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=== This band provides examples of the following tropes: ===
=== This band provides examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: "I Want You", with little room for reinterpretation.
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: "I Want You", with little room for reinterpretation.
{{quote| ''Freak yourself (Shake it, shake it)''<br />
{{quote|''Freak yourself (Shake it, shake it)''
''Close the door (Shake it, shake it)''<br />
''Close the door (Shake it, shake it)''
''What you did (Shake it, shake it)''<br />
''What you did (Shake it, shake it)''
''Just hit the floor (Shake it, shake it)'' }}
''Just hit the floor (Shake it, shake it)'' }}
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: Reached #16 on the US Dance charts with "Here to Go", the band's only entrance into the US charts. While it fits with the band's sound at the time, it is certainly at odds with everything the band released before it.
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: Reached #16 on the US Dance charts with "Here to Go", the band's only entrance into the US charts. While it fits with the band's sound at the time, it is certainly at odds with everything the band released before it.
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* [[Sampling]]: Recordings of TV presenters, televangelists and policemen appeared in their music as far back as [[The Seventies]].
* [[Sampling]]: Recordings of TV presenters, televangelists and policemen appeared in their music as far back as [[The Seventies]].
** Extensively sampled [[The Outer Limits]] episode "Demon with a Glass Hand", most notably in "Yashar".
** Extensively sampled [[The Outer Limits]] episode "Demon with a Glass Hand", most notably in "Yashar".
{{quote| ''"There's 70 billion people on Earth. Where are they hiding?"''}}
{{quote|''"There's 70 billion people on Earth. Where are they hiding?"''}}
* [[Signature Song]]: "Nag Nag Nag" overall; "Sensoria" and/or "I Want You" for their EBM/[[Synth Pop]] era.
* [[Signature Song]]: "Nag Nag Nag" overall; "Sensoria" and/or "I Want You" for their EBM/[[Synth Pop]] era.
* [[Synth Pop]]: From ''The Crackdown'' through [[The Nineties]].
* [[Synth Pop]]: From ''The Crackdown'' through [[The Nineties]].