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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 ).
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After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.
Despite the album's record sales it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2.
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.
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 ).
Proceeds from the album's sales benefited breast cancer research.
The album's sales maximized at only No. 142.
Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.
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.
Arguments over which songs to release as singles, the album's artwork, the track sequencing, the slow album sales, and the omission of DeYoung's vocals and keyboards from many of the Shaw / Young tracks fueled the fire.
However, the album's low sales restricted their playing venues to small clubs, and caused Clive Davis and the record label to intervene.
The songs " Girl Inside My Head " and " Just for Me " received airplay, but the album's sales fell somewhat short of expectations.
The album also listed her as Polly Jean Harvey, which in part affected the album's sales.
The successful release of the singles bolstered the album's sales, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States, gaining eight-time platinum certification by the RIAA.
Despite the album's unimpressive sales figures, the band's video for " Bringin ' On the Heartbreak " became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982, bringing the band increased visibility in the U. S. After the album's release, a European tour followed.
The album's sales were poor, and it peaked at only No. 123.
The band became a relative success after Music for People, but the album's poor sales and lack of a second charting single led to tension between Elektra and Crosby.
However, despite a plethora of renowned producers such as DJ Muggs, this did not translate into a hit with mainstream hip-hop audiences, and the album's sales were considered a disappointment.
The legal incident that had occurred in February reflected in the album's sales, as it moved an impressive 55, 000 units with no music video or radio single promoting it.
Proceeds from the album's sales benefited The Nature Conservancy.
In 1995, the band recorded an album's worth of brand-new material for Zoo Entertainment, but due to the poor sales of 333 and ongoing problems with the struggling label which would eventually lead to it being merged with Volcano Entertainment in 1996, the album was not released.
After pressure from representatives from American Recordings, who did not want to release an unlabeled album for fear that sales would plummet, Danzig relented and allowed a sticker reading " Danzig 4 " to be placed on the album's cellophane wrapper.
Mayes claimed that the album's recall did seriously affect their commercial sales.
While America Town did not reach the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album charts, the album's second single, " Easy Tonight ", became a # 1 Triple A song and consistent album sales eventually led to its going platinum.
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Alternate mixes of this album's songs along with unreleased tracks from the sessions have appeared on later compilations.
He is reputed to have given the album its name by throwing a tomato at a showing of the art used for the album's cover.
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.
* 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.
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.
In the album's liner notes he claimed to have invented heavy metal and asserted that Metal Machine Music was the ultimate conclusion of that genre.
The demise of Creation Records, shortly after the album's release, meant that the planned follow-up album, which would have featured Dexys, was never made.
Almost every year since the album's release the Vandals have played a traditional " Christmas Formal " concert in Anaheim during the holiday season, at which they perform Oi to the World!
Lowery has been quoted in interviews as saying that, although the entire band ( save for Fichter ) played on the basic tracks, Greg Lisher was the only other member to have contributed significantly to the album's recording, with most of the overdubbing and studio polishing having been done by Lowery, Lisher and producer Dennis Herring.
The " Voices Carry " single peaked at number eight on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and is said to have been inspired by an argument between Mann and Hausman, who had broken off a relationship before the album's release.
Because The Vines did not have a label at the time of recording, the band members funded the album's recording themselves.
In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wrote, " the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been written with a court case in mind.
Eight of the album's ten tracks have vocals, and it features two instrumentals, the DeYoung synthesizer showcase " The Message " and Tommy Shaw's closing " Aku-Aku " ( although for the latter, there was one lyric spoken, the title of the song ).
The album's title is a phrase uttered by the titular character of William Shakespeare's Othello toward his fiance, Desdemona in Act One, Scene Two: " I have but an hour of love, of worldly matters and direction, To spend with thee: we must obey the time.
Christgau expressed a mixed response towards the album's various musical " cross-references " and commented that " even the songs that work when you're listening have a way of slipping away unnoticed once the record is over ".
While the latter were done for tactical reasons as described in the next section, Brown's opinion is that the overdubs add to the album's overall presentation, replacing visuals and costume changes he would have employed in live performance to achieve dramatic effect.
Many alternative rock artists, including Billy Corgan and PJ Harvey, have cited the album as inspirational ; Nirvana's Kurt Cobain frequently acknowledged that Surfer Rosa was a strong influence on Nevermind, and in 1993 hired the album's producer Steve Albini to produce his band's album In Utero.
Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak, as is mentioned in the album's liner notes.
According to Adams, the album's title originates from a poster of Mariah Carey: " My manager called and said, ' You have 15 seconds to name this record ,' " My eyes focused on this poster of Mariah wearing a T-shirt that said HEARTBREAKER.
The album's title refers to the Wishkah River in Aberdeen, Washington, where Cobain claimed to have spent nights sleeping under the Young Street Bridge as a teenager ( as referenced in the song " Something in the Way ," from the band's 1991 release, Nevermind ).
The album's creative break from the band's previous work may have stemmed from the different writing process used for White Trash Heroes.
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 album's heavier compositions have a sound similar to fellow Canadians, progressive rock legends Rush, and even early Kansas.
The album's failure may have been due to light promotion, but she had completed it in 1979 and it was withheld for two years ; most likely due to financial and business logistics, with contributions in part by Wells ' own personal problems.
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.
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