Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

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 ).

It is not unheard-of, however, for a band to redo old tracks that originally left them displeased for an album re-release on a major label or a second edition.

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

In 2001, Jones released Just Me, an album of his own songs, some written for the album and others originally on Monkees releases.

Sweetheart of the Rodeo was originally conceived by band leader Roger McGuinn as a sprawling, double album history of American popular music.

* Mullet Fever, the fifth album by Canadian grindcore band Fuck the Facts originally released in 2001

The album was originally titled The Dirt, as it was loosely based on the band's autobiography of the same name, but the title was later changed.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

In early May 2007, bassist Peter Hook was interviewed by British radio station XFM – originally to talk about his contribution to the debut album of former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell's new band Satellite Party saying that "[...] me and Bernard aren't working together.

In May 2009, Abdul debuted her latest song " I'm Just Here for the Music " ( originally an unreleased song from Kylie Minogue's ninth album Body Language ) on the Ryan Seacrest Radio KIIS-FM show and performed the single on the American Idol results show.

Also, when The Beatles ' Let It Be was released in 1970, the magazine originally gave the album a poor review, yet in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it number 86 in the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

* The Arrangement ( 1981, with Robin Scott ) ( originally released as an EP, later expended into a full album containing the complete sessions )

Until recently, the album was difficult to obtain, as only four thousand copies were originally sold.

Three days later, it was reported that Staind's new album was originally called Seven, but was renamed Staind.

The Bangles ' full-length debut album on Columbia, All Over the Place ( 1984 ), captured their power-pop roots, featuring the singles " Hero Takes a Fall " and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque " Going Down to Liverpool " ( originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves ).

The title track, which was written by Elvis Costello, was originally recorded for his 2002 album When I Was Cruel.

The Residents were not bothered by this deviation from their plan since the 1978 decision to release the album would not affect the philosophical conditions under which it was originally recorded.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on the Live at the Roxy WC2 album — a key early document of the scene — and were later central to the development of post-punk.

* The Firesign Theatre's 1969 album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All contains a section originally titled " The Policemen's Brawl " but retitled " Zeno's Evil " when released on CD.

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

Recording artist Brandy Norwood included a song on her 2008 album Human titled " A Capella ( Something's Missing )".

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

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.

Venom's album, titled Black Metal ( album ) | Black Metal, inspired the name of the genre

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

Since the late 1990s, Orange has also been working in conjunction with singer / songwriter Craig Deanto, and they have released an album titled Who Hears the Cries.

* The Little Willies, in their 2006 self titled debut album refer to ' cow tippin ' in their Song ' Lou Reed '

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

The next day, Finn and Seymour were interviewed on Rove Live and the band, with Hart and Sherrod, performed " Don't Stop Now " to promote the new album, which was titled Time on Earth.

British rapper Plan B released a concept album titled The Defamation of Strickland Banks in which he plays a soul singer named Strickland Banks.

On October 9, 2007, a best of album titled Milking the Sacred Cow was released.

On January 6, 2011, Parton announced her new album would be titled, Better Day.

He later commented that the accompanying live album, David Live, ought to have been titled " David Bowie Is Alive and Well and Living Only In Theory ".

In June 2010, Glen Benton revealed that the next Deicide album was to be titled To Hell with God.

This song was covered by NOFX on their album titled 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, and also appears on the Fat Wreck Chords compilation Survival of the Fattest.

* The indie rock band The Essex Green recorded a song titled " Elsinore " for their 2006 album Cannibal Sea.

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

On November 11, 1990, Kid Rock released his debut album titled Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast.

* The experimental " string metal " band, Judgement Day, has a song titled " Genosha " on their album " Peacocks / Pink Monsters ".

* In 2003, Danish rock band Blindstone recorded a song titled " By Grabthar's Hammer " for their album Manifesto.