2. A metal group whose rhythmic concepts tend to go right over the heads of most metal fans, leading them to pigeonhole the band with such descriptions as "toughest band I've ever heard," thus raping them of the credibility they deserve.

adj.

1. Yiddish for "crazy."
Meshuggah is meshuggah!
by Sommy July 09, 2004
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h2

n.

1. What Flava Flav bought when he realized that he'd have to save money for his daughter to go to college.
You know what I did when I realized I had to send my daughter to college?

I BOUGHT A H2!
by Sommy July 09, 2004
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rock revival

Rock revival is a new genre of music that mixes goth rock, metal, punk, and alternative toghter. Think of it as Kittie meets Dead Kennedys.
The Sins, Nirvana (though grunge), Horrorpops are one of the Rock Revival bands
by Sommy February 05, 2005
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hemiola

n.

1. A phrase of music notated in one type of meter but accented as though it were being played in another meter. The classic hemiola is a phrase of triple meter (in this case 3/4) accented as though it were written in duple (2/4) meter. Hemiolas are often used to give the illusion of accelerando or ritardando.

2. Italian for "one and a half."
That hemiola made my head spin.
by Sommy July 09, 2004
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nose stuffing

v.

1. Snorting coke.
Skeezer's in the back, stuffing his nose.
by Sommy July 10, 2004
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