Sentence examples for band staples from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere there were band staples — "Babylon Sisters," "Bodhisattva," even "Aja" — handled with competent command.

The long set that followed was a fulfillment of that pledge, with band staples, old and new, mixed in with relative obscurities from the extended catalog.

This year's edition, "Get Behind the Mule: Past, Present and Future," comes with a twist: fans have been submitting set-list requests, with cover tunes alongside band staples (both classic and obscure).

On the flip was one of the period's definitive statements of outsider pride, 'I'm Not Like Everybody Else', to be racked up against other garage band staples like the Yardbirds 'You're a Better Man Than I' and the Who's 'Substitute'.

The first Cramps album, Songs the Lord Taught Us, materialised in 1980, again helmed by Chilton and featuring band staples such as Zombie Dance and I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

Over the group's 42-year history, it has authorised more than 5,000 different items of merchandise, everything from rock band staples such as T-shirts and hats, to comic books, pinball machines, credit cards, and even condoms and coffins.

Just as appealing, in more of a vintage Neil Young vein, was "L.A. County Blues," an older band staple with Mr. Jurdi singing lead.

On "Airplane" he dabbled in some flinty country filigree; on "Diner," another band staple, he smartly shifted from bulletlike to bleary.

Directed by Alan Parker, the film won four Baftas, was voted Best Irish Film of All Time in a 2005 poll, sold 12 million soundtracks and ensured that "Mustang Sally" would be a karaoke booth/wedding band staple for the rest of time.

Ms. Palmer, singing throatily at an electric keyboard, held her own not only on the band staple "Coin-Operated Boy" but also even amid the bombast of "War Pigs," the Black Sabbath screed.

By the time the band played "Tokyo," Tim Kinsella was reading off a lyric sheet, which he did throughout the rote, shouty cover of A-Ha's "Take on Me" that used to be a band staple (though not as funny as the mopey "Theme to '90210,' " which would have been a timelier, and more clever, choice).