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 ".

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ned Raggett said " With their former band's generally gloomier shadows left behind, what Ash and Haskins draw from their time with Bauhaus is that group's melange of styles — their most underappreciated strength.

It featured recordings from the band's autumn 1995 concerts and showcased the strength of the band's live performances.

Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of foreign branding intended to give a band's logo a Teutonic quality — denoting stereotypes of boldness and strength commonly attributed to ancient northern European peoples, such as the Vikings and Goths.

and emotional leads added to the band's singing strength, and highlighted several old favorites like " Cassidy ",

However, the band's next album, 1987's The Big Throwdown became an even bigger success, on the strength of the hit single " Casanova ", which gave the band a crossover hit onto the pop charts, peaking at number 5 in this market and making the UK Top 10.

On the strength of these two songs, Darkane landed a record deal with War Music, and the band's lineup was completed by bassist Jörgen Löfberg, guitarist Klas Ideberg, and vocalist Bjorn “ Speed ” Strid.

The band's strength lies in the semantic power of its lyrics, which discuss a wide variety of topics such as politics, drugs and women, but always from a philosophical and existentialist point of view.

Its strength lies in the lyrical content, which includes a reworking of several forgotten hymns as well as the band's deftly executed arrangements.

In March 1989, on the strength of continued sales, Tooth and Nail — the band's first Gold album — was its third to be certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of 1 million in the U. S. alone.

The International Herald Tribunes Mike Zwerin noted the band's style of having " four lead singers, four potential front men "— Imaginates strength was in their collective sound, argued Zwerin.

The Romantics achieved popularity in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, parts of Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America during the first half of the 1980s on the strength of the band's songs and music videos.

" The band's name may also refer to a Ralph Chaplin quote from " Solidarity Forever ": " What force on Earth can be weaker than the feeble strength of one?

It was released as the band's third single from the album on September 20, 2005, due in part to the strength of downloads preceding the release.

At this point, the song did not have much airplay but had relied on the strength of digital downloads alone, and it experienced a sales surge following the band's performance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

With Matt Latta ( brother of Brad ) on drums, and Dave Osborne on bass, the rhythm section was perhaps the band's hidden strength.

The band's first studio album, Home, had some success which lay with its lead single, " I Believe ".

The band's roots lay in the hardcore scene of the early 1980s along with a strong influence from the British 2 Tone ska scene of the 1970s.

Digital Underground toured nearly every year up until 2008 ; this consisted of thousands of live shows in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U. S. While the group's origins lay mostly in Oakland and Berkeley, California, various characters and voices from around the U. S. appeared on the band's albums, while Shock G and Money-B were the only individuals to appear on every album.

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

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.

Recurring Dream contained four songs from each of the band's studio albums, along with three new songs.

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.

Without the band's consent or under their protest, however, some songs were released as singles, particularly in the US.

In November 2007 Led Zeppelin made the band's songs available as legal digital downloads, one of the last major rock bands to do so.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

Many of the band's songs dealt with themes of romance, unrequited love and sexual conquest, which were common in rock, pop and blues music.

Susan Fast argues that as Plant emerged as the band's main lyricist, the songs more obviously reflected his alignment with the West Coast counterculture of the 1960s.

He also provided the lead vocals on a number of songs, including the band's biggest UK chart single, " Silver Machine ", which reached No. 3 in 1972.

MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.

Lyle Preslar was briefly a member of Glenn Danzig's Samhain, and his playing appears on a few songs on the band's first record.

He has written about a number of offbeat subjects in the band's songs, such as extraterrestrials, surrealism, incest, and biblical violence.

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 ".

The album contained Rush's only U. S. top-40 pop hit, " New World Man ", while other more experimental songs such as " Digital Man ", " The Weapon ", and " Chemistry " expanded the band's use of ska, reggae, and funk.

In April 2010, Rush entered Blackbird Studios in Nashville with Raskulinecz to record " Caravan " and " BU2B ", two new songs to be featured on the band's studio album Clockwork Angels.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs ' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as " Ring Ring " ( 1973 ), " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Honey, Honey " ( 1974 ), " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " ( 1975 ), " Mamma Mia " ( 1975 ), " S. O. S " ( 1975 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 ), " Knowing Me, Knowing You " ( 1977 ), and " The Name of the Game " ( 1977 ).

Many early Pink Floyd songs such as " See Emily Play " ( played with a Zippo lighter for a slide ), feature Syd Barrett's slide guitar performances, reflecting the band's original Chicago urban blues repertoire from musicians such as Bo Diddley and Slim Harpo.

The fourteen-track collection was the band's most mainstream yet, and showed Aaron Lewis writing songs about his daughter, as well as moving on with his life and forgetting his past, hence the title representing uncertainty for the future and forgiveness.

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 ".

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.

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.