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Lyrical

Lyric poetry, poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view


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Leonidas Aretakis has himself cited a few lyrical references, amongst others some figures in the Romantic and Neo-romantic movements, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Blake, Lord Byron, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, and the sometimes dreamlike storytelling of H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges.

Atlantis Ascendant

The album's primary story and lyrical concept as written by vocalist-lyricist Byron Roberts centres on the exploits of a fictional nineteenth century British archaeologist and adventurer named Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, who has dedicated his life to the field of antediluvian anthropology and to seeking out evidence as to the true nature of mankind's origin.

Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991

CD Universe noted that Shakur's "flow and lyrical content are more reminiscent of late-1980s/early-1990s icons like Big Daddy Kane and Rakim" than of the later songs of 2Pac himself.

Beneath the Surface

CMJ (7/12/99, p. 26) - "...solid fusion of RZA-esque string play and thumping jeep beats provide an equally formidable backdrop for the Genius's ever-heady lyrical chessboxing....Surface is a family affair with impressive guest spots....Behold the first true Wu-Banger of 1999."

Camille du Gast

The ongoing scandal was newsworthy around the world, being reported in detail in New Zealand and Australia, the West Gippsland Gazette waxing lyrical about her exotic appearance, demeanour, achievements and intellect.

Cella Dwellas

In 1994, the Cella Dwellas signed to prominent hip hop label Loud Records, and released their debut single, "Land of the Lost" which showcased Ug's lyrical skills, as he laid down a verse that is still regarded as classic.

CPC Gangbangs

He also found an interest in Alastair Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, and their ideas influenced the imagery and lyrical content as well.of the band, as he incorporated .

Deb Talan

Talan's recurring lyrical motifs include celestial objects, birds, nature, and various historical figures (e.g., Marc Chagall in "Painting By Chagall," Amelia Earhart in "Thinking Amelia," and Vincent van Gogh in "Vincent").

Do You Believe in Shame?

The lyrical video for "Do You Believe In Shame?" was filmed by Chinese director Chen Kaige, who was later to direct acclaimed films such as Farewell My Concubine.

Dominique de Roux

Upon his return, he founded with several friends (including his brother Xavier de Roux, his sister Marie-Helene de Roux and Jean Thibaudeau) the mimeographed bulletin L'Herne, where he published his "Confidences to Guillaume", a chronic of lyrical cynicism addressed to his geranium.

George Horton

He wrote a lyrical visitor's guide to Athens and composed a reflective description of his stay in Argolis.

Healing Through Fire

Ben Ward said of the album: "It's not a concept album at all, but we are using the theme of the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire that followed for a lot of lyrical and musical influence. It's definitely the strongest material we have written".

Heidevolk

The lyrical themes of their music are inspired by nature, the history of Gelderland, and the history of Germanic mythology.

Henrik Hertz

His historical tragedy Valdemar Aiterdag was not so well received in 1839; but in 1845 he achieved an immense success with his lyrical drama Kong Renes Datter ("King René's Daughter"), which has been translated into almost every European language.

III Sides to Every Story

The use of Abbey Road may be perceived as yet another nod to the Beatles, besides the various lyrical references throughout the album: "Cupid's Dead" quotes a line from "A Day in the Life"; "God Isn't Dead?" quotes "Eleanor Rigby"; and "Rest in Peace" quotes John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance".

Irina Zhurina

On this stage, she performed the leading opera parts composed for high soprano (lyrical coloratura soprano), such as Antonida (A Life for the Tsar), The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), The Swan-Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Marfa (The Tsar's Bride), the Queen of Shemakha/Shemakhan Tsaritsa (The Golden Cockerel), Violetta (Verdi's La traviata) and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia).

Isaac Chueke

From 1999-2001, he was Resident Conductor at Florida Grand Opera (FGO) where he continued developing his knowledge of the lyrical repertoire, the occasion also to partner with artists such as Deborah Voigt, Renata Scotto, Emily Magee, Irina Mishura, Bliss Hebert, in new productions of Tosca, Otello, Carmen.

Jazz Liberatorz

The Jazz Liberatorz combine a mix of old and new with prominent jazz instrumentals and occasionally featuring lyrical artists such as Emanon and T.Love.

Joy Eden Harrison

Harrison says that her lyrical complexity reflects her link to her great aunt, novelist Anzia Yezierska, while her musical gifts and connection to the jazz era come from her great uncle, Milton Ager, the composer of Happy Days Are Here Again.

Jstarh

He began to take his music more seriously whilst attending high school, which lead to him performing alongside the likes of Donae'o and Ghetts at The O2's Indigo2 for Lyrical Xpressions 2008 in front of over 1500 people.

Los Tres Mosqueteros

This group is no longer together due to a fallout, causing them to go their separate ways and starting a lyrical war between MC Ceja and Lito & Polaco y Polaco.

LP Underground 11.0

A demo version of In the End, originally with its working title known as "Untitled", is featured on the album as well, only titled as "In the End (Demo)", just before the single version itself with a slight change of lyrics in the version before the final version and its lyrical text became different.

Manru

Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig (English translation by H. E. Krehbiel), based on the novel A Hut Behind the Village (1843) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Marie Drake

Prior to that, a lyrical adaptation of "Maryland, My Maryland", written by a Juneau high school student during the early years of the 20th century, had been recognized by the Pioneers of Alaska as Alaska's official song, but had not received any such recognition by a governmental body.

Mc Kresha

He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who rose to fame after releasing "Lyrical Warfare" and "Lej Flleshat", both of which has had over two million views on YouTube.

Me and The Beast

“ME AND THE BEAST” – They’re from London but this left field lyrical electro pop has a Björk like eccentricity, Kate Bush enigmatics in the vocals, and even a touch of the Abbas in the music….

Michel Rateau

While teaching full-time, he had “Offrande Lyrique” (Lyrical offering) for violin and orchestra played in concert at the Salle Gaveau in Paris in 1984 by l'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (The Paris orchestral group) conducted by Jean-Pierre Wallez with Gaëtane Prouvost as a solo violin.

Myths of the Near Future

The Mercury Prize-winning band Klaxons named their debut album after the book, and have been quoted as saying they are fans of Ballard's work, reflected in their science fiction and futuristic lyrical content.

Nitschmann

Anna Nitschmann (1715–1760), a Moravian Brethren missionary (Missionarin), lyrical poet, and wife of Nikolaus von Zinzendorf

Ode to the West Wind

It was published in 1820 (see 1820 in poetry) by Charles and James Ollier in London as part of the Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems collection.

Paul-Louis Couchoud

Couchoud also studied and translated Japanese Haijin (Yosa Buson in particular) in Les Épigrammes lyriques du Japon (Lyrical Epigrams of Japan, 1906).

Preeta Samarasan

Evening Is the Whole Day focuses on the dark secrets of an affluent Malaysian Indian family (also living in Ipoh), and has been praised for its lyrical, inventive language, often using untranslated Tamil words, and using aspects of Bahasa syntax, such as reduplicatives as intensifiers.

Remembering Never

Though the band's early recordings focused on more typical subjects such as loss and love, vocalist Pete Kowalsky decided to change the lyrical focus of the band in time for their second full-length, Women and Children Die First.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Sailing on the Seven Seas

The song pays homage to two rock groups: firstly to The Velvet Underground, with the song "Sister Ray" being directly referenced (OMD had previously covered "I'm Waiting for the Man" as a B-side to 1980 single "Messages"); and secondly to The Who, with the line "people try to drag us down" being near-identical in melody and lyrical content to the opening line of "My Generation".

Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

In James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll, Pollard calls this album his favorite lyrical album citing the lyrics for "Pendulum" as "my favorite lyrics I've ever written."

Samina Malik

Samina Malik, the self-described Lyrical Terrorist, was the first woman to be convicted under the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act.

Satan's Little Helpers

Satan's Little Helpers features the bands trademark theme of Satanism, sex and drugs the lyrical concept also focuses on the crimes of infamous murderers, such as Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jack The Ripper, and Sean Sellers.

Saviour Machine

Most of the lyrical content of the Legend series is based on the Book of Revelation and other Biblical prophecy.

Summer/Fever

The recording of the album took place in London, England, at Strongroom Recording Studio, and the songs, mostly written by Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong, contain Britpop elements and lyrical references to the supernatural, Faust, Madame Butterfly, Don Quixote and the Greek god Dionysus, the subject of three brief prose passages between tracks, written in English by band manager Will Lin and recited by studio engineer Dan McKinna.

Tea Leaf Green

The album is framed by "The Garden (Parts I and II)," components of an evolving song cycle spread over multiple albums, and finds Garrod entrenched in a lyrical romanticism touching on the folk spirit of Woody Guthrie and an American, specifically Californian, mythology charted by authors such as John Steinbeck.

The F-Ups

The band drew lyrical influences from such experiences as laziness ("Lazy Generation", "I Don't Know"), rebellion against parents ("Look At Your Son Now", "Screw You") and even a Jerry Springer episode ("Crack Ho").

Timeline of Rambhadracharya

:Wrote a Sanskrit lyrical epic poem Gītarāmāyaṇam, a Awadhi lyrical poem Avadha Kai Ajoriyā and a Sanskrit minor poem Śrīsītāsudhānidhiḥ.

Two Grey Rooms

Lyrical inspiration escaped the songwriter until 1989, when she encountered the story of New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who, amid the repression of Germany’s antigay Paragraph 175 laws, was left broken-hearted by a male lover in his youth.

Vasilije Mokranjac

Since the early 1970s Mokranjac has gradually transformed his style and achieved a synthesis of all compositional procedures that he had used in earlier decades with a new, refined, lyrical sound world, embroidered with elements of neo-impressionism and the New Simplicity.

W. W. Fosdick

Fosdick’s lyrical poetry such as Ariel, The Maize The Catawba,The Thrush, The Pawpaw, Light and Night, and Lute and Love often reflected his Mid-Western roots and at times were put to music by composers like Poulton and William Vincent.

Wacs lyrical

Wacs Lyrical has hosted various events, such as a 3 km charity run on Dean's Yard, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey in aid of WaterAid.


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