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 ".

In 1959, Capp recorded and released an album for Folkways Records ( now owned by the Smithsonian ) on which he identified and described " The Mechanics of the Comic Strip.

" How they create their music is described on their website :" each album is written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days, and tells a unique story.

A high point for the group was their 1963 live album At Carnegie Hall, described by critic Richard Palmer as " arguably Dave Brubeck's greatest concert ".

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

Bowie later described it as his " nadir ", calling it " an awful album ".

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.

His work with Body Count, whose 1992 debut album Marrow described as a " rock album with a rap mentality ", is described as paving the way for the success of rap rock fusions by bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit ; however, Marrow states that the band's style does not fuse the two genres, and is solely a rock band.

Jarmusch is also featured on the album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ( 2005 ) in two interludes described by Sean Fennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both " bizarrely pretentious " and " reason alone to give it a listen ".

Mötley Crüe has been described through the years as the World's Most Notorious Rock Band and has sold more than 80 million album copies worldwide, including 25 million in the U. S.

The album included " U-Mass ", which has been described as being about college apathy, and whose guitar riff was written years before at the University of Massachusetts before Francis and Santiago dropped out.

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic gave the album a star rating of five stars out of five and described it as the " definitive version of the Horror score.

She described the album as the " turbo version of the Body Talk album ", as it includes five songs from each previous Body Talk album along with five new songs.

Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.

Billboard described the album as musically melding " backwoods blues, skewed gospel, and unruly art stomp into a sublime piece of junkyard sound sculpture.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

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

Indeed, The Guardian newspaper described the album as containing " unrivalled anti-consumerism anthems ".

In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U. S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles ' songs included are described as " composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon ".

* " Alien ", a song by Thriving Ivory on their self-titled album

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

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.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

* Al ' z A-B-Cee ' z, an alphabet song by hip hop group 3rd Bass, on their 1991 album Derelicts of Dialect.

In 1992, Osdorp Posse released their debut album Osdorp Stijl, which was the first-ever Dutch hip hop.

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

How do you do ?," Capp sardonically congratulated Lennon and Ono on their Two Virgins nude album cover: " I think that everybody owes it to the world to prove they have pubic hair.

" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll: Too Young to Die!

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

Following Foster's departure, Bronski Beat began work on their next album, Out and About.

Four different mixes were done, with one appearing on their retrospective album, Fifteen Years After.

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

Sarah Martin later stated in the Q & A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

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.

* " Bug ", a song by Phish from their 2000 album Farmhouse ( album )