" Cobain cited Surfer Rosa as one of his main musical influences, and particularly admired the album's natural and powerful drum sounds — a result of Steve Albini's influence on the record.

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.

The painting clearly influences many of the album's core themes and song titles.

The album's sound also included more punk, garage and blues influences than its predecessor.

New Orleans jazz and opera are two influences for the album's sound.

It is primarily a New Wave song but also has influences from electropop, and introduces Stefani's four back-up dancers, the Harajuku Girls, who had a major input into the album's production.

Blue has cited Gary Numan, Type O Negative, and Black Sabbath as the album's influences.

Mark Deming gave a three-star rating for Allmusic, saying that the album's more rhythm and blues and soul-influenced sound worked well due to the blues influences present in Southern rock, although he added that the album retained the " big guitar bombast " of the band's previous works.

The album's liner notes included information about the songs, written by music journalist David Hepworth.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Pete Townshend, Chuck Hammer and Tom Verlaine.

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 album's liner notes included information and an article relating to the song Ulrike.

The album's inside packaging included a poster, the lyrics to the songs, and a set of photographs taken by John Kelly during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic.

Additionally, he is one-third of the infrequent, live-only musical extravaganza the Three Terrors ensemble, whose other principal members include 69 Love Songs album's Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol ; past themes of these performances have included: French pop, movie themes ( including the title song from Deep Throat ), intoxication, and New York.

The album's singles included a new live version of her earlier doubles " I Will Remember You ", a studio recording of which had previously been released on The Brothers McMullen soundtrack as well as Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff.

The next album, Spitfire, was released in June 1976 and while it went platinum, reached No. 3, and included the hit song " With Your Love " (# 12 ), the band considered the album's sales to be relatively disappointing compared to its predecessor and requested an audit from RCA Records, distributor of their Grunt label.

The album's singles included " Show Biz Kids " and " My Old School ", both of which remained in the lower half of the Billboard charts.

The album ( released in September 1982 ) included brand new band member Michael Mugrage replacing Amero on guitar at the request of the album's producers Don Silver and Ben Wisch.

Guests on the album included Mick Jones, Saxa, Pato Banton, and Chris Spedding ; ex-band members Horace Panter and Stoker also participated in the album's creation, co-writing one song apiece.

Characters in the blips included " sperm monsters " and blinking, genetically modified killer teddy bears, the latter of which became a self-conscious logo for the album's advertising campaign.

The band's second LP Ars Longa Vita Brevis featured an arrangement of the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius and the album's second side was a suite which included an arrangement of a movement from J. S.

" The album's format reflected a compromise between Brown and the band's producer / manager Kit Lambert ; Brown's original intent was to produce an album-long rock opera incorporating the material included on side one, while Lambert wanted to produce a more overtly commercial record, including cover material from the band's stage act.

Thirty years after the album's release, Q magazine ( 7 / 01, p. 86 ) included it in their 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time and described it as " malevolent ... casting Black Sabbath as a Titanic-style house band on the eve of Armageddon, cranking it as the bomb drops.

Whilst the album's modest initial pressing ( which included a large batch of warped editions ) sold out, it did not enter the album charts at that time, and no singles were lifted from it.

Three of the album's tracks were included in the box set Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.

Three of the album's tracks were included in the box set Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.

The album's other hits included the Top 5 " The Light in Your Eyes " and the minor hit " Hurt Me ".

The re-release included a bonus enhanced cd with all of the songs left over from the album's recording sessions, as well as a re-recorded version of " Fixation on the Darkness ", featuring Jones on lead vocals, a track of studio outtakes and music videos for " My Last Serenade ", " Fixation on the Darkness ", and " Life to Lifeless ".

There are no liner notes or production credits included, although packaged with the album is a booklet of twelve blank pages, on which listeners are invited to write or draw their own interpretations of the album's music.

The album's guests included Lauryn Hill and Pras along with Jean's siblings ' group Melky Sedeck ; the I Threes ( back-up vocals for Bob Marley ); The Neville Brothers and Celia Cruz.

The next year saw the UK ( Rough Trade Records ) release of the album's anthemic lead track, " Tell Me When It's Over ," as the A-side of an EP which also included a live cover of Neil Young's " Mr. Soul.

The majority of the album's music was composed by drummer Charlie Benante while lyrics were composed by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian.

Williams lavished praise on every one of the triple album's seventeen selections: Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan's interplay towards the end of " Bangla Dhun " made for a " marvellous opening " ( like " Charlie Parker trading licks with Johnny Hodges ", he noted ); Harrison's trio of All Things Must Pass tracks were " Unbelievably ... in some ways even better " than the originals, with Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner " just breathtaking " on " Awaiting on You All "; Billy Preston's " That's the Way God Planned It " was " feverishly exciting ", the audience " absolutely wild " by the end of the song ... " Can all this be happening?

On May 07, 2012, just over a month after the album's release, Trice released a new song from his upcoming mixtape The Hangover titled " Get Rich Die Tryin " featuring Bilal.

Ultimately, the band reached the breaking point shortly after the album's release and parted ways, although Rich Priske stayed on as the bassist for Matthew Good's subsequent solo career.

The album, which was produced and arranged by former Lovin ' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, received positive reviews, but Waits did not gain widespread attention until a number of the album's tracks were covered by more prominent artists.

The album's ' miss-credit errors ' also state band members as " Alex St. Clare Snouffer " ( Alex St. Clare / Alexis Snouffer ), " Antennae Jimmy Simmons " ( Semens / Jeff Cotton ) and " Jerry Handsley " ( Handley ).

The album was mostly a solo effort by Danzig, although Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains played lead guitar on three of the album's tracks.

The album also featured the first extensive contributions from outside musicians, most notably longtime stage-tech Jerry Busher, who added percussion on a second drum set to several of the album's songs as well as Kathi Wilcox of Bikini Kill and Bridget Cross of Unrest who provided additional backing vocals.

Becoming close with Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler was his chance and led Landau to the politically radical MC5, who had just been picked up by Atlantic after being dropped from Elektra Records in 1969-ironically, the Kinney National Company ( later known as Time Warner ), parent of Atlantic, would acquire Elektra in the same year of this album's release ; both labels are now part of the Warner Music Group ( now a separate company from TW ), through the Atlantic Records Group.

" Say No More " peaked at number 33 on the country charts, and the album's only other single, the Jerry Kilgore co-write " If You Ever Feel Like Lovin ' Me Again ", reached number 27.

Drummer Jerry Speiser and bassist John Rees left the band prior to the album's production, while guitarist Ron Strykert quit the band during recording sessions.

Jerry Nolan apparently agreed with Savage and other critics ' concerns about the album's sound.

The distinctive sound was identified via experiments by Lillywhite, Collins and Padgham, in response to Gabriel's request that Collins and Jerry Marotta not use cymbals on the album's sessions.

" Good To Me ", produced by Tank and Jerry " Texx " Franklin and written by Tank, Franklin, K. Stephens, R. Newt and J. Valentine, was released as the album's fourth and final single.

When asked about the truth behind the album's title, drummer Jerry Gaskill responded in a 1990 interview:

This is the album's one concession to a song with a rock background as it had not only been recorded by country and big bands but also by the young Elvis Presley, as well as by Jerry Lee Lewis, Ricky Nelson, Eddy Cochran and apparently had been part of the early Quarrymen / Beatles repertoire.

The group picked David Hassinger to produce because he had worked as an engineer on the Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction " and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow album ( on the latter of which Jerry Garcia had guested as well having suggested the album's title ).

" This has Kaye describing the album's style and features quotes from Jerry Cantrell regarding its development and final release as a double album.

The album's first two singles, " Opinions Won't Keep You Warm at Night " and " Spray on Pants ", were mixed by Jerry Finn.