Andersson consolidated his place as the band's keyboardist and musical driving force as well as a teen idol.

The band's first experience in the recording studio was recording the music to Riff Raff, a low-budget stage musical on which Sneddon had worked.

Santiago, in an interview with Mojo, described Deal as being " headstrong and want to include her own songs, to explore her own world " on the band's albums ; eventually she accepted that Francis was the singer and had musical control of the band, but after the Frankfurt incident, " they kinda stopped talking ".

Although partly a return to the band's heavier punk roots, the album featured a typically idiosyncratic mixture of musical styles which included a country and western style Johnny Cash pastiche / homage " I Hate You ".

The album marked somewhat of a retreat from the increasingly roots-rock direction that the band's past few records had gone in, instead featuring an eclectic alternative-rock sound that fit in well with the then-current musical climate.

According to the documentary For the Record, he stated that he was unhappy with his musical ideas not being taken seriously by lead singer Barlow and Nigel Martin-Smith, because his desire to explore hip hop and rap conflicted with the band's usual ballads.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

The album is the first real testament to the band's distinctive layered sound, and features long complex instrumental passages, fantasy-themed lyrics, and musical virtuosity.

While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track " Kiew Mission " from 1981's Exit and " The Harbor " from 1987's Shy People, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy and their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.

The updated play, staged at the Pasadena Playhouse, featured musical theatre actor Robert Yacko as the fartiste, with sound effects provided by the band's trombone and piccolo players.

In April 1981, Bill Haley & His Comets returned to the British musical charts once again when MCA Records ( inheritors of the Decca catalog ) released " Haley's Golden Medley ", a hastily compiled edit of the band's best known hits in the style of the then-popular " Stars on 45 " format.

The early works of Marillion contained Fish's poetic and introspective lyrics melded with a complex and subtle musical tapestry to create a sound that reflected the band's influences, notably Queen, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush ( specifically from the late 1970s ), and Yes.

It was at this time that musical relationships had also been struck with members of Rising Sons who would later feature in the band's recordings.

The band's recent albums, i ( 2004 ) and Distortion ( 2008 ), both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: The song titles on i begin with the letter ( or, in the case of half the songs ' titles, the pronoun ) " I ", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach.

The Mighty Joe Young demo features tracks that would go on to be re-recorded for the band's first studio album, as well as some musical styles not featured on any of STP's albums, such as funk and yodeling.

The band's sound is considered a blending of the alternative rock of the 1980s and 90s with the hard rock of the 1970s, though the band is known for making each of their records possess a unique musical style, despite having the " sonic blueprint " of the band, as Robert DeLeo describes.

This second album represented a noticeable step in the band's musical progression: the record's production quality and style differed from that of the first, which had used a hip-hop producer.

In 2004, following the great success of his acclaimed live performances of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album, and with the support of his band's musical director Darian Sahanaja, Wilson made the surprise announcement that he was going to finish the mythical record using his current touring band.

The band's music is a collaboration between various musicians, Albarn being the only permanent musical contributor.

Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time.

Though Shaffer was at the piano and appeared to be directing the band's actions, Howard Shore was credited as SNLs musical director, eventually turning the actual conducting of the band to sax player Howard Johnson.

In addition to the fictional band's performances on stage, the characters would break into song when they were off-stage ( much like in a stage musical ).

The band's style draws from a number of Eurasian ethnic musical traditions, from Spain to the Balkans to Mongolia.

Kiedis recalled the event, saying " It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he had said was too ludicrous to take seriously ", as his proposition was too different from the band's musical style.

During the band's hiatus from 2006 to 2010, Odadjian collaborated with Wu Tang Clan founder The RZA on a project called Achozen, which contributed a number of songs to the motion picture Babylon A. D. Odadjian is also credited with the musical scoring of the blockbuster film, alongside with The Rza and Hans Zimmer.

The band's music had evolved much in a short time, moving away from hardcore formulas toward a more innovative jazz-informed style, featuring musicianship and dynamics far beyond other bands in the genre ( thus effectively removing the music from that genre ).

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

His work with Body Count, whose 1992 debut album Marrow described as a " rock album with a rap mentality ", is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit ; however, Marrow states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and is solely a rock band.

However, the band's individualistic style drew from a wide variety of influences, including folk music, which they incorporated into their next two albums.

Though the band's early years were shadowed by the legacy and basic sound of Joy Division, their experience of the early 1980s New York City club scene increased their knowledge of dance music and saw them incorporate elements of that style into their work.

The band's bassist / singer, Richard Hell, created a look with cropped, ragged hair, ripped T-shirts, and black leather jackets credited as the basis for punk rock visual style.

The band's members cited punk rock as a key influence on their style.

The band's style of music contains a range of elements, including indie rock, psychedelia, noise rock, and surf rock.

Heaton and the band's drummer Dave Hemingway went on to form The Beautiful South, while Cook moved back to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he preferred.

The band's " non-rhythm-and-blues, whiter-than-white fusion of 1960s rock and postpunk was a repudiation of contemporary dance pop " – the style popular in the early 1980s.

The reconstituted version of Love, which included Jay Donnellan and then Gary Rowles on guitars, Frank Fayad on bass guitar, and George Suranovich on drums, played in a blues-rock style, different from the band's previous line-up.

Welk described his band's sound, saying " We still play music with the champagne style, which means light and rhythmic.

" With this new sound combination, Glenn Miller found a way to differentiate his band's style from the many bands that existed in the late thirties.

While the band's early releases were played in a style closer to traditional punk rock, In God We Trust, Inc. ( 1981 ) marked a shift into hardcore.

With a full time fiddle player in their lineup, the band's second album feature a " now legendary folky jig style " and " more prominent inclusion of the fiddle playing lead lines and melodies normally associated with the lead guitar parts of most other rock bands.

Focusing on a darker, heavier style, the album spawned the doomy single " Horrorscope ", a departure from the band's earlier singles, which had traditionally been uptempo songs.

In the summer of 1996, Overkill appeared on Volume 2 of Century Media's " Legends Of Metal – A Tribute To Judas Priest " compilation, to which they contributed ' Tyrant ', heavily adapted to the band's own style.

The band's style at times was reminiscent of more traditional noise punk, at other times cranky art-rock.

After reconvening in the studio for their second album, Purple, the band's style developed, taking influence from psychedelic rock, country music, and jangle pop.

His style has changed with the band's evolution ; much of the lyrics on Core were written about societal issues such as religion, abuse of power, and isolation.