Much of the work on this album had been finalized and some demos had been circulated when fate once again struck the Beefheart camp.

Pugin's office designing Gothic details, struck out on his own with a lithographed album Architecture of the Middle Ages: Drawn from Nature and on Stone in 1838.

Lyrically the album struck a fine balance between songs looking inward and looking outward.

In 1999, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas, and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal, agreed to work together, and began production on an album.

When Columbia Records producer George Avakian gave jazz arranger Gil Evans a copy of the Spanish World Library LP, Miles Davis and Evans were " struck by the beauty of pieces such as the ' Saeta ', recorded in Seville, and a panpiper's tune (' Alborada de Vigo ') from Galicia, and worked them into the 1960 album, Sketches of Spain.

Aiken found a song, " On My Way Here ", written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, that struck a chord with him and became the inspiration for the album's theme in addition to the album title.

However, disaster struck when Rough Trade ceased trading shortly after the release of the album.

The mix album The Politics of Dancing 2 ( 2005 ) was preceded by a single " The Other Side ," featuring Wayne Jackson ; a song dedicated to the victims, and their families, of the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that struck Thailand on 26 December 2004.

In 1991, a deal was struck with Wasp to record the second album, but due to the poor expectations that the label offered, they decided to break this contract and sign with Pasión-Área Creativa, like Avispa Music, a independent company, but this time with better conditions.

Subroc was struck and killed by a car in 1993 while attempting to cross the Nassau Expressway before the release of a second KMD album, titled Black Bastards.

However, Dylan was struck by their recording of " Where Teardrops Fall ", and even though Lanois insisted on recutting it ( which they did ), Dylan eventually went back to the original version and used it for the album.

A deal with DRT Entertainment was later struck, and the album received a belated release on November 7, 2006.

" Christian Renner of Metal Crypt, stated " One of the main things that struck me while listening to this album is the fact that I can't believe this is a debut album considering the depth and emotion displayed throughout every song on this disc.

The managers for Germano and Giant Sand worked together and struck a deal with Thirsty Ear Recordings to release the album as a one-off project under the name OP8, and the album, Slush, was released in February 1997.

After a label change from A & M to Dallas Austin's Arista imprint Rowdy Records in 1996, For Real struck again with the Austin-produced, 60s-leaning single " Like I Do ", from their second album Free.

In 1999, the band struck a deal with the Italian Scarlet Records to release their first full-length album, Kali Yuga Bizarre.

This album marked the beginning of Líbido's working relationship with Sony Music, which helped reinforce its presence in the Peruvian market ; the market had already been struck by a high level of piracy.

In October 2004, Talbot struck out on his own with The Billy Talbot Band, releasing the album Alive in the Spirit World on Sanctuary Records.

Luck struck in 2005, when the lead single Nochnaya Kobyla ( Ночная Кобыла, Night mare ) off their second, more pop-infused album Pereval ( Перевал, Mountain Pass ) had been sneaked into rotation on Nashe Radio ( the name and lyrics of the song are a complex allusion to Mara, a Norse mythical entity that caused nightmares ).

The images created by the trees in the dark conjured inspiration and it struck me that an album could be based on an imaginary impression of this area.

The album has struck a chord throughout the media and consumer alike, having sold over 25, 000 copies within four months and allowing the band to sell out two national headlining tours with support from Twelve Tribes, Anterrabae, Trivium and others.

Red Hot Organization founder and director, John Carlin, was quoted as saying, " Dark Was the Night encapsulated the spirit and creativity of a new generation of musicians whose work struck a chord and got people to actually purchase the album and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight AIDS.

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.

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

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

Its soundtrack album, Christiane F. ( 1981 ), featured much material from his Berlin Trilogy albums.

During the recording of the third album, Gibson was let go after a dispute over money and Walker left since touring was keeping him away from his family too much.

A proper soundtrack album would be released much later.

Brooks's endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the failure of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released.

By this time, Parsons's own use of drugs had increased to the extent that new songs were rare and much of his time was diverted to partying with the Stones, who briefly relocated to America in the summer of 1969 to finish their forthcoming Let It Bleed album and prepare for an autumn cross-country tour, their first series of regular live engagements since 1967.

" Forever Changes " had a much stronger showing in Britain, where it reached No. 24 on the UK album chart in 1968.

It was promoted in cursory fashion: the group, while well liked, had a reputation for being wayward and ill-disciplined, and no one expected much of them or their album.

During this forced hiatus much of the material for their next album, Presence, was written.

In 1984, Mr. T released an album titled Mr. T's Commandments ( Columbia / CBS Records ), in much the same tone as his 1984 educational video, which instructed children to stay in school and to stay away from drugs.

The album, Spellbound, retained much of the dance-oriented formula heard on her debut album.

Unlike previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

The album saw the group discarding much of its rap rock leanings for a grittier, more sample-heavy sound.

The album opened to sales of 185, 000 and has since been certified platinum in the U. S. The first single " Right Here " has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart.

" The album Blue Valentine ( 1978 ) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings ( with the exception of album-opener " Somewhere " — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and " Kentucky Avenue ") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound.

Although much of the earlier Undertones material drew influence from punk rock and new wave, the Undertones also incorporated elements of rock, glam rock and post-punk into material released after 1979, before citing soul and Motown as the influence for the material released upon their final album.

Without Robbie Robertson as primary lyricist, much of the songwriting for the album came from outside of the group.

The members enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create a full album together.