Although deemed thrash metal rather than black metal by today's standards, the album's lyrics and imagery focused more on anti-Christian and Satanic themes than any before it.

The band's debut album warranted a Parental Advisory label solely because of the album's lyrics.

This was exemplified during live performances of Gabriel's last Genesis album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, during which he appeared on stage as various characters in the album's lyrics.

* The black metal band Summoning's latest album's name comes from the Oath of Fëanor and the lyrics are all about the Quenta Silmarillion

The NFL feared lyrics of the album's first single, " Some Girls Dance with Women ", expressed too much sexuality.

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.

At a time of increasing unrest in the streets and campuses of Paris and Berkeley, the album's lyrics seemed to many to mark a reversal of Lennon's position on the question, which was hotly debated during this period.

Described by engineer Earle Mankey as a " frighteningly accurate album " and " sort of like Eraserhead " in comparison to Wilson's lush 1960s oeuvre, the album's playful lyrics ( alternately invoking Johnny Carson, Phil Spector and adolescent interests ) and stark instrumentation ( featuring Moog bass lines and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns reflective of contemporaneous work by David Bowie and Tony Visconti ) failed to impact an audience sated on the ubiquitous Endless Summer sound.

Mizuguchi would write all of the album's lyrics and contribute melodic ideas to Tami, who would them work on the tracks in the studio.

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

The album's mostly Christianity-based lyrics attracted a new audience.

The album's lyrics deal with Louis Perez's childhood in East Los Angeles while the music portrays complex and original soundscapes reminiscent of their previous release Kiko.

The album's blend of rhythm and blues-derived rock and abstract, poetic lyrics was immediately influential in demonstrating that intelligent lyrical content could be wedded with rock ' n ' roll.

The album's lyrics dealt with criticism of pollution, chemical warfare, deforestation, rape, cocaine addiction, and the promotion of sexual abstinence to stop the spread of AIDS / HIV.

Some of the artwork was seen to take a more explicitly political stance than the album's lyrics.

This theme was reflected in the lyrics of the album's title track:

Their usual tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics remain intact, but the album's overall sound is quite different from any of their others.

" While major music publications such as Rolling Stone favored the album's unique name-dropping lyrics and the album peaked at # 14 on the Pop Albums chart, Paul's Boutique did not equal its predecessor's commercial success with hip hop fans, as it only peaked at # 24 on the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Allmusic also said that when writing the album's lyrics, Slayer " rarely turns to demonic visions of the afterlife anymore, preferring instead to find tangible horror in real life — war, murder, human weakness.

Criticism was given to the album's fourth track, " I Want a Cowboy ", characterizing the song as an " annoying stop-and-go melody and lyrics more befitting a 17 year old Lila McCann, it is a song so generic and irrelevant that it would be album filler on the worst albums ".

" Regarding dc Basehead, Hamlin wrote that the album's lyrics were " miles in some direction or other from any stereotyped Christian rock bin.

In a review for 411mania. com, Evocator Manes stated his dislike for the melodic " smooth parts " that he felt were too repetitious throughout Alive or Just Breathing, however he praised the album's production and positive lyrics.

Lead singer Jón Þór Birgisson (" Jónsi ") sang the album's lyrics entirely in " Hopelandic ", a made-up language consisting of gibberish words.

She's the lead vocalist on the album's first single, " Strange Hours ", for which she also wrote the lyrics, and can be heard on " Jezebel " and " Vertigen " as a backing vocalist.

The album's subject matter was largely centered on Love's tumultuous life between 2003 and 2007, and featured a polished folk-rock sound with much more acoustic work than previous Hole albums.

The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.

The first album's vocals and songwriting responsibilities were centered on Deal.

The album's story revolved around a junkie who is brainwashed into performing assassinations for an underground movement ; the junkie (" Nikki ") is torn over his misplaced loyalty to the cause and his love of a reformed hooker-turned-nun (" Mary ," vocals by Pamela Moore ) who gets in the way.

The album, and cover were influenced by popular disaster movies around the time of the album's release in 1998, primarily Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Cam ' ron announced that the Diplomat album's release will take place around Christmas 2010.

" Santa Claus Is Watching You " is a re-recording of Stevens ' 1960's pop single and was re-issued as a country single around the time of the album's release and was made into a popular music video.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

The album's thematic structure revolved around their lives as adolescents in Belleville ; examples are songs about wanting to avoid factory work and songs about fearing a potential Persian Gulf War military draft.

The album's themes revolve around death and judgement, and reveal that the fate determined by the Riddle Box can be found by looking deep within yourself, and can be changed with righteous actions.

Borland contributed the other half of the album's title when the band was standing around at a truck stop, looking at bottles of flavored water, and Borland joked that the truck stop didn't have hot dog or meat-flavored water.

In April 2010, Billy Corgan commented on the album's reception, stating that: " I think the fan response at the time was very positive, as the fans who were around at the time seemed to like Machina II better than Machina I.

However, the popularity of glam metal was on a decline around the time of the album's release due to the rising popularity of the alternative rock / grunge movement.

Kimball had recorded vocals for some of the album's tracks prior to his termination ; sources differ on how many-Kimball says most of the album, whereas David Paich and Steve Lukather say around 3 or 4 songs.

The album's sales have been driven not only by its popularity with Hawaiian audiences but by its popularity in the mainland United States and around the world, particularly the track " Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World ," which has been licensed for use in movies ( Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Fred Claus, Hubble 3D, Son of the Mask ) television shows ( ER, Cold Case, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Life On Mars, Glee ), and commercials ( eToys ).

Following the album's release, Fleshcrawl played a few shows around central Europe with bands such as Carnal Forge, Dismember, Enslaved, and Jungle Rot, and also played several metal festivals including the Protzen and Queens of Metal Open Air festivals.

Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scott's, joined Failure around the time of the album's release.

The album's cover features three scantily-clad versions of RuPaul, and the back cover features her legs with panties around the ankles ; these are the " three ho's ".

Keyboardist Darren Wharton also quit around the time of this album's release.

His fifth album, In ogni senso ( In Every Sense ), released in April 1990, attracted more than two hundred journalists from around the world to the album's press conference launch in Venice.

The album's themes revolve almost exclusively around the trials and tribulations of success in Hollywood, California ; a theme which had previously been explored in the band's single " Fallen Angel " from their second album Open Up And Say ... Ahh !.

The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording.

Their second album, 2005's 2nd W, released not even ten months after their first album, contained an even balance of new W originals and more Showa period classic J-pop cover songs, many of them topically centering around the end of the duo's teenage years ( Kago turned 17 a month before the album's release ; Tsuji would turn 18 that June ).

Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation for Allmusic, Sean Westergaard wrote, " Frank Zappa [...] was one of the finest and most underappreciated guitarists around.

The album's structure was based around the concept of the musical octave.

He explains the album's concept in its liner notes: " The album is based around my interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII.