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

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

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

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries ( LDCs ).

Their common feature is the incorporation of more or less complex combinations of spices and / or herbs, usually ( but not invariably ) including fresh or dried hot chillies.

Their temperature is about 5000 – 8000 K, and so they are usually considered as chromospheric features.

Their pins were usually shaped to suggest a branch of service and engraved with the soldier's name and unit.

Their disadvantage lies in the fact that the barrels of a double-barreled shotgun, whether O / U or SxS, are not parallel, but, slightly angled so that shots from the barrels converge, usually at " 40 yards out ".

Their number is usually left indeterminate.

Their numbers are usually well known to the road users, as they appear ( written in black digits on a yellow rectangle with black border ) on direction traffic signs and in street maps.

Their main food was fish, usually in length and weighing, but occasionally their prey was up to half the bird's own length.

Their meaning is usually just a sum of their constituent parts.

Their antibody titer is usually similar to that of MG, but both the symptoms and the titer disappear when drug administration is discontinued.

Their genome is usually a single loop of DNA, although they can also harbor small pieces of DNA called plasmids.

The Rolling Stones responded to Sgt Pepper later in the year with Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Pink Floyd produced what is usually seen as their best psychedelic work The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Their function in living organisms is usually either structure-or storage-related.

Their eye color is usually dark-brown.

Their distances are usually shorter than the men's, but not in inline skating, where women skate the same program as the men in World Championships.

Their moist skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water, or under some protection ( e. g., moist ground ), often in a wetland.

Their members are usually required to follow and believe in the particular religious tradition that established the utopia.

Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.

Their structure is not visible to other BGP routers, although they usually can be interrogated with management commands on the local router.

Their grade of organization is considered to be of the ' mollusc-annelid-sipunculid ' level, consistent with a Lophotrochozoan affinity, and comparison is usually drawn with the molluscs or sipunculids.

Their steam cavities are usually filled with calcite, but sometimes with quartz.

Their full names ( and the initials usually used to denote each one ) are shown below.

Their body weight is usually similar to ( or heavier than ) fashion models, but they have a lower body fat percentage owing to increased muscle mass and reduced fat mass.