Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

Since its release the album has itself become part of British popular culture.

The soundtrack album, which featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Carmen McRae was recorded in 1961 ; the musical itself was performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.

The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".

After the film's success, a soundtrack album was produced which was supposed to be made up of music one of the characters had on her walkman when she " disappeared ", although the film itself has little music in it.

Apparently, this was instigated by LL's claim to be " the baddest rapper in the history of rap itself " Ice-T recorded two disses against LL on his 1988 album Power.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

The album was the worst-reviewed of their career, as the group tried to re-create itself musically with ill-advised forays into New Jack Swing ( a then-popular style of production that sonically merged hip hop and contemporary R & B ) and sometimes-preachy lyrical content.

The English group Madness are among the artists that have cited Roxy Music as an influence and have paid tribute to Bryan Ferry in the song " 4BF " ( the title is a reference to the song " 2HB ", itself a tribute to Humphrey Bogart from the first Roxy Music album ).

Despite praise from critics and fans for her vocals on the three-month Street Angel tour, Nicks was crushed by the focus on her weight and the poor reception of the album itself.

Missing album art can be added directly to the placeholders in the Library itself ( though the program re-renders all album art imported this way into 1x1 pixel ratio, 200x200 resolution jpegs ).

The following Yes studio album, as with Union, was masterminded by a record company than the band itself.

Although McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly, none of the musicians in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself.

Their last studio album of the 1970s, Love Beach ( 1978 ), was dismissed even by the trio itself, who admitted it was delivered to fulfill a contractual obligation.

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 ).

Still and Raw and the album Pulse, released on XIIIBis Records in Europe and Metropolis in the U. S. These represented another iteration of Front 242's explicitly stated goal of reinventing itself.

The album itself opened at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums, selling 44, 000 copies ; this marked not only the first time a Cake album had hit the number 1 spot in an opening week, but also the lowest sales numbers for an album at the top of that chart.

The album itself contains various narrations and poems read by Moorcock.

Driven by the singles " Lump ", " Peaches ", and " Kitty ", their debut album proved to be a success.

Even though the album went platinum, the song proved to be their last hit.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the ' Songbook ' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period.

Clapton had also fallen under the spell of Bob Dylan's former backing group, now known as The Band, and their debut album, Music from Big Pink, which proved to be a welcome breath of fresh air in comparison to the incense and psychedelia that had informed Cream.

During the beginning of 1985, the band was given $ 8, 000 by Combat Records to record and produce their debut album, but this proved to not be enough and so the band were given a further $ 4, 000.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a youthful Quincy Jones, this album proved a swinging respite from her Songbook recordings and constant touring she did during this period.

This proved to be the last album by the " classic " lineup of the group.

Concurrent with the recording of this album, The Beatles were launching their new multimedia business corporation Apple Corps, an enterprise that proved to be a source of significant stress for the band.

The album, Down the Road released in May 2002, received a good critical reception and proved to be his highest charting album in the US since 1972's Saint Dominic's Preview.

Webb's 1971 follow up album, And So: On, proved equally appealing to critics.

The gigs were extremely successful and proved to the group that they still worked well together and soon the original line-up found themselves working together on a compilation album of Senser's back catalogue called Parallel Charge.

The recording hiatus ended in 1999, with the album Strange Times, which proved to be the group's first album in almost two decades to be more than moderately received by UK critics, although Justin Hayward was quoted as saying he was disappointed at the album's chart performance – probably not helped by the long recording hiatus – which was notably less than ' Keys of the Kingdom ' in 1991.

However, four years later, Seven Mary Three proved their resiliency by presenting a seventh album, day & nightdriving, under Bellum Records.

The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip-hop to a wider audience in the UK.

The album proved less successful than its predecessor, but still a hit.

The following months proved to be difficult ones for the band as they struggled to record a follow-up album to Dare under immense pressure from Virgin.

This was in the run up to a new " greatest hits " compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first " Greatest Hits " album from 1988.

In 1988, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime, a narrative concept album that proved a massive critical and commercial success.

In 1995, after doing " California Love ", which proved to be his best selling single ever, Tupac Shakur would do its remix with Dr. Dre again featured, who originally wanted it for his next album, but relented to let it be on the album All Eyez on Me instead.

His studio experience with Dead or Alive also proved to be invaluable as the band set out to record their first full-length album.

3 ... Life and Times of S. Carter, the album proved to be successful and sold over 3 million records.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be 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.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

A group chosen to be on the BOCA album earns much credibility among the a cappella community.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

Years later, Lead Me On would be chosen as the greatest Contemporary Christian album of all time by CCM Magazine.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

Sarah Martin later stated in the Q & A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

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.

In music, a concept album is an album that is " unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

The album was scrapped before completion, only to be revived in November 2011.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

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 ).