It reflects on the story, as two friends-who seem to be at the top-drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates ' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band shortly after the album's release.

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.

During the album's pre-production, Gabriel was contacted by filmmaker William Friedkin ( at the time enjoying success with The Exorcist ), about a possible film project after Friedkin read Gabriel's short story on the sleeve of the Genesis Live album.

The widespread story regarding the origin of the album's title, that the truck involved in Duane's fatal motorcycle accident was a peach truck, is not correct ; the truck involved was a flatbed lumber truck.

The songs tell the story of a character that Jon created, called Set Abominae, who also appears on the album's front cover.

The band found it harder to consolidate on their previous successes in the US, however, and lost out on more airplay at home when their record company took the decision to withdraw the album's planned third single Medicine in September 1997, putting out an entirely false press story that the lyrics could be interpreted as a critique of the then recently deceased Diana, Princess of Wales.

The title's meaning as well as the album's concept is based on there being " three sides to every story ", representing " He, She, and They ".

The album's cover showed a four-member group and its liner notes contained an elaborate back story, penned by Christian, which posited one Ritchie Burns as the founder and leader of the band.

As with other songs on The Wall, " Empty Spaces " tells a segment of the story of Pink, the album's protagonist.

This album's working title was ' Ezekial's Wheel ', after the Biblical story that may or may not reference an early visitation by UFOs.

" The Thin Ice " can be seen as the introduction to his story, since the previous song, the album's opening track " In The Flesh?

" is chronologically placed later in the album's narrative, and then the story is begun via flashback.

As with the other songs on The Wall, " Goodbye Cruel World " tells a segment of the story of Pink, the album's protagonist.

The album's inner sleeve recounts this story.

" PopMatters called it " as riveting and moving as everyone says it is " and it " may be the album's most startling personal horror story ( though it's also a song of hope and gratitude )".

Although the album's story line involves the adventures of a paraplegic boy in Tsarist Russia, Dailor told Metal Hammer that many of the songs are fantasy narratives involving him saving his sister from death.

A number of guest musicians appear, including Róisín Murphy ( one half of the duo Moloko at the time of the album's release ), Del tha Funkee Homosapien, J-Live, Sean Lennon, Miho Hatori ( of Cibo Matto ), Mike D ( of the Beastie Boys ) and Don Novello ( as comic character Father Guido Sarducci ).

Plus Valli took one solo lead vocal role on the album's concluding song, the brief Gaudio-Parker penned ' I Believe in You '.

Schramm and Lewis left the band after the album's release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar and Stephan Wichnewski joining to play bass.

" Its role as the album's closer was already decided, but Dylan planned on having Springs or Dennis sing the lead vocal.

The first album's notes reveal the seriousness with which the group assessed its own role in Taiwan's musical development.

He seems to be playing the role of Gilles de Rais, the person on which the album's concept is based.

Famed songwriter Kostas had a major role by writing three of the album's tunes, including " Timber, I'm Falling in Love " and " The Lonely Side of Love ", which peaked at No. 6.

The track National Movie Review on the alternative hip-hop album Deltron 3030, included as part of the album's futuristic dystopian backstory, explains that the vintage movie of the day Strange Brew chronicles the heroic adventures of two latter-day renaissance men, or, to use the correct 20th century terminology, " hosers "'.

Agius ' bass work is featured on the album's first two singles " Saved by Zero " and " One Thing Leads to Another.

He collaborated with UK downtempo duo Zero 7 on their 2006 album, The Garden, providing guest vocals on the album's tracks, along with Zero 7 regular Sia Furler.

Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called the " disillusioned " track of the album's high points.

The album's second single, " Arlington ", generated controversy over its content ( a first-person account of a fictional soldier who was about to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery ).

The album's opening track, " Immigrant Song ", was released in November 1970 as a single in the US against the band's wishes, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard chart.

In the 2000 liner notes for the album's re-release, Chuck D. of Public Enemy would call the album "... a spectacular performance against all odds and expectations.

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 ).

Another song on the album, " Temazi Party ", mocked the then-current craze for abusing Temazepam sleeping pills ( a. k. a. ' jellies '), but was deliberately misspelt on the album sleeve as ' Tramazi ' instead of ' Temazi ' in order to forestall any legal injunction against the album's release.

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

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 ).

As opposed to playing fusions, the Daddies perform each genre separately, contrasting one style against another so that the album's musical texture may continually change.

Following several weeks of promotional appearances, Setlur entered the competition on March 19, 2004 with the album's second single, and although considered as a favourite by the media, Setlur failed to place within the top 5, eventually falling against singer Max Mutzke and his song " Can't Wait Until Tonight.

On March 24, 2003 a lawsuit was filed against Snoop Dogg, in which a Californian man ( who kept his anonymity for security reasons ) claimed that his life was endangered after the rapper had included, without his permission, a 50 second phone message the plaintiff had left in the album's last track, titled " Pimp Slapp'd ".

All of the album's lyrics were written either by members of other black metal bands or Nocturno Culto ( this went against the band's usual practice, in that Fenriz is usually the main lyricist on other Darkthrone albums ).

While still retaining much of the band's older black metal roots, the music itself is more slow-to-mid-paced with lesser blast beating drums than on previous albums, and the album's production is cleaner and clearer than previous albums ; this has led to some criticism against the band by long-time fans.

The album's cover showed the group positioned against a black background in a pose visually reminiscent of The Beatles ' With the Beatles album ( Peter Criss stated that this was the visual effect the band was looking for ).

Roversi, who had been against the album's release, chose the pseudonym " Norisso " when it was time to register the songs.

" it was their second release and raised attention when the German Red Cross initiated a lawsuit against the use of their emblem on the album's cover.