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.

A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

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.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

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.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

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

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

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.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

Listening to her album Horses when he was 15 made a huge impact on him ; he said later, " I decided then that I was going to start a band.

In 1991, Nirvana emerged from Washington State's grunge scene, achieving huge commercial success with its second album, Nevermind.

Massive Attack's first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK.

Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of Maxinquaye and he subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk tinged music that echoed his personality as he became more erratic and unreliable.

The album was a huge success, and went platinum in the UK, but confused some fans expecting I Should Coco part 2.

" Stellar ," the next single from the album was soon released, and its video received afternoon airplay on MTV and TRL, becoming a huge success on Modern Rock Chart.

The first, pre-release single, " Musik non stop " ( Music Non Stop ), a disco-rock song, became a huge radio hit and helped bring recognition for this album.

When the album Vapen & ammunition ( Weapon ( s ) & Ammunition ) came out, the next two singles " Kärleken väntar " (" Love Awaits ") and " FF " ( from the double A-side FF / VinterNoll2 ), plus the album track " Pärlor " (" Pearls ") became huge radio hits, resulting in album sales over 600, 000, more than twice as many as any other Kent album to date.

Joe Williams toured with the band and was featured on the 1957 album One O ' Clock Jump, and 1956's Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings, with " Every Day ( I Have the Blues )" becoming a huge hit.

In the United States, the album achieved huge commercial success.

At Brel's request, Barclay did not run a huge promotional campaign for the album, and still, by word of mouth alone, over a million fans placed advance orders.

In 1985, he was recruited by the Red Hot Chili Peppers to produce their album Freaky Styley, because the band members were huge fans of George Clinton and funk in general.

The original album cover art depicted group members Pam the Funkstress and Riley standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions, and Riley is pushing the button on a guitar tuner.

Although Chamberlin predicted that " the band's going to be huge ," Zwan produced only one album, Mary Star of the Sea, before disbanding in 2003.

While the original ULLAdubULLA album had a very limited run and went out of print, following the huge success of the 2005 re-release of the original album, ULLAdubULLA II was released on 17 April 2006.

The group scored a huge hit single with " Dance Tonight ", and a warm hit with " Don't Mess With My Man ", and their one and only self-titled album was certified Gold a few months after its release in 2000.

The lead single from the album " Before You " became a huge radio hit in Canada and she performed the single on the 2000 Juno Awards, where she won two awards for Best Adult / Pop Album and Best Female Artist.

The album was another huge hit.

The album became a huge success, spawning the number one hits " Hot Stuff " and the title track and the number two " Dim All the Lights ".

album did not re-capture the group's huge commercial success of the 1980s with its second single " Soundtrack to a Generation " barely charting.

Although they had only moderate success for the first few years, Split Enz scored huge success in 1980 with the release of their album True Colours and the hit single " I Got You ", which marked the emergence of Neil Finn.