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Keyboard player Franny Griffiths joined the line-up a year later, and the band came to prominence throughout the mid-1990s with hit singles such as \"Female of the Species\", \"Me and You Versus the World\", \"Neighbourhood\", \"Avenging Angels\" and \"The Ballad of Tom Jones\", the latter a duet with Cerys Matthews of Catatonia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough initially inspired by 1960s guitar groups such as The Kinks and The Who, which got them labelled as part of the emerging Britpop movement, Space set out to pursue a more eclectic sound from their contemporaries, incorporating electronic elements such as synthesizers and sampling and drawing from genres as diverse as hip hop, techno, post-punk, ska, lounge music, easy listening and vintage film soundtracks, the result of the differing tastes between bandmembers. 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