He ran on his plump sticks of legs, freezing now and again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held on the paling photographs, all carefully placed and glued and labeled, resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

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.

Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

The album Rainbow Nation was released the following year with Hellyer returning as lead vocalist, as Foster had dropped out of the project.

This could have been meant as a reaction against death metal bands, who at that time had begun to use brightly-colored album artwork.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Neil Finn and his brother Tim recorded songs they had co-written for their own album, Finn.

By contrast, the album had limited success in the US, only reaching number 83 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

The album, Intriguer, was produced by Jim Scott who had worked on The Sun Came Out by Neil's 7 Worlds Collide project.

The release of the album Frankenchrist in 1985 showed the band had grown in terms of musical proficiency and lyrical maturity.

With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.

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

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

The line-up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on drums and bass respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album Lust For Life.

Deicide has been banned from playing in several venues ( such as Valparaiso, Chile over a promotional poster featuring Jesus Christ with a bullet hole in his forehead ) and with various festivals such as Hellfest, after several graves had been spray-painted with " When Satan Rules His World ", which is a song from Deicide's 1995 album Once Upon the Cross.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

Although the biggest hit on the album ( and ELO's biggest hit overall ) was the rock song " Don't Bring Me Down ", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence.

With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

* Phoenix ( Emil Bulls album ), his fifth major studio and seventh overall studio album

It was their most successful album worldwide to date, peaking at number one in several countries, including the United States, and receiving 8 × platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, making it their highest-selling studio album in the U. S. and second-highest album overall.

Awards in several categories are distributed annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to " honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.

The scope of responsibility may be one or two songs or an artist's entire album – in which case the producer will typically develop an overall vision for the album and how the various songs may interrelate.

The album was overall well received by critics.

Megadeth's official website refers to Killing Is My Business as " undoubtedly, their rawest-sounding, most intense, fastest, angriest, and overall thrashiest album they've ever released.

This opening sequence set the sombre overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune, " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party ", which, " consistent in tone with ‘ No Reply ’, ‘ I'm a Loser ’, and ‘ Baby's in Black ’", according to Allmusic, " finds the singer showing up at a party only to find that the girl he expected to find isn't there ".

In December of the same year, the band released their second album of the year and thirteenth overall, a track-for-track cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, which was recorded with Stardeath and White Dwarfs and features guest appearances from Henry Rollins and Peaches.

On June 13, 2006, RuPaul released ReWorked, his first remix album and fifth album overall.

This is the eleventh album overall and the second album this line-up recorded together.

The Walk, Hanson's second studio album with 3CG Records ( seventh overall ), was released in the U. S., Mexico and Canada on July 24.

Hanson in Madison, Wisconsin. On May 6, 2007, the 10th anniversary of Hanson Day, the band re-recorded their first major label album ( third overall ), Middle Of Nowhere, at The Blank Slate bar in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Back in the USA is the 1970 debut studio album, and second album overall, by the American protopunk band MC5 recorded in Eastpointe in 1969.

" I told ya the New York Dolls were the real thing ," he wrote, describing the album as " perhaps the best example of raw, thumb-your-nose-at-the-world, punk rock since the Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main Street.

Norton produced their second full album, Doolittle, which was recorded in the last six weeks of 1988 and seen as a departure from the raw sound of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

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.

Her album included raw and quite harsh vocals that were possibly influenced by Japanese opera, but bear much in common with sounds in nature ( especially those made by animals ) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players.

" Steve Huey from Allmusic said that the album is " raw as Megadeth gets, and that can be both good and bad -- Megadeth's later precise, complex riffing and composition aren't completely developed, but the music is performed with a great deal of energy, while Mustaine's vocals ( never his strong point ) are amateurish at best.

But don't fret ; the album still retains that raw, thrashy sound that one would expect from an 80's thrash band.

Cake considered the album more professionally produced than Motorcade, despite references to its " raw " sound, and the reception was again generally positive ; critics noted the broadening of Cake's sound, with Joshua Green noting in the Westword that " Nugget spans a broader range of topics than did Motorcade, with similarly appealing results ", and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer saying that " The gimlet eye and sardonic humor of 1994's Motorcade of Generosity is intact, but Fashion Nugget is aptly named ; it updates Motorcade with beatboxy soul and hip-hop rhythms ".

" In 2003, the album was ranked fifty-eighth by Rolling Stone in their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: " On first listen, Trout Mask Replica sounds like raw Delta blues ", with Beefheart " singing and ranting and reciting poetry over fractured guitar licks.

The album received critical acclaim, combining the " new " Overkill with their raw early style as presented on the debut album Feel the Fire.

The band's first album, 1993's Dark Medieval Times, showed off the fascination Satyricon had with the Middle Ages and featured raw black metal blast beats produced by Frost, mixed with acoustic guitar and flute.

In 2004, her recent motherhood, life experiences, and growing affinity toward English rock band Coldplay, caused her to shift toward a more matured outlook and raw nature with her fourth studio album Afrodisiac, a venture into the organic sounds of soul blues, ambient music, and the nostalgic street-wise sound of 1990s hip-hop.

Upon the release of their debut album, The Vines were hailed as " the second coming of Nirvana " by the British press ; their grungy sound was considered reminiscent of the Seattle scene circa 1991 and Nicholls ' erratic on-stage behavior and raw vocals drew comparisons between him and Kurt Cobain.

Their first drummer, Dan ( later alluded to in the song " The Plan " from the album High / Low ), was replaced by Aaron Conte, with whom the band recorded its first 7 ", The Plan / Telescope ( 1994 / Stickboy ), as well as the demo tape Tafkans, the raw version of High / Low.

" Shorter had been focusing most of his attention and compositional ideas into his solo work, while Zawinul was sketching out ideas for a solo album of his own which involved moving away from a raw group sound in favor of constructing a far more orchestrated and experimental studio-based recording with multiple overdubs.

Inspired by the use of his songs in various feature films, the 1997 Shadowman album is generally regarded as the Rumble Man's return to his raw rock ' n ' roll roots.

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A new full album, Side Tracks And Smokers, was released in June 2010 with artwork by famous Stiff Records designer Tobbe Stuhre, and tracks including some recently found and remastered raw mixes of tracks from the early albums, and also some brand new Ducks Deluxe recordings.

The music on this album is much tougher and more raw than the sound the group later became famous for.

On their debut album Lugburz, Summoning showed the musical traits of a more traditional, raw black metal band, although had a reverberated sound to the production.

The album included re-recordings of some songs from the Luton tapes, but the band felt that Earl had failed to capture the magic and raw energy of the demos.

It features Rebecca and Roger, and has a raw and slightly tinny sound, in keeping with its low production budget ( the whole album was recorded for £ 3000 ).

Further " out " and even less conventional than earlier material, one critic has written of it that " an eerie sensation inevitably accompanies each listen to the raw streams of electric noise channeled on AMM's second album and early masterpiece, The Crypt.

The album was more raw than its predecessor ; Weller was now frequently playing live in the studio in as few takes as possible.