Sentence examples for garage standards from inspiring English sources

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But step away from the teller's line and cabbies enter — by garage standards, anyway — a luxury suite: plasma TVs hanging from the walls, private showers next to the mechanics' floor and soon (the bosses promise), a trio of massage chairs for the lounge.

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It's still punky and – Young's favourite musical self-definition – primitive, but the musical accents are slightly different, harking more to their cover of the garage standard Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White than the Ramonic tendencies of their debut (their version, in a deliberate nod, was actually a cover of a cover – of Minor Threat's version rather than the Standells' original).

Their song Gloria became a garage punk standard (and was later covered by Patti Smith) as did I Can Only Give You Everything.

Them, with their vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Van Morrison, had a series of hits with "Baby Please Don't Go" (1964), which reached the top 10 in the UK, and "Here Comes the Night" (1965), which made the top 40 in the U.S., but perhaps their most enduring legacy was the B-side "Gloria", which became a garage rock standard.

Early forms of hard rock can be heard in The Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" (1963), which made it a garage rock standard, and the songs of rhythm and blues influenced British Invasion acts, including "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks (1964), "My Generation" by The Who (1965), "Shapes of Things" (1966) by The Yardbirds and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965) by The Rolling Stones.

It metamorphosed into a reggae groove, into the garage-rock standard "Gloria" and then back into "Lovelight" -- never exactly sure where it was headed, but getting there just the same.

(Sisario) BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Friday) This 1960s protest folkie and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" and maybe even "Cod'ine," which became a garage-rock standard.

Extra garages are standard in the suburbs, to safeguard extra cars; credit cards mean that shoppers carry less cash in their pockets; people working from home, by means of computers, can keep a closer watch over their streets.Lastly, people are going to greater lengths to protect themselves and their property than they did in the past.

This was not a standard garage band.

The room, a gallery and storage space built over their garage, includes museum-standard lighting and a cooling system to reduce humidity and maintain a 60-degree temperature.

Thompson said the garage already had standard current, but he believed the power upgrade was necessary for the security system.

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