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 father was Leo, a droungarios of the Byzantine theme of Thessaloniki, and their mother was Maria, who may have been a Slav.

Their approach was similar to classical music ; each instrument played its own melodic line to generate a grand musical theme.

Their song " Price to Play " was the official theme song of WWE's Vengeance pay-per-view event in July 2003.

Their albums generally fall into two categories: deconstructions of Western popular music, or complex conceptual pieces, composed around a theme, theory or plot.

Their quality was largely dependent on their faithfulness to the plot or theme of the original, casting, direction, and production values.

Their first exposure on U. S. television came when a track for the then in-progress album Le Parc was used as the theme for the television program Street Hawk.

* Their song " Busy Office Rhumba " was used as the theme for the 1993 Fox television series Bakersfield P. D.

Their instrumentals, " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and " Jessica " are popular, with " Jessica " being featured as theme for both the 1977 and 2002 formats of Top Gear.

Their second single of the year, " Hanabi ", released on September 3, 2008, was used as the theme song to the Japanese drama Code Blue, in which Tomohisa Yamashita played a main role.

Their live highlight was a rendition of the theme of the British TV series Doctor Who.

Their first project, the tragédie en musique Samson, was abandoned because an opera on a religious theme by Voltaire — a notorious critic of the Church — was likely to be banned by the authorities.

Their album covers are unusual-naked women, and a naked dwarf sodomizing a rabbit covered in blood, for their 1990 album Blood Guts & Pussy-followed up a decade later, with a similar theme, this time covered in soap suds, for Come Clean.

Their brass-based connecting passage between sections from the original Dragnet television show's theme song was used as incidental music during a dramatic scene — an armed chase through the rafters of a gymnasium — near the end of Hiding Out.

Their works often deal with the theme of human fate that relates to Ohkawa's view on life ; Ohkawa believes that " fate is something you choose ", not a " mystical force manipulating your destiny " such that with determination and resolve, " you can change your fate ".

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 shows had an American Indian or Wild West theme, and employed many Native Americans as spokespeople.

Their lyrics retell Norse legends, and each of their albums has its own theme.

Their poetic works do in fact indicate a close relationship, if only as authors, with similarities in theme and composition, style and phrasing, but it is not easy to work out who was responding to whom, especially since ' publication ' was a gradual process in those days, with shared readings of drafts and circulation of private copies: " In these circumstances interrelationships between writers who habitually cross-refer and allude to one another are likely to be complex.

Their song " Two-Tone Army " is also the theme song for the Nickelodeon show KaBlam!

Their creative and immaculately clean and delicate interpretation of Evans ’ s arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie ’ s fast bop theme " Anthropology " ( 1947 ) provides a particularly noteworthy example of Thornhill ’ s style, which influenced Miles Davis ’ s recordings in 1949 for Capitol and many musicians who followed

Their first release was a contribution to the sampler 20 schäumende Stimmungshits ( rough translation: " 20 foamy party hits "), featuring a strong alcohol theme ( for example, the chorus of " Vollmilch " translates as " you drink whiskey, he drinks beer, I drink milk ").

Their second theme album ( after Spaceship Zero ).

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 ".