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

A film tie-in featuring artwork from the film and a cover version by Ennio Morricone was released in Europe, though the other tracks on the album were soundtracks from A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

This album failed to chart and, though " Find a Way " was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released.

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.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

In 1967, Day recorded her album, The Love Album, essentially concluding her recording career, though not released until 1994.

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.

A new top 20 hit, " That Was Then, This Is Now " was released ( though Jones did not perform on the song ) as well as an album, Pool It !.

Although the single sold poorly, the popularity of Jones's appearance on the show resulted in " Girl " becoming his best remembered solo hit, even though it was not included in the album.

Parsons was inspired to cover the song after hearing an advance tape of the Sticky Fingers album sent to Kleinow, who was scheduled to overdub a part on the song ( Kleinow's part was not included on the released Rolling Stones version, though it is available on bootlegs ).

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

The album remained officially untitled and is most commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, though it is variously referred to as Untitled, IV, or after the four symbols appearing on the record label, as Four Symbols, Zoso or Runes.

Under the title, To Markos III ( supposedly named for a " rich uncle " of Spyropoulos who helped finance the album ), it was released in the UK on the Pye label in May 1970, though reportedly only 250 copies were pressed it was deleted shortly after.

A follow-up album, II, received similar praise, but did not match the commercial success that the Presidents ' debut album had, though it was still certified gold in the US.

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

Even though he had little to do with the album, McDaniels was relishing the stage ; he had been suffering from an inoperable vocal disorder that had rendered his once-booming voice a strained mumble.

He named his solo album after her-Maxinquaye-and once said that though he hardly knew her, he feels like she's speaking through him with his words.

It saw Amos perform on piano, Rhodes piano, and Wurlitzer electric piano, and though the tour was in support of her covers album, the set lists were not strictly covers-oriented.

His first " official " solo album was Earth, though it did actually feature a group of musicians including ex-Aphrodite's Child guitarist Silver Koulouris and also vocalist and songwriter Robert Fitoussi ( better known as F. R.

Robert Smith has described how, though not a Wire fan, seeing the group live influenced The Cure's sound after their first album.

The band was close to a major label contract, but often alienated label representatives by intentionally performing badly in concert ; their 1985 live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was an example of their concert performances at the time.

He was unable to record a bonafide album from the time of his airplane accident in 1978 until, with the help of therapy and chemical treatment to increase electro-neuron brain activity, he attempted to release the badly produced Home At Last.

Around that time, Smith said he wanted to improve his singing, the opposite of his goal in 1984: he remarked in the documentary Ten Imaginary Years that he tried to sing badly on the album The Top.

Damaged by the failure of the album, their rejection by Virgin, harsh criticism in the media and facing financial ruin, the emotional well-being of Oakey and Sulley deteriorated badly.

" In The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called the album " rushed, defensive, badly timed, and over-publicized " and wrote that it showed McCartney's songwriting " at an absolute nadir just when he needed a little respect.

Cosmo Lee of Stylus Magazine commented " the album is astonishingly badly sequenced ", even though it praised the album as being " less emotionally heavy-handed, and a lot more fun ".

In 1978, soon after that album was recorded, Laurel Massé was badly injured in a car accident and was replaced by Cheryl Bentyne.

Following the arrival of the band's fourth album Nemesis and touring with Mötley Crüe in 1984, AXE were dealt a fatal blow when guitarist Michael Osborne was killed in an auto crash in which a badly injured Bobby Barth was lucky enough to escape with his life.

His commercial success grew in 1995, with Le twenty-two bar, a single off the album, La Mémoire Neuve, but this success left a bitter taste in Dominique's mouth, as he considered the song to be particularly badly written.

Ry Cooder played the slide on the debut Little Feat album after George badly injured his hand while working on a powered model airplane, although George re-recorded some of his material.

Good friends, Rudd took Scott's death badly, but continued on with AC / DC until he left the band during the recording of the Flick of the Switch album in 1983.

" In The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called the album " rushed, defensive, badly timed, and over-publicized " and wrote that it showed McCartney's songwriting " at an absolute nadir just when he needed a little respect.

Although the album was generally not badly received by critics, and despite the collaborations and a number of single releases (" C ' est la Vie " and " Tout Est Bleu "), Jarre did not achieve great mainstream success with this album.

In particular, the spoken dialogue by Somerville and Lansford was generally considered badly acted and detrimental to the music which, on the contrary, was generally considered the strong point of the album.

With ongoing friendships a priority, Harrison had promised the main participants that, should things turn out badly on the day, they could be excluded from any album or film release.

In May 1974, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed the second New York Dolls album, Too Much Too Soon.

The album was met with generally positive reviews, although it was not reviewed as widely as the band's first two efforts.

Still promoting the country album, Morrison's performance as the headline act on the first night of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on 15 September 2006 was reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top ten shows of the 2006 festival.

Punk fanzine Sniffin ' Glue reviewed Feelgood album Stupidity as “ the way rock should be ".

" Robert Christgau gave the album an A + and reviewed it as: " An album worthy of an Irish R & B singer who wrote a teen hit called " Mystic Eyes " ( not to mention a Brill Building smash called Brown Eyed Girl.

Rolling Stones critics Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs jointly reviewed it and concluded: " Moondance is an album of musical invention and lyrical confidence ; the strong moods of " Into the Mystic " and the fine, epic brilliance of " Caravan " will carry it past many good records we'll forget in the next few years.

Rolling Stone gave the album three stars when it reviewed the album in 1992 for Elektra's Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim re-release.

However, when the magazine reviewed the album again in 2004 as part of its Rolling Stone Album Guide, it awarded Surfer Rosa the maximum five stars.

How the West Was Won is tied with Smile by Brian Wilson, and Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn as the best reviewed album of all time by Metacritic, with an average score of 97 %.

In February 2008, Maxim was criticized by the rock band The Black Crowes for a review of their upcoming CD, Warpaint, with the band claiming that the magazine reviewed the album without hearing it.

The New York Times positively reviewed the album, but in a nod to the band's lack of widespread recognition, titled the review " What If You Made A Classic And No One Cared?

Upon release, OK Computer was heralded as a landmark album by nearly every publication that reviewed it, establishing Radiohead as one of the leading alternative rock acts of the 1990s.

Many critics reviewed the album, Pitchfork Media quotes " The Richard D. James Album is 43. 5 minutes of pure electronic genius " A review by the Chicago Sun-Times < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Jim DeRogatis said of the album: " James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his West Country childhood.

The album sold well in Sweden and was reviewed favourably internationally.

Michael Goldberg reviewed Hicks ' comeback album, Beatin ' the Heat ( 2000 ):

The New York Times reviewed the first night and reported that Relaxed Muscle played four of the show ’ s six songs with The Heavy, Let It Ride, Beastmaster and an encore of B-Real from their album A Heavy Nite With ....

The album is one of a few that have received a " five-mic " rating when it was reviewed in The Source.

The album was favourably reviewed, with some reviews comparing it to the Lucy Ford LP.

( The album is reviewed in the paper by the equally fictional Julian Stone-Mason: a pseudonym of Ian Anderson's ).

Despite making a limited impact commercially the album was applauded by the music press, becoming their best reviewed album since their debut.

The favorably reviewed album is his most commercially successful to date, reaching number 39 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart.