After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.

Since the release of the band's self-titled debut album in March 1974, Rush has become known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy.

In the wake of the group's success for the Victor release, in May the band returned to Columbia, recording two selections of popular tunes of the day chosen for them by the record company ( possibly hoping to avoid the copyright problems which arose after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions ) " Darktown Strutter's Ball " and "( Back Home Again in ) Indiana " as catalogue # A-2297.

Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in Eureka at the time.

They contributed two tracks to the influential Marty Thau Presents 2x5 compilation and their debut album, the self-titled Comateens, ( 1980 ) featured the band's bizarrely original compositions alongside covers of " Summer in the City " ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ), " TVC 15 " ( David Bowie ), and the theme song from TV's The Munsters.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

Contrary to the tight production and song-oriented nature of Glass Harp's studio albums, their live performances demonstrated the band's ability to stretch out and expand the boundaries of their compositions.

Contrary to the tight production and song-oriented nature of their studio albums, the band's live shows at the time demonstrated Glass Harp's ability to stretch out and expand the boundaries of their compositions.

The band's 1988 release Boingo Alive was actually recorded live on a soundstage, with no studio audience, and contained a selection of songs from earlier albums, plus two new compositions.

Coombes was the band's main songwriter, although later releases saw the first compositions by Lennox and Stewart.

Rotheray and Heaton, meanwhile, co-wrote the band's compositions.

* 1963: The band's recordings of their own compositions first receive radio air play.

The Police's early track list was mostly made of Copeland's compositions, including the band's first single " Fall Out " ( Illegal Records, 1977 ).

A concert band's repertoire includes original wind compositions, arrangements of orchestral compositions, light music, popular tunes and concert marches found in standard repertoire.

Among the original compositions from the band's book are " Django " by Lewis ( a tribute to the Belgian jazz guitar player Django Reinhardt ), " Afternoon In Paris ," also by Lewis, and Jackson's " Bags ' Groove ", the latter borrowing its composer's nickname.

A concert band's repertoire includes original wind compositions, arrangements of orchestral compositions, light music, and popular tunes.

Although classic blues covers and blues-styled originals remained prominent in the band's repertoire through this period, Green rapidly blossomed as a writer and contributed many successful original compositions from 1968 onwards.

Hodgson subsequently claimed that the band's explanation for dropping his compositions from their setlist back in 1983 is a lie, and that the real reason was that he and Davies made a verbal agreement that they would not play those songs.

Yes ' live album Yessongs was made a triple album due to it including many of the band's longer compositions.

The band's status was relatively obscure prior to the Larry Clark film Kids, and its soundtrack, most of which contained original compositions by Barlow and Davis.

In 1959, Marks and Brian Wilson's youngest brother Carl had begun to develop their own style of playing electric guitars Brian realized that the combination of Carl and David's playing brought a rock guitar sound to his original compositions, and the two teenagers participated in Brian's first songwriting efforts that led to the band's 1963 hit single " Surfer Girl ".

This was considered an unusual move for a prog rock band, since progressive rock tends to focus a lot on the use of electronic synthesisers and electric guitars ; however, the melodic qualities of the band's compositions proved to be well-suited to an acoustic context, and the album was reasonably successful.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

No mention of this album has been made on the band's official website or Twitter page, which suggests that they are not involved with its release.

Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums.

Among the band's awards are an American Music Award in 2005, and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.

" The band's music incorporates extreme dynamic shifts ; Francis explained in 1991, " Those are the two basic components of rock music.

In a recent webisode posted on the band's website, Lewis stated that eight songs are written and that " every one of them is as heavy or heavier than the heaviest song on the last record ".

A joint statement between Williams and the group said " The rumours are true ... Take That: the original lineup, have written and recorded a new album, to be called, Progress for release later this year ," read the band's statement.

Brian May confirmed that he and Taylor are working their way through the band's old material to compile a selection of unreleased songs for the forthcoming album.

Due to the high sales for Kurt Cobain's Journals and the band's best-of compilation Nirvana upon their releases in 2002, The New York Times argued Nirvana " are having more success now than at any point since Mr. Cobain's suicide in 1994.

The Beach Boys are probably the best example of this trend-within two years of the band's commercial breakthrough, group leader Brian Wilson had taken over from his father Murry, and he was sole producer of all their recordings between 1963 and 1967.

Reviews of B-Sides and Rarities were generally good ; Devin Grant of The Post and Courier wrote that " For an album full of odds and ends, this Cake release is every bit as good, and every bit as fun, as the band's previous studio releases ", while Catherine P. Lewis of The Washington Post noted that, although several live tracks reduced the album's strength, " there are still enough charming nuggets to make this album less disposable than the typical rarities compilation ".

Two of the band's four members ( Markus Mustonen and Sami Sirviö ) are Sweden Finns.

The band's albums are Back to the Front ( on the London-based ATP Recordings, 2003 ) and 21st Century Mirror Men ( 2005 ).

The band's frontman Fred Durst claimed the band had attempted to take precautions that fell on deaf ears, " We begged, we screamed, we sent letters, we tried to take precautions, because we are Limp Bizkit, we know we cause this big emotional blister of a crowd ".

" Their lyrics are sung exclusively in Swedish instead of the Finnish language " apparently because this language was better to evoke the trollish spirit ", even though the real reason for this lies in the band's original vocalist belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority.

The band's most successful records are Under the Influence ( 1988 ), The Years of Decay ( 1989 ) and I Hear Black ( 1993 ), which debuted at No. 142, No. 155 and No. 122 respectively on the Billboard 200 charts.

According to a post made on the 25 May 2010 on the band's Myspace page, Barry, Diani and Fiocco are recording new material with new drummer Martin Davies.

Perhaps most significantly, the band's acclaimed 1968 concept album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society gave an affectionate embrace to " Merry England " nostalgia and advocated for the preservation of traditional English country village and hamlet life.

The band's album art ( most often done by Vincent Locke ) and its lyrics, which draw heavily on horror fiction and horror films, are highly controversial.

The band's members are Jon Foreman ( lead vocals, guitar ), Tim Foreman ( bass guitar, backing vocals ), Chad Butler ( drums, percussion ), Jerome Fontamillas ( guitar, keyboards, backing vocals ), and Drew Shirley ( guitar, backing vocals ).

The band's lyrics are almost uniformly positive and uplifting, affirming such values as love, peace, and spirituality, and furthering their association with Yes.

Slocum and Leigh formed Sixpence None the Richer ; he and Nash are the band's only constant members.

Although exact details surrounding the band's demise are sparse, Navarro claimed on his website, in June 2004, that the reasons for the breakup were essentially the same as they were in 1991.

" Shields later said to Magnet magazine, " We are 100 percent going to make another My Bloody Valentine record unless we die or something ", and attributed the band's sparse output to a lack of inspiration.