He had her sing in a lower key and crafted pop songs for her.

Albarn, however, attempted to assuage fans ' fears that the album would be electronic by providing reassurances that the band's new album would be " a rockin ' record ", and also stated that it has " a lot of finely crafted pop songs ".

Rollins acted as roadie for the remainder of the tour while learning Black Flag's songs during sound checks and encores, while Cadena crafted guitar parts that meshed with Ginn's.

It was there also that enslaved Africans further crafted the impromptu musical expression of field songs into the so-called " line singing " and intricate, multi-part harmonies of struggle and overcoming, faith, forbearance and hope that have come to be known as Negro spirituals.

Dave Henderson, writing in Underground magazine, gave the album 2 / 3, calling the songs " well crafted, well delivered sketches which embrace commercial ideals as well as bizarre left-field out of control moments ".

The new songs had been crafted over a two-year span during which the band fine-honed and road-tested the material.

and 1993's Perfect Teeth ( distributed by the influential British label 4AD Records ) featured finely crafted pop songs interspersed with strange avant-garde percussive and sonic tracks ( sometimes featuring nothing but white noise, beeps or sirens ).

For example, Lancelot, always portrayed as the most virtuous and the mightiest of Arthur's knights, here is depicted as an arrogant, cowardly and ultimately self-serving petty prince, whose legendary feats and martial prowess are crafted through the songs of the bards and a fictional reputation that he himself carefully cultivates.

" You know, the thing I like about Awesome God is that it's one of the worst-written songs that I ever wrote ; it's just poorly crafted.

On Si El Norte Fuera El Sur, he crafted a relatively low-key effort characterized by intimate songs about love, culture, and politics.

The poetic lyrics of his songs are cleverly crafted full of deep-rooted meanings.

Internationally, the most successful appropriators of reggae for mainstream pop audiences was the hugely successful British band The Police, who scored a string of hit singles and hit LPs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with finely crafted pop songs played in a reggae style, such as " Walking on the Moon ".

" The dynamic quintet ’ s debut album, Bling, has everything you could want from a record — stunning use of instrumentation, gorgeously crafted songs, sprightly foot-tappers, verve and raw excitement.

The Cavedogs were known for energetic live shows featuring finely crafted power pop songs, skillful playing, and three-part harmonies.

It was hailed as a finely crafted set of traditional songs given clever arrangements, and the track " Thomas the Rhymer ", which was released as a single, was seen by many as the quintessential Steeleye track.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The new songs included in this production had been added during a 1971 Los Angeles production: " Echo Song " ( sung by Hero and Philia ), and " Farewell " ( added for Nancy Walker playing the role of Domina as she and Senex depart for the country ).

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.

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

He expanded his repertoire to include songs written in traditional genres of the Mexican music, and during the farmworkers ' rights campaign, wrote music in support of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.

They performed the song " Too Hot ta Trot " during the dance contest ; their songs " Brick House " and " Easy " were also played during the movie.

Supporters of English Premier League team Chelsea and Football League team Gillingham regularly sing songs about the vegetable and are famed for throwing celery during matches.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

While they did not release any albums during this period, Devo recorded a number of songs for various films and compilations since their reunion, including a cover of the Nine Inch Nails hit, " Head Like a Hole " for the film Supercop.

This is commonly used during songs when a slower tempo makes the single step difficult ( an example progression would be " rock step, triple step, triple step ").

Later, with the birth of film, illustrated songs were used as filler material preceding films and during reel changes.

He began to play the harpsichord at age seventeen and, during the 1750s, hand-copied arias, songs, and instrumental pieces by many European composers.

He used a Fender Jaco Pastorius Tribute fretless replica bass for the song " Malignant Narcissism " on Snakes & Arrows, and a Fender Custom Shop Jazz with an Alder Body and a Flamed Maple top in Transparent Red for songs in an alternate tuning during the last several tours.

The album's original songs were the result of a very productive songwriting partnership between Parsons and Hillman, who were sharing a bachelor pad in LA during this period.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

Peter Doherty of The Libertines and Babyshambles has also been known to use a harmonica especially during songs such as Albion and Killamangiro.

You can hear some of the songs that were heard over these stations during the 1960s here.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as " Come, heavy sleep " ( the basis for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal ), " Come again ", " Flow my tears ", " I saw my Lady weepe " and " In darkness let me dwell ", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has been a source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists during the twentieth century.

" In Spider-Man 3, she sings two songs as part of her role as Mary Jane Watson, one during a Broadway performance, and one as a singing waitress in a jazz club.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.

Several hit songs were also recorded during the mahjong fad, most notably " Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong " by Eddie Cantor.

On January 20, 2007, The Meat Puppets brothers performed two songs during an Army of Anyone concert, at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas.

The record exemplifies this phase of his career, including the lengthy spoken interludes between songs that punctuated his live act.

" The old woman who teaches the children singing songs corrects sloppy intonation of contours, poorly meshed phase displacements, and vague rhythms exactly like a Western vocal coach.

These classical songs mark the first phase of Dalida's album and maintain their charm even today.

The Who, inspired by the melodicism of The Beatles and the driving rhythms of American R & B, released several songs —" I Can't Explain ", " The Kids Are Alright ", " Substitute ", " I'm a Boy " and " Happy Jack "— in their early mod phase ( 1965 – 1966 ) that can be considered the first true power pop songs.

As Paul in the Peter, Paul and Mary trio, he participated in one of the best known mass media ensembles of the 1960s phase of the American folk music revival, and included some of his solo songs and extended monologues in their performances and recordings.

# Early meeting phase where men and women sing songs and recite poems to one another.

# Deepening love phase where the courtship is one-to-one and the songs are more spontaneous.

Vysotsky slowly grew out of this phase and started singing more serious, though often satirical, songs.

What links the freeform, progressive, AOR and ultimately the classic rock formats are the continuity of rock artists and songs carried through each phase.

This phase of the revival was initially, and is still to a large extent, characterized by a desire to recapture the style of the original recordings, whereas the first phase tended to present old songs in the current musical idiom of Greek popular music, laïki mousiki.

It was the album that defined his " singing journalist " phase, strewn with songs whose roots were allegedly pulled from Newsweek magazine.

During its album-oriented phase, the station was noted for its promotional montages, snippets of classic-rock songs spliced together emphasizing a particular subject, such as gasoline ( during the gas shortages of the 1970s ).

The band's musical development can be split into four clear phases-their The Big Lad in the Windmill phase ( in which they embraced various varieties of contemporary pop, funk, sophisti-pop, and Queen-style glam rock and processed it through their progressive rock influences ); the Once Around the World phase ( in which they produced 1970s style progressive rock with a 1980s contemporary producer-pop gloss ); the Eat Me in St. Louis phase ( during which they produced detailed hard rock songs with elements of heavy metal and glam rock ); and the current reunion phase ( in which they play a more measured melodic progressive rock similar to that of the Once Around The World phase ).

She can: move ( or " phase ") her hand through solid objects ; sing humorous variations of many songs ; break plywood doors up to 1 centimeter in thickness ( FF2 ); heat lasagna by telepathy ( FF2 ); instantaneously slice and dice root vegetables, such as potatoes ( FF3 ); disperse gory messes ( FF3 ); discern compass directions underground ( FF3 ).

Prior to the audition phase, advertisements appeared on ITV, in newspapers, and trade magazines, promising that the new show would encourage groups, and while the emphasis was on singing, would welcome those who played instruments and wrote their own songs.