" According to Allmusic, " Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, partying, and other indulgences, probably represented the youthful, zany side of rock & roll, as well as its self-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet.

According to Allmusic, Jones " has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director.

According to Allmusic, Demartini was heavily influenced by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick as a teenager.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.

According to Allmusic, James Brown was critical, through " the gospel-impassioned fury of his vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats ", in " two revolutions in black American music.

According to Allmusic, " At the dawn of the hip-hop era, all rap was East Coast rap.

According to Allmusic editor Steve Huey, the success of his 1994 debut album Ready to Die " reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age " and " turned the Notorious B. I. G.

According to Stewart Mason of Allmusic, the " increasingly melodic " style of Swedish death metal combines the post-hardcore aggression and guttural vocals of black metal with melodic and technically proficient guitar lines.

According to Allmusic, the debut album is a relatively immature, but original, release.

According to Allmusic, Mullen is one of the best vocalists in death metal.

According to Allmusic, " The songs are rendered in a folk / country acoustic minimalism that is, in a word, enchanting.

According to Sandra Brennan at Allmusic, " The Maytals were key figures in reggae music.

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According to Stewart Mason, writing for Allmusic, " band's muscular blend of Joy Division's atmospherics and the Gang of Four's rattling momentum, with Benjamin Bossi's splattering free jazz saxophone coloring everything, made Romeo Void one of the strongest of the American post-punk bands.

According to the website Allmusic, on In Rape Fantasy And Terror Sex We Trust " Joan of Arc ... once more surpassed themselves as artists ".

According to Alexey Eremenko of Allmusic, Luna Sea's sound is " firmly based in ' 80s hard rock, with a versatile progressive approach to songwriting, and its softer side, displayed later on in the group's career, proved equally strong.

According to Allmusic, the band " sought to provide a positive alternative to traditional death metal acts such as Carcass, Death, and Obituary.

According to Allmusic, " most rap-metal bands during the mid-to late ' 90s blended an ultra-aggressive, testosterone-heavy theatricality with either juvenile humor or an introspective angst learned through alternative metal ".

According to William York of Allmusic, " Morningrise is, as far as the metal scale goes, possibly their least heavy album ".

According to Allmusic, who awarded the album 4. 5 / 5 stars, it had, by the 1990s, sold in excess of 18 million copies worldwide.

According to Allmusic music journalist Kim Summers, Rydell, whose interest in show business began at the age of four years, " is one of the most sought-after nightclub and concert acts in the US.

According to Steve Huey of Allmusic, " Singles helped crystallize the idea of the ' Seattle scene ' in the mainstream public's mind, and it was also one of the first big-selling ' 90s movie soundtracks ( it went platinum and reached the Top Ten ) to feature largely new work from contemporary artists ... it's a milestone in the breakthrough of alternative rock into mainstream popular culture, neatly and effectively packaging the Seattle phenomenon for the wider national consciousness.

According to Allmusic he is one of reggae's most durable and soulful singers, with a steady career that started in the 1960s, when he was just seven years old.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

According to the news item, eleven tracks had already been written for the new album, with more to come.

According to an interview in Viva, Milford recorded an album Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts and a single, " Help is on the Way, Rozea ".

According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

According to the RIAA, Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time, having been certified as quadruple platinum ( 4 million copies sold ).

According to the band's official website, this was intended as part of a tongue-in-cheek album called Nirvana Sings Nirvana that was aborted when Cobain died.

According to Peter Hook, the band wrote and recorded enough material during the sessions for this album to release a follow-up in the near future, but it has yet to materialise.

According to the band, the entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album.

Following the success of The Stranglers ' previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next, The Gospel According to The Meninblack, a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to Nielsen Soundscan, by 2009 CDs accounted for 79 percent of album sales, with 20 percent coming from digital, representing both a 10 percent drop and gain for both formats in 2 years.

According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, The Brighton Port Authority ( BPA ).

According to Stewart the band were supposed to go to Muscle Shoals as the backing band for Mayhan's Atlantic Records solo album Moments ( 1970 ) but they were ultimately replaced.

According to guitarist James " Munky " Shaffer, Korn has begun writing new material for their next album.

According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to Matthew O ’ Callaghan who directed the short, the audio comes from a 1950s recording for a children's album.

* Year Zero ( 2007 ): According to the information discovered from the viral marketing campaign for the concept album by Nine Inch Nails, its story takes place in 2022 A. D., which in America is referred to as 0000 B. A.

According to Wetton's website in late November 2009: " Good news is that the new album is starting to leap, rather than creep ( or sleep ) in terms of progress.

According to the For You album notes, Prince produced, arranged, composed and played all 27 instruments on the recording.

According to Sting, " There will be no new album, no big new tour, once we're done with our reunion tour, that's it for the Police ".

According to Smith, the album was the third of a trilogy along with Pornography and Disintegration.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.