The good news is how that guitar playing makes these songs, most now several decades old, feel energized and energizing, an appropriately frenzied response to what Morello has called the "electoral insanity" of our present moment.
When the time finally came for "Confessions Part II," there was another surprise: Mr. West materialized onstage to perform his verse from the remix, and Usher (noticing, perhaps, the frenzied response) graciously let Mr. West perform a couple of tracks.
But even they, it seems, had not foreseen the frenzied response their success provoked.
There, she was met by the most frenzied response of the day, with prolonged chanting.
It was quite something to watch the frenzied response to young men tragically dying after assaults on the streets of Sydney.
It's a powerful oration — "If we are wrong," he said, "God Almighty is wrong!" — and he must have sensed, from the frenzied response, that this was work he was intended to do.
Alpers is surely right when he argues that the critique of totalitarianism by writers like Arendt is of a piece with their critique of popular culture, which they attacked as culture manufactured for the mass of unindividuated individuals, atomized beings able to feel alive only in their frenzied response to empty celebrity.
The frenzied response from North Korean diplomats to the suggestion that the Supreme Leader be referred to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity confirmed that this regime's institutional sensitivity – and vulnerability – is to protecting the cult of Kim at all costs.
He pointed out in his since-deleted non-apology that the satire seemed to be doing its job, judging by the frenzied response.
Many a last-minute goal brings a frenzied, almost angry, response but this was all about joy: Platt's smile, Bobby Robson's old-man-at-da-disco jig, Terry Butcher and Chris Waddle's endearingly naff dance.
