Although the album's cover features the original line-up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love and TR Love, TR ( along with Tim Dog ) is notably absent.

The album's first single, " Deadly Handsome Man " was a song featured on the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie soundtrack a few years earlier under its original title, " The Devil's Song ".

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 album's artwork, featuring a plastic skull with tinfoil, was not intended to be the original artwork.

The album's run in the charts was not complete either ; on 7 March 1987, almost 23 years after its original release, Beatles for Sale re-entered the charts briefly for a period of two weeks shortly after the first CD release on 26 February 1987.

* The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises the album but maintains that it has " loads of self-indulgent filler ," identifying " Revolution # 9 " in particular as " justly maligned ," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.

" 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.

Indeed, only one fully formed original song from Wilson emerged during the album's nominal recording sessions, the dirge-like " A Day in the Life of a Tree ".

This new version of the band released a pair of albums for Word Records: 1992's The Seventy Sevens ( known by the band and fans as Pray Naked, the album's original title which was dropped by the record label without consulting the band due to Christian vendor pressures not to sell an album titled " Pray Naked ") and 1994's critically acclaimed Drowning with Land in Sight.

The 1994 edition featured new recordings of ten of the original album's eleven songs, including the moving classics " Maker of the Universe " and " Let Everything Else Go.

Emerick used the original equipment to record the new versions of the songs, and the results were broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 2 June, marking the album's 40th anniversary.

Concept albums are usually based on either one theme or a series of themes in connection to the original thesis of the album's concept.

Over the years since the album's original release it has been recognized as a punk classic and one of the most influential punk records ever made by appearing on a number of " best of " lists by punk fans and critics alike.

The entire album was remastered and Townsend began remixing the band's original 1976 four-track pre-production demos and portions of the album's original 24-track masters for the bonus disc, in an effort to give listeners a new a unique way of hearing some of the album's tracks.

Robbie Allen is credited in the album's liner notes as having performed all of the bass tracks on the album, but by the time of its release original member Joe Escalante had moved from Drums into the bass position.

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 Beatles and Golden Hits of the Four Seasons, featuring each original album's label, title and catalog number.

The album's sound saw OMD's original synth-pop sound augmented by the Mellotron, an instrument previously associated with prog rock bands.

A bonus DVD contained concert footage that originally aired on Japanese television, plus bonus features including footage from their return to Budokan for the original album's 30th anniversary.

The album's original cover artwork depicted the Arizona desert, the background behind which the band began.

" The album's second side contained a mix of original songs and covers, the latter being Screamin ' Jay Hawkins ' " I Put a Spell on You " and James Brown's " I've Got Money.

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.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

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 ".

Though neither of the album's two singles, "( Why Don't More Women Sing ) Honky Tonk Songs " and " Salt in my Tears ", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.

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.

Blue Lines was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement, but the album's hit single " Unfinished Sympathy " and several other tracks, while their rhythms were largely sample-based, were not seen as hip hop songs in any conventional sense.

Waits beatboxes on the opening track, " Top of the Hill ", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's " vocal percussion " improvisations.

The song " Fingertips " actually comprised 21 separate tracks — short snippets that not only acted together to make the song, but that when played in random order would be interspersed between the album's full-length songs.

After the Replacements signed to Twin / Tone, Westerberg began to write new songs, and soon had a whole album's worth of material.

Alternate mixes of this album's songs along with unreleased tracks from the sessions have appeared on later compilations.

Comfort Eagle itself was released on July 24, 2001, to good reviews ; Michael D. Clark of The Houston Chronicle described it as " Cake at its best ", while a reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the album's songs were " among the best of the band's career ", praising McCrea for widening his vocal repertoire.

Singles were released in various territories for three of the album's songs, " If You Were Here ", " Things She Said " and " 747 " ( featuring the English version of " Kräm ", entitled " What It Feels Like ").

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 ".

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.

"), and that its wide variety of songs was a major part of the album's appeal.

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.

< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 28 %; float: left ; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;"> Into the Music: " The album's last four songs, " Angelou ", " And the Healing Has Begun ", and " It's All in the Game / You Know What They're Writing About " are a veritable tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal from " Angelou's climactic shouts to the sexually-charged, half-mumbled monologue in " And the Healing Has Begun " to the barely audible whisper that is the album's final sound.

This LP reached # 7 on the national charts on the strength of songs like the ballad " In My Room ", later released as a single ; " Catch a Wave "; and " Little Deuce Coupe ", which was released as a double-sided single with the album's title track, both top-15 hits.

Wilson played and sang on much of the 1971 Surf's Up album and wrote or co-wrote four of the album's ten songs, including the title track, which was a Carl Wilson-produced rerecording of the legendary 1966 SMiLE track.

The Flaming Lips released two EPs in the same vein of their previous album's robotic theme and containing remixed songs from Yoshimi, Fight Test and Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell.

Finally in 1980, the album's title track, which still remains one of their most popular songs to date reached No. 17.