Made the year after, before the full story of Operation Anthropoid had emerged, Lang's sinewy, tar-dark thriller tells a far more fanciful version of events, but it'll be hard to beat for throbbing, edge-of-the-void tension.
The production team gave bassist Adam Clayton's bass a "low end bass throbbing effect", which The Edge described as "a real stroke of genius from the production team".
Her belligerently titled video installation, Sanity Assassin, hits you with throbbing noise and hard edges, while her shots of night-time LA are far from peaceful, arranged in music video-style montages and accompanied by rapid-fire captions attacking the culture machine.
At the Cat Club late one recent Sunday night, a 66-year-old social-dance historian cooled his heels on the edge of the throbbing dance floor, crowded with dozens of sweating couples swinging to a rousing big band.
Though in places her singing was rough edged, her cool, Nordic, throbbing voice had rich colorings and charisma, and she captured Rachel's mix of fragility and intensity.
The throbbing oscillations of Liebesode teetered on the edge of pornography, as they always should but rarely ever do.
Rohit Sharma and Sehwag settled the hearts of a throbbing crowd with a 63 run partnership before Sharma edged a cut at the recalled Graeme Swann through to Matthew Prior.
A year later came the first broadside from LCD Soundsystem, "Losing My Edge" (DFA), a knowing, paranoid eight-minute rant over throbbing post-disco.
Seriously, the combination of urgently ticking clocks, throbbing bar charts and flashing maps nearly pushed me over the edge and it was only an uncontrollable burst of laughter following their insistence the studio was "America's Election HQ" that kept me from totally losing it.
Like O'Neill's life, their book was a sprawling work of passion, with the rough edges still showing and its own nervous energy throbbing slightly out of control.
