The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

While he was working at Friends Bubbles formed an association with Hawkwind and became responsible for a run of their album sleeves, including X In Search of Space, Doremi Fasol Latido and Space Ritual.

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

In this period he became known internationally as " Mister Guitar ", inspiring an album named Mister Guitar, engineered by both Bob Ferris and Bill Porter, Ferris's replacement.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

" ( Brubeck wrote, and the Quartet performed, the theme song for the Craig Stevens CBS drama series ; the music from the series became material for the " New York " album.

Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company, entering at Number 9.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The first single of the album, " Can't Get It Out of My Head ", became their first US Billboard charts Top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO's first gold album.

On the follow-up album Discovery, the logo became a small glowing artifact on top of a treasure chest.

The album also reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.

A live performance of the song from Clapton's album 24 Nights features him singing the refrain " where is my badge?

The album comes with a large badge and comes in a special package.

With Domani smetto, Articolo 31 left the world of hip hop and moved to rap with many influences ; even more so than previously, this album found them rapping and singing to rock and pop tracks.

* Al ' z A-B-Cee ' z, an alphabet song by hip hop group 3rd Bass, on their 1991 album Derelicts of Dialect.

In 1992, Osdorp Posse released their debut album Osdorp Stijl, which was the first-ever Dutch hip hop.

* bin Laden Weed, a hip hop song on Three 6 Mafia's 2005 album Da Unbreakables

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In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

* Epoch ( album ), a 2006 album released by the Japanese hip hop group Rip Slyme

He became the first hip hop artist to launch a full rap album signed to Universal Music India.

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

Nation of Millions ... was voted Album of the Year by The Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll, the first hip hop album to be ranked number one by predominantly rock critics in a major periodical.

* Phrenology ( album ) is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released November 26, 2002, on Geffen Records and MCA Records.

The album was the worst-reviewed of their career, as the group tried to re-create itself musically with ill-advised forays into New Jack Swing ( a then-popular style of production that sonically merged hip hop and contemporary R & B ) and sometimes-preachy lyrical content.

Building on the gritty sound of Tougher Than Leather, and adding some subtle religious references, the album featured guest appearances and production by several hip hop notables ( including Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, and Jermaine Dupri ).

In 1992, Canadian hip hop group Rascalz released their debut album under the name Ragga Muffin Rascals.

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.

The London-based band Archive began as trip hop, before developing into progressive rock, employing elements of both hip hop and orchestral music recently with the album Controlling Crowds ( Part I-III and Part IV ).

Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye, he fights against typical sexual representations by, for example, dressing as a woman on the side sleeve of his album cover.

Waits made an appearance on the album The Spirit of Apollo by alternative hip hop project N. A. S. A., on the track " Spacious Thoughts.

In 2002, Furtado appeared on the song " Thin Line ", on underground hip hop group Jurassic 5's album Power in Numbers.

Containing electronic sounds and more minimal guitar work, the album was marked by Albarn's growing interest in hip hop and African music.

Despite this, the album was the band's first taste of commercial success and their first platinum album in Canada.

The album and its supporting tour were Watt's first taste of mainstream fame, when Vedder and Dave Grohl of Nirvana were part of his touring group.

However, in May 2011, Muir told KillYourStereo. com that the new album will likely be released in 2012 as he will begin working on a Cyco Miko album in October, which will have a " taste of new Suicidal, old unreleased Suicidal, new Infectious Grooves, old Infectious Grooves and a bunch of other stuff as well.

Jones ' first taste of fame came at the age of 14, when, while still at school, she formed with Frankie Kahrl and Billy Preston the successful gospel group the Cogic Singers, with whom she recorded the album It's a Blessing.

According to the liner notes on the soundtrack album, Williams ' " sense of the dramatic, coupled with his exquisite musical taste and knowledge of the orchestra definitely stamp this score as truly one of his best.

This release also worked as a taste of what was to come with their following full-length album ..

Gorky's also released a number of singles and EPs on Ankst, demonstrating a taste for psychedelia and playfulness evidently inspired by the Canterbury scene of the 1960s and 1970s ( Kevin Ayers ' album Shooting at the Moon is cited in the notes to Tatay as " the best LP of all time ", and the record also includes a version of Robert Wyatt's " O, Caroline ").

Carpenters fans got a taste of the album in 1989 when some of its tracks ( as remixed by Richard ) were mixed onto the album Lovelines, the final album of Carpenters ' new unreleased material.

) The music — with each album devoted to a single show — was improvised in the manner of jazz, but always in a light, immediately appealing style aimed at popular taste, which did not always go over well with aficionados of " serious " jazz music, which may be one reason why Manne has been frequently overlooked in accounts of major jazz drummers of the 20th century.

His next album < Aeroplane Factory > was conceived during this period, and once it was released in 1997 it was clear that Zhang Chu's musical taste had evolved beyond the confines of folk rock.

Due to differences of musical taste with an undisclosed number of producers that Darius and Dan tried to work with on this particular album, the band have described this album as their least favourite of their albums.

That brief taste of mainstream success had a major influence on the band's next album, Between Heaven ' N Hell, which jettisoned most of the New Wave stylings of Hostage in favor of radio-friendly hard rock more akin to their Colours period.

His commercial success grew in 1995, with Le twenty-two bar, a single off the album, La Mémoire Neuve, but this success left a bitter taste in Dominique's mouth, as he considered the song to be particularly badly written.

Thom Jurek of Allmusic described the two parts of the album as " the first disc ... is a rock & roll record ... a pathos-drenched, volume-cranked rocker, full of crunch, punishment – and taste " while the second " is a much quieter, more elegant affair.

Next album Hoćemo gusle came out in 1989 and gave a small taste of much of Rambo's future musical direction-overt political activism.

This new single is a taste of what to expect on Benét ’ s new album, which he describes as a “ very contemporary approach to old-school songwriting integrity ”.

The arrangement of stamps on an album page depends on the taste of the collector and the purpose of the collection.

Alongside the album, the band released lead single " Papillon " and it led them to their first taste of number one success outside the UK, with the song hitting the top position in Belgium and being certified Gold in the process.

The first taste of The Hunter came in July 2011 where Mastodon released via Youtube the song " Black Tongue ", set to a video of AJ Fosik creating the sculpture used for the album cover.

# Additionally, this album was infamous for the controversy caused by its lyrical obscenity, and this album cover further illustrates the taste of the artists.