Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

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

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 record was produced by Bob Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh ; Mark also co-wrote some of the songs.

Stipe sings backing vocals on Smith's songs " Last Call " and " Glitter in Their Eyes.

Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers, contained stylistically unprecedented songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, and love of life and the USA.

Their atypical instrumentation, along with their songs which featured unusual subject matter and clever wordplay, soon attracted a strong local following.

Their " balls-to-the-wall hardcore punk attempt ", their first EP Stink, containing " Kids Don't Follow " and seven other songs, was released in June 1982, six months after the Chicago show.

Their second album Go 2, released later in 1978, featured a typewriter-text cover ( designed by Hipgnosis ) and early pressings were accompanied by a bonus disc Go +, a collection of dub mixes of songs from the album.

Their sound, and their broad repertoire of traditional folk material and topical songs inspired other groups such as the Kingston Trio, the Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, and the " collegiate folk " groups such as The Brothers Four, The Four Freshmen, The Four Preps, and The Highwaymen.

Their first album together, 1975's Fleetwood Mac, had several hit songs, with Christine's " Over My Head " and " Say You Love Me ", both reaching Billboard's top-20 singles chart.

Their best known songs to date are " Brain Collapses ", " Unveiling the Secret ", " Eternal ", " Misery ", " Tears ", " Sanctuary ", " Gods and Monsters ", " 15 Minutes ", and a remake of the famous Q Lazzarus song " Goodbye Horses " made popular by the movie The Silence of the Lambs ; as well as their cover version of Soft Cell's " Sex Dwarf ".

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, " Honky Tonk Women " by The Rolling Stones, " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes " by George Jones, " Daisy Jane " by America, " Life Is a Highway " by Tom Cochrane, " Black Velvet " by Alannah Myles, " Cities " by Talking Heads, " Crazed Country Rebel " by Hank Williams III, " Pride ( In the Name of Love )" by U2, " M. E. M. P. H. I. S.

Their collaboration produced many well-known songs, including " Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin '", " People Will Say We're in Love ", " Oklahoma!

Their single Monsters from Echolalia came 2nd in the Triple J Hottest 100 songs of 2001.

Their early songs were used in many commercials without permission from The Beatles.

Their repertoire consisted mostly of songs such as " April Showers ," " 96 Tears ," " Dancing On The Ceiling ," and Frank Sinatra songs.

Their B Sides & Rarities compilation includes cover songs from favorite artists, ranging from metal, hard rock ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) and post-hardcore ( Helmet and Jawbox ), to gothic rock, art rock and new wave ( Duran Duran, Cocteau Twins and The Cure ), R & B ( Sade Adu ) and hip hop ( a collaboration with B-Real of Cypress Hill ).

Their songs often deal with life in New York City, as well as urban life in general.

Their songs are often gritty or existentialist in nature, but are just as often humorous or satirical.

Their two Mercury albums contain their covers of songs originally performed by Bo Diddley, The Drells, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Coasters and the Jay Hawks.

Their allegations stemmed from Escalante's licensing of some of the band's early-1980s songs for use in films and commercials.

Their first mini album " Ladiatia " includes six songs.

Their stems are typically flattened, almost leaf-like in appearance, with fewer or even no spines, like the well known Christmas cactus or Thanksgiving cactus ( in the genus Schlumbergera ).

Their stems are typically flattened, almost leaf-like in appearance, with fewer or even no spines.

Their appearance shows little structure and they typically have relatively little interstellar matter.

Their successors both in Rome and in Constantinople adhered to this tradition in form if not in essence, and even the office of German Holy Roman Emperor remained typically elective rather than hereditary-up to its abolition in the Napoleonic Wars, 2314 years later.

Their hair is typically reddish-brown, instead of the brown or black hair typical of chimpanzees and gorillas.

Their nests are typically spherical and made of shredded material, including sticks, leaves, other vegetation, and cloth.

Their system typically used Walter HWK 500 Starthilfe (" start-help ") rocket engines driven by chemical decomposition of " T-Stoff ", essentially almost pure hydrogen peroxide.

Their periods range from several days to several weeks, and their amplitudes of variation are typically of the order of 0. 1 magnitudes ( 10 % change in luminosity ).

Their shell, or " test ", is round and spiny, typically from across.

Their speed is typically less than 10 cm / s, but can reach 60 – 70 cm / s for 15 – 20 m / s winds.

Their width-to-depth ratio is typically large, appearing wedge-shaped in the inner part and broadening and deepening seaward.

Their role is to “ socialise ” the College ’ s students by offering one-to-one conversation classes to enhance fluency in spoken English and to introduce them to various aspects of British society, typically through their own cultural and sporting interest groups.

Their civil jurisdiction is also intermediate, typically being for civil disputes where the amount claimed is greater than a few tens of thousands of dollars but less than a few hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Their small size ( typically 165 to 200 mm ) requires considerable cone excursion to reproduce bass effectively, but the short voice coils required for reasonable high frequency performance can only move over a limited range.

Their winter residence was a teepee made of about 8 buffalo hides sewn together with deer sinew, typically about 12 feet ( 4 m ) high and 10 to 12 feet ( 3 to 4 m ) in diameter, with a fire in the middle to keep the temperature inside the dwelling tolerable even in the coldest weather.

Their caps are typically yellow-brown, somewhat sticky to touch when moist, and, depending on age, may range in shape from conical to convex to depressed in the center.

Their typically loose, moist lips are said to assist in trapping scent particles.

Their unique gifts, however, were typically their unusual solidity and strength.

Their diet typically consists of small crabs and shrimps, but they may also feed on fish if they can catch them.

Their highpoint was a clean sweep of the podium places in 1976 in an event where only 20 percent of the starters typically reached the finish.

Their plumage is typically dull grey or brown, although some species have white markings and the Long-tailed Tit has some pinkish colour.

Their most unusual feature for birds classed as waders is that they typically hunt their insect prey on the wing like swallows, although they can also feed on the ground.

Their resistance is much higher, typically megohms, so they don't " load " the tuned circuit ; increasing the selectivity of the receiver.

Their working traffic models typically use a combination of macro -, micro-and mesoscopic features, and may add matrix entropy effects, by " platooning " groups of vehicles and by randomising the flow patterns within individual segments of the network.