Despite the album's thematic shift, Dylan performed the entirety of Another Side of Bob Dylan as he had previous records – solo.

Allmusic's review was resoundingly positive, noting that the album's thematic exploration of Cold War tensions " is dated and hasn't aged very well ... but the music is a pleasure.

It sacrificed much of the first album's experimentation for more boiled-down pop structure and hooks.

This album is considered one of the most notable from the NWOBHM, but subsequent to the album's release, the band's structure began to fall apart.

The album's structure was based around the concept of the musical octave.

While the album's superficial sound is similar to that of MoRT, the album demonstrates a return to more traditional black metal songwriting and structure.

The album's sound is unlike previous albums, with partially sung vocals and a far more regular song structure.

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.

The album, and cover were influenced by popular disaster movies around the time of the album's release in 1998, primarily Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Cam ' ron announced that the Diplomat album's release will take place around Christmas 2010.

" Santa Claus Is Watching You " is a re-recording of Stevens ' 1960's pop single and was re-issued as a country single around the time of the album's release and was made into a popular music video.

The album's lyrics centered around comedic material and boasting.

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.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

The album's themes revolve around death and judgement, and reveal that the fate determined by the Riddle Box can be found by looking deep within yourself, and can be changed with righteous actions.

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.

In April 2010, Billy Corgan commented on the album's reception, stating that: " I think the fan response at the time was very positive, as the fans who were around at the time seemed to like Machina II better than Machina I.

However, the popularity of glam metal was on a decline around the time of the album's release due to the rising popularity of the alternative rock / grunge movement.

Kimball had recorded vocals for some of the album's tracks prior to his termination ; sources differ on how many-Kimball says most of the album, whereas David Paich and Steve Lukather say around 3 or 4 songs.

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 ).

Following the album's release, Fleshcrawl played a few shows around central Europe with bands such as Carnal Forge, Dismember, Enslaved, and Jungle Rot, and also played several metal festivals including the Protzen and Queens of Metal Open Air festivals.

Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scott's, joined Failure around the time of the album's release.

The album's cover features three scantily-clad versions of RuPaul, and the back cover features her legs with panties around the ankles ; these are the " three ho's ".

Keyboardist Darren Wharton also quit around the time of this album's release.

His fifth album, In ogni senso ( In Every Sense ), released in April 1990, attracted more than two hundred journalists from around the world to the album's press conference launch in Venice.

The album's themes revolve almost exclusively around the trials and tribulations of success in Hollywood, California ; a theme which had previously been explored in the band's single " Fallen Angel " from their second album Open Up And Say ... Ahh !.

The album also dabbles with New Wave, a genre that was emerging in Britain around the time of the album's recording.

Their second album, 2005's 2nd W, released not even ten months after their first album, contained an even balance of new W originals and more Showa period classic J-pop cover songs, many of them topically centering around the end of the duo's teenage years ( Kago turned 17 a month before the album's release ; Tsuji would turn 18 that June ).

Reviewing the album's double CD incarnation for Allmusic, Sean Westergaard wrote, " Frank Zappa [...] was one of the finest and most underappreciated guitarists around.

He explains the album's concept in its liner notes: " The album is based around my interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII.

In spite of the changes, the fifth album's first single, " Little L ", reached # 1 in many charts worldwide becoming their best dance hit.

After the album's completion, the band were forced to change their name after Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was only allowed to use the New Yardbirds moniker for the Scandinavian dates.

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.

The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's Horses, and reveal that their song " The Hand That Rocks the Cradle " is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, " Kimberly ".

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.

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.

The album's opening track, " Ol ' ' 55 ", was recorded by the Eagles in 1974 for their On the Border album.

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.

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.

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.

Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion achieved a world first by pre-releasing their own album via P2P networks themselves.

The album's lead single, " She's in Parties ", reached number 26 on the charts and earned Bauhaus their third and final Top of the Pops appearance.

The album's third single, " Just Like Heaven " was the band's most successful single to date in the US, being their first to enter the Billboard Top 40.

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 first single, " The Distance ", written by Greg Brown, became the band's biggest hit to date and is considered their " ubiquitous " song ; it hit number 5 on the RPM Alternative 30, and entered the Modern Rock Tracks top 5.

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.

The album's first single, " Country Girl ", was released on 22 May 2006, and received regular airplay in 2006 resulting in a chart entry of number 5, their highest ever.

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.

Wilson, who had recorded the album's instrumentation with The Wrecking Crew, then gathered with The Beach Boys to record vocal overdubs, following their return from a tour of Japan.

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.

The group debuted the song on their Christmas in Spiceworld Tour in 1999, before the album's release.

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

This was the beginning of a legal dispute that would, for several years, disallow Black Flag from using their own name on any record after Damaged was released on SST Records and a copy of the " Anti-Parent " statement was placed on the album's cover.