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.

According to Gerald Casale, the album's sound was inspired by reviewers calling them " fascist clowns " in articles.

The album's rich acoustic sound initially received mixed reactions, with critics and fans surprised at the turn from the primarily electric arrangements of the first two albums, fuelling further hostility to the musical press.

The album's sound resembled the folk-rock of The Byrds more than punk, and some of the group's fans accused Meat Puppets of sounding dangerously like hippies and abandoning their punk roots.

While still fast and loud, the album's country leanings were evolving and its raw punk sound was channeling raw guitar power chords.

Like Ain't Love Grand, the album's sound was fairly far removed from the band's punk origins, yet featured a punchy, energetic, hard-rocking roots rock sound that in many ways represented a more natural progression from their earlier sound than the previous record had.

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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.

Numan stated " think of Jagged and Pure, but faster, with bigger choruses, more energy, and more aggression " to describe the album's intended sound.

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.

Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight.

< 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.

The album's sound marked a drastic change from their previous outings, oriented more in the direction of glam rock and psychedelic music than that of the hard rock / grunge sound that propelled them to popularity ; critical reception, at the time, was mostly mixed.

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.

The album's sound differed from Dummy, characterised as " grainy and harsher.

The " Synthanorma " controlled the band ’ s Minimoog creating the album's rhythmic sound.

This led to a change in the album's sound to electronic New Wave.

He was the sound engineer on Robin Trower's album Bridge of Sighs, and credited by both Trower and producer Matthew Fisher for that album's acclaimed sound.

) With Martin's guidance, the album's style was very different from America's first three efforts, as he enhanced America's acoustic sound with strings and brass.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

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 extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

The album's cover, which " shows lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts ," was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album.

The album's final single was " Blue Jeans and a Rosary " which was a minor country hit at No. 50.

The album's success allowed Linkin Park to form another Projekt Revolution, which featured other bands and artists including Mudvayne, Blindside, and Xzibit.

She previously dated actor Owen Wilson ; her album C ' mon C ' mon ( 2002 ) featured the song " Safe and Sound ", which was dedicated to him and which, according to the album's liner notes, was an autobiographical account of their relationship.

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.

Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.

Skylarking spawned the controversial track " Dear God ", which was originally issued as the B-side of the album's first single, " Grass ".

This was in part due to the Triple A chart success of the album's lead single, " Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me " which was used in the television show Californication.

The band complied and Albarn wrote " For Tomorrow ", which became the album's lead single.

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.

Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page explained that part of the reasoning for the album's release related to the popularity of unofficial Led Zeppelin recordings which continued to be circulated by fans:

Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which featured a male model, credited simply as " Omar ", portraying the album's protagonist " Rael ".

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 album's cover photograph – which showed the three band members posing with their shirts unbuttoned, on a tropical beach – engendered no small amount of ridicule, with Palmer complaining the group looked like disco stars the Bee Gees.

The album's cover and in-sleeve photos were taken from the film, Tiger Bay, which starred Hayley Mills.

Right after their album's release, the band went on tour with Primus and Buckethead, a tour which lasted for the remainder of the year.

The album's first single, " Never There ", hit number 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, and was followed by " Let Me Go " in 1999, which hit number 30.

In later years, Lennon stated that the album's title track was a sincere cry for help ; he regretted changing it from a downbeat, piano-driven ballad to an uptempo pop song, which was done only as a result of commercial pressures.

Bernhard was a featured guest singer with children's artist Dan Zane's on the Family Dance album's " Thrift Shop ".

That, and the album's title, were references to Barbra Streisand's album My Name Is Barbra, released earlier that year, which featured a cover photograph of the singer as a young girl.

The album's title track and number one country single is a cover of what was arguably the signature song of legendary country-folk singer / songwriter Townes Van Zandt.

From September 2009 the album's first single Till Death Do Us Part received airplay on UK's BBC Four, where Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson aired it on his Friday Rock Show.

While " Still Standing, which featured cousin Ludacris, was originally intended to be released as the album's lead single, the label and the singer were not in agreement with the album's title track becoming the first single no track has been for more than a year.

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

The album's title is taken from a comment made from the stage by Crass singer Steve Ignorant whilst trying to stop a group of skinheads in the audience from fighting.

When asked about the meaning of the album's title by Guitar World in a 2001 interview, singer / guitarist Ian MacKaye described it ( and the song title from which the album name comes from ), as " an anti-war manifesto.

* Luka Bloom, singer, wrote most of his 1998 album ' Salty Heaven ' while resident in the town and described Birr as having the best trees in Ireland in the album's liner notes.

Legal troubles forced singer Truth Hurts to subsequently get dropped from the label after her album's release.

The album's title references Guns N ' Roses singer Axl Rose, illustrated on the cover.

At one point, the band considered hiring the then-unknown Elton John to be the album's singer, but decided against it.

However, escalating friction between guitarist Eddie Van Halen and lead singer David Lee Roth reached breaking point soon after the album's release and Roth left the band, to be replaced by Sammy Hagar ; 1984 was also the last time they worked with Ted Templeman, who had produced all their albums up to this point.

The album's success launched his image as a " ranchera hunk " and led to his acting debut in Vivo Por Elena ( I Live for Elena ), where he played a struggling young singer.

The album's title came from lead singer Sammy Hagar, who wanted to push the issue of censorship with naming Van Halen's album with a vulgarity, stating, " That's when censorship was a big issue.

This album was the first Chicago effort to spotlight keyboardist / singer Bill Champlin on lead vocals, who sang all three of the album's hit singles.

The album includes the promotional single Hasta Abajo and the album's lead single Danza Kuduro featuring Portuguese-French singer Lucenzo, as well as collaborations from Orfanato Music Group artists including Kendo Kaponi, Syko, Plan B, Zion & Lennox, Yaga & Mackie and Danny Fornaris.

The album's first single, " No More Affairs ", was accompanied by a video filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in south-east London, and second single " Travelling Light " is a duet between Tindersticks ' singer Stuart Staples and Carla Torgerson of The Walkabouts.

Wright co-wrote eight of the album's twelve songs and recorded songs by successful songwriters such as Shelly Peiken, who wrote pop singer Christina Aguilera's 1999 hit, " What a Girl Wants ".

On the album's title, Brown stated " The press used to refer to me as ' simian lead singer '.

The band wrote the entire album's music without a singer, until Jesse Leach of local band Nothing Stays Gold ( who were signed to Dutkiewicz's brother Tobias ' record label, Tobias also being the singer for Aftershock ) joined the band shortly after its formation.