Their music includes spoken word pieces and elements of punk, hip hop, rock, funk, jazz, and indigenous music, among others.

Their studies expanded to include Native American music, but still treated folk music as a historical item preserved in isolated societies.

Their producer was Franco Godi, who also produced the music for the Signor Rossi animated series.

Their most common shared activity is watching music videos, which they tend to judge by deeming them " cool ," or by claiming, " This sucks!

Their growing interest in folk music coincided with a contemporary social interest in traditional national culture.

Their music was fast, unpolished in production and with raspy or grunted vocals.

Their emphasis on accessibility brought huge successes in opera, and in vocal music more widely: songs, oratorios, and choruses.

Their eclectic music encompassed their trademark loud and fast hardcore, but also spaghetti western, psychedelic, garage rock and rockabilly.

Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary.

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 first two music videos, " Secret Agent Man " and " Jocko Homo " featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, the hometown of most members.

Their studies expanded to include Native American music, but still treated folk music as a historical item preserved in isolated societies.

Their greatest contribution was in promoting punk music, clothing and lifestyle in their local communities.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

Their style was sometimes referred to as " noisecore " or " noisegrind ", described by Giulio of Cripple Bastards as " the most anti-musical and nihilistic face of extreme music at that time.

Their music has been covered by numerous Punk and alternative bands since the 1970s.

Their untitled fourth album, which features the track " Stairway to Heaven ", is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and it cemented the status of the group as " superstars ".

Their emphasis on the sense of dynamics and ensemble arrangement has been seen as producing an individualistic style that transcends any single music genre.

Their significance for the history of violin playing and the music of the Romantic era, Stiftung Zentralstelle der Studentenschaft der Universität Zürich, Zurich, 1997

Their 2001 release Get Ready largely departed from their more electronic style and focused on the more guitar oriented music.

Their music mixes rock with dance music, as can be seen on signature tracks such as " True Faith " and " Temptation ".

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 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.