Happy Slappy joins clanking abstract sounds, battering drumwork, and blustery high-altitude trumpet lines stalked by a honking baritone sax.
A sound battering of Twickenham's foundations, before anyone can add the word "Fortress" to the front of the place, will do much to keep the All Blacks' own campaign on track.
During the last prolonged slump on Wall Street, after the crash of the stock market in 1987, a combination of large job losses at banks, trouble in the credit markets and a glut of new commercial and residential real estate on the market (sound familiar?) battered the city.
If you are extremely lucky, one of them might eventually say, "you sound like a battered wife" (do I?) and blast you out of your paralysis.
These groups and artists make sprawling ugly-beautiful sounds using whatever battered amps and equipment they can throw together.
It helps that Goodwin carries himself like a man with plenty of miles on the clock, his vocal so careworn he could sing Happy Birthday and it would sound a bit glum, battered by the knowledge that the jelly and ice cream will run out eventually.
One, while her father was in prison, began at 3am with the sound of assault rifles being battered against the front door.
That peaceful imagery, however, is now broken by the sounds of children playing on a school ball field that abuts the property just beyond its stone wall and fence, and by the sound of tennis balls being battered on asphalt courts adjacent to the farmhouse.
The crepes are called banh xeo, the word "xeo" an onomatopoeic rendering of the sound of batter hitting the pan.
An apparition rises from the clouds of dry ice billowing through the humid Cape Town air, his pipe-cleaner limbs contorting wildly as he leaps and prances to a drum groove that sounds like hammers battering out a tattoo on a tin roof.
