Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time Out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception.

In 1975 until when he continued to release singles, he released his first non-compilation LP 2023, a concept album that includes many instrumental songs.

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 ).

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

The studio sessions continued and resulted in Bowie's third album, The Man Who Sold the World ( 1970 ).

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.

Bowie and Visconti continued their collaboration, producing a new album of completely original songs instead: the result of the sessions was the 2002 album Heathen.

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.

With 1993's Counterparts, Rush reduced most keyboard-and synthesizer-derived sounds in their compositions, and they continued to do so with each successive album.

Brown continued releasing recordings: in 1993, he issued the album, Universal James, which included Brown's final Billboard charted single, " Can't Get Any Harder ", which peaked at # 76 on the US R & B chart and # 59 on the UK chart.

Their following studio album Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types in their fourth album A Thousand Suns ( 2010 ), layering their music with more electronic sounds and beats.

The band continued to tour and released Trompe le Monde in 1991, their final album before their break-up.

Motörhead, since their first album release in 1977, have had continued popularity in the punk scene, and singer Lemmy is a fan of punk rock.

After Peter Gabriel left the group following the tour for the concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ( 1974 ), they continued in the Symphonic Prog vein until 1976's Wind & Wuthering with Phil Collins as the lead singer.

After the band's break-up, Frantz, Harrison, and Weymouth released an album as The Heads and Frantz and Weymouth have continued in Tom Tom Club.

Suite XVI, the follow-up album to Norfolk Coast, was released in September 2006 ( the title is a pun on " Sweet 16 " and also a reference to the fact that it was the band's sixteenth studio album ) and continued the band's resurgence.

Waits's new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation continued on 1985's Rain Dogs, a sprawling, 19-song collection which received glowing reviews ( the album was ranked # 21 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

Sonically lush and tightly produced, the album continued along the psychedelic influence of Skylarking while drawing from the energetic pop sound of their earlier work.

Plant and Korner were in the process of recording a full album with Plant on vocals until Page had asked him to join " the New Yardbirds ", aka Led Zeppelin.

On 11 January 2008, Jay Kay himself posted a news item in which he thanked everyone who wished him the best for his birthday, and announced that the writing process for the new album had just begun.

The phrase, " the hammering process " was used by Christian metal band Living Sacrifice for the name of their album The Hammering Process.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

While the album is almost completely guitar-driven, it is mostly devoid of any conventional sounding guitar solos, a conscious decision made by Lifeson during the writing process.

According to the band, the entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album.

In December 2010, Staind posted three webisodes from the studio, which feature the band members discussing the writing and recording process of their new album.

Erlewine wrote that the album " brought ZZ Top their first Top Ten record, making them stars in the process ".

While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process.

Among the tracks, the band were most impressed by Orbit's effort and enlisted him to replace Street as producer for their next album, citing a need to approach the recording process from a fresh perspective.

In late 2005, the band announced that the writing process for a new studio album was nearing completion, and that they would be returning to the studio to record the album in the spring.

Though receiving mixed reviews, the band described the album as " diverse ", " experimental " and " spontaneous " and that the writing and recording process was " very different " as the band were working under pressure.

In October 1995, the band regrouped with Weiland to begin recording its third album, renting out a mansion in Santa Barbara, California for the band to live together during the recording process.

Around that time, Barrow revealed that the band was in the process of writing its third album.

They discussed Larry Norman at length during the recording process of the album.

In early 2005, after a long writing and recording process, Spock's Beard released Octane, their second album after the departure of Neal Morse.

After a highly troubled recording process for Extraction ( 2003 )– a collaboration with drummer Dennis Chambers and bassist Victor Wooten — he took an extended hiatus from recording solo material until the release of his eighth studio album, Sound Proof, in 2008.

McCabe obliged and with the original lineup back together ( Tong remained on guitar alongside McCabe ), the group went through a " spiritual " recording process to finish their third album Urban Hymns which was completed by early summer.

The album immediately reached number 1 on the charts later that month, knocking off Oasis ' highly anticipated album Be Here Now in the process.

The album reached the US Top 30, going platinum in the process.

This was followed shortly thereafter by the album Hysteria, so called because of the difficult and tense recording process.

A new track, " It's OK Johanna ", appeared on the band's MySpace site in 2007, and in January 2008, Rowland told Uncut magazine further details about the album, saying in part: " I'm in the process of demo-ing the songs ...

Delayed by technical renovations to his studio, Scholz eventually began the process of working on Boston's third album, determined to complete the album at his own pace and up to his demanding standard.