* Animal Collective, a New York psychedelic pop band

* Adenosine Tri-Phosphate ( band ), a Japanese alternative rock / pop band

* Alien Beat Club, a Danish pop band

Arrangers in pop music recordings often add parts for orchestral or band instruments involving new material such that the arrangers may reasonably be considered co-composers, although for copyright and royalty purposes usually are not.

Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

* AU ( band ), an experimental pop group headed by Luke Wyland

* Arian ( band ), a pop band in Iran

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

The Norwegian all-girl pop band Katzenjammer uses two contrabass balalaikas, both of which have cat faces painted on the front.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.

* Balance ( band ), a 1980s pop – rock group

Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

Love's varying genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview, in which she stated: " There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another that wants to have a Raspberries-type pop band.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

* Columbus, Ohio based pop / rock band Casey At The Bat, formed in 2012.

Crowded House are a pop rock band formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985 by lead-vocalist and primary songwriter, New Zealand-born Neil Finn.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

Upon breaking up in July 2012, famous anarchist pop band Chumbawamba issued a statement which compared their own legacy with that of the Dada art movement.

It is also used intentionally for aesthetic effect in such pop songs as Cher's Believe and Madonna's Die Another Day.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

" Iroquois are also known for " embossed " beading in which strings pulled taunt force beads to pop up from the surface, creating a bas-relief.

Less obvious is the fact that Puzzle Bobble also features all the enemies from Bubble Bobble, which are trapped inside the bubbles and fly out when the bubbles pop.

In 2002, a tribute album was released under the name Yüreğimdeki Barış Şarkıları (" Peace's Songs In My Heart ", also " Peace Songs In My Heart ") featuring 15 extremely popular Turkish artists of such diverse genres as arabesque, pop and rock ( both Anatolian and western style ) demonstrating his wide range of influence.

The group also gradually abandoned its funk roots and moved into the more commercial pop arena.

Rock and pop music tracks can also be used as a basis for drinking games.

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture, like some of Duke's lines that are drawn from movies like Aliens, Dirty Harry, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and They Live ; the mutated women begging " Kill me " are also a reference to the latter.

A second single, the double A-sided single " Two Doors Down "/" It's All Wrong, But It's All Right " also topped the country singles chart and crossed over to the pop top twenty.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

Father Ted also contains references to pop culture, and some film parodies, such as the episode " Speed 3 ".

The album also reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.

Dandiya is a form of dance-oriented folk music that has also been adapted for pop music.

* George O ' Dowd, pop singer, also known as Boy George

He also performed a duet with another British pop star, Joss Stone, a week earlier on the United Kingdom chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

She was also attracted to the music of more mainstream artists like Olivia Newton-John and The Police, perhaps explaining the contrast in her later music between sweet, melodic " pop " songs and more hard rock oriented material.

It was also significant for being the first song cycle by an African-American pop musician ( group leader Arthur Lee was African American as was lead guitarist John Echols ).

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop / rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

In Australia, two popular groups, skatecore band Frenzal Rhomb and pop punk act Bodyjar, also established followings in Japan.

While they were viewed as Green Day " acolytes ", critics also found teen pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ' N Sync suitable points of comparison for Blink-182's sound and market niche.