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 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 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 cost is not beyond the hopes of the American pocketbook, the range being about $150 to $1,000, depending on size.

Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme, as with checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, as with Cluedo.

Their range covers the southeastern quadrant of the United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all but westernmost Texas.

Their vocal range was higher than that of the uncastrated adult male ( see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, sopranist, countertenor and contralto ).

Their forward voltage drop at forward currents of about 1 mA is in the range 0. 15 V to 0. 45 V, which makes them useful in voltage clamping applications and prevention of transistor saturation.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

Their legs are also short, considerably shorter when compared to a small tiger or lion in a similar weight range, but are thick and powerful.

Their high yield converts into superior energy resolution ; moreover, the light output is very stable and quite high over a very wide range of temperatures, making it particularly attractive for high temperature applications.

Their range is essentially limited to southern Kenya and eastern Tanzania and Ethiopia and parts of Southern Somalia.

Their range and impact force made them effective weapons against armored warriors on horseback, because they could penetrate armor.

Their greater range was also considered to be of little practical use, since the smoke from black powder quickly obscured the battlefield and made it almost impossible to target the enemy from a distance.

Their size can range anywhere from in length and 0. 4 kg in weight to and more than 2 kg.

Their range extends from the northwestern part of South Africa through the Kalahari desert into Namibia and Botswana.

Their curricula include a wide range of subjects that should deliver a broad general knowledge.

Their historical range in Bangladesh, Siberia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China, and southeast Asia, including three Indonesian islands is severely diminished today.

Their range of approaches, from Danger's minimally electrified acoustic / electric Altra line to Eric Jensen's solid-body brace-mounted design, have met with varying degrees of ergonomic and musical success.

Their form can range from simple implements such as clubs to complicated modern implementations such as intercontinental ballistic missiles and biological weapons.

Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range.

Their fossil range dates back to the Early Cambrian.

The evolution of the language and its changing level of acceptance means that older users tend to rely on finger spelling while younger ones make use of a wider range of gestures .< ref > Sign Language: The Study of Deaf People and Their Language </ span > J. G. Kyle, B. Woll, G. Pullen, F. Maddix, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Their historical range roughly comprised a triangle between the Great Bear Lake in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo León, and east along the western boundary of the Appalachian Mountains.

A reporter wrote the following: " Their square pianos are characterized by great power of tone, a depth and richness in the bass, a full mellowness in the middle register and brilliant purity in the treble, making a scale perfectly equal and singularly melodious throughout its entire range.

Their values range from 50 to 5, 000 minutes ; the 50 minute cards have no validity and the 75 minute vouchers are valid for only a month, but the 5, 000 minute cards stay valid for two years.

Their historic range is believed to correspond to that of seagrasses from the Potamogetonaceae and Hydrocharitaceae families.