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 ".

Although considered to be a deeply spiritual album, it also contained " Daring Night " which " deals with full, blazing sex, whatever it's churchy organ and gentle lilt suggest.

On a visit to Los Angeles in April, Paul McCartney played Wilson a song from the album, " She's Leaving Home "; later Wilson was said to be " deeply affected " by hearing a tape of another song, " A Day in the Life ".

" However, the artistic content and expression on the album showed the band pushing punk or hardcore music to a new level, with deeply personal and intensely emotional lyrics.

However, according to longtime SST employee Joe Carducci the " Anti-Parent " statement was not the real reason for MCA's refusing to distribute Damaged ; Carducci reported that Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA stood to lose money by distributing the album, regardless of its content.

Lord's mother Miriam had died in August 1995 and the album is a deeply affecting piece, inflected at all stages by Lord's sense of grief.

The double album Tago Mago ( 1971 ) is often seen as a groundbreaking, influential and deeply unconventional record, based on intensely rhythmic jazz-inspired drumming, improvised guitar and keyboard soloing ( frequently intertwining each other ), tape edits as composition, and Suzuki's idiosyncratic vocalisms.

The UK band Loop was deeply influenced by Can for their repetitive polyrhythmic style, covering Can's " Mother Sky " on their Fade Out album.

The songs were by turns " poignant, insightful and honest ," and Shepard, " deeply moved " by what he heard, encouraged Ayers to record them properly for a possible new album.

Their most refined effort, the record featured guest appearances by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and garnered generally good reviews: critics hailed it as the " entire album of deeply tragic and beautiful love songs without irony, sarcasm, or violent resolution " of which Cave and band seemed capable, while also recognizing that the proceedings threatened to devolve " into schmaltz ".

This album contains fully acoustic Bluegrass versions of songs about the region to which Murphey has been deeply connected throughout his life, the American Southwest.

Lyricist to the album ; Clint Boge, has commented that the themes throughout Begins Here are complex, ambiguous and deeply diverse, and has hinted that his own life experiences have formed the basis for numerous lyrics within the album, such as Without Wings.

The album was notable for its use of innovative Bell / Hayes production and Terry Manning engineering techniques, and has deeply influenced a great deal of subsequent soul, hip hop and Motown music.

The album includes the satirical " Heroes ", which suggests that every potential hero turns out to be deeply flawed:

A deeply personal and controversial album, Here, My Dear is notable for chronicling Gaye's ill-fated first marriage to Anna Gordy.

He praised Adam Duritz ' lyrics and called the album " deeply satisfying ".

Rolling Stone wrote, "... Cope melds hip-hop with folk, soul and blues ... and ' feels ' this combination deeply .... Cope's uncommon chords and harmonies combine delicate dissonance with unexpected flashes of beauty ..." And the Washington Post called him the “ City ’ s most soulful export since Marvin Gaye .” The album ’ s song, “ Let The Drummer Kick ,” is certified gold.

That Touch is a virtual copy of Audio Lessonover deeply influenced how the album has been perceived.

Allmusic critics, Jason Ankenny and Thom Jurek called the album " brilliant " and commented that " With its elegiac tone and deeply autobiographical lyrics, this was a Morrison who didn't so readily associate himself with the feel-good, peace, love, and rhythm & blues sound American audiences were used to.

Speaking exclusively in May 2010 to noted UK soul writer Pete Lewis-Deputy Editor of the award-winning Blues & Soul-she stated: " With this album I wanted to make sure that I showed all sides of me-in terms of variety in the music and in my vocal range-while at the same time making it clear that every song deeply came from my soul.

They helped Da Weasel reinvent themselves on their latest album, Re-Definições, a deeply thought-out piece of work which refined the sound heard in the previous album.

During this time, McCartney grew deeply dissatisfied with Phil Spector's treatment of some songs on the upcoming Let It Be album, particularly, " The Long and Winding Road ".

After some personal arguments among the three crewmembers, de Spookrijders split up in 2003, after releasing their and final third album Hee ...

This application allows the user to completely arrange the whole album in their own personal way with over 15, 000 points of customization.

The resultant album, Crown Royal, was delayed due to the personal problems, and when it was finally released in 2001, it featured only three appearances by DMC.

She also said that the album will be very personal, like a diary.

After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.

Alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks sings a wistful ode to " That Bangle Girl ", a song identified as one of his " personal favorites ", on his 2000 Very Best album.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, admitted Amos, is a " personal album ", not a conceptual one, with the album exploring themes of power, boundaries, and the subjective view of sin.

The album was nonetheless a personal high point for Partridge, who ranks songs such as "( The Everyday Story of ) Smalltown " and " Train Running Low on Soul Coal " amongst his best work.

Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter had on the singer.

Their next album, 13 ( 1999 ) saw the band members experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn.

In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November 1988, a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog.

Baez ' first album for A & M, Come from the Shadows, was recorded in Nashville, and included a number of more personal compositions, including " Love Song to a Stranger " and " Myths ", as well as work by Mimi Farina, John Lennon, and Anna Marly.

She later canceled the last twenty-one dates on a tour in support of her album due to " personal family problems ".

In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a ' strictly personal ' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material ; As per the small ads of the time ; " It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper ".

The Egerton Manuscript, originally an album containing Wyatt's personal selection of his poems and translations, preserves 123 texts, partly in the poet's hand.

The album was recorded in the band's personal studio in two months, and was mixed in another month.

Several other songs on the album, " Vanlose Stairway ", " She Gives Me Religion ", and the instrumental, " Scandinavia " show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and serve as a steadying influence on him throughout most of the 1980s.

The album included personal stories and anecdotes about Richard Harris, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, and Rosemary Clooney.

Baker left after their second record, Boces ( 1993 ), citing musical and personal disputes ; he later recorded an album as Shady.

Years later, in reflecting on the album, Keaggy would say that True Believer " is really the most unlike me of any album I ’ ve ever done, in my personal opinion.

Michael Gira announced on June 13, 2010, through the Young God Records page on Facebook and his personal Facebook account, that the next Swans album would be titled My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.

In 1984 Norman recorded songs for Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in a projected Second Trilogy, which he described as " a personal triptych.