The year 1997 also saw the release of the band's sophomore album, Much Afraid, which was produced by Stephen Lipson.

For their next album, Too Much Too Soon, the quintet hired producer George " Shadow " Morton, whose productions for the Shangri-Las and other girl-groups in the mid-1960s had been among the band's favorites.

Much of the song-writing on this LP was much more sensitive than the band's earlier records.

Much of the band's sound was created by synthesized orchestration, and the music was increasingly written out rather than improvised.

Much of the album anticipates the directions taken by Dio in his eponymous solo band's next two records, Strange Highways ( 1994 ) and Angry Machines ( 1996 ).

Much of the band's recent material, however, sees a heavier and more down-tuned style, featuring a more distinct bass line and a higher mixing of the guitars within the songs.

The band's second album, You Could Have It So Much Better ( 2005 ), was a platinum-selling album in the United Kingdom and gold-selling in the United States.

Heralded as a return to form, So Much Staying Alive And Lovelessness became the band's last on Jade Tree.

" Much of the band's provocative style emerged from their origins as street performers, where in order to get people's attention they resorted to outrageous or theatrical tactics — the group would sometimes walk into the street and stop traffic to get noticed.

Much of the dispute centered on " You Know You're Right ", a song recorded in January 1994 during the band's final studio session.

Much of the band's music is characterized by Lytle's analog synthesizer and the fuzzy guitar, bass, and drums of the rest of the band.

Much of Garage Mahal was written on the road, while touring, and as such had a different sound from the band's prior work.

The song " Too Much Fun " would be the band's last song in the early shoegazing style.

Much credit is generally given to producer Bob Ezrin, protégé of record giant Jack Richardson, for cleaning up the band's sound with fresh ideas and making it more accessible, most notably on the track, " I'm Eighteen ".

Much later, Chadwick was to regard signing with Fontana as the worst mistake in the band's career.

Much like The Time, the band's material was composed nearly entirely by Prince, with the exception of " River Run Dry ," which was written by Revolution drummer Bobby Z.

Much to the band's dismay, the album was leaked through peer-to-peer file sharing about a month prior to its official release.

Much like the band's previous Zoo TV Tour, PopMart was elaborately-staged and featured a lavish stage design, complete with a wide LED screen, a-high golden arch, and a large mirror-ball lemon.

Much like the Zoo TV tour, the PopMart tour saw the band embrace an image and performances that were intentionally ironic and self-mocking, deviating from the band's previously earnest stage performances from the 1980s ; the band performed in costumes that, along with the PopMart stage design, poked fun at the themes of consumerism and pop culture.

" Too Much Heaven " is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the " Music for UNICEF " fund.

The band's name is taken from a Brian Eno song, " Burning Airlines Give You So Much More " from his 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain ( By Strategy ).

It is " hinted " that the band's full name stands for " Screw Shareholder Value-Not So Much A Band As Another Opportunity To Waste Money On Drugs And Ammunition courtesy Of The Idiots At Time Warner ".

Much like the band's next single " Chemical World ", the CD1 contained a big Compac-Plus box for both CD1 and CD2 to go in, but CD2 was sold separately.

Much of the early development of purification methods is described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia.

Much of Afghanistan's livestock was removed from the country by early waves of refugees who fled to neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.

Much of it is permanent marsh, but some parts dry out in early winter, and other parts become marshland only in years of great flood.

Much of the scholarly work concerning the references to Jesus in Josephus has thus concentrated on close textual analysis of the Josephan corpus to determine the degree to which the language, as preserved in both early Christian quotations and the later transmissions, should be considered authentic.

Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce, but after 1939 he was given resources by the Nazi German government.

Much of the area came under European domination quite early.

Much of his early work put Mazda back into profitability and laid the foundations for future success.

Much current research ( in the early 21st century ) on optical microscope techniques is focused on development of superresolution analysis of fluorescently labeled samples.

Much early commercial radio was completely freeform ; this changed drastically with the payola scandals of the 1950s.

Much like MADtv's early years, this series also features appearances by " Spy vs. Spy " and Don Martin cartoons.

Much suggests she was early on an alcoholic and took little interest in the upbringing of the children.

Much of the early work leading up to the discovery of the ubiquitin proteasome system occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the Technion in the laboratory of Avram Hershko, where Aaron Ciechanover worked as a graduate student.

Much of the early theoretical and applied work in psychometrics was undertaken in an attempt to measure intelligence.

Much of this success in defense lay in the world's first use of gunpowder ( i. e. with early flamethrowers, grenades, firearms, cannons, and land mines ) to fight back against the Khitans, the Tanguts, the Jurchens, and then the Mongols.

The Economist described the sentiments, stating that " Much as Adolf Hitler won early praise for galvanising German industry, ending mass unemployment and building autobahns, Saddam earned admiration abroad for his deeds.

Much later, the European colonial powers threatened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but Thailand survived as the only Southeast Asian state to avoid European colonial rule because the French and the English decided it would be a neutral territory to avoid conflicts between their colonies.

Much of the early development work on naval reactors was done at the Naval Reactor Facility on the campus of the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL, previously INEL ).

Much of PARC's early success in the computer field was under the leadership of its Computer Science Laboratory manager Bob Taylor, who guided the lab as associate manager from 1970 – 77 and as manager 1977 – 83.

Much of X's early material had a rockabilly edge.

Much of Chatterton, however, was recorded by the Gramophone Company ( later HMV ) as early as 1908, and remastered on CD almost 100 years later by Marston Records.

Much of the material written about her was aimed at children, and tended to focus on her childhood and early career.

The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).

Much of his early life was portrayed in his autobiographical book, America America, which he made into a film in 1963.