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.

Under Burchinal's direction, Nicoli Schwiep designed both the album cover and insert layout.

With her 1976 album All I Can Do, co-produced by herself with Porter Wagoner, Parton began taking more of an active role in production, and began specifically aiming her music in a more mainstream, pop direction.

The material they recorded was released in 1956 on an album whose title, Birth of the Cool, gave its name to the " cool jazz " movement that developed at the same time and partly shared the musical direction begun by Davis ' group.

His album Solaris ( released in 2000 ) saw Parkes taking his music in a new direction, with gloomy house tracks alongside free-form ambient noise and the usual snare drum attacks.

Richman did not recognize this compilation as his " first album ," preferring to recognize his debut as 1976's Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, an album pursuing the lighter, softer direction he had in mind with a completely different band ( the two collections were released within months of each other ).

The album was another change in musical direction, this time influenced by European music.

Following several phases of writing and recording, during which Amos has since asserted that the band lost their musical edge and direction due to interference from record executives, in July 1988, the Y Kant Tori Read's self-titled debut album was released.

Many were left wondering if the latest in the Electronic Battle Weapon series were simply one off experiments or signal a new direction they could take with the new album, perhaps swaying from their genre defining big beat albums of the past.

The album marked somewhat of a retreat from the increasingly roots-rock direction that the band's past few records had gone in, instead featuring an eclectic alternative-rock sound that fit in well with the then-current musical climate.

After the success of his third album, Williams wanted to take another musical direction.

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

Musically the album changed a lot from Verkligen, going a lot in the direction of slower, more thoughtful songs with more emotion.

Wilson's proposed second solo album under the direction of Landy, entitled Sweet Insanity, was rejected by Sire in 1990.

The departure of Jones and a general dissatisfaction with standard " rock " music led to the three remaining members of the group to redefine the direction of the band with the experimental Zaireeka ( 1997 ), a four-CD album which is intended to be heard by playing all four CDs in four separate CD players simultaneously.

The album, which was the band ’ s first to open in the Billboard top 10, was widely critically acclaimed for its new direction.

Initial reviews by fans that had access to early promotional copies were mixed, and some questioned Sting's artistic direction with this album.

After dissolving Swans in 1997 Gira released a solo album under his own name and began a new musical direction with Angels of Light, which are a quieter, more acoustic-based group than Swans.

Despite the albums poor performance, Albarn was relatively happy with the bands new direction and started writing prolifically for Blurs next album.

In 2002, the band released the highly acclaimed double-CD concept album Snow, which tells a story of an albino psychic who acquires a messianic following, who spiritually falls and loses the direction of his calling, then to be rescued with new chance to live in harmony.

This lineup recorded the later-bootlegged cassette 1982 Demos, showing the direction the band would go in for the My War album.

While the Unicorn Records court injunction prevented the group from releasing a new studio album, they nonetheless continued to work on new material, and embarked on a period which would mark a pronounced change in the group's direction ( and that of underground music in general ).

Many critics feel that Perry's influence and direction for Raised on Radio caused album sales to be lower than previous ones.

" Never Had a Dream Come True " had marked a more mature direction for the group whilst still retaining their pop sensibilities, a direction which continued into their third studio album, Sunshine.