The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

" Guitarist Richard Thompson has openly acknowledged the album's influence on Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and journalist John Harris has suggested that The Band's debut also influenced the spirit of The Beatles ' back-to-basics album Let It Be as well as The Rolling Stones ' string of roots-infused albums that began with Beggars Banquet.

The group also released a new song after the album's release called " We About Chix ", the video can be seen on YouTube.

Many fans were reminded of the band's 1970s sound largely because of Khoroshev's classically oriented approach, though White also brought in world music influences with Latinesque arrangements, and with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch contributing to the album's textures.

Metal Rhythms sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles ( the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes ).

Among the album's twelve tracks was also a posthumous duet with Tupac Shakur that was assembled from the large cache of unreleased recordings done prior to his murder in 1996.

Her streak of five consecutive gold Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album's first single, " Something Better to Do ", stopped at No. 13 ( also No. 19 Country and No. 1 AC ).

Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge, suggested by the bedsit squalour on the album's cover.

The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, " to create ," in Hamilton's words, " the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

Lights of Madrid also contains a PDF with guitar tabliature for the album's music.

Keaggy also toured in support of the album's anniversary with a band that featured Glass Harp drummer John Sferra.

The album Blue on Blue was released by Nettwerk Records under Nash's own imprint, One Son Records and the album's official release date was August 15, 2006, she also released a Christmas EP Wishing For This on 14 November 2006.

Worrell also co-produced Fred Schneider's 1984 solo album Fred Schneider & the Shake Society, and played keyboards and synthesizers on some of the album's tracks.

Her side project's name ( Monade ) and its first album's title ( Socialisme ou Barbarie ) are also references to the work of Castoriadis.

The album's title song also charted in the US, at No. 58.

Tommy Hall's sleeve-notes for the album, which advocated chemical agents ( such as LSD ) as a gateway to a higher, ' non-Aristotelian ' state of consciousness, has also contributed to the album's legendary status.

The band also released a preview of " Now ", the album's first track.

Freese did play on three of the album's tracks, and both his brother Jason Freese and father Stan Freese also appeared playing horns.

Lisher's distinctive psychedelic lead guitar playing is arguably the album's most distinctive instrumental feature, although the band's use of violin also has a great influence on the sound of the record.

Having completed an album's worth of songs, Ellefsen commented at how they were " atmospheric and eerie " and also " very dark " while " some of it actually is semi-song structured, with some melody and sense to it.

The album's second single, " Cantspeak ", was also a staple in MTV's rotation, but unlike " Mother " failed to appear on the Billboard Hot 100.

Shear collaborated with Matthew Sweet on the album's title track ; it also featured " The Other End ( of the Telescope )", a collaboration between Mann and Elvis Costello on which Costello provides a guest vocal.

On their 1977 album Ra, American progressive rock group Utopia also adapted " Mountaintop / Sunrise ," in a rock arrangement, as the introduction to the album's opening song, " Communion With The Sun.

While the album's liner notes expressly state " All songs written by Glenn Danzig ", the song " The Hunter " was written by Booker T. & the M. G.

Most explanations since the album's release seem to lean towards the latter ; when Canibus ' new official website, MicClub. net, appeared online towards the end of 2002, the summary of C True Hollywood Stories in the " Merchandise " section called it " an introspective look into the ultimate fan " Stan's " take on the current state of hip hop ".

Because of the incomplete state of the band at the time of the album's release, the only official member appearing on the CD is Reese Roper.

Other songs, such as " Saturday Saviour " and " Pitiful ", received some airplay from more adventurous-minded DJs, but no more videos were made for any of the album's tracks, and due to the state of disarray at their label at that time, little effort was put into its promotion.

" King of Scotland ", the album's second single, is about Idi Amin, who once proclaimed himself king of Scotland after becoming infatuated with the country on a state visit to Great Britain.

Brandon Stosuy of Pitchfork Media described the album as " a beautiful, sprawling homage " to the state, noting its " lush production ", but criticizing the excessive length of some of the album's tracks.

The album's material is composed largely from shows performed in Portland, OR, and in Atlanta, Georgia, Cross's home state.

In the lyrics to the album's lead single, entitled " Music ", James laments the current state of contemporary popular music.

The album's liner notes state: " The number 37 is everywhere.

When he asks the woman to state her name for the court, he interrupts her with a vocal reference from the album's previous track — " Billy Jack Bitch ".

The album's liner notes by Judith Piepe, state of the song: " This is, of course, a take-off, a take-on, a private joke, but no joke is all that private or any less serious for being a joke.

The album's accompanying tour featured the band performing an intensely physical show with treadmills and a large Greek temple set.

The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using blue screen effects in the album's accompanying music videos.

In the June 2009 issue of Rolling Stone, the band noted that the album's release had been pushed back to 2010 to allow for " radical remixing ".

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

After the album's completion, the band were forced to change their name after Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was only allowed to use the New Yardbirds moniker for the Scandinavian dates.

The album's first week sales were the second highest of any album that year, a significant achievement for a hard rock band at a time when music charts were largely dominated by hip hop and teen-pop acts.

Although composition credit went to the band as a whole, the album's primary writers were Morrison and Krieger.

The creation of the album's title track was something of an accident ; the band was experimenting in the studio with a recently acquired Moog synthesizer, and the tape happened to be rolling at the time.

The band complied and Albarn wrote " For Tomorrow ", which became the album's lead single.

The announcement of the album's release included a press photo featuring the phrase " British Image 1 " spraypainted behind the band ( who were dressed in a mixture of mod and skinhead attire ) and a mastiff-breed dog.

" The release of the album's lead single " Country House " played a part in Blur's public rivalry with Manchester band Oasis termed " The Battle of Britpop ".

The album's cover photograph – which showed the three band members posing with their shirts unbuttoned, on a tropical beach – engendered no small amount of ridicule, with Palmer complaining the group looked like disco stars the Bee Gees.

Right after their album's release, the band went on tour with Primus and Buckethead, a tour which lasted for the remainder of the year.

In an unconventional move, the group shot a video for the album's title track as a promotional tool for the band as a whole and not any specific song from the record.

After the album's release, the band embarked on the successful Kissing Tour.

However, after spending half of the album's budget on drugs, alcohol, and food the band was forced to fire their original producer and produce the album themselves, at the Indigo Ranch Studios, in Malibu, California.

The definite proof of the album's success was evident when the band received seven Swedish Grammy Awards in 2003.

In the end, after the album's recording, French was ejected from the band by Beefheart throwing him down a set of stairs with violence, telling him to " Take a walk, man " after not responding in a desired manner to a request to " play a strawberry " on the drums.

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Of the album's fourteen songs, eight were written by Lennon – McCartney ( originally credited " McCartney – Lennon "), early evidence of what Rolling Stone later called " invention of the idea of the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments ".

However, the debut album's two hit singles (" Take Me I'm Yours " and " Bang Bang ") were produced by the band themselves, as the label found Cale's recordings uncommercial.

It reflects on the story, as two friends-who seem to be at the top-drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates ' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band shortly after the album's release.

The album's release was delayed when the band ran into conflict with their label over the content of songs such as " We Can Be Together " and " Uncle Sam Blues " and the planned title of the album, Volunteers of Amerika.