" According to Allmusic, " Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, partying, and other indulgences, probably represented the youthful, zany side of rock & roll, as well as its self-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet.

According to Allmusic, Jones " has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director.

According to Allmusic, Demartini was heavily influenced by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick as a teenager.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.

According to Allmusic, James Brown was critical, through " the gospel-impassioned fury of his vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats ", in " two revolutions in black American music.

According to Allmusic, " At the dawn of the hip-hop era, all rap was East Coast rap.

According to Allmusic editor Steve Huey, the success of his 1994 debut album Ready to Die " reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age " and " turned the Notorious B. I. G.

According to Stewart Mason of Allmusic, the " increasingly melodic " style of Swedish death metal combines the post-hardcore aggression and guttural vocals of black metal with melodic and technically proficient guitar lines.

According to Allmusic, the debut album is a relatively immature, but original, release.

According to Allmusic, Mullen is one of the best vocalists in death metal.

According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, " The Maytals were key figures in reggae music.

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According to Stewart Mason, writing for Allmusic, " band's muscular blend of Joy Division's atmospherics and the Gang of Four's rattling momentum, with Benjamin Bossi's splattering free jazz saxophone coloring everything, made Romeo Void one of the strongest of the American post-punk bands.

According to the website Allmusic, on In Rape Fantasy And Terror Sex We Trust " Joan of Arc ... once more surpassed themselves as artists ".

According to Alexey Eremenko of Allmusic, Luna Sea's sound is " firmly based in ' 80s hard rock, with a versatile progressive approach to songwriting, and its softer side, displayed later on in the group's career, proved equally strong.

According to Allmusic, the band " sought to provide a positive alternative to traditional death metal acts such as Carcass, Death, and Obituary.

According to Allmusic, the album contains " some of the most frightening vocals ever recorded.

According to Allmusic, " most rap-metal bands during the mid-to late ' 90s blended an ultra-aggressive, testosterone-heavy theatricality with either juvenile humor or an introspective angst learned through alternative metal ".

According to William York of Allmusic, " Morningrise is, as far as the metal scale goes, possibly their least heavy album ".

According to Allmusic, who awarded the album 4. 5 / 5 stars, it had, by the 1990s, sold in excess of 18 million copies worldwide.

According to Allmusic music journalist Kim Summers, Rydell, whose interest in show business began at the age of four years, " is one of the most sought-after nightclub and concert acts in the US.

According to Steve Huey of Allmusic, " Singles helped crystallize the idea of the ' Seattle scene ' in the mainstream public's mind, and it was also one of the first big-selling ' 90s movie soundtracks ( it went platinum and reached the Top Ten ) to feature largely new work from contemporary artists ... it's a milestone in the breakthrough of alternative rock into mainstream popular culture, neatly and effectively packaging the Seattle phenomenon for the wider national consciousness.

According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

According to ' Songs of Acadia College ' ( Wolfville, NS 1902-3, 1907 ), the songs include: ' Acadia Centennial Song ' ( 1938 ); ' The Acadia Clan Song '; ' Alma Mater-Acadia ;' ' Alma Mater Acadia ' ( 1938 ) and ' Alma Mater Song.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to Stones ' confidant and close friend of Parsons, Phil Kaufman, the twosome would sit around for hours, playing obscure country records and trading off on various songs with their guitars.

Ashcroft has penned and sung a number of other songs and created compilation tapes, including In the Spirit of Life and Liberty and Gospel ( Music ) According to John.

According to music journalist Ben Myers, Bad Religion " layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies "; Descendents " wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys – inspired songs about girls and food and being young ( ish )".

According to Orbison, the subsequent songs he wrote with Melson during this period were constructed with his voice in mind, specifically to showcase its range and power.

According to Martin Gottfried, " Sondheim had set out to write traditional songs ...

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

According to Hyginus, sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.

According to Aristotle, writing nearly two centuries later, Thespis was a singer of dithyrambs ( songs about stories from mythology with choric refrains ).

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

According to the bootlegged album of the songs recorded at Kinfauns, George Harrison's Esher home, these include Lennon's " Look at Me " and " Child of Nature ", eventually reworked as " Jealous Guy "; McCartney's " Junk " and " Teddy Boy "; and Harrison's " Not Guilty " and " Circles.

According to William of Malmesbury, Aldhelm also wrote poetry in Old English, and set his own compositions to music, but none of his songs, which were still popular in the time of Alfred, have come down to us.

According to Don Williams, who founded the Salt Company coffeehouse in the summer of 1968, Norman " heard ‘ The Agape ,’ a hard rock Christian group, play songs about Jesus ", which " convinced Larry that he could use his rock music to communicate the gospel ".

According to Philip Cooney: " Norman's songs often contain a series of self-contained vignettes that ( he hoped ) would give the passers-by something to think about, or that might hook them in to hear more of the gospel message.

According to Norman, the record company dropped several Christian songs, including " Butterfly ," " If God Is My Father ," " Kulderachna ", and " I Hope I'll See You In Heaven ", in favor of more lightweight love songs like " Fly, Fly, Fly ," the album's opening track ", and " Christmastime ', both previously released as singles.