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" 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.
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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.
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 singles barely registered on Urban contemporary radio, where disco music remained popular.
The album's first two singles were successful on rock radio in " So Hott " and " Amen ".
The album's singles, including " Somewhere I Belong ", " Breaking the Habit ", " Faint ", and " Numb ", received significant radio attention.
" The DVD features music videos for each of the album's singles.
" Song 2 ", one of the album's singles, brought Blur mainstream success in the United States.
After recording an album's worth of punk-influenced demo tapes ( released in 1984 asThe Plan ), he was signed by Beggars Banquet Records in 1978 and quickly released two singles, " That's Too Bad " and " Bombers ", neither of which charted.
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 ).
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 ).
Dressed on the cover all in leather, the album's singles " A Little More Love " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 94 Country, No. 4 AC ), " Deeper than the Night " ( No. 11 Pop, No. 87 Country, No. 4 AC ), and the title track ( No. 52 Pop ) all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton-John.
The video album for Soul Kiss featured only five of the album's ten tracks ( concept videos for the album's singles " Soul Kiss " and " Toughen Up " as well as performance videos of the tracks " Culture Shock ", " Emotional Tangle " and " The Right Moment ").
The group released four singles and an EP —" The Only One ", " Freakshow ", " Sleep When I'm Dead ", " The Perfect Boy " and Hypnagogic States respectively — on or near to the 13th of each month, in the months leading up to the album's release.
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.
The album's next two singles were " Face to Face " and " Fallin ' Again " ( the former a duet with K. T.
The album's following singles were " Jukebox in My Mind ", " Forever's as Far as I'll Go ," " Down Home ," and " Here We Are.
" The album's next two singles were " T. L. C.
According to Norman, the record company dropped several Christian songs, including " Butterfly ," " If God Is My Father ," " Kulderachna ", and " I Hope I'll See You In Heaven ", in favor of more lightweight love songs like " Fly, Fly, Fly ," the album's opening track ", and " Christmastime ', both previously released as singles.
Further singles " Walkabout " and " Vitamin " failed to make any chart impact however, and shortly after the album's release, the Sugarcubes disbanded.
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.
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.
The album's singles included " Show Biz Kids " and " My Old School ", both of which remained in the lower half of the Billboard charts.
This song was one of three radio singles from the album, and was also the album's lead-off track.
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" 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.
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.
" At the time of the album's release — which followed, chronologically, the up-tempo single version of the song, " Revolution " — that single word " in " was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases.
The record confuses me, that's what I like — it doesn't feel of this time right now, but I'm not sure whether it's 100 years ago or 100 years in the future " and summed up the album's sound as " really weird.
Among the songs are the Dowd / Clapton-produced signature tune " It's in the Way That You Use It " ( co-written with Robbie Robertson, and featured in the Paul Newman-Tom Cruise film The Color of Money in October 1986, a month before the album's release, subsequently reaching # 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for one week ) and three Collins-produced numbers — the up-tempo, horn-laden " Run " and the guitar-laden rockers " Tearing Us Apart " ( with Tina Turner ) and " Miss You ".
The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes — retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a cult audience.
The album's release was accompanied by a $ 250, 000 promotional campaign by Columbia directed at both consumers and the music industry, making good use of Landau's " I saw rock ' n ' roll's future — and its name is Bruce Springsteen " quote.
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.
The band went on their first tour of the United States after the album's release — Slagel gave the band a list of addresses and contact numbers of the venues.
In a June 28, 2011 guest appearance on the movie review podcast / website " CinemaJaw ," Lucas claimed that the next album would be out before the upcoming 2012 elections — mainly because so much of the album's content deals with it directly — expecting it to be released by February 2012.
The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by artist James Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up — evoking the album's title.
The album's ensuing tour was critically acclaimed — the Chili Peppers commonly performed shows with over twenty thousand in attendance.
" Jon Pareles of The New York Times notes Control takes obvious influence from Prince, describing " he album's pacing, its clipped vocal lines — even the spoken introduction that starts things off " as pure Minneapolis sound ; he adds " ut where the Prince style is usually connected with heavy-breathing come-ons, Miss Jackson is cheerfully standoffish.
She has expressed her opinion of the comparison in the lyrics to " God Given Name ": " I'm not her and never will be " — which was purposely set as the album's opening track to show their differences.
Released as the album's lead single " Let Me Go Love " was only a peripheral hit reaching No. 35 in February 1980 — that year Larson would be heard more on the airwaves via guest appearances on " Say You'll Be Mine " by Christopher Cross and the Dirt Band's " Make a Little Magic ".
" Muddy Waters said of the album's sound, " That guitar sounds just like a cat — meow — and the drums have a loping, busy beat.
1978's Minute by Minute marked the peak of their career — both the album and its lead single " What A Fool Believes " went to # 1 in the US and the album's title track also made the US Top 20, although it was their last album with founding drummer John Hartman and longserving guitarist Jeff " Skunk " Baxter.
The group's deteriorating relationship with Mercury was also a factor, as evidenced by the album's track listing — it included the earlier hit " According to My Heart ", but a disclaimer printed on the sleeve noted that it had been included at the insistence of the record company ( i. e. against the band's wishes ).
Although many of the album's songs bear no resemblance whatsoever to anything in the Beatles catalogue (" California Jam " and " True Life Hero ," for instance ), several other numbers — particularly " Sub-Rosa Subway " — are dead ringers for the Fab Four.
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