Although the album did not bring the fame he was expecting, it did reach the top of the charts in Romania and Morocco.

Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, saying that Love " worked hard on these songs, instead of just babbling a bunch of druggy bullshit and assuming people would buy it, the way she did on her 2004 flop, America's Sweetheart.

Singles " Dreamer " and " Autumn Leaves " ( 1994 ) were both minor hits but the album did not chart.

Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

A new top 20 hit, " That Was Then, This Is Now " was released ( though Jones did not perform on the song ) as well as an album, Pool It !.

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 ).

Even more ironically most of the bands who actually did appear as themselves in the movie, such as Art Bergman, The Modernettes and D. O. A., were not on the fake tribute album.

Brooks's endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the failure of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released.

The album did not match the sales levels of Brooks's heyday, but still sold comfortably well, reaching number-one on both the pop and country charts.

As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.

The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

Columbia Records released one single from the project (" Yellow Balloon ") as did the song's writer, Gary Zekley, with The Yellow Balloon, but with legal wrangles scuttling Torrence's Columbia deal and Berry's disapproval of the project, Save for a Rainy Day remained a self-released album on the J & D Record Co. label.

In August, Thornton performed under the Dr. Octagon billing, but did not acknowledge the release of the OCD album.

The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of " Space Oddity ", with light fare such as " Kooks ", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.

Wetton's Caught in the Crossfire solo album ( 1980 ) did not fare very well in England.

Crosby & Nash's album Wind On The Water was the only disc by any member of the quartet to fare well in the marketplace during the period from 1973 to 1976.

Hall & Oates released X-Static in late 1979, which combined rock with dance music but the album did not fare well although " Wait For Me " did hit the top 20.

Partly to raise money in order to produce the show in the West End and partly to see how the material would fare with the public, it was decided to release the music as an album before any stage productions were undertaken, a strategy that had proven successful with Rice's two previous musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.

The release of the solo album was held back, and it was decided to wait and see how another single would fare.

" did not fare any better, and the album itself peaked at no. 26 in the UK.

The follow-up album, 1974's Introducing Eddy & The Falcons, was much more commercial fare.

The single " Chemistry " was a mainstay overseas ; however, the album did not fare as well in the United States.

The album reached No. 30 in the UK charts and received a Silver certification, but the album did not fare as well overseas.

Alvin's first solo album, entitled Romeo's Escape ( entitled Every Night About This Time in England ) was critically well received, but didn't fare well in the marketplace, and Alvin was dropped by his American record label, Columbia.

1983's The Real Macaw, featuring drumming by Gilson Lavis of Squeeze and the return of Brinsley Schwarz to the guitarist's spot did not fare as well, hitting US No. 59 on the album charts but missing the UK charts altogether.

The album did not fare well in the charts but charted at a number 57 without any promotion.

Oddly enough, the album didn't fare as well as its Spanish counterpart in the U. S., selling a few hundred thousand less records overall.

The following year, the group released a follow-up, Close to the Bone, which was similar in style to their first album but didn't fare as well, though " The Man With The Four Way Hips " was a minor hit on urban radio in the US.

Mirror Mirror included an acoustic version of " I'm Not in Love " which became a No. 29 UK hit single, but overall the album did not fare very well.

The following album, " All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time ", the band's first release on Side One Dummy Records, continued their evolutionary progress toward the piano-driven fare they've tended towards over the last couple of releases, and features such additions as horn sections, increased use of vocal harmonies, and hand-claps.

The album Si può fare (" It Can Be Done ", 1993 ) brought back Branduardi to normality, but the artist is now struggling to evade the minstrel character which was now too tight for him.

The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog ( 1990 ), did not fare as well.

The album was, according to Sage, not well received in the United States at the time of its release, though it did fare better in Europe.

A. M. did not fare as well commercially in comparison to Son Volt's first album, only reaching number 27 on the Heatseekers chart while Son Volt's debut Trace hit the Billboard 200.

Along with its usual hard rock fare, the band added tracks that featured a gospel choir and a bluesy sound, and Kernon's influence led to an album with a stronger emphasis on the band's rhythm section.

Taking the shape of a narrative concept album which Perry detailed as a portrait of " various relationships in decay ", Susquehanna featured prominent strains of Latin and Caribbean-influenced music, incorporating flourishes of flamenco, Latin rock and reggae into the band's traditional fare of swing, ska and rock.