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 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 lyrics are sung exclusively in Swedish instead of the Finnish language " apparently because this language was better to evoke the trollish spirit ", even though the real reason for this lies in the band's original vocalist belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority.

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

Their larvae feed on glandular secretions and develop within the female's oviduct, often for long periods.

Their actions sometimes have extreme consequences, but often for others, for which they themselves show no remorse whatsoever.

Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.

Their research is often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location.

Their classification is divided into the small and large rank cases, where the rank is the largest rank of an odd abelian subgroup normalizing a nontrivial 2-subgroup, which is often ( but not always ) the same as the rank of a Cartan subalgebra when the group is a group of Lie type in characteristic 2.

Their leaders are theologians, and they are often social ministries affiliated to big churches.

Their lives were often much more strict than their brothers ' lives.

Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists.

Their paper is often credited with reviving the interest in evolutionary linguistics.

Their work often involves measuring locations, collecting information for the Production Designer.

Their reeds are often larger, and the enclosing " horn " gives them a different timbre, so that they often function in place of a brass section.

Their association to “ daydreaming ” was often going blank rather than vividly recalled fantasies.

Their sophisticated hunting techniques and vocal behaviors, which are often specific to a particular group and passed across generations, have been described as manifestations of culture.

Their influence in territorial elections was often bolstered by resident Missourians who crossed into Kansas solely for the purpose of voting in such ballots.

Their Me-262's jets often carried R4M rockets, and other types of " bomber destroyer " aircraft had unguided rockets as well.

Their color, shape, size, attachment, ornamentation, and reaction to chemical tests often can be the crux of an identification.

Their primary role was assisting the army with fortification duties and digging anti-tank ditches, but would as the shortage of manpower became severe be used as front line infantry, most often in urban settings.

Their tracks later often formed the first roads.

Their top priority is PKU, as it has become increasingly common, and sufferers often bear children who will be carriers of the recessive gene, and may themselves live past the age of sixty.

Their striking black-and-white plumage is often likened to a tuxedo suit.

Their motivation tends to be situated in accusations of apostasy or heresy in the parent denomination ; they are often decrying liberal trends in denominational development and advocating a return to true religion.

Their uniforms tend to fit rather loosely, and often feature large phaser holsters that allow the entire weapon to be ' dropped in ', hiding most of it from view.

Their use on public streets is allowed in most countries, but often with various restrictions.