It spent 10 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart, according to Joel Whitburn's " Top Pop Albums ," peaking at No. 154 in 1968, by far the worst showing among Love's first three albums ( according to " Top Pop Albums ," Love's next album, " Four Sail ," fared better on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 102 in 1969 ).

The second solo album Susanna Hoffs, released in 1996, fared better critically, but it too had disappointing sales.

The success of the album prompted the re-release of " Scooby Snacks " as a single, alongside a cover of the 10cc classic " I'm Not In Love ", which fared better and narrowly missed the UK Top 10 second time around by reaching UK # 12.

Though the album charted lower than any Kansas album since Masque, peaking at number 41, its single " Fight Fire with Fire " fared better.

The album fared better in the UK where it was a top ten hit along with the single " Could You Be Loved " which reached number 5 in the UK singles charts.

The Francophone album 1 fille & 4 types ( 1 Girl & 4 Guys ), released in October 2003, fared better than her first two releases, and showed Dion trying to distance herself from the " diva " image.

Although another Top 10 hit, the album ( and singles ) fared less well than their earlier releases.

The album fared worse, failing to make the Top 75, crawling to No. 78 on the charts.

This album was not released in the US until February 1995 but fared even worse than Unusual Heat, although the ballad " Until the End of Time " was a minor hit, reaching No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Five singles were released from the album, none of which fared well on the main US Hot 100 chart ,-in fact only one charted.

Her 1985 album Nina Hagen In Ekstasy fared less well, but did generate club hits with " Universal Radio " ( No. 39 USA ) and a cover of " Spirit In The Sky " and also featured a 1979 recording of her hardcore punk take on Paul Anka's My Way, which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years.

Meanwhile EMI lifted a track from their album Distant Light, which had Clarke on lead vocal and lead guitar, the Creedence Clearwater Revival-inspired song, " Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress "; EMI released it as a rival single, and although it fared relatively poorly in the UK ( No. 32 ), it peaked at No. 2 in the US and No. 1 in Australia.

The album fared well but did not chart quite as well as his debut and did not feature a crossover single like " Sugar Hill ".

Wilde's first MCA album Teases & Dares was again overlooked in her home country, but fared better in Germany, France and Scandinavia as well as scoring another German Top 10 single with " The Second Time " ( which was Top 30 in the UK ).

Are Sound received a generally muted response, and fared poorly in comparison to the original album.

Her second solo release, " In Walked Love " ( previously a hit from the self-titled 1992 album by the dance / pop group Exposé ), fared less well and missed the UK Top Ten.

However, the album fared much better in Belgium, where it reached No. 1, leading to the band's first overseas concerts in that country in March of 1971.

Later albums fared even worse with the album The Envoy peaking at # 93 in the Billboard Charts.

His next two records, Si Tú Me Miras and 3 also fared well commercially, but it was his 1997 breakthrough album Más that garnered international success.

The album sold more than 1 million copies, making it their best-selling album to date, and the hit single " Take a Picture ", a noted departure from the dark sound of the band's 1995 hit " Hey Man, Nice Shot ", fared well on many charts.

The group released the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single " Don't Believe the Hype " in addition to " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.

His first " official " solo album was Earth, though it did actually feature a group of musicians including ex-Aphrodite's Child guitarist Silver Koulouris and also vocalist and songwriter Robert Fitoussi ( better known as F. R.

However, the critical response to the album was generally very positive, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic claiming " The world is a better place for having Supergrass in it.

If an original apostrophe, or apostrophe with s, occurs at the end, it is left by itself to do double duty: Our employees are better paid than McDonald's employees ; Standard & Poor's indexes are widely used ; the 5uu's first album ( the fixed forms of McDonald's and Standard & Poor's already include possessive apostrophes ; 5uu's already has a non-possessive apostrophe before its final s ).

* 2011-Alternative music band They Might Be Giants briefly referred to him in the song ″ Can't Keep Johnny Down ″ from their album Join Us, in the following lyric: " Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me ..."

Continuing the Terrible Certainty formula while showing the band still progressing musically and with better production by the well-regarded Randy Burns ( also Megadeth among others ), the album featured the band's first major singles and music videos, the title track and " Betrayer ", becoming major hits on MTVs Headbangers Ball.

In 2003 the double CD album Dirty Hits was released containing the better known works and some previously unheard versions and remixes of those tunes.

Since the track didn't do too well on U. S. radio, most fans think more radio-friendly songs from the album, like " Unconditional Love ", would have done better as the commercially released second single.

1998 saw the release of Parks ' first live album, Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, which shows a love of the work of 19th-century American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as performances of several of Parks ' better ( and lesser ) known songs.

The film version sound was reportedly better than the quarter-inch WB two-track album master.

That album did significantly better commercially than Hardcore Jollies and included " Undisco Kidd ", an R & B Top 30 single.

This is widely considered one of the better songs off what is essentially a transitional album.

Following their appearance at the All Tomorrows Parties festival, the New York Times reported that Shields was planning to complete the unfinished album: " I realized that all that stuff I was doing in 1996 and 1997 was a lot better than I thought.

In 1984, Peterson had better luck when he returned with Whaley and Rainier as Blue Cheer and a brand new album The Beast Is Back, which was released on the New York label Megaforce Records.

Freas ' artwork was typically better known in the science fiction community ( one of his magazine covers was adapted for an album cover by rock band Queen ) and as one of the artists who was responsible for the iconic Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman.

Certain tracks from the album were remixed for the bands compilation 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row, given more tender, slightly cleaner mixes to fit better with the other tracks.

It fit the mood of the second album much better.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

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 ).

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.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo 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.

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#* appears on the Buffalo Springfield album Last Time Around but features no members of the band other than Neil Young and drummer Dewey Martin

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the album featured a darker, more sinister sound than its predecessors.

Her album sales were more than 75 million worldwide, with over 26. 5 million in album sales in the US.

Though billed and marketed as an ELO album, the only returning member other than Lynne was Tandy, who performed on one track.

At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

Less than expected sales of the album ( more than two million ) and no further developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.

Despite the less than spectacular response to the Chris Gaines project, Brooks gained his first – and only – US Top 40 pop single in " Lost in You ", the first single from the album.

The album is considered less inspired than its predecessor, but it is notable for the Parsons-Hillman-Leadon song " Older Guys " and for its take on Jagger and Richards ' " Wild Horses "— the first recording released of this famous song.

' An innovative, melancholy masterpiece whose sum is greater than its parts, which is extraordinary for an album that includes the epochal track ' You Set The Scene.

Rather than being a loose collection of individual, insular songs, the record is an expansive, interlocking work unified by lush strings, acoustic guitars and lyrical content often based on the group's name and album title ( when the words ' Love Forever Changes ' are connected in that order ).

Recorded almost entirely on the road at various North American studios, it was an even greater commercial success than their first album and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK.

Hybrid Theory was a massive commercial success ; it sold more than 4. 8 million copies during its debut year, earning it the status of best-selling album of 2001, while singles such as " Crawling " and " One Step Closer " established themselves as staples among alternative rock radio play lists during the year.

Meteora sold more than 800, 000 copies during its first week, and it ranked as the best selling album on the Billboard charts at the time.