Their lyrics, by Roy Alfred ( who later co-wrote the 1955 hit "( The ) Rock and Roll Waltz "), were mildly sexually suggestive, and one teenager from Philadelphia said " That Hucklebuck was a very nasty dance ".

Their early music was also characterised by the growling vocals and sometimes misanthropic lyrics of both Jean-Jacques Burnel and Hugh Cornwell.

Their lyrics tended to be straight-out poetry ; comparisons to Charles Bukowski and Raymond Chandler were made from the start.

Their lyrics often gave evidence of band's humor and thematically focus on personal experiences and sexual innuendos.

Their first album, Let Them Eat Bingo, included the number one single " Dub Be Good to Me ", which caused a legal dispute revolving around allegations of infringement of copyright through the liberal use of unauthorised samples: the bassline was a note-for-note lift from " The Guns of Brixton " by The Clash and the lyrics borrowed heavily from " Just Be Good to Me " by The S. O. S.

Their next album, 13 ( 1999 ) saw the band members experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn.

Their lyrics focus on pain and personal alienation rather than traditional heavy metal themes.

Their early music was typified by slow and grinding guitar noise, and pounding drums, punctuated by Gira's morbid and violent lyrics ( inspired by Jean Genet and the Marquis de Sade ), usually barked or shouted.

Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian / Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

Lengthy sleeve notes are included with the albums Black Seeds of Vengeance, In Their Darkened Shrines, Annihilation of the Wicked and Those Whom the Gods Detest, explaining the inspiration or source for the lyrics of each song.

Their music is similar to early symphonic progressive rock groups such as Yes, marked by sharp dynamic changes, polyrhythmics, heavy bass, vocal harmonies, abstract and occasionally nonsensical lyrics, and extended song lengths.

Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with sexual subjects and contain many puns and innuendos.

Their lyrics range from the personal to the political, in some of the latter cases attacking Eurocentrism and racism in America.

Their debut single "( We Don't Need This ) Fascist Groove Thang " attracted some attention and, due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read ( who is a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party ), and neither this nor any other of the four singles taken from the band's debut album Penthouse and Pavement managed to reach the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.

Their most notable song " Death and the Maiden " features in its lyrics Paul Verlaine, the shooting of Rimbaud, and repeats the word " Verlaine " numerous times.

Their music emphasized boogie rhythms and fast guitar leads with lyrics extolling the values, aspirations-and excesses-of Southern working-class young adults, not unlike the outlaw country movement.

Their songwriting efforts had Pomus write the lyrics and Shuman the melody, although quite often they worked on both.

Their lyrics often relate to matters of social responsibility.

Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery and critical social lyrics about " culture, alienation, boredom and despair " soon gained them a loyal following and cult status.

Their guitar-driven sound, inspired by the Soukous guitarist Dr. Nico, combined highly melodic rumba with lyrics sung in Swahili.

Their song lyrics are written in the dialect of the Hallingdal area, and has a large description that reflect Norwegian citizens, and their surrounding life.

Their usual tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics remain intact, but the album's overall sound is quite different from any of their others.

Their MySpace page first described the project as " a lushly orchestrated mix of eclectic songwriting that is sure to conjure up memories of 1997's When the Red King Comes " and stressed its " more mature approach to arrangements, lyrics, and instrumentation.

Their lyrics are informed by a complete disregard for societal norms.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

Their commitments are, for the most part, couched in a familiar idiom.

Their conclusions concerning the untrustworthiness of the West Saxon annals, the confused chronology of Bede, the unreliability of the early positions of the Anglo-Saxon genealogies and the mythological elements contained in Nennius are now mostly accepted.

Their privations are almost beyond endurance.

Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, Mo., says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best suited to defeat the Red onslaught.

Their United States tax returns are due April 16, 1962.

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

Their effects are only superficially startling.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.

Their ribs are usually short and may be fused to the vertebrae.

Their skulls are mostly broad and short and are often incompletely ossified.

Their lungs are functional early but the larvae don't make as much use of them as do tadpoles.

Their gills are never covered by gill sacs and are reabsorbed just before the animals leave the water.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.