Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

Brahms wrote settings for piano and voice of 144 German folk songs, and many of his lieder reflect folk themes or depict scenes of rural life.

Although Asia's live set lists reflect this, Asia Featuring John Payne perform songs from the entire history of Asia.

The manuscripts reflect an " international " European movement, with songs originating from Occitania, France, England, Scotland, Aragon, Castile and the Holy Roman Empire.

His songs reflect aspects of the life of the common man in 18th century Stockholm, but by his composition Gustafs skål, an informal royal anthem, he had also acquired the patronage of King Gustav III of Sweden.

The songs " Misty Mountain Hop ", " That's the Way ", and early dabblings in what would become " Stairway to Heaven " were written in Wales and lyrically reflect Plant's mystical view of the land.

Overt attempts at Russian " folk " musical style can be detected in passages from his first act of the collaborative Mlada ( 1872 ), The Captain's Daughter, a couple of the children's operas, and a few songs ; many other passages in his music reflect the stylistic curiosities associated with Russian art music of the 19th century, such as whole tone scales and certain harmonic devices.

In his later works he relied less on the text to give him his musical framework and more on his pure musical ideas themselves ; the later Spanish and Italian songs reflect this move toward " absolute music ".

Ives and the Almanacs re-recorded several of their songs to reflect the group's new stance in favor of US entry into the war.

Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller's view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.

Survivors of concentration camps report that during torture sessions or when they begged for water, they were made to sing Serbian religious nationalist songs, reworded to reflect the contemporary conflict.

Passionate, sometimes to excess, the songs reflect the landscapes of the Auvergne in lush orchestral colors and have enabled French folklore and rustic melodies to become better known.

The indie band The Go-Betweens were based out of Brisbane, and many of their songs and albums, for example Spring Hill Fair reflect the attitude of 1980's Brisbane.

Described as foxy by his accompanist his recordings reflect this in some of the unusual songs in his repertoire.

Most of this album was written during the breakup of his marriage, and the songs reflect this in lyrics and style.

Directed by Dani and featuring Luana as the ruthless agent Rosabel, the eight minute short features three Belladonna songs ; Black Swan, Foreverland, and Holy Flame which were specifically written and recorded for the script to reflect Belladonna's flavor of delivering story driven music in a theatrical atmosphere.

He saw and shared the hardship of the miners ; many of his songs reflect the sense of community that an embattled people develop.

In 2000, Halifax began a long-running advertisement campaign featuring staff singing popular songs with the words changed to reflect its financial services products.

Later when the listeners reflect on the songs, they will try to live in accordance with the lessons enunciated therein.

Some have noted that contemporary worship songs often reflect the social climate of individualism as the lyrics emphasize personal relationship with God, even within a group context.

Groups such as the Neocolours, Side A, Introvoys, The Teeth, Yano, True Faith, Passage, and Freestyle popularized songs that clearly reflect the sentimental character of OPM pop.

The Advent songs reflect the mood of staidness and reflection.

The shepherding songs reflect the actual tending of animals, the social situation of children, as well as references to ancient beliefs.

Billboard has adjusted the sales / airplay ratio many times to more accurately reflect the true popularity of songs.

Initially all troubadour verses were called simply vers, yet this soon came to be reserved for only love songs and was later replaced by canso, though the term lived on as an antique expression for the troubadours ' early works and was even employed with a more technically meaning by the last generation of troubadours ( mid-14th century ), when it was thought to derive from the Latin word verus ( truth ) and was thus used to describe moralising or didactic pieces.

In truth, a few songs sounded like solo efforts, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day We Meet Again " and Pinder's lone final contribution and lead vocal, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously as the band is depicted as doing so on the cover photo – where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all and almost out of focus ) were all high points on the album.

Most Soviet veterans would say that Vysotsky's war songs described the truth of war far more accurately than more official " patriotic " songs.

In 2008, McGuire teamed up with former member of The Byrds, John York, for a live tour called " Trippin ' the ' 60s ", which McGuire describes as "... taking the songs and the truth that was in those songs from the 1960s and bringing them into the present moment ... It's not a cover pack, it's us singing songs that we sung with a lot of our friends that aren't around anymore to sing them.

McCartney said of Pickard's Fuckwind: " This collection of poems and songs soars over the fells, screetching truth, sex, humour, anger and love.

Allan Cunningham, who forms only a humble estimate of his genius, remarks that his songs " have much softness and truth, an insinuating grace of manners, and a decorum of expression, with no small skill in the dramatic management of the stories.

" Free " has found sounds, stories, and songs about a well-known convenience store, torture, the quality of urban life, Cadillacs, firearms, the bible, interstate trucking, geriatric discomfort, big dogs, bicycle safety, alcohol consumption, driving in circles, death, organ buttons, religious dialectics, and the truth about our National Anthem.

:" All of these songs are about a paucity of truth.

In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, he was sometimes recorded on 200 songs a week, as aids in church worship in spirit and truth series.

For the recording of the third studio album, the band went to Sweden where, produced by Tihomir " Tini " Varga, the band recorded Sva čuda svijeta ( All the wonders of the world ), featuring the hit songs " Kada budu gorijeli gradovi " (" When the cities would burn "), " Istina piše na zidu " (" The truth is written on the wall "), " Mi nismo sami " (" We are not alone "), " Boje su u nama " (" The colors are inside us "), and the title track.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

Artists sometimes release the vocal tracks of their popular songs so that fans can remix them.

He would sometimes write songs with someone in mind, for instance, " I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face " from My Fair Lady was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range.

Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry, and incorporated the Bo Diddley beat in several songs.

Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

Many of their songs were not " pure " disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with ( sometimes inescapable ) disco influence or overtones.

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

A rhyme ( sometimes spelt rime ) is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

As the term is used in music criticism ( and this article ), orchestral renditions of hit rock and pop songs don't necessarily qualify as symphonic rock, though various outlets sometimes market them using that term.

Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

A diverse set of folk songs, poems and tales illustrate her as an ideal ruler, a holy woman onto whom certain attributes of pagan deities and Christian saints were sometimes projected.

Made popular in songs and bars alike, to speak of " Fingle ," as his name is pronounced in English versus " Fion MaCool " in Newfoundland Irish, is sometimes used as a stand-in for Newfoundland or its culture.

Producers would now typically carry out most or all of the various production tasks themselves, including selecting and arranging songs, overseeing sessions ( and sometimes also engineering the recordings ) and even writing the material, although it became a common practice for producers to claim a writing credit even if they did not actually contribute to the song.

The band would refuse requests for older songs in concert, and sometimes Smith would be so absorbed by the persona he projected onstage he would leave at the end in tears.

They were knowledgeable and often biased toward their favorite bands and songs, and sometimes worshipful of the famous soloists and vocalists.

Most " Crusading songs " are classified either as cansos or sirventes but sometimes separately.

Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements or prominent, looped / shifting basslines, underpinned by high and exacting production values, involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing.

Other birds ( especially non-passeriforms ) sometimes have songs to attract mates or hold territory, but these are usually simple and repetitive, lacking the variety of many oscine songs.

How he obtained his information varied: sometimes, like the oracles, he would receive visions ; other times he would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings, and so interpret them.